Ever since the announcement of the Middle East servers, the SEA players (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, etc.) have been getting higher ping and latency than before.

Fortnite Competitive, at its core, is a very fast-paced game and some aspects are arguably heavily ping-based. If we do not get SEA servers, all the competitive potential of SEA countries will be lost and the only real representatives of Asia will be Japan and Korea.

I used to personally get 30-40 ping but now I am always on 90 ping above, I have learned to play around this latency but there will always be a skill ceiling due to this delay. I believe it is entirely possible for Epic Games to add SEA servers if we get enough signs for this petition because they are open to suggestions, as stated here.

This petition serves as the voice of SEA players who wants Epic Games to bring back or at the very least, give us another nearby server aside from Korea and Japan!