The results are in for Fortnite's second Showdown event, this time for Blitz with a few rules changes Epic made in the wake of the first Solo Showdown. This time around you only had 25 games to prove your worth, and in addition to placing high, kills also gave you points as well, so aggressive play and finishing well is rewarded, like many players were requesting. Also what was different this time is that Epic separated the contest by region, crowning 5 winners and 500 prize winners, rather than 1 and 100. They reduced the individual list prize pool as a result, but it was essentially doubled overall, with far more winners earning V-bucks. So, did you win? Probably not, given that tens of millions of people play this game and only 500 are walking away with anything.

And here comes the second competitive mode in Fortnite: Battle Royale. Epic Games is following up the popular Solo Showdown Limited Time Mode with Blitz Showdown, another high-level competitive mode that lets skilled players compete for big V-Buck prizes. And like with Solo Showdown, you're almost certainly not going to get any of those prizes: there are a ton of Fortnite: Battle Royale players out there, and the number that will be getting a reward is minuscule. Here's what the winners will get: Those rewards are down a bit from Solo Showdown, which offered 50,000 V-bucks at the top spot, but there's a wrinkle in how they're allotted. Epic is giving out rewards the top 100 players in each server region rather than doing it all as one big pool. So your chances are better, but still likely not great.

Fortnite: Battle Royale's first competitive mode is almost over. At 10:00 AM ET today, May 21, Epic Games will close out Solo Showdown and provide the final point tally, showering the grand winner with a whopping 50,000 V-Bucks. For Epic, this first competitive mode is both an event in itself and a test run--the developer is working on how to make tournaments work in the future, as well as, we assume, other kinds of ranked play. This first outing appears to have been popular so far--the developer hasn't announced participation numbers, but judging by the sky-high point totals you need to even register even close to a leaderboard, people are interested. And if this is a test run, I have one big suggestion for how to make these things matter more in the future: let more people win.

Fortnite: Battle Royale's competitive mode arrived a lot sooner than we thought. Developer Epic Games just announced Solo Showdown, a limited time mode live in the game right now. On the outset, it's the same thing as the normal solo game: drop onto an island with 100 players, get weapons, kill everyone else, stand alone triumphant on the top of the mountain, repeat. What's different, however, is huge. This is a scored mode designed as a proving ground for the best players in the game, and as such, it comes with massive V-Buck rewards for those that come out on top.