Fortnite community bamboozled by fake $1m Team Rumble Cash Cup promo

A fake image of a $1 million Team Rumble tournament of Fortnite has been making the rounds on social media getting the hopes up of many would-be participants.

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Epic Games pumps a ton of money into Fortnite esports and they often feature large prize pools, like the $30 million World Cup.

As a result, it’s not that hard to fall for a fake tournament, like this Team Rumble one, because it doesn’t seem like something Epic Games would be against doing.

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However, the image that has been uploaded onto the Fortnite competitive subreddit and gained more than 600 upvotes is indeed a fake.

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It’s not an obvious fake at first glance but the person who created the image came clean on Twitter and admitted that there is no such tournament in the works.

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This doesn’t mean there won’t ever be a Team Rumble tournament in Fortnite but it does seem pretty unlikely. Then again, there was an Xbox-exclusive tournament so we can’t rule everything out.

Fortnite is a battle royale title first and foremost so putting money up for grabs in a game mode that allows players to respawn seems like it’d be a strange decision, even for Epic Games.

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If something like this ever did come to the game, it would validate all those players who do play Team Rumble in all of their spare time.

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However, don’t expect anything like this to come in the near future as Fortnite is still working on a way to nail their current esports scene.

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The Fortnite World Cup Finals take place July 26-28 and after that wraps up, it’s wide open for what they want to do next