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Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think it was PUBG that came up with the battle royal concept. I believe H1Z1 had battle royal mode before PUBG existed.

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A Minecraft mod seems to get credit for being the first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_royale_game

Quake 3 Arena had a last-man-standing mod. I don't recall the shrinking arena aspect, though.

H1Z1's BR mod was a copy of the fork of the Arma 2 DayZ mod... which was done by the creator of PUBG.

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