Pro 'Fortnite' Players In Trouble For Cheating During Fall Skirmish

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Epic Games kicked off Fortnite's Fall Skirmish earlier this week, and with a prize pool of over $10 million, there's a lot on the line and pro players are taking it quite seriously.

Just for the first week of the event, Epic Games dished out $67,500 in prizes. In other words, this is a consequential amount of money up for grabs. And in the pursuit of this endless V-Bucks allowance and the glory, two pro players have cheated, and been caught.

Two of the players, "FunkBomb" and "NateHill," were notably playing with Bush Bandits, who were atop the club leaderboards. Playing duos together, at one point got eliminated, and rather than watch his partner's stream like everyone else, he tuned into the official tournament stream and started feeding NateHill information about what was going on, such as an enemy locations.

Now, if you've played even a few games of Fortnite, you'll know that knowing where enemies are offers a huge tactical advantage. Whether knowing you have a window to shield or heal, or just knowing where someone is so you can pop-up and get off some quick shots, it can change the tide of a battle, which is why it isn't allowed.

Nonetheless, the duos pair did this, while streaming, providing the Internet video evidence of their cheating. They have since taken down the streams -- as you would expect -- but the Fortnite community captured a clip of the cheating in action, and have put it up for everyone to view elsewhere.



At the moment, Epic games hasn't said what will be the course of action for the players, but presumably, they will be kicked from participation. However, given that they finished 27th out of 50 teams during the match in question, maybe they will skate by. Surely if they won, there would be a lot more attention and uproar about the situation.

Fortnite is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices.

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KatsumiPosted:

Spencer I'm glad they got caught cheating and the video is lurking around, they should be kicked out of any tournaments from here on out.


I agree, cheating in competitive games should be grounds for a permanent ban

JastyPosted:

I'm glad they got caught cheating and the video is lurking around, they should be kicked out of any tournaments from here on out.

CraigPosted:

Pro fortnite player. or as I call them, King of the nubs.

XeCookiePosted:

Now I am not a fortnite player or a battle royale player in general but personally I dont understand the hate at all I think this is a brilliant idea. Its like MW3 infected your teamate on the other team can tell you all the hiding spots I mean its obviously a bit different because clearly theres money on the line and fortnite is way overly competitive but oh well get over it.

MazePosted:

coolbunny1234 That's borderline hilarious, especially since they didn't have the common sense to stop streaming at least while they did it!


I'm pretty sure they have to be streaming the tournament(pretty sure not positive) so that would make it even better.

RyanPosted:

how stupid can you get lol...

coolbunny1234Posted:

That's borderline hilarious, especially since they didn't have the common sense to stop streaming at least while they did it!

OwenPosted:

Maze How stupid do you have to be to cheat while live-streaming, especially during one of the biggest gaming events of the year
well said but you're right it's pretty stupid

LGWPosted:

It was silly but both have apologised for it. He simply called out a player's health without knowing the official stream had no delay.. simple mistake.
It's done and dealt with.

TikToK_LavishCODPosted:

All funkbomb did was say someone's health and position to Nate hill and immediately apologised for it I wouldn't say it's exactly cheating