Fortnite veterans are leaving the ship one by one. 2022 is already shaping up to be complicated for the competitive Battle Royale scene, since in barely a month, three iconic veteran players have just bowed out. Indeed, after Blax and Airwaks, here is that Clement “Skiing“Danglot announces the end of his career as a pro Fortnite player. The domino effect is palpable, at a time when those who have been present since the beginning of the game bitterly regret the magic of the beginning as well as the enthusiasm around the Fortnite phenomenon.
It is with a video recounting the best moments of his career as a pro player that Skite decided to inform his community of his final decision. Even if he did not specify the precise reasons for this choice, we know them only too well. For months, Skite has been alerting developers to the degradation of Fortnite’s competitive ecosystem. Unplayable metagames, major bugs in competitive games, cheaters present at high level, absence of World Cup and involvement from Epic Games…
Difficult in these conditions to keep the motivation to stay in the creme de la creme competitive. Even though Fortnite has only just started a new arc with the island of Chapter 3, Skite is already venturing into other games, and streaming Valorant, LoL and even TFT.
This announcement is likely to cause quite a stir on the scale of the tricolor scene, since Skite remains the highest ranked Frenchman in the 2019 World Cup (7th solo). It is a real symbol that takes off, therefore, at the end of January.
2022 is just beginning, and not under the best auspices for esports Fortnite FR…
The Skite prize list in brief
- 19th in FNCS Season 4 Chapter 2 as a trio (2020)
- 17th in FNCS Season 3 Chapter 2 Solo (2020)
- 3rd in the FNCS season 1 chapter in squad (2019)
- 7th at the 2019 World Cup solo
- 10th at the 2019 World Cup in duet
- 1st at Lyon Esport 2019 in duo
- 1st at Winter Royale EU 2018