{"id":6795,"date":"2019-02-25T00:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2019-02-25T00:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:30:21","slug":"epic-games-invests-100-million-to-fortnite-prize-pool-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/epic-games-invests-100-million-to-fortnite-prize-pool-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games invests $100 million to Fortnite prize pool for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHILE some people in the industry have their doubts about the long-term viability of the game on the professional level, there&#8217;s no doubt that <a title=\"Success of Fortnite leads to Epic Games riches\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/success-of-fortnite-helps-epic-games-finalise-1-25b-investment-deal\/\">Epic Games believes in the future of Fortnite<\/a> in eSports.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s developer put its money where its mouth is again this week, putting another $100 million on the table to bulk up cash prizes for competitive tournaments throughout 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The monetary figure is, by far, the biggest in eSports and matches the amount invested in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>What has changed in 2019 is the way the money will be distributed in different tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>A large portion of the $100 million will be awarded to the winners of the inaugural Fortnite World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The World Cup will be a bonanza for eSports professionals \u2014 each of the 200 players who qualify and compete will walk away with a minimum $50,000, while the winner will take home an incredible $3 million. In total, there is $30 million in prizes.<\/p>\n<p>That is some serious, serious coin that continues to put eSports on the map.<\/p>\n<p>The Fortnite World Cup takes place from July 26\u201328 in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the incredible cash on offer, some of the industry&#8217;s <a title=\"Optic Gaming pours more doubt on future of Fortnite\" href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/optic-gaming-pours-more-doubt-on-fortnite-future-lets-players-go\/\">biggest names continue to question the future of the game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While individual esport franchises may not be as enthusiastic about competing, there&#8217;s no doubt that for individual gamers, this is the mecca of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Fortniters looking for a passageway to their future eSports riches will be able to apply to weekly, open, online qualifiers, that are worth an incredible $1 million each \u2014 taking place from April 13 to June 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The game&#8217;s developer put its money where its mouth is again this week, putting another $100 million on the table to bulk up cash prizes for competitive tournaments throughout 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,87],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured","tag-fortnite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6796,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}