Olympic Esports Finals 2023: ISSF Challenge featuring Fortnite finalists confirmed
The 11 finalists will compete in the ISSF Challenge featuring Fortnite finals on 24 June 2023 in Singapore.
Eleven Fortnite players have been confirmed for the inaugural Olympic Esports Finals 2023 from 23–25 June in Singapore.
The finalists have been invited based on their performances in the Fortnite Challenge Series, in addition to a wildcard player from host country Singapore.
Among the world's best exponents of the game, they will duke it out at the Suntec Conference and Exhibition Centre on 24 June to be crowned Olympic Esports Finals winner.
Fortnite was put forward by the International Shooting Sport Federation to represent sport shooting in the Olympic Esports Series 2023.
ISSF Challenge featuring Fortnite finalists – Olympic Esports Finals 2023
The finalists are:
- Winston Ho (Wisa) from Singapore
- Nomura Yuma (Pepoclip) from Japan
- Yamada Yuto (Zagou) from Japan
- Andrejs Piratovs (Merstach) from Latvia
- Tai Starčič (TaySon) from Slovenia
- Abdullah Akhras (Acom) from Canada
- Alexander Feyzjou (Boltz) from USA
- João Ferreira (kitoz) from Brazil
- Hamad Almutairi (Rapit) from Kuwait
- Sebastian Cole (Suns) from Sweden
- Lucas Malissa (anon) from Australia
Olympic Esports Finals 2023: ISSF Challenge featuring Fortnite competition format
The finalists will compete in a specially designed Fortnite Creative Island made to reflect sport shooting competition.
In the first round, the finalists will compete in a time trial, with the eight fastest and most accurate players moving on to the knock-out rounds. The fastest player from round 1 will be paired up against the eighth-fastest in the quarter-finals, and so on.
The quarter-finals and semi-finals will be a direct head-to-head, with the faster player in each pairing advancing. In the final, each player will have three attempts to set a time, with the fastest time among the six times set by the two players winning the competition.
Alongside Fortnite, nine other games are part of the Olympic Esports Series and Olympic Esports Finals. They are: Tic Tac Bow (archery), WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS (baseball), Chess.com (chess), Zwift (cycling), Just Dance (dance), Gran Turismo (motorsport), Virtual Regatta (sailing), Virtual Taekwondo (taekwondo), and Tennis Clash (tennis).
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