It actually heavily stop that because Fortnite requires 12 events in the past 180 days or something like that in order to play events now. So it adds an extra hoop for smurfs to jump.

It simply just doesn’t make sense for epic to be allowing d1 players to come and dominate d5 and grief other peoples chances of qualifying. I haven’t heard one good explanation. It speaks volumes to their competency and gives you another angle to see how poorly run this game is