Fortnite’s next tournament will also be its most controversial, thanks to mech suits

The future of competitive Fortnite kicks off tomorrow with the Champion Series, and it’s proving to be the most controversial e-sports contest developer Epic Games has ever embarked on. The issue is not prize money or who’s allowed to participate. Instead, the furor is over an in-game mech suit, ripped straight from the pages of classic Japanese manga. And it’s poised to boil over when pro players start competing for an eye-popping $10 million in prize money over the next 30 days.

Epic launched its most recent Fortnite season — the 10th one, dubbed Season X — a few days after the conclusion of its wildly successful World Cup event in New York City, where a 16-year-old was crowned the solo winner and took home $3 million in prize money….

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Double-O No!

Contestants Nolan Boggess and Alex Smailes appear on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

In this word game, every answer is a two-word phrase in which the first word contains a double-O. One of the Os is removed to create the second word.

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Shine On, You Crazy Neil Diamond

Guest musician Julian Velard leads a music parody game on Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

Guest musician Julian Velard jumps into action with a music parody reworking Neil Diamond hits to make them about other real people with Broadway musicals based on them.

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Antoni <3's Corgis

Cecil Baldwin and Ophira Eisenberg lead an Ask Me Another challenge with Antoni Porowski at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York.

Queer Eye’s food and wine expert Antoni Porowski returns to the stage to play a multiple choice game about one of his favorite dog breeds, corgis.

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