The next tournament up is the Fortnite performance evaluations. A special type of competition that’s closed off, only playable to select teams who scored highly in previous FNCS events. It’s going to be six weeks of events with the aim of getting feedback to refine how the current season plays competitively. This is how it’ll all work:
Fortnite Performance Evaluations Format
The Fortnite Performance Evaluations are a tad different to a lot of Fortnite esports tournaments. They’re not open to play, they don’t have catchy names that explain to you what exactly they are. But they are a closed tournament we’ll see some of the best Fortnite players competing. How exactly will they work?
The Fortnite Performance evaluations are Trios tournaments that only run in the biggest regions, Europe and North America Central. There are two rounds, where players are narrowed down before they can earn cash. For Round 2, players have two hours, with matches starting every half hour. They can play four matches in this period, with their scores going forward on the leaderboard. A Victory Royale can earn a team $1,200!
Who Can Take Part?
Most Fortnite tournaments are open. Once you it the basic requirements to prevent cheating, anyone can get involved in Fortnite tournaments. But the Fortnite performance evaluations are limited to the top players. To enter, you need to have made Division 1 in the FNCS Divisional Cups. That does limit things to the top players.
Prize
The Fortnite Performance Evaluations aren’t quite on the level of the FNCS in prize money. They do have a token prize for players though. It’s only held in the two biggest Fortnite server regions, in both players get $1,200 for winning a match. It’s essentially a Victory Cup format.
Fortnite Performance Evaluation Dates
When are the Performance evals actually taking place? There’s going to be six weeks of them, leading into the other tournaments. These are going to be:
- June 10th
- June 17th
- June 24th
- July 15th
- July 22nd
- July 29th
Performance Evaluations Effect the Whole Season
The Fortnite Performance Evaluations aren’t really set up as tournaments in their own right, they’re a test. Epic has to adjust the Fortnite tournament loot pool depending on what happens in these events. It’s a chance to see how the current build of the game effects competitive.
Often, Fortnite items are all thrown into tournaments at first. Kind of a balanced until proven broken approach. Little tests like these give us a chance to see how the season is fairing for competitive play. It’s not a performance evaluation of the players, but of the loot pool and balance.
If you do want to use it as a barometer for players performance though, we do sometimes have ways of watching these tournaments along on stream!
How to Watch the Fortnite Performance Evaluations
The Fortnite performance evaluations aren’t like the FNCS with a proper stream of casters. However, given how many of the best Fortnite players stream, or are re-streamed, we can watch a long. Players choosing to stream their point of view is a great way to watch the tournament. Although, you are limited since not everyone streams their view of things.
The other way is through re-streams. Fortnite content creators like AussieAntics frequently live stream the tournaments. Cutting between replays of everyone’s point of view and offering their own commentary. This is the easiest way of watching the Fortnite performance evaluations, since you’re getting a proper view of multiple players.
These events can be a great way of seeing which players are looking strongest for the end of year events. The FNCS that’s coming up is our final Major of the year before the LAN, so tournaments like the Performance Evaluations are going to be even more important.
