{"id":842,"date":"2025-05-12T23:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T23:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/d4vd-zhu-fortnite-pro-am-tournament-afterparty-photos-1235969714\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T23:22:35","slug":"d4vd-zhu-fortnite-pro-am-tournament-afterparty-photos-1235969714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/d4vd-zhu-fortnite-pro-am-tournament-afterparty-photos-1235969714\/","title":{"rendered":"D4vd &amp; ZHU Entertain Fans &amp; Competitors at Fortnite Pro-Am Tournament &amp; Billboard After Party: See\u00a0Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-not-a-paywall\">\n<p>Twenty of Fortnite\u2019s top professional players teamed up with 20 of the biggest content creators for a six-round tournament at the Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS) Pro-Am on Saturday in Los Angeles. The 20 duos squared off for a share of $500,000 up for grabs. An average of more than 480,000 fans watched as pro player Peterbot and content creator Aussie Antics rose to victory, taking home the FNCS Pro-Am trophy and $25,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>Hitmaker and Fortnite superfan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/d4vd\/\">D4vd<\/a> was on site to help hype up the crowd in the Galen Center at the University of Southern California. He made a surprise appearance at the announcer\u2019s desk during the event\u2019s halftime. The singer\/songwriter even livestreamed the tournament from his official Twitch channel.<\/p>\n<p>After the 40 competitors greeted some lucky fans in attendance, they headed to the official Fortnite After Party powered by <em>Billboard<\/em>. Guests enjoyed pizza while sipping on cocktails inspired by Fortnite. They could choose from a bourbon-based Victory Crown or Slurp Juice, which celebrated Fortnite\u2019s latest reload map, Slurp Rush! made with tequila.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn\u2019t be a <em>Billboard<\/em> party if it didn\u2019t feature some unforgettable music. Sarah Benyo got the party started with a set that spanned multiple genres of dance music. She set the tone of the evening before Top Dance Albums chart-topper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/zhu\/\">ZHU<\/a> took over the decks with an exclusive set filled with hit after hit featuring live vocals.<\/p>\n<p>Check out highlights from the Fortnite Championship Pro-Am and Fortnite and Billboard\u2019s Official After Party in the photos below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty of Fortnite\u2019s top professional players teamed up with 20 of the biggest content creators for a six-round tournament at the Fortnite Championship Series (FNCS) Pro-Am on Saturday in Los&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,92,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-events","category-fortnite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}