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Topics: Fortnite, Epic Games, PC, Xbox, PlayStation
Fortnite has dropped the hammer down on cheaters over the past 12 months, and as a result has taken the recent tournament controversy very seriously.
The battle-royale game recently held a tournament with a cash prize that anyone could enter, with the winner being the one who rose through the ranks to the top of the leaderboard.
Tournaments like this aren’t uncommon and offer an alternate goal to the usual battle-royale and other modes
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However Fortnite recently confirmed that the winner of the tournament had cheated, and legal action has been taken to ensure a proper punishment is administered.
The player by the name of RepulseGod had the prize money taken away from them with the sum instead being donated to charity, and a public apology was released and shared by the Fortnite social media channels.
In the apology video RepulseGod confirmed that they’d been caught sharing their account with another player called Forbes, who did most of the work to help them win the tournament.
RepulseGod has since been banned from all future tournaments as Fortnite reiterates that cheaters never win.
Of course the wider community has made light of the situation for how it was handled, with many pointing out how amusing it is that Fortnite had the user publicly apologise rather than just take away the prize money and be done with it.
In the X thread the announcement was shared in which one user mocked “making them post a video talking about it is too funny.”
Another added: “No way they caught him and threatened him with legal action unless he made an apology video. Next level punishment.”
Just goes to show that cheaters never prevail, and I’m sure future tournament participants will be very careful from now on to ensure this doesn’t happen to them too.