battle royal
noun
a fight in which more than two combatants are engaged.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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But when the company hops on the next video game bandwagon—when the next Big Thing supplants battle royals as the latest it genre—Fortnite’s battle bus could easily crash and burn.
From Slate ● May 25, 2018