Fortnite team banned from major tournament after player tells Epic Exec to commit suicide

I don’t know much about it Fortnite, but I think harassing an Epic manager is probably not a winning strategy.

A Fortnite competitor named Wrigley tested this controversial technique on Saturday night, tagging Epic chief creative officer Donald Mustard in a tweet that read “literally fucking k! ll your $ eleven” for some unknown reason. Several letters have been replaced with symbols in an apparent effort to prevent Twitter from being automatically moderated against such threats, but the account has since been deleted anyway.

While worthless in itself, Wrigley’s tweet came just before he and teammates Dictate and Userz were scheduled to participate in the Fortnite Grand Finals of the Champion Series for the NA East region, a major event for which they managed to qualify after weeks of competition. When Wrigley was banned from the tournament, so were Dictate and Userz, leaving all three out in the cold while the rest of the field played for a share of the nearly $ 700,000 prize pool this weekend.

“I just played for $ 0 all season, oh my god,” Dictate wrote on Twitter shortly after sharing Epic’s email explain the disqualification of his team.

“I wish we could get a chance for an emergency grant,” Userz added“What Wrigley did was completely out of our control and we put an endless amount of time into the game for a chance to win life-changing money.”

According to information provided to Polygon, Wrigley has promised to somehow compensate Dictate and Userz to make up for the ban.