How Power Rankings Work
Fortnite Competitive · Official Epic Power Rankings
Power Rankings (PR) are an Elo-style rating of your best performances — not a points race. Your rating is built in six steps:
- Get a raw performance rating for each tournament
- Weight it by the event weight
- Apply any time decay
- Keep your best 20
- Combine them Elo-style over time
- Add your Ranked bonus
The Big Idea: It's a rating, not a points total
❌ No points accumulation
Our system does not hand out fixed numbers of points. It's not a case of play more, gain more. You're not always trying to find the easy points or under pressure to play as many events as possible.
✅ We use Elo-style ratings
Each result is rated by who you beat and how important the event was. Your rating settles around your true level, and every event you play can improve it.
Let's say you're playing a Division 3 tournament with 1,000 duos and most players rated around 20,000. Where you finish, relative to that field, sets your raw performance rating: beat most players and you rate above it; finish below most players and you rate under it.
Placement | Raw performance rating | Why |
|---|---|---|
100th / 1000 | 23,000 | Beat most opponents → rated above the average |
500th / 1000 | ≈ 20,000 | A mid finish → rated around the average |
900th / 1000 | 17,000 | Below most opponents → rated under the average |
That is a very simplified version of how the raw performance rating is calculated. It's actually a multiplayer Elo calculation that weighs you separately against each opponent and their rating.
So the event weight is purely about making sure your PR is weighted towards your more important events.
Your raw performance rating is multiplied by the event weight to get a performance rating.
Multiplier | Tournament types |
|---|---|
×0.8 | Shop Cups · Ranked Cups · OG Cups |
×1.0 | Cash Cups · Victory Cups · Div Cups · Solo Series Quals · PS Cup · RES Opens/PI/Heats |
×1.2 | Div Cup Finals · RES Qual Finals · FNCS Heats · Solo Series Final |
×1.4 | FNCS Major Finals · RES Champs · Summit UB/LB |
×1.6 | Summit Final · Global Champs |
Worked examples — the same results, weighted
Tournament | Raw | × Weight | = Perf. rating | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Div 3 Cup · 100th / 1,000 | 23,000 | ×1.0 | 23,000 | Div Cups are ×1.0, so it's unchanged |
Div 1 Final · 39th / 50 | 20,000 | ×1.2 | 24,000 | Not a good placement, but the importance lifts it above the Div 3 result |
Ranked Cup · 5th / 10,000 | 20,000 | ×0.8 | 16,000 | Great placement, but the opponents weren't strong and the event weight drops it lower |
A higher raw rating or better placement doesn't always win: after weighting, the Div Final ends up above the other two.
After that it decays steadily, reaching zero at 720 days (2 years). So your PR always reflects how you've been playing recently because old results fade out.
- 0–180 days: 100% of the performance rating retained
- 180 days: decay begins
- 720 days: fully decayed (0%)
The top 20 count for your PR.
Everything below that does not affect your PR.
A new result will knock out an old one if it's rated higher
Tournament | Raw | Weight | Decay | Perf. rating | Counted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Summit Final · 38th / 50 | 25,000 | ×1.6 | ×1.0 | 40,000 | ✅ #1 |
Major 1 Final · 14th / 100 | 26,000 | ×1.4 | ×1.0 | 36,400 | ✅ #2 |
Div 1 Final · 39th / 50 | 20,000 | ×1.2 | ×1.0 | 24,000 | ✅ #3 |
Cash Cup · 6th / 2,500 | 21,000 | ×1.0 | ×1.0 | 21,000 | ✅ #4 |
Div 3 Cup · 100th / 1,000 | 23,000 | ×1.0 | ×0.83 | 19,100 | ✅ #5 |
… 14 more counted … | · | · | · | ↓ | ✅ |
Cash Cup · 240th / 2,500 | 18,500 | ×1.0 | ×1.0 | 18,500 | ✅ #20 |
Ranked Cup · 5th / 10,000 | 20,000 | ×0.8 | ×1.0 | 16,000 | ❌ #21 |
Div 3 Cup · 600th / 1,000 | 14,000 | ×1.0 | ×1.0 | 14,000 | ❌ #22 |
Ranked Cup · 300th / 10,000 | 12,500 | ×0.8 | ×1.0 | 10,000 | ❌ #23 |
✅ counted in your best 20 · ❌ not currently counted
- As new results arrive, you can gain PR.
- As old results decay, you'll slowly lose PR.
- So it always reflects your current skill level.
Both BR Ranked and Reload Ranked count, so the bonus from each is added on.
The higher your rank, the bigger the bonus.
Rank | PR bonus |
|---|---|
Bronze 1 | 0 |
Bronze 2 | 25 |
Bronze 3 | 50 |
Silver 1 | 75 |
Silver 2 | 100 |
Silver 3 | 125 |
Gold 1 | 150 |
Gold 2 | 175 |
Gold 3 | 200 |
Platinum 1 | 225 |
Platinum 2 | 250 |
Platinum 3 | 275 |
Diamond 1 | 300 |
Diamond 2 | 325 |
Diamond 3 | 350 |
Elite 1 | 400 |
Elite 2 | 450 |
Elite 3 | 500 |
Champion 1 | 600 |
Champion 2 | 700 |
Champion 3 | 800 |
Unreal | 1,000 |
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Fair for Every Type of Player
What the system solves
- Strength of opponents — Regions balance themselves: Beating a higher-rated field scores higher automatically. So 10th in a stacked EU final will rate higher than 10th in a smaller region.
- Event Weight + Best 20 — Every event is an opportunity:Almost all BR/Reload tournaments count. You don't have to play every one, but they're all a chance to improve your PR and you cannot lose PR by playing.
Works for every level of competitor
- Top-tier competitor — Your big stages carry you:Finals and other highly-weighted events will fill your best 20 because more important tournaments have a higher event weight and naturally have harder opponents. A player who only plays Ranked Cups would find it impossible to reach your score.
- Lower-tier player — Your tournaments still count:If Ranked and Shop Cups are what you play most, they still build your rating, and they could all be in your best 20. To move up even further, succeed in the higher-weighted tournaments.
Why It Matters: What your PR unlocks
- Tournament eligibility — Your way in: PR will be used as an entry requirement for tournaments such as FNCS GC Last Chance and Solo FNCS. For example, the top 200k players will be eligible to play FNCS GC Last Chance.
- Rewards for climbing — Perks at the top: Higher-PR players may skip rounds or earn special invites to tournaments. For example, the top 2k players can skip Round 1 and start in Round 2 of FNCS GC Last Chance.
In short: a higher PR opens more doors. It's worth climbing.
In One Breath
Get rated each tournament by who you beat, weight it by importance, let older results decay, and keep your best 20. Higher tiers are more likely to count, but every tournament is an opportunity. Whatever you play, you're playing for your Power Ranking.