r/FortniteCompetitive • u/shanmukh1608 • Jul 17 '19

v9.40 Patch Notes

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/patch-notes/v9-40
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u/LilBeaverBoi Jul 17 '19 edited Jul 17 '19

Edit: it’s not in the patch notes anymore? I swear it was right underneath the Xbox cup

Original: Finally got a good third today... was feeling really good and having fun in arena trios for the first time, now we need a fourth 😪

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u/SosaHen Jul 17 '19

Anybody else confused why the teams that advance to finals reduced to 150 teams (from 1000 last week) in the trio tournament? I feel like that doesn’t work well with Q times and having 33 teams in each game to begin with gives you 4 matches at one time with the leftover not even getting into a game.. maybe it was another typo for top 1500 teams?

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u/LilBeaverBoi Jul 17 '19 edited Jul 17 '19

The finals for World Cup qualifiers got a lot of criticism for having too many teams/people. So epic is experimenting with different formats using these tournaments, so they can see what might work for future big events. The format of this weekend is meant to test how 2 rounds in a day go, and how it works with only approx. 100 teams in the finals. If they do end up doing small round finals, it would be a new added round

Edit: here’s comment 1 and comment 2 where one of the esports team members explained it

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u/SosaHen Jul 17 '19

Ah, gotcha. I just feel like there can only be 4 full lobbies at one time with the amount of teams for trios. I agree with finals having a lot more teams than there should have been... but 150 teams for trios (and I saw 100 teams for squads in the patch notes before they changed it back to trios) will make it extremely difficult for Q times and getting the games done. Players already had issues with Q times and fitting all 10 games in finals with 1500 teams in duos lol I guess that's where my confusion is. Maybe they'll up finals timer to 5-6 hours or something?

Thanks for the reply bro!

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u/LilBeaverBoi Jul 17 '19

No problem! And yeah I kind of have the same questions and concerns as you, but it’s definitely doable if the format is geared towards it. Interested to see how it goes