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Friday’s EU session starts at 17:00 UTC
Fortnite’s Solo Reload Victory Cup returns in Europe on Friday, 23 October, with Round 1 listed for 17:00–19:00 UTC and Round 2 for 20:00–20:45 UTC. That is 19:00–21:00 and 22:00–22:45 in Stockholm (CEST, UTC+2). The session is upcoming; Epic’s live event page says the selected round has not started.
This is a cash cup, separate from November’s FNCS Solos Reload. Its two rounds reward different things: a strong points total gets you through the first, while a Victory Royale is what earns money in the second.
Champion in Reload Ranked is the final-event threshold
Epic’s event page lists 23 October as the end of this cup’s October run and specifies Champion in Reload Ranked for the final event. The earlier thresholds were Platinum for the first two events and Diamond for the third. A Battle Royale rank is not the Reload rank named in this requirement.
Players must be at least 13, or meet a higher minimum age in their country, and have multi-factor authentication enabled. Minors also need parental or guardian permission under the rules. PC entrants should check the Secure Boot, TPM and IOMMU requirements before the session rather than finding a hardware eligibility problem at queue time.
Round 1: points decide who advances
The official rules allow up to eight matches in the roughly two-hour opening session. A match must begin before the session window closes to count. In Europe, the top 1,600 players by the final Round 1 leaderboard qualify for Round 2.
The other regional cuts are 800 in North America Central and 320 each in Oceania, Asia, Middle East, Brazil and North America West. Those regions have their own schedules; the times above are EU only.
For Solo Reload, Attachment A directs players to the scoring system displayed in-game. Do not copy the 60-point win and two-point elimination table elsewhere on the same rules page: that table belongs to the standard Solo Victory Cup, not the Solo Reload competition.
Round 2: each Victory Royale is worth $100
Qualifiers can play up to three matches. Epic awards $100 USD for each Round 2 Victory Royale, subject to eligibility verification and prize-payment requirements. Three wins would therefore earn $300. Qualifying alone does not earn that payment, and a Round 1 win is not a paid Round 2 win.
The second-round leaderboard tracks Victory Royales, with no points for other placements. That changes the objective from accumulating enough points across a session to converting a match into first place.
Use the live session window, not a rounded duration
There is a useful scheduling difference to catch before playing: the written rules describe Round 2 as approximately one hour, while Epic’s current EU schedule lists a 45-minute window, 20:00–20:45 UTC, for 23 October. Keep the shorter published window in mind and confirm the final session times in the in-game Compete tab, which the rules identify as the final schedule.
The calendar entry keeps this EU session separate from the Mobile Series championship taking place in Copenhagen that weekend.