Russian cybersports players Daniil "Putrick" Abdrakhmanov and Egor "Swizzy" Lucico won $200,000 at the Fortnite championship. However, Epic Games refused to pay the prize money because of the Russian citizenship of the players.

According to them, they were playing from Belarus and their bank accounts were registered in Kazakhstan. Nevertheless, Epic Games, the organizer of the tournament, refused to pay the prize money and disqualified Abdrakhmanov from the FNCS tournament in Copenhagen. The players tried to appeal the decision and sent a request to Epic Games, but they received a refusal with the wording that they come from "a region with limited access to prizes."

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They thought they were being slick playing from the Russian subdivision, Belarus.