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Epic Games Has Yet To Pay Out An Australian Fortnite Tournament

It seems Epic Games has yet to pay out for a Fortnite tournament that happened back in January in Australia, and competitors are not happy with it. The news comes from the Fortnite Reddit community where a member posted their account of the situation in which they claim Epic has failed to pay out several players, even though some of them have been paid directly by the company with photo evidence to back it up.

3 months ago on Jan 26/27 2019 myself and 500 other Australians participated in the Fortnite lan summer smash event at the Australian Open… the top 100 that qualified and made it into the finals were told that the prize money was $1000 aud and i happen to have made it through to the finals myself but have yet to receive any money along side about 20 other players possible even more and when myself and the others reached out to all the competitive supports we heard back nothing and then i started to try and email epics different support where i was given the response that this was not and epic games sponsored tournament BUT i kept in contact with a couple of the blokes i met there and one of them who got paid was paid directly from Epic Games, inc (as seen below). It has been 3 months since the event finished 90 [DAYS]. there are around 20 people who have NOT been paid with a total earning of over $100,000 combined as shown in a quick list we tried to all put together for someone at epic to see but we have all been pretty much ignored upon trying to make contact

It appears Epic Games has yet to respond to several players regarding the matter, and it seems they've been given the runaround when it comes to getting any kind of support from the company. If Epic Games does owe these players money for the Fortnite tournament, payment should have been handled for all those who made the threshold within 30 days. An Epic Games employee did respond on the Reddit thread, but we have yet to hear if the situation has been taken care of as they are apparently withholding payment until they get the proper contact info for all players. We say if you clearly already have someone's complete info, pay them out!

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