ESTNN breaks down the upcoming Fortnite Champion Series tournament in Season 7.
It’s almost time again for another installment to the Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS). Beginning in 2019 with trios, the FNCS has been the measuring stick for the world’s best Fortnite players. Epic Games experimented with squads, duos and solos as a primary format, but the last few seasons have put a central focus on trios. Some teams have defined their legacies in competitive Fortnite while rising stars are itching to breakthrough.
Since Chapter 2 - Season 4, we’ve witnessed three consecutive trio competitions with $3M USD prize pools spread across Fortnite’s seven worldwide server regions. Only one week stands between the world’s top trios and another crack at their share of a massive prize pool. Today, ESTNN breaks down FNCS Chapter 2 - Season 7, including the format, prize distribution, scoring system and more!
Format & Schedule
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The trio competitive Fortnite landscape continues in Chapter 2 - Season 7. All seven regions will compete in a series of qualifiers, with the ultimate goal of either finishing top-three in one of the three weeks or accumulating enough points to reach the FNCS Semi-Final—also known as heats. All qualifiers have four rounds, and teams must finish inside a certain placement threshold to qualify to the next stage.
Here is a detailed round-by-round breakdown of the FNCS Season 7 Qualifiers:
Round One
- Open to all teams at the Champion League rank in Arena Mode
- Three-hour session
- Teams play a maximum of ten matches
- Top 1,500 teams in Europe, NA East, NA West and Brazil advance to Round Two
- Top 700 teams in Asia and Middle East advance to Round Two
- Top 300 teams in OCE advance to Round Two
Round Two
- Three-hour session
- Teams play a maximum of ten matches
- Top 250 teams in Europe and NA East advance to Round Three
- Top 200 teams in NA West and Brazil advance to Round Three
- Top 150 teams in OCE, Asia and Middle East advance to Round Three
Round Three
- Three-hour session
- Teams play a maximum of ten matches
- Top 33 teams in all regions advance to Round Four
Round Four (Finals)
- Thirty-three teams
- Three-hour session
- Teams play six custom matches
- Top-three teams advance directly to the Season 7 Finals
Semi-Finals (Heats)
- Ninety-nine teams
- Top teams based on Series Points will split into three heats
- Each heat features six custom matches
- Top-six teams advance to the Season 7 Finals
- All teams placing between 7th and 17th will move to the Reboot Round
Reboot Round
- Thirty-three teams in total for each region
- The number of matches depends on disbanded teams
- Each region will play at least three Reboot Round matches
- The triumphant team in the Reboot Round games will qualify for the Season 7 Finals
- Once a team wins a Reboot Round match, they’ll be removed from the list of eligible contenders
Season 7 Finals
- Thirty-three teams
- Top three from last season in all regions automatically qualify
- Two days
- Three-hour session on both days
- Six matches each day (12 total)
Scoring System
There are two scoring systems for FNCS Chapter 2 - Season 7. One applies only to rounds one, two and three of the qualifiers, while the other is for round four of the qualifiers, the Semi-Finals and the Season 7 Finals.
Schedule (applies to most regions)
- Qualifier 1: July 30 to August 1
- Qualifier 2: August 13 to August 15
- Qualifier 3: August 20 to August 22
- Semi-Finals: August 28
- Reboot Round: August 29
- Season 7 Finals: September 4 to September 5
Here is the complete scoring system breakdown:
Round One, Round Two and Round Three
- Victory Royale: 25 Points
- 2nd: 20 Points
- 3rd: 16 Points
- 4th: 14 Points
- 5th: 13 Points
- 6th: 12 Points
- 7th: 11 Points
- 8th: 10 Points
- 9th: 9 Points
- 10th: 8 Points
- 11th: 7 Points
- 12th: 6 Points
- 13th: 5 Points
- 14th 4 Points
- 15th: 3 Points
- 16th: 2 Points
- 17th: 1 Point
- Each Elimination: 1 Point
Round Four Qualifiers, Semi-Finals and Finals
- Victory Royale: 30 Points
- 2nd: 26 Points
- 3rd: 24 Points
- 4th: 22 Points
- 5th: 21 Points
- 6th: 20 Points
- 7th: 19 Points
- 8th: 18 Points
- 9th: 17 Points
- 10th: 16 Points
- 11th: 14 Points
- 12th: 13 Points
- 13th: 12 Points
- 14th 11 Points
- 15th: 10 Points
- 16th: 9 Points
- 17th: 8 Points
- 18th - 24th: 5 Points
- Each Elimination: 2 Points
Prize Pool
As previously mentioned, FNCS Chapter 2 - Season 7 features a $3M USD prize pool. That money is distributed to each region based on population. Europe tops the list, with $300K USD going to the winning trio.
Here is the complete prize pool distribution per region:
Europe
- 1st: $300,000
- 2nd: $210,000
- 3rd: $135,000
- 4th: $120,000
- 5th: $105,000
- 6th: $90,000
- 7th: $75,000
- 8th: $60,000
- 9th: $45,000
- 10th: $30,000
- 11th-15th: $15,000
- 16th-20th: $9,000
- 21st-26th: $6,000
- 27th-33rd: $3,600
NA East
- 1st: $135,000
- 2nd: $105,000
- 3rd: $69,000
- 4th: $60,000
- 5th: $54,000
- 6th: $45,000
- 7th: $39,000
- 8th: $24,000
- 9th: $15,000
- 10th: $10,500
- 11th-15th: $6,900
- 16th-20th: $4,200
- 21st-26th: $2,100
- 27th-33rd: $1,500
NA West
- 1st: $48,000
- 2nd: $34,500
- 3rd: $24,000
- 4th: $21,000
- 5th: $15,000
- 6th: $10,500
- 7th: $9,000
- 8th: $7,500
- 9th: $6,000
- 10th: $4,500
- 11th-15th: $3,000
- 16th-20th: $2,400
- 21st-26th: $1,500
- 27th-33rd: $900
Brazil
- 1st: $90,000
- 2nd: $75,000
- 3rd: $51,000
- 4th: $42,000
- 5th: $30,000
- 6th: $21,000
- 7th: $18,000
- 8th: $15,000
- 9th: $12,000
- 10th: $9,000
- 11th-15th: $6,000
- 16th-20th: $3,000
- 21st-26th: $1,875
- 27th-33rd: $1,275
Asia
- 1st: $36,000
- 2nd: $24,000
- 3rd: $15,000
- 4th: $12,000
- 5th: $10,500
- 6th: $9,000
- 7th: $7,500
- 8th: $6,000
- 9th: $4,500
- 10th: $3,000
- 11th-15th: $1,500
- 16th-20th: $1,200
- 21st-26th: $900
- 27th-33rd: $600
Middle East
- 1st: $30,000
- 2nd: $19,500
- 3rd: $12,000
- 4th: $9,000
- 5th: $7,500
- 6th: $6,600
- 7th: $5,400
- 8th: $4,800
- 9th: $4,200
- 10th: $2,400
- 11th-15th: $1,350
- 16th-26th: $900
- 27th-33rd: $600
OCE
- 1st: $22,500
- 2nd: $15,000
- 3rd: $9,000
- 4th: $6,300
- 5th: $5,400
- 6th: $4,500
- 7th: $3,900
- 8th: $3,300
- 9th: $2,700
- 10th: $1,800
- 11th-15th: $900
- 16th-20th: $750
- 21st-33rd: $600
That is all the crucial information for this season’s Fortnite Champion Series competition. Stay tuned to ESTNN for more FNCS content throughout Season 7!
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