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NSE Winter Cup Featuring Fortnite

Information
Game
Fortnite
Platform
Epic
Day
Tuesday 25th Oct & 1st Nov - Ended
Time
19:00
Format

Battle Royale - Duos

Location

Online

Summary

To check in and view fixtures please visit https://tournaments.nse.gg/



NSE Winter Cup Featuring Fortnite is the first ever Fortnite event to be included in the British University Esports Championship. The inaugural will be split into 2 stages Qualifiers and Finals.

Week 1 Qualifiers
During the first week players will be split into lobbies to play 6 rounds against other students earning points for placement and kills. 

Week 2 Streamed finals
Top performed duos will be invited to finals to play 6 games streamed.

Prizes
1st Place £200
2nd Place £150
3rd Place £120
4th Place £90
5-8th Place £60
9-12th Place £30
13-16th Place £20

In addition to other prizes this tournament awards British University Esports Championship Points.


This event is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by Epic Games, Inc.

RULES SUMMARY

  • Teams must have at exactly 2 players from the same university.
  • If teams are more than 5 minutes late to lobbies games will be started without them.
  • Check-in deadline is 6:30pm. Teams who don't check-in will not get games for that evening.
  • Offensive player and team names are not allowed.
  • Verbal abuse is not allowed. In particular any use of racist, sexist, homophobic or any other discriminatory language will lead to a minimum 3-week suspension.
  • All games will be played using Battle Royale game mode.
  • All games should be played on the servers provided. Complete server settings can be found in the full rules.


Scoring System 

 

Week 1

Week 2

Victory Royale

30

45

2nd

25

37.5

3rd

22

33

4th

20

30

5th

19

28.5

6th

17

25.5

7th

16

24

8th

15

22.5

9th

14

21

10th

10

15

11/12th

9

13.5

13/14th

8

12

15/16th

7

10.5

17/18th

6

9

19/20th

5

7.5

21/22nd

4

6

23/24th

3

4.5

25/26th

2

3

27/28th

1

1.5

In addition to placement points teams will get 1 point per elimination



Each Elimination: 1 point

Tiebreaks
(1) total points scored;
(2) total Victory Royales in the session;
(3)average eliminations in the session;
(4) Placement in final game

Tuesday 25th October Open Qualifiers

Time Stage
6.30pm Check in Closes
6.45pm Player Meeting
~6.50pm Round 1 Groups announced
7.00pm Round 1 Starts
~7.30pm  Round 2
... ...
~10-10.30pm Event Ends

Round times after the first round are approximate and games will be started as soon as players are ready. Please be aware that games can overrun.


Tuesday 1st November Finals

Time Stage
6.30pm Check in Closes
6.45pm Player Meeting
~6.50pm Round 1 Groups announced
7.00pm Round 1 Starts
~7.30pm  Round 2
... ...
~10-10.30pm Event Ends

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