Epic Games Describes What Happened To Fortnite’s First Tournament

Epic Games has been going above and beyond the call when it comes to Fortnite, because not only are they working on keeping the game balanced and fun, they’re making sure it has loads of content. Between the seasonal updates, and other additions, the game has a lot to do. The most recent update though added tournaments for the first time. Which is a good idea, except it didn’t work when players tried it out. In fact, it crashed big time.

On Reddit, the Epic Games team explained what happened when the mode tried to run.

“Server Capacity

The sudden influx of players attempting to search for matches at the start of the tournament caused some issues with our matchmaking services as they attempted to balance match assignment in response to the demand. We are updating our matchmaking strategy to better accommodate the rush of players at the start of a tournament.”

But…those weren’t the only issues.

“Schedule & Tournament Regions

An issue was identified where often the ‘Tournament Region’ displayed in the Events tab would indicate a player was viewing the event list for ‘North America’. This is a visual bug only, each region has their own tournament schedule and all times displayed inside of the Events tab are correct based on your local timezone and system clock.

Matchmaking

The tournament system is intended to match you against players with similar score during the session, becoming less strict in its search over time to ensure you find a match eventually. Players who have higher scores should expect longer matchmaking times and tougher matches, while players with lower scores should expect an easier time as many of the higher scoring players filter out.

Currently we’re finding that this isn’t working correctly and is resulting in matches that are more mixed in score than we intended, especially when it comes to players with high scores during the event. We’ll be continuing to iterate on this to provide a better matched experience, so expect this to fluctuate regularly.”

As you can see, Fortnite has some issues to work out with the tournaments. But with Epic Games on the case, it could be fixed easily.