What is the FNCS pickaxe called and how do you get it?
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FORTNITE Championship Series (FNCS) has some super rare pickaxes that you can’t snag by completing challenges or grabbing from the shop. Ahead of the Festival Season 7 launch, we’re diving into what the FNCS pickaxe is called, how you can get your hands on it, and how long you get to keep it.
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The Fortnite Championship Series FNCS pickaxe we’re talking about is called the Blade of Champions. It’s one of the rarest pickaxes in Fortnite, right up there with the OG ones from the early seasons that haven’t shown up in the game for ages. Only a select few players ever get their hands on this legendary item.
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Epic Games saves it exclusively for an elite group of competitors. With an item so incredibly rare, players are keen to learn how to get their digital hands on the Blade of Champions. But you need to be one of the best players in the world out of hundreds of thousands of gamers, as it is only given out as a reward to FNCS winners.
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Since FNCS kicked off in 2019, seasonal winners didn’t just score a chunk of the prize pool, they also got the exclusive in-game Axe of Champions. The pickaxe was the ultimate bragging right since only FNCS winners could rock it, and only until the next season.
But in November 2024, Epic Games announced a major change: the Axe of Champions was being swapped out for the new FNCS Blade of Champions. Starting in Chapter 3 Season 2, winning FNCS teams got to claim the Axe of Champions 2.0 — a trophy that showed you’d conquered Fortnite’s biggest tournament.
