{"id":104238,"date":"2019-11-22T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/fortnites_fishing_frenzy_contest_kicks_off_today"},"modified":"2019-11-22T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:30:00","slug":"fortnites-fishing-frenzy-contest-kicks-off-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/22\/fortnites-fishing-frenzy-contest-kicks-off-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite&#8217;s Fishing Frenzy Contest Kicks Off Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd0c51eaddf4b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd0c51eaddf4b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Fortnite Fishing\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd0c51eaddf4b\/fortnite-fishing.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cd0c51eaddf4b\/fortnite-fishing.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fortnite Fishing\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Epic Games has just announced that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> Fishing Frenzy Contest starts today.<\/p>\n<p>During the contest, you&#8217;ll be able to win special items and the focus \u2013 as you might have guessed \u2013 revolves around Fortnite&#8217;s recently-introduced fishing mechanic.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more information:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Things are about to get reel!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Triggerfish surfaces to present the first Fortnite Fishing Frenzy Contest. Beginning Friday, start casting your Fishing Rods for an opportunity to win a Bottom Dweller pickaxe or your very own real-life Llama Trophy!<\/p>\n<p>Grab Triggerfish from the Item Shop on Friday, November 22 at 7 PM ET and send your enemies to sleep with the fishes.<br \/><strong><br \/>COMPETITION TIMES, PRIZES &amp; CATEGORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Open a can of worms on the casting competition beginning at 8am ET on Friday, November 22 until 8pm ET on Sunday, November 24.<\/p>\n<p>Each server region (NAE and NAW are combined) will have one winner in each category listed<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Top Angler<br \/><\/strong> Catch the most fish in a single match during the competition<br \/>One champion per regional server<br \/>Awarded an engraved Llama Trophy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Small Fry Champion<br \/><\/strong>Catch the most Small Fry during the competition<br \/>One champion per regional server<br \/>Awarded an engraved Llama Trophy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flopper Champion<br \/><\/strong>Catch the most Floppers during the competition<br \/>One champion per regional server<br \/>Awarded an engraved Llama Trophy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Slurpfish Champion<br \/><\/strong>Catch the most Slurpfish during the competition<br \/>One champion per regional server<br \/>Awarded an engraved Llama Trophy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mythic Goldfish = Instant Prize<br \/><\/strong>Anyone that catches the Mythic Goldfish will receive a Bottom Dweller Pickaxe!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Getting Hooked on Fishing<br \/><\/strong>Anyone that participates during the competition window will get the Play to Win spray<br \/>Use a Fishing Rod during the contest times<br \/>Start Date: Friday, November 22 at 8am ET<br \/>End Date: Sunday, November 24 at 8pm ET<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games has just announced that Fortnite&#8217;s Fishing Frenzy Contest starts today. During the contest, you&#8217;ll be able to win special items and the focus \u2013 as you might have guessed \u2013 revolves around Fortnite&#8217;s recently-introduced fishing mechanic. Here&#8217;s some more information: Things are about to get reel! Triggerfish surfaces to present the first Fortnite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}