'Fortnite' Summer Skirmish Week 2: Live-Stream, Rules, Start Time And Prizes

Everything you need to know about Fortnite's Summer Skirmish Week 2.Credit: Epic / Erik Kain

Fortnite's first Summer Skirmish was a total disaster. But Epic games has learned a thing or two since last week, and this week's Summer Skirmish promises to be less laggy and more entertaining. Hopefully. Summer Skirmish will take place across two days with matches on July 20th (today) and the 21st.

You can watch the live-stream below, with rules, start-time and more information further down the page.

Week 2 Rules

This weekend's Summer Skirmish format has changed. Last week's was Duos. This week is High Score Wins. The player with the highest score after 10 Solo matches is named the winner. There's two ways to earn points: Victory Royales and Eliminations. A $1 million prize pool will be divided across 20 winners.

Here's how scoring works:

Victory Royales: +5 Points
Eliminations: +1 Point
20 or More Eliminations (per game): +10 Points and $10,000

This should help encourage faster, less cautious gameplay. Last week devolved into camping and stalemates. Too much was on the line and players didn't want to take too many risks. With Eliminations almost as valuable as Victory Royales we should have a much more entertaining competition on our hands.

Start Time

Day 1: July 20, at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET
Day 2: July 21, at 10 a.m. PT/1 p.m. ET

Prizes

1st: $60,000

2nd:: $48,000

3rd: $40,000

4th: $36,000

5th: $32,000

6th: $28,000

7th: $24,000

8th: $20,000

9th: $18,000

10th: $14,000

11th - 15th: $10,000

16th - 20th: $6,000

And, of course, there's the bonuses for Eliminations to take into account as well.

Players

You can see a full list of pros and top-performing Showdown players competing in this weekend's tournament here. Favorites like Ninja and TSM_Myth will be there.

That's all folks.

Hopefully this week's tournament is more fun---and less glitchy---than last week's. We'll have more coverage of the event here at Forbes Games so stay tuned and let us know what you think!

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