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.
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.
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.
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.