Tournament

Tournaments can be found inside of the Compete tab available in Fortnite: Battle Royale. This tab hosts a variety of online competitions whose availability may depend on the player's arena ranking.

How Tournaments Work

 * Each tournament has a series of scheduled dates and times that the competition will be run. A carousel of all upcoming competitions and times are available to browse, so players can plan and practice.
 * Every scheduled session is a completely clean slate with all players starting on an equal footing at the beginning of play.
 * Compete over the course of several hours to earn points by eliminating multiple opponents or surviving against the competition for a prize.
 * Players are matched against opponents with similar scores during the session.
 * Tournament matches are usually played with the Arena ruleset. This means Siphon, increased material harvesting, and "moving" storm circles are often present in tournaments. Limited Time Mode tournaments can provide exceptions.
 * Tournament matches are typically more stacked compared to a public or an arena match, with matches going to small moving storm circles. Active Storm Surge is a frequent occurance in tournament matches, especially in games of high point players.

Cash Cup
Cash Cups are weekly online competitions for players ranked Champion League in Arena. Players with high rankings at the end of the competition earn cash prizes. Cash cups are avalable in Solos and Trios format. Each of Fortnite's seven regions have their own cash cups and since it is not region locked players can participate in any regions' cash cups (such as a player who resides in NA East being able to compete in the Europe cash cup).

Cash Cups can consist of one or two rounds. For one round cash cups, the players at the top of the leaderboard receive a share of the prize when the tournament concludes. For two round cash cups, the top 100 players (50 teams in Duos, 33 teams in Trios) will battle it out in 6 more games in a new session, and the prize money will be distributed to the top ranked players of the second round.

In select seasons Epic Games may partner with Dreamhack to host a series of extra Cash Cups. Qualification is based on the ranking of the previous Cash Cup.

Outfit Cup
Outfit Cups allows players to earn an Outfit (and other cosmetics) without having to purchase them in the Item Shop. Outfit Cups are usually hosted before the outfit's release on the Item Shop. This competition is usually open to all players.

Hype Cup
Hype Cups are typically open to players in Open and Contender League of Rena. Players earn Hype (Arena points) based on their ranking at the end of the competition.

Fortnite Champion Series
The Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS) is the premier competition of Fortnite: Battle Royale in a Trios (2020) or Duos (2021) format. The tournament usually starts near the end of each season and is open to Champion League players. Each region have a seperate FNCS and is region locked.

The qualification format varies each season, but players typically go though four rounds of qualifications for each qualifying session. There have been as little as 2 and as many as 4 qualifying sessions for FNCS. The top teams in the final round of qualifiers immediately advance to grand finals. Players that failed to qualify but earn enough series points (based on their session rankings) go through semi-finals for another chance of qualifying to grand finals. If a team fails to qualify by placing high enough, then that team goes through the Reboot Round where a Victory Royale is needed to qualify to the grand finals. Teams who are in the bottom of the rankings in the semi finals round are eliminated.

In the grand finals, the top 33 trios or 50 duos from each region play 12 games in a period of 2 days (6 games each day) for a chance to become the season's FNCS champions. The team that wins FNCS earn the largest cash prize and the Axe of Champions harvesting tool while grand finals participants earn cash prizes depending on how high they rank. This event is broadcasted live through Twitch and Youtube, where hundreds of thousands of viewers can experience match by match commentary and analysis. Viewers can earn free FNCS themed cosmetics via Twitch drops.

Console Cup
The Console Cup is a tournament for players who play the game on a console (PlayStation or Xbox). It can be seen as the console eqivalent of the FNCS as it offers the largest cash prize to console players. It is open to Champion League players.

Other tournaments

 * Limited Time Mode tournaments
 * Third Party tournaments (hosted by a professonal player, content creator, or eSports organization)
 * College and High School tournaments (hosted by PlayVS)

Trivia

 * Prior to a certain update, earning enough points in a tournament would reward the user with a pin on that tournament's in-game page.