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Fortnite Showdown Rivalries Tracker - Team Foundation vs Team Ice King Live Standings

All Things How May 25, 2026
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The Showdown event in Fortnite Chapter 7 Season 2 turns every match into a faction tally, with Team Foundation and Team Ice King racing to bank Rivalry wins toward shared community unlocks. The gap between the two sides has stayed razor-thin through Act III, with each faction trading the lead as new milestones drop fresh items into the loot pool.

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Quick answer: Team Ice King is currently leading the Showdown, holding a narrow advantage over Team Foundation in Act III with both factions sitting around 76% event progress.


Live Showdown score: Team Foundation vs Team Ice King

Both factions are within a few hundred thousand rivalries of each other in Act III, which is essentially a coin flip at this scale. Team Ice King has held the lead for most of the season, including outright wins in Act I and Act II, while Team Foundation has clawed back ground heading into the final stretch.

Faction Act III Progress Rivalries Won Status
Team Foundation 76.22% 1,554,401,352 Narrow lead
Team Ice King 76.15% 1,554,144,308 Trailing by ~257K

The live counter updates roughly every minute on the Fortnite.GG Showdown page, and the official Epic-linked leaderboard is mirrored on Fortnite Tracker. Player counts have stayed lopsided since launch, with around 1.4 million on Team Ice King against 1.2 million on Team Foundation.


How rivalries are earned

Points only come from winning Rivalries, the dedicated 1v1-style mini-battles built into Battle Royale matches. Eliminations alone don't move the needle for your faction. You need to actually trigger and win the Rivalry encounter for the point to count toward the global tally.

Team choice is locked for the season. Once you've committed to Foundation or Ice King, you can't swap, so any rivalries you win permanently feed that side's score.


Act III milestones and Overwatch unvaults

Act III leans into the Overwatch collaboration, with The Foundation pulling in Overwatch heroes as reinforcements. Each faction has its own milestone track, and crossing a threshold unvaults items for everyone in the loot pool, regardless of which team unlocked them.

Item Faction Track Status
Overwatch Payload Anomaly Team Ice King Unvaulted
Overwatch Caches with Loot Team Ice King Unvaulted
Overwatch Spray Team Ice King Locked
Overwatch Dropship Team Foundation Unvaulted
Overwatch Caches with Loot Team Foundation Unvaulted
Overwatch Spray Team Foundation Locked

Act II milestone items

Act II brought back a wave of fan-favorite weapons and mobility tools. Both factions cleared their full milestone lists before the act closed out, so every item below is currently in the loot pool.

Item Faction Track Status
Hammer Revolver Team Ice King Unvaulted
IO Recon Scanner Team Ice King Unvaulted
Reforged Infinity Blade Team Ice King Unvaulted
Slipstreams in Ice Biomes Team Ice King Unvaulted
Super Shredder Shotgun Team Foundation Unvaulted
Save the World Base Expansion Team Foundation Unvaulted
Cube Rifle Team Foundation Unvaulted
Seven Base Vortex Beacon Team Foundation Unvaulted

Act I milestone items

The opening act set the tone, with Team Ice King hitting the first reward threshold and unvaulting the Ice King Gauntlets before Team Foundation caught up. Every Act I milestone was eventually completed by both sides.

Item Faction Track Status
Ice King Gauntlets Team Ice King Unvaulted
Slapperoni Pizza Team Ice King Unvaulted
Stabilize the Rift Anomaly Team Ice King Unvaulted
Enhanced Harpoon Gun Team Ice King Unvaulted
Ice King's Vault Keycard Team Ice King Unvaulted
Seven Power Gloves Team Foundation Unvaulted
Seven Cluster Cannon Team Foundation Unvaulted
The Foundation's Rift Rifle Team Foundation Unvaulted
Golden Fishing Spots Team Foundation Unvaulted
Seven Compound Vault Key Team Foundation Unvaulted

What the winning faction actually gets

The cosmetic reward structure is where the team rivalry matters most. Both sides share an identical milestone reward track, so the freebies along the way are the same. The deciding payoff sits at the end of the season, where the faction with the higher Rivalry total unlocks a bonus outfit style for its leader.

Winning Team Bonus Style Unlocked Who Receives It
Team Foundation Frost-Ready Foundation All Battle Pass owners
Team Ice King Exalted Frost Ice King All Battle Pass owners

Only one of those styles unlocks. The losing variant isn't guaranteed to return through the Item Shop later, so the Showdown winner effectively decides which exclusive look enters the game.

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Players who bought the Chapter 7 Season 2 Battle Pass before March 26, 2026 already received an exclusive launch-week style for The Foundation. That bonus is unrelated to the Showdown outcome.


Where to check the live tracker

The most reliable live counters are the official in-game Showdown menu and the public web trackers that pull from Epic's data feed. Two options work for following the gap in real time without booting up the game.

Open Fortnite.GG Showdown Tracker

Both factions are projected to finish Act III within striking distance of each other, so the final week of rivalry wins is what decides which leader's bonus style enters every Battle Pass locker. If you've been holding off on grinding Rivalries, the closing stretch is when each individual win swings the gap most.

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