Fortnite team banned from major tournament after player tells Epic Exec to kill himself

I do not know much about Fortnite, but I’m going to guess harassing that an Epic driver is probably not a winning strategy.

A Fortnite competitor named Wrigley tested this controversial technique On Saturday night, he spotted Epic creative officer Donald Mustard in a tweet that read ‘literally fucking k! ll your $ elf ‘for some unknown reason. Several letters have been replaced by symbols in an apparent attempt to prevent the automatic moderation of Twitter from being triggered against such threats, but the account has since been removed anyway.

While it was shit in its own right, Wrigley’s tweet got right before he and teammates Dictate and Userz would take part in the Fortnite Champions Series’ grand final for the NA East region, an important event for which they were able to qualify after weeks of competition. When Wrigley was banned from the tournament, Dictate and Userz were too, and they all three were left in the cold as the rest of the field played for a piece of the $ 700,000 prize pool over the weekend.

“Just played the whole season for $ 0 oh my fucking god,” Dictate wrote on Twitter shortly after Epic’s email was shared explain the disqualification of his team.

“I wish we had an opportunity to have an emergency business,” Userz said added. “What Wrigley did was completely out of our control and we put endless time into the game to get a chance at life-changing money.”

According to information provided to Polygon, Wrigley promised to compensate Dictate and Userz in some way to make up the ban.