The next Twitch Rivals event has been announced and it is unlike anything else that we have seen before for Fortnite battle royale. The game is no stranger to the popular Twitch Rivals event where various Twitch streamers battle it out against other popular content creators but this is different.

Fortnite Streamer Bowl Is Coming Soon

Twitch Rivals is hosting the Fortnite Streamer Bowl, an exciting event that will see various top streamers partner up with some real-life NFL players to compete in a duos tournament. Since these stars are already successful on their own, the money earned will go towards charity.

The Fortnite Streamer Bowl is gearing up to happen later this month but, in the meantime, Twitch Rivals has hosted the draft event. Paying homage to the popular draft that precedes every major NFL season, the streamers who are participating in the event had the chance to do their own draft.

A list of participating NFL players were chosen to be in the event, many of which have made it known that they are fans of the free-to-play battle royale game. As such, it was intriguing for the content creators in the event to have the chance to pick the partner that they think would be the best.

Top content creators like TimtheTatman, Reverse2K, Bugha, and more had the opportunity to pick their celebrity partner to play together with them during the event. A recent livestream was held for the draft event and the 16 duos teams have been selected.

Some of the NFL celebrities that were in the draft include Juju Smith-Schuster, Kyle Van Noy, Johnathan Abram, and many more. There is a total of 32 players who will be participating in the Fortnite Streamer Bowl, evenly split in half between the content creators and the sports stars.

All 16 Streamer Bowl Duo Teams

Each content creator is partnered up with a celebrity NFL player and the teams have been decided just a couple of weeks before the actual event happens live. You can find the full list of the duo teams below:

• Unknownxarmy and Philadelphia Eagles’ Avonte Maddox
• Bugha and Pittsburgh Steelers’ Juju Smith-Schuster
• Nickmercs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ Mike Evans
• Reverse2K and Baker Mayfield (Cleveland Browns)
• Aydan and Kurt Benkert (Atlanta Falcons)
• Chap and Kyle Van Noy (New England Patriots)
• Symfuhny and D.K. Metcalf (Seattle Seahawks)
• Tfue and Kyler Murray (Arizona Cardinals)
• Clix and Tarik Cohen (Chicago Bears)
• Nate Hill and Eddie Vanderdoes (Houston Texans)
• NickEh30 and David Morgan (Minnesota Vikings)
• DrLupo and Keenan Allen (Los Angeles Chargers)
• BrookeAB and Eric Ebron (Indianapolis Colts)
• Elded and Kenyan Drake (Arizona Cardinals)
• LosPollosTV and Jamal Adams (New York Jets)
• TimtheTatman and Johnathan Abram (Oakland Raiders)

As you can see, these are some of the best battle royale players out there with some intimidating teams, to say the least. Teams like Bugha and Juju Smith-Schuster should be carefully watched, as the current World Cup champion teams up with an NFL player who is known to love the game.

In the end, though, the Fortnite Streamer Bowl is mainly all about fun and earning money for charity rather than finding out who the best of the best is. This is the final stage in the multi-part tournament event that has been going on for the last couple of months.

There were four minor showcases that happened in December and January where streamers and NFL athletes would team up together. It has all culminated in the actual Fortnite Streamer Bowl that will take place just before the actual Super Bowl in early February.

Fortnite Streamer Bowl Charity Prizes and How to Watch

There is a ton of charity money on the line in the event with a massive prize pool of $500,000 plus $80,000 in gifted subscriptions. All 16 duo teams that participate will get some money no matter what just for participating to donate to the charity of their choice, with prizes rising for better placements.

It all starts with the teams that place 11th through 16th. All of these teams will receive $7,500 for participating that they can award to their favorite charities. The 10th place duo will receive a little more than the lower teams at $10,000 in charity prize money.

It only increases from there with ninth place getting $15,000 to give to charity, eighth place getting $20,000, seventh place receiving $25,000, and sixth place receiving $30,000. From there, the typical increments of $5,000 more jumps even higher.

The fifth place team will earn $40,000 for their charity while the fourth place will get even more at $50,000. Third place will continue the $10,000 increase, receiving $60,000 for charity while second and first place will get even more. The runner-up team will receive $80,000 for charity.

The first place winning team of the event will receive a massive $125,000 that they can donate to the charity of their choosing. If you are interested in watching the event live as it happens, you will have to wait a little bit longer until Thursday, January 30 for the tournament.

The pre-game broadcast of the Fortnite Streamer Bowl will begin on the official Twitch Rivals channel as well as on likely all of the participating Twitch streamers’ respective channels at 2 pm PT. The pre-show will lead to the actual tournament beginning an hour later at 3 pm PT.