{"id":26605,"date":"2022-12-11T23:05:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T04:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=26605"},"modified":"2022-12-11T23:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T04:05:11","slug":"fortnite-collegiate-cup-to-kick-off-in-january-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/fortnite-collegiate-cup-to-kick-off-in-january-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite Collegiate Cup to kick off in January 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stage is set for an exciting semester of <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/fortnite-battle-royale\/\" title=\"Fortnite betting\">Fortnite<\/a> action on campuses across North America with Epic Games announcing the Fortnite Collegiate Cup will commence in January 2023. <\/p>\n<p>The tournament, which is open solely to college students in the United States and Canada, has a total prize pool of $50,000<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games made the announcement via Twitter on December 8, inviting interested parties to register for the contest.<\/p>\n<div class=\" embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The January Fortnite Collegiate Cup returns for students in US and Canada with a $50,000 prize pool:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd38 Solo Battle Royale<br \/>\ud83d\udcc5 Rd. 1 &#8211; Jan 26, Rd. 2 &#8211; Jan 31<\/p>\n<p>Earn 8 points and claim cosmetic rewards!<br \/>Register now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Hccl5p3i1j\">https:\/\/t.co\/Hccl5p3i1j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fortnite Competitive (@FNCompetitive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FNCompetitive\/status\/1600567065953284096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>The Solo Battle Royale mode of Fortnite is set to heat up as college students gear up for two rounds of intense competition. The first round commences on January 26 and the top 100 players will advance to the second round, which is to be held on January 31. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, College Carball Association (CCA) has announced its plans, stating that there will be two Zero Builds rounds for Trios squads a month later, with the first round occurring on February 23 and the second on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Epic Games has also announced that it will provide more opportunities for competitive action throughout the spring semester with competitive scrimmages, such as third-party tournaments and school-hosted competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The Fortnite College Cup was established through a partnership between the CCA and esports platform eFuse, with the latter being the event&#8217;s primary sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of an agreement earlier in the year, entertainment platform Fandom has been given exclusive rights to sell advertising for eFuse&#8217;s collegiate events, including the Collegiate Call Of Duty League, the College Carball Association, and Collegiate Fortnite.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Epic Games recently disclosed the details of Fortnite&#8217;s competitive season for the upcoming months as the game enters a new phase. Tournaments such as the Fortnite Divisional Cup and FNCS online competition will continue as usual, in anticipation of some new launches. <\/p>\n<p>There will also be completely new offerings launched like the introduction of new features such as Victory Cups, Fill Cups, and Zero Build Cups, the list of innovations will also include the Collegiate Cups.<\/p>\n<p>However, the prize pool distribution amongst the supposed participants is still unknown. Prior contests have seen every participating player who advanced to the finals walk away with some bits of the prize pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has announced the Fortnite Collegiate Cup will commence in January 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":17223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[345,2861],"class_list":["post-26605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-epic-games","tag-fortnite-collegiate-challenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26607,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions\/26607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}