Aceu reveals why he quit competing in Apex Legends NRGNRG\u2019s Brandon \u2018Aceu\u2019 Winn opened up about why he quit his Apex Legends pro career, revealing the disconnect he felt with the game as the competitive scene started to develop. At the height of Aceu\u2019s time in NRG\u2019s Apex Legends squad, he played alongside Coby \u2018dizzy\u2019 Meadows and the two were highlight reel machines in almost every game they played. The team wasn\u2019t only dominant individually, but the players were starting to gain a lot of traction on Twitch and social media, making them huge names early in Apex Legends esports. But the squad wouldn\u2019t stay together for long: Dizzy had retired in late 2019, while Aceu stepped back from the pro scene soon after. Timestamp at 14:00 for mobile viewers At the time, there was a bunch of speculation for why Aceu quit, since his personal Twitch channel was booming, but he\u2019s now opened up more about the saga that finally saw him retiring. \u201cAt the beginning, it was just kill-races. It wasn\u2019t actual competitive [matches.]\u201d Aceu said. \u201cI\u2019ve never played battle royales competitively, so I didn\u2019t know what I was getting myself into. Then competitive started forming, and I started seeing what a competitive battle royale is, and that completely pushed me away.\u201d The streamer explained how quick he was to accept NRG\u2019s offer to join the Apex team alongside close friend Dizzy. After getting dropped from his CS:GO team in early 2019, he made the switch to make ends meet. However, he explained that the change in Apex esports \u201cdefinitely made me dislike the game and what I was doing at the time in it. So I was mentally checked out for a long time.\u201d But more tournaments started piling on and he couldn\u2019t simply leave the NRG team. Aceu says he felt stuck; he didn\u2019t want to leave an org like NRG but wasn\u2019t enjoying competitive Apex Legends. Eventually, in early April 2020, NRG and Aceu agreed to move him from the competitive roster to being a content creator, ending his career as an Apex Legends pro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aceu reveals why he quit competing in Apex Legends NRGNRG\u2019s Brandon \u2018Aceu\u2019 Winn opened up about why he quit his Apex Legends pro career, revealing the disconnect he felt with the game as the competitive scene started to develop. At the height of Aceu\u2019s time in NRG\u2019s Apex Legends squad, he played alongside Coby \u2018dizzy\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}