{"id":18239,"date":"2021-06-18T07:44:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T07:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/wildlife-and-io-guards-removed-from-fortnite-competitive"},"modified":"2024-07-21T21:54:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T21:54:38","slug":"wildlife-and-io-guards-removed-from-fortnite-competitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/fortnite\/wildlife-and-io-guards-removed-from-fortnite-competitive","title":{"rendered":"Wildlife and IO Guards removed from Fortnite competitive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anyone who has played competitive playlists will know that the Epic Games Fortnite<\/a> servers are not always the greatest. To top it off, it’s been this way for quite some time now. Despite releasing exciting new features, themes, and cosmetics with Season 7<\/a>, the Fortnite server instability is (at times) game-breaking. It, therefore, came as a surprise when Fortnite announced that wildlife and IO Guards would be removed from Fortnite competitive playlists.<\/p>\n

Fortnite Wildlife & IO Guards removed<\/h2>\n

The announcement came ahead of the upcoming FNCS All-Star Event starting on the 23rd of June, next week. The tournament boasts a massive USD 3 million prize pool and will attract many high-level Fornite competitive players.<\/p>\n

This change may, therefore, be vital to ensure the server stability (and thus, competitive integrity) of the upcoming tournament.<\/p>\n

In a tweet posted by the official Fortnite Status Twitter account on the 18th of June 2021, Epic Games said:<\/p>\n