NICKMERCS confirms he\u2019s going pro in Apex Legends and already has a team Twitch: NICKMERCS \/ Respawn EntertainmentNick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has officially locked in plans to hit the Apex Legends pro circuit in 2022 after hitting Predator in the battle royale\u2019s latest season, and he\u2019s already got a team ready to play too. The Twitch superstar has been toying with an Apex Legends pro career for some time now, originally raising the idea after hitting Predator late on in Season 10. Up until recently, NICKMERCS had been far from locked into any Apex Legends pro plans. He\u2019s been eager to \u201cgive the ALGS a try,\u201d and made it up to the tournament\u2019s third-round qualifiers last September, but for the most part, it\u2019s just been a vague plan for the FaZe streamer. Now he\u2019s hit Pred a second time, however, he\u2019s all-in. In 2022, the Twitch star is \u201cgetting on the grind\u201d in the Apex Legends pro scene, he revealed during a December stream, and he\u2019s already got a team planned. NICKMERCS revealed his Apex Legends pro plans in early December, teasing that his competitive squad is already two-thirds locked, and that their road to the big leagues is likely to begin with qualies in February. \u201cI have big plans for Apex Legends,\u201d he teased. \u201cThese plans could change, yeah, but right now I have plans. I want to climb the ranks of Predator, and I want to get to the point where I\u2019m very comfortable [with the game]. I want to get to that point, be very comfortable, before late February next year, then I want to go for Apex Legends pro. Kolcheff went on to reveal he already has one player locked into his trio, regular Twitch partner ItsDeeds, but is looking for a third to round out the team that he\u2019ll be building for his ALGS campaign next year. \u201cMe, Deeds, in. Then whoever we get as a trio. That\u2019s what I want to do now. Maybe that changes by January, but it probably won\u2019t. It\u2019s really what I want to do.\u201d NICKMERCS has been a major advocate for Apex Legends since his high-profile Warzone defection in late August over the waves of cheaters \u201cruining\u201d CoD\u2019s battle royale. It\u2019s no surprise the 31-year-old wants to go pro in Respawn\u2019s franchise game either \u2014 Kolcheff has always been a relatively competitive pro star. The Twitch streamer competed in Fortnite from 2018 to 2019, raking in more than $133k in prizes. He then pivoted into Warzone in 2020, earning a further $36k. Before Fortnite, Kolcheff forged his name in competitive Gears of War and Halo, streaming pro matches on Twitch precursor Justin.TV in the late 2000s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NICKMERCS confirms he\u2019s going pro in Apex Legends and already has a team Twitch: NICKMERCS \/ Respawn EntertainmentNick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has officially locked in plans to hit the Apex Legends pro circuit in 2022 after hitting Predator in the battle royale\u2019s latest season, and he\u2019s already got a team ready to play too. The Twitch […]<\/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-18322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322","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=18322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}