Surprise team dominates $10,000 Code Red Fortnite Duos tournament – recap, final standings, and info

Albert Petrosyan

BoomTV’s latest Code Red Fortnite tournament has come to a close with compLexity Gaming pro players Michael ‘Hogman’ Hogman and Mack ‘MackWood’ Aesoph finishing in first place.

This week’s Code Red Fortnite tournament was played on February 22 and featured some of the biggest names in competitive Fortnite battling it out for a share of the $10,000 prize pool.

Prior to reading up on the results, make sure to take a look through the ‘Format and Rules’ section below, as this week’s tournament featured a brand new format in place of its usual ‘total of two kill races.’ 

RESULTS

Seeing as the field of competitors in the Code Red tournament was full of some of the most successful players in competitive, such as NICKMERCS, Vivid, NateHill, and others, it came as a slight surprise at how dominant the compLexity Duo were in winning this event.

Hogman and Mackwood were more than impressive coming out the gates, finishing the first of six matches with 11 eliminations and the Victory, earning 18 points.

CompLexity captain Hogman, and his org-mate Mackwood, dominated the tournament from start to finish.

They stagnated a bit in rounds two and three before ripping off 13 eliminations and another Victory Royale in round four, climbing all the way to 38 points. Round five saw them pile on another eight points and a match victory, entering the final round with 53 points, 23 more than the second place team.

Their final point tally was at 56, more than good enough to secure the $5,000 first place prize as it was a whopping 32 more than the 24 points than the second-place Duo of Ghost Gaming’s Innocents and Assault got, who themselves took home $2,500.

The rest of the top-five was rounded off with Ghost’s Saf and NRG Esports’ Zayt getting 23 points for third place, ThreshFPS and InspyreFN coming in fourth with 17 points, and Arckite and TopGun’s 14 points good for fifth.  

You can see the rest of the final leaderboard of the February 22 Code Red tournament on the event’s main webpage


FORMAT AND RULES

Taking advantage of the new custom matchmaking that has been made available in Fortnite, Code Red have steered way from their traditional “total of two kill race” format in favor of a new system.

This new format featured 45 Duos playing six matches against each other on a custom server, three on NA-West and three on NA-East.

The scoring system was based on both match placements and elimination totals:

  • Victory Royale: 3 Points
  • 2nd-3rd Place: 2 Points
  • 4th-5th Place: 1 Point
  • 6 Eliminations: 10 Points

Big Bonus: After 6 Eliminations, 1 Point will be added to each elimination.

The above is the total amount of points the Duo received. Example:

  • 4-5th with no Elims = 1 Point
  • 4-5th with 6 Elims = 11 Points


PLAYERS AND TEAMS

This week’s Code Red tournament featured 45 total Duos, about half of them consisting of pro players and content creators and the other half of players who qualified via the online qualifiers.

Some of the prominent Duos include 100 Thieves’ NICKMERCS and Kenith, Ghost Gaming’s Aydan and FaZe Clan’s Thiefs, Team Liquid’s Vivid and Chap, Team SoloMid’s Myth and Clouds, and many others.

The full list of players and Duos has been provided below, along with a link to their Twitch or YouTube livestream. 

Player Link to Stream
1 replays http://twitch.tv/replays
1 NickEh30 https://youtube.com/c/NickEh30/live
2 Aydan http://twitch.tv/Aydan
2 thiefs http://twitch.tv/thiefs
3 pearlbtw http://twitch.tv/pearlbtw
3 chroniccented http://twitch.tv/chroniccented
4 FIBERFN http://twitch.tv/FIBERFN
4 TYLER15 http://twitch.tv/TYLER15
5 TSM_ZEXROW http://twitch.tv/TSM_ZEXROW
5 VINNY1X http://twitch.tv/VINNY1X
6 natehill http://twitch.tv/natehill
6 Funkbomb http://twitch.tv/Funkbomb
7 hogmanlolz http://twitch.tv/hogmanlolz
7 colmackwood http://twitch.tv/colmackwood
8 Kenith http://twitch.tv/Kenith
8 NICKMERCS http://twitch.tv/NICKMERCS
9 vivid http://twitch.tv/vivid
9 chap http://twitch.tv/chap
10 Symfuhny http://twitch.tv/Symfuhny
10 snood http://twitch.tv/snood
11 tsm_clouds http://twitch.tv/tsm_clouds
11 TSM_Myth http://twitch.tv/TSM_Myth
12 Kaysid http://twitch.tv/Kaysid
12 thegeneral http://twitch.tv/thegeneral
13 CowboyFN http://twitch.tv/CowboyFN
13 Herrions http://twitch.tv/Herrions
14 tennp0 http://twitch.tv/tennp0
14 yelo http://twitch.tv/yelo
15 fuzzy301 http://twitch.tv/fuzzy301
15 clipz http://twitch.tv/clipz
16 Psalm http://twitch.tv/Psalm
16 SpaceLyon http://twitch.tv/SpaceLyon
17 xilFN http://twitch.tv/xilFN
17 HighDistortion http://twitch.tv/HighDistortion
18 LEGIQN http://twitch.tv/LEGIQN
18 wildcat http://twitch.tv/wildcat
19 innocents http://twitch.tv/innocents
19 AssaultSZN http://twitch.tv/AssaultSZN
20 joelbtw http://twitch.tv/joelbtw
20 pika http://twitch.tv/pika
21 maximoe http://twitch.tv/maximoe
21 jaeyung_ http://twitch.tv/jaeyung_
22 buckefn http://twitch.tv/buckefn
22 whysolavish http://twitch.tv/whysolavish
23 puffinkhronic http://twitch.tv/puffinkhronic
23 brokenskillzfn http://twitch.tv/brokenskillzfn
24 reverse2k http://twitch.tv/reverse2k
24 heyimheart http://twitch.tv/heyimheart
25 blastawarrior http://twitch.tv/blastawarrior
25 vyxioi http://twitch.tv/vyxioi
26 arckite http://twitch.tv/arckite
26 topgun http://twitch.tv/topgun
27 diddytheboy http://twitch.tv/diddytheboy
27 dankline http://twitch.tv/dankline
28 clyfen7 http://twitch.tv/clyfen7
28 aethne http://twitch.tv/aethne
29 stripperr http://twitch.tv/stripperr
29 rokylll http://twitch.tv/rokylll
30 threshfps http://twitch.tv/threshfps
30 inspyrefn http://twitch.tv/inspyrefn
31 jaylogan http://twitch.tv/jaylogan
31 jacobiefn http://twitch.tv/jacobiefn
32 knownasjt http://twitch.tv/knownasjt
32 th3pacifist http://twitch.tv/th3pacifist
33 kubafn_ http://twitch.tv/kubafn_
33 dabbedoutfn http://twitch.tv/dabbedoutfn
34 fnjinx http://twitch.tv/fnjinx
34 nurmacy http://twitch.tv/nurmacy
35 nixxxay http://twitch.tv/nixxxay
35 zerobbq_ http://twitch.tv/zerobbq_
36 feitanlive http://twitch.tv/feitanlive
36 prestivent http://twitch.tv/prestivent
37 clawizm http://twitch.tv/clawizm
37 elyfn http://twitch.tv/elyfn
38 hydrafn_ http://twitch.tv/hydrafn_
38 idealfn http://twitch.tv/idealfn
39 undar789 http://twitch.tv/undar789
39 xoonies http://twitch.tv/xoonies
40 safaroonie http://twitch.tv/safaroonie
40 zayt http://twitch.tv/zayt
41 typicalgamer https://www.youtube.com/typicalgamer/live
41 Exoph https://www.youtube.com/ExophST/live

PRIZE BREAKDOWN

After the six matches are played, the top five ranked Duos based on total points were awarded prizes based on the following breakdown:

  • Total: $10,000 USD
  • 1st: $5,000 
  • 2nd: $2,500 
  • 3rd: $1,250 
  • 4th: $750
  • 5th: $500