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Fortnite World Cup Finals, with $30 million at stake, will be July 25-28 in Queens

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games announced today that the Fortnite World Cup Finals will take place in Queens, New York, from July 25 to July 28. The prize pool is $30 million, and the champion will walk away with $3 million.

The event will be at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center’s Arthur Ashe Stadium. Pre-registration is now available for a chance to purchase tickets to the tournament final. Epic recently said that the game has more than 250 million players.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.