Criticism erupts for selecting `` Fort Knight '' as an e-sports competition for high school students


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Alex Haney

`` Fort Knight, '' a battle royal game incorporating architectural elements distributed for various platforms such as PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Nintendo Switch, is a national high school rival held in Japan in 2019. Even sports competitions and STAGE: 0 are popular titles selected as one of the competition titles. Although Fortnite is popular in the United States in high school esports competitions, the Kentucky High School Athletic Association states that ' Fortnite is banned from playing e-sports '.

No Fortnite in KY. High school e-sports competition, KHSAA says. | Lexington Herald Leader
https://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article239675978.html

Fortnite banned by Kentucky high school sports association-The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/esports/2020/01/29/fortnite-kentucky-ban-high-schools/

Kentucky athletic association bans Fortnite from high school esports competition-Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/fortnite/2020/1/29/21114359/fortnite-banned-kentucky-high-school-esports-playvs

PlayVS is an eSports league recognized by the United States High Schools Federation that allows high school students to easily build esports teams and form school competitions. PlayVS has partnered with the U.S. State High School Association, including the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, to host esports competitions, and PlayVS launched Fortnite's esports league for high school students in the fourth week of January 2020. We announced that we will hold.



The Kentucky High School Physical Education Association and some other states have responded. `` Emailing school officials there is no place for shooting games in our state school, '' said Julian Tucket, a member of the Kentucky High School Physical Education Association, who said that high school students were Reveals that he has forbidden to play Fort Knight as part of that.

He added, `` We work with the United States State High School Association to ensure that we have taken steps to eliminate Fort Knight from the PlayVS title, '' said shooting games like Fort Knight played at high school levels. Are not suitable as esports titles.

In addition, Mr. Tuckett said, `` It's troublesome that PlayVS announced Fortnite very close to the date of the

Marshall County shooting , one of the saddest events in Kentucky. '' I told you.



Epic Games, the operator of PlayVS and Fort Knight, has signed a partnership agreement on January 22, 2020, announcing that it will create a Fort Knight esports league for college and high school students. According to Mr. Tuckett, none of the members of the Kentucky State High School Physical Education Association, the National State High School Association, and the members of the National State High School Association were notified of the Fortnite eSports League.

That said, Playcket's hosting of Fortnite's e-sports league was `` a violation of the contract between PlayVS and the American State High School Association, jeopardizing the future of the program itself (PlayVS). That's what we do. '



In response, a PlayVS representative said, 'PlayVS will operate a Fortnite e-sports league for high school students with Epic Games.' It works. ' This is not a `` high school competition esports program offered to students in cooperation with the U.S. State High School Association '', but rather an `` esports league provided by PlayVS and Epic Games for high school students. '' It claims that it is not a violation. PlayVS also states that Fortnite's esports league 'was misunderstood in the media and created a misunderstanding as if it were a recognized title by the National High School Association.'

However, the US State High School Association said, 'Our e-sports partner PlayVS is very disappointed to offer Fortnite as a gaming option for high school students. We and our affiliates have announced a partnership with PlayVS Since then, we have always denied involvement or offerings with shooting games.We will work with PlayVS as soon as possible and work to resolve this issue. ' It is a stance that does not lean.



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