Fortnite Summer Smash: video game phenomenon takes on the Australian Open

One of the most popular games ever created took over Margaret Court arena with the biggest prize pool in Australian eSports history

A few hours before Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal’s Australian Open final last Sunday, a very different game is under way at Margaret Court arena.

Here there are many more players and a lot less sweat – but fans every bit as fervent as any tennis obsessive. The environment is electric in more than a single sense, with 100 participants perched in front of computer monitors in race car-like seats. Above them four gigantic screens broadcast their performance to a whooping audience.

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from The Guardian http://bit.ly/2MCEM9k
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