Competitive Fortnite is back on the menu thanks to the Fortnite DreamHack Open – August 2020. Acting as the second monthly solo open event held by DreamHack, it’s divided into three regions. Accordingly, NA West is complete and Europe and NA East are remaining. Read on to learn How to Watch!
For the most part, the European and NA East events are entirely alike one another. As Open events, both are allowing entry to any public player to try and take the regional crown. The main differences between the regions are the prize pool and the running dates:
- Europe – August 22-23rd – $133,600
- NA East – August 20-21st – $83,050
It’s every man for himself. Running the competition through a solos tournament of the third-person shooter is definitely tough. The online environment may also make it more difficult.
Usually, in other How to Watch articles, we provide a list of competitors. Here, this isn’t possible due to the overwhelming number – over 700. We’ll move on to the format then.
Format
The following is the format according to DreamHack, as with an Open event, it’s pivotal to isolate the top competition.
As aforementioned, the format is identical for both except for the precise dates. Split into three stages, the first stage takes place on the first while the remainder take place on the final day.
Stage 1 – Day 1
- Two separate open qualifiers from which only 750 players will advance
- Lasting three hours each, 10 games may be played at most
- Based on scoring, the top 750 from each qualifier will make it to the semi-final
Stage 2 – Day 2
- Semi-final lasts 3 hours, again with a 10 match limit
- Here, only the top 100 will progress to the finals as based on scoring
Stage 3 – Day 2
- The final showdown where scoring will determine the top 100 players
- Scoring takes place in a single heat through an 8 match limit
- Placing will correspond to a percentage of the prize, where all 100 earn a piece of it
Schedule for Fortnite DreamHack Open – August 2020 EU and NA East
Spread across just 2 days of action, keeping track of the schedule will be pivotal here as to not miss out. We’ll go region by region:
NA EAST (EST)
- Heat #1 – Thursday August 20th – 5-8pm
- Heat #2 – Thursday August 20th – 9pm-12am
- Semi-finals – Friday August 21st – 5-8pm
- Grand-finals – Friday August 21st – 9pm-1am
EUROPE (CEST)
- Heat #1 – Thursday August 22nd – 5-8pm
- Heat #2 – Thursday August 22nd – 9pm-12am
- Semi-finals – Friday August 23rd – 5-8pm
- Grand-finals – Friday August 23rd – 9pm-1am
Streams
To view the live broadcast for Fortnite DreamHack Open – August 2020 EU and NA East, DreamHack will be showing off all the action on their Twitch channel:
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Predictions for the Fortnite DreamHack Open
For open events such as these, it’s difficult to make predictions to due to the vast number of competitors. However, as this is the second iteration of the event, we have some placements to go off of.
Let’s take a look at who came out on top in July for both regions:
Europe
- 1st – teeq
- 2nd – MrSavage
- 3rd – Snayzy
- 4th – Kami
- 5th – Merjin
North America East
- 1st – Stretch
- 2nd – Dubs
- 3rd – Divine
- 4th – Fryst
- 5th – Bucke
In terms of predictions, that’s all there is to back up this upcoming event. Hence, it could be said that the outcome is one which won’t be easily predicted.
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