The Fortnite Mix Up Mondays tournaments were a great addition to the competitive calendar, but they aren’t running this season, what happened to the events?
Fortnite Mix-Up Mondays were added at the tail end of Chapter 4 and they stuck around through the early half of Chapter 5. What made the Fortnite Mix-Up Mondays tournaments different? These were unique scoring and formats that open up what Fortnite competitive could be. Although, in practice the tournaments didn’t feel as mixed up as they could be.
Fortnite is a game with tons of different ways to play. Some players stick to tried and true tested ways to win games of Fortnite, looting and playing it a bit safer. However, others have won by doing literally nothing, just doing memes till the final circle, or pushing non-stop with no regard to safety. There are as many ways to win as there are players.
Fortnite tournaments on the other hand have traditionally had a scoring system that only really rewards optimal styles of play. That’s why the Mix Up Mondays Fortnite Tournament were fun, and had such promise.
Epic has been changing the tournament rigidity with the Fortnite C5 Mix Up Mondays and their replacement events. It was supposed to be unique rules each week. Reliance on the same most meta weapons shouldn’t carry you to victory. What happened to them and why have Mix Up Mondays gone away?
What Happened to Fortnite Mix Up Mondays?
This season, there aren’t any Mix Up Mondays tournaments. It seems Epic is phasing them out. What does this mean? Well, Fortnite competitive moves around from season to season but at the moment it seems these are either on hiatus or retired.
The Mix Up Mondays tournaments provided a way for players to compete without a Cash Prize. In more recent seasons, like C5 S4, Epic has been doing Ranked Cups in their place. These at least have minor rewards!
Mix Up Mondays could come back in the future. Having events that change around the rule set is always a fun idea. However, at the moment they don’t seem to be part of Epic’s competitive plans.
How Did Fortnite Mix Up Mondays Tournaments Work?
The rule set and scoring for each Mix Up Mondays Fortnite event changed from week to week. Although, Epic tended to favor a few different variants of rules. These are the three sets that Epic has used most heavily to give you an idea of how Mix Up Mondays worked.
Placement Scoring
This scoring is a Placement-heavy system. Victory Royales get 65 points. Other placement decreases gradually, until the 25th which is 2 points. Elims are only worth 2. Getting a high placement is much more important here.
Elims All or Nothing
In this Mix-Up Monday Fortnite tournament, only Victory Royales and Elims yield points. 25 for a 1st finish, 1 for each elim.
W-Key Only
No points for placement at all. Only Elims! A combat-focused ruleset that more aggressive players might find quite fun.
Item Pool – Fortnite Mix Up Mondays
Mix Up Monday events might have different scoring, but it seems the items stayed relatively stable. Epic stuck to the general tournament loot pool for the most part. So more OP items and mobility are removed, but most other stuff is fair game.
The tournament loot pool did change quite a bit over seasons though. Keep an eye on Fortnite news and patch notes to see what’s active.
One thing to keep in mind is that tournaments don’t use the Pubs or Ranked playlist. Cars are gone as are a few other cheese items.
Battle Royale or Zero Build for Fortnite C5 Mix Up Mondays S2?
One factor that’s made competitions more complicated since Chapter 3 is the addition of Zero Builds. According to the live Fortnite player count, Builds is a bit ahead of Zero in C5 but not by too much. While the core FNCS is focused on Battle Royale, these smaller tournaments included Zero Builds mode and Builds.
Players can compete in either. You can just select which one you want to play in. Given that these two modes have different loot pools as standard, their items will be mismatched here too. Although, the same “twist” on normal rules will be present for both.
Since the new Fortnite ranked mode is now separated between the two game modes, so is competitive. Players can utilize either of these, depending on which mode they perform better in. There are two sessions, one for Builds and one for Zero.
Who Could Play in Fortnite Mix Up Monday Tournaments?
Most Fortnite tournaments are fairly open, this isn’t a game that puts up a lot of barriers. Some tournaments do require you to hit a certain level in the game’s Ranked mode first though. What about the Mix Up Mondays Fortnite Tournaments?
There wasn’t actually a Ranked requirement to take part in Fortnite C5 Mix Up Mondays. Probably why they were replaced with Ranked Cups and not Cash Cups. Since they have a more casual ruleset there isn’t a huge focus on hitting the higher tiers.
There are still a few things you’ll need to do first though. The game requires you to have Fortnite 2-factor authentication activated for it to run. There’s no getting around that. This makes your account safer anyway though, so it’s definitely worth setting up.
On top of that, you need to be in Bronze or higher. That’s the lowest rank. So you just need to complete your first placement match to enter.
Are There Fortnite Mix Up Mondays rewards?
Fortnite Mix Up Monday rewards aren’t part of the event. You won’t be getting cash prizes for playing. It’s still a fun event to jump into and test your skill though. Great for staying fresh around cash events.
Should Mix Up Mondays Come Back?
That’s how the Fortnite Mix Up Mondays events worked, but what happened? These events have been retired since the last season, and there are some reasons they didn’t quite work.
On the surface, a tournament setup where things are different every week is interesting. In practise, there just wasn’t enough “mix up” in the Mix Up Mondays. To keep the events competitively viable, they had to stick to a handful of minor regulations on normal tournaments.
In the future, Mix Up Mondays could be a fun chance to see competitive play in the wackier items and ways to play. In the form we got though, Ranked Cups feel like a better addition to the game.
Ashley is a dedicated Fortnite player, in hour 3,000 of trying to finish above 90th.
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