Former Apex pro HisWattson reveals heartwarming message from father after retirement Joe Brady (@joebradyphoto)\/ALGSApex Legends pro Jacob \u2018HisWattson\u2019 McMillin announced his retirement on July 16. He revealed a personal message from his father after he learned of HisWattson\u2019s decision. HisWattson has been considered one of the top Apex Legends players since he first broke out into the pro scene. After dominating Ranked play, he won MVP at the ALGS World Championship 2022. But, after three years of competition at the highest level in Apex, HisWattson announced his retirement from pro play on July 16. He explained in his announcement that he had fallen out of love with competing professionally and decided to focus on content creation instead. \u201cI tried everything possible to make myself enjoy playing comp, but even when we were winning, I still wasn\u2019t having fun,\u201d he said. HisWattson\u2019s father sends special message A day later, on his flight home from playing in the ALGS Split 2 Playoff tournament in London, HisWattson received a heartwarming text from his father about his retirement. \u201cJust heard the news,\u201d the text said. \u201cI didn\u2019t really think you were happy playing comp. Makes me proud to see you do what makes you happy instead what other people expect you to do. I love you son. You\u2019re my hero.\u201d HisWattson said in the caption that he always tells people that his father and grandfather are his heroes, and seeing his dad say it to him \u201cjust brought me to tears.\u201d The post has over 5,000 likes at the time of writing and has seen the Apex community respond with tears of their own. \u201cI\u2019m in the airport with a tear going down my cheek reading that sh*t,\u201d Pioneers pro Casper \u2018Gnaske\u2019 Pr\u00e6stensgaard said in a reply. Even the Apex Legends Esports account responded, with an emotional gif. While the former Apex pro is done with competition, he will still represent FURIA and play the game as a streamer for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Apex pro HisWattson reveals heartwarming message from father after retirement Joe Brady (@joebradyphoto)\/ALGSApex Legends pro Jacob \u2018HisWattson\u2019 McMillin announced his retirement on July 16. He revealed a personal message from his father after he learned of HisWattson\u2019s decision. HisWattson has been considered one of the top Apex Legends players since he first broke out […]<\/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-17369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369","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=17369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}