War Legend – Fortnite Achievements
Since March 2018, War Legend has become the west-European leader in Fortnite tournament and event organisation. Our philosophy is the same since the begining : provide players a better experience in Fortnite competition and help organisers and broadcasters to exploit the data.
Genesis
War Legend is a MMO hard-core players community since 2001. In 2012, War Legend became “War Legend Gaming”, a non-profit (French law of 1901). We always favor excellency above anything else. In gaming or in business.
In March 2018, Loukan, a volunteer at War Legend, started the project “Fortnite Tournament”. The project started with very few players, from 100 to few hundreds. The format was always the same : Invitational. These event grown very quickly as the access to Custom Games (private lobbies) was only available in very few markets with very strict rules. These games were in SQUAD (4 players per team)
War Legend Fortnite tournaments announcement.
April 2018 – War Legend’s Tournaments
As our community and staff was growing in numbers, it became impossible to keep the activity limited to few days per week. The team decided to create a new competitive ecosystem:
The Divisions were born (announcement). This system was the best created in the all Fortnite competitive community world wide and the largest for at least a year (until Custom Games became public). It lasted for 2 months and at its peak was able to accept over 100.000 players (average of 45.000), allowing them to qualify for the glorious Divisions. At the end, the War Legend’s Tournaments – Division had 8 divisions, 7 days a week, 50 volunteers.
May-June 2018 – Pan-European Cup
After War Legend proved its ability to manage a very large number of players and our quality of organisation. WL was the only organisation able to provide results only few minutes after the end of a series of round (called “tournament”). A talk with EPIC Games was organised how a European wide event could be organised. After few weeks of meetings, the Pan-European Cup was designed. The very first large Duo tournament on Fortnite.
All informations about the event: Official announcement
This tournament is still one of its kind today (Sept. 2019) for a community event:
- Multi spectator home made technology: 3 PoV from 3 different teams – clean feed provided by War Legend (not the teams).
- 200.000+ accumulated
concurrent viewers over 4 weeks - 120.000+ accumulated players participated to the qualifiers
- 50+ Volunteers to allow this project to exist (Tournament Admin, Staff, Communication, Designer, Technicians, Streamers, Casters, …)
- 12 communities participating (Represented: UK, NL, BE, LU, FR, PT, ES, IT, DE, SE,
PL, RO, RU, TR) - 7 qualifiers organised by communities
- 1 Final
- 0 Sponsors
- 0 € budget – fully supported by volunteers
This event was created and managed by @WL_Crazz with heavy support of Gameset, EPIC Games, War Legend staff and a big up to @Mogzz for designing the Cup.
Summer 2018
From end of June 2018, the access to custom games became more strict. War Legend had to reshape all its strategy and gave birth to a new format : the Cups. No more linked events would be allowed anymore. Weekly cups organised by War Legend for ourselves or for third parties : it was the era of the “Elemental Cups”. Some of the best players had the chance to be invited to the Summer Skirmish events.
With 6 days per week tournaments, War Legend was the biggest tournament organisers in the World at this time.
Mid September 2018 – EPIC Games starts to close access to Custom Games with the arrival of the Fall Skirmish.
