Fortnite is Still Not eSports Ready. (Summer Skirmish Failure)

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Hi there,

With the recent first Fortnite competitive eSport Event Summer Skirmish having failed miserably, I came to the realization that Fortnite most Definitely is not eSports ready.
First off, Fortnite is still using a terrible shooting model which is honestly terrible. Not to mention, they’ve failed to address the failing building balance as the meta evolves and players improve.
What I suggest is that the resource cap be reduced to something along the lines of 500 and the resource collection speed be much faster. That way, material conservation in a fight becomes important, but as soon as you finish that fight, you can quickly get back up to 500 mats to be ready to fight your next opponent on even footing.

Just looking at how the summer skirmish event went down tells us a lot about whether or not Fortnite is eSports ready. You had players dropping and having terrible loot, then dying to players with good loot, meanwhile, other players fought each other, then the winner was easily picked off since he had no more materials, which caused players to avoid each other at all costs because they did not want to lose their resources. I mean, you literally had players sitting in the storm for as long as possible to avoid fighting. Then, when you get to the late game, everyone just sits in their 1 x 1 until the storm forces them to fight. It’s a camp fest. Maybe if the matches worked on a point system, where kills give you points as well as the place you finish so that players would actually have an incentive to go out and get kills, it could solve some of these problems?

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