Top earners in Fortnite in Finland 2018-2022

Based on a ranking of the all-time prize money earned by the leading eSports players in Fortnite from Finland, BELAEU (the gamer tag of Lassi Kallio) outperformed all other players earning a total of 179.34 thousand U.S. dollars as of August 2022.

Fortnite on Twitch

The popularity of Fortnite on the streaming platform Twitch waxed and waned greatly throughout the months between January 2018 and April 2022. The highest peak occurred in July 2018, with over 205 thousand viewers. Since then, the viewership of Fortnite events has oscillated between around 70 thousand and 160 thousand on average.

Prize money in eSports

Fortnite tournaments had a cumulative prize pool of approximately 20 million U.S. dollars in 2021 — the fourth largest in that year. The leader of the ranking that year was DOTA 2, with an impressive 47.8 million U.S. dollars in prizes, followed by Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile.