Ninja reveals why he\u2019s \u201creally happy\u201d he didn\u2019t go pro in Apex Legends Just days after an accidental ban locked Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins out of Apex Legends, the Mixer superstar has admitted he\u2019s \u201chappy\u201d about his choice to stick to professional Fortnite instead of 2019\u2019s shiny new battle royale. The streaming giant, who had a healthy career in Halo esports before exploding in popularity, revealed there was a point after Respawn dropped their character-based game he considered making a permanent swap. Considering Fortnite has, for the most part, remained dominant in the streaming market, and Apex seems set to keep him from putting time into the game with strange bans, it sounds like the 28-year-old may have made the right call. Fortnite\u2019s unstoppable growth compared to Apex\u2019s linear movement isn\u2019t the only reason Ninja says he\u2019s happy to be staying with Epic\u2019s game either, after the streaming star confirmed he would be focusing on the pro grind in 2020. For Blevins, who missed the Fortnite World Cup\u2019s historic first run, playing on the world stage in the game is a massive personal goal \u2014 one he doesn\u2019t think he could have achieved with Apex considering the game\u2019s pro scene is \u201cway too small.\u201d \u201cI was really good at Apex, if I\u2019d stayed on par with it I would have been one of the best players in the game,\u201d Ninja said as he struggled with his Apex ban. \u201cI\u2019m really happy I stayed with Fortnite though. The competitive scene [for Apex] is so small, it\u2019s so tiny. There\u2019s a decent amount of players who are in it, and I actually really enjoy watching the games, but it\u2019s just very small.\u201d For mobile viewers, the related segment in the video below begins at 2:05. If Apex\u2019s professional scene was already relatively small too, the departure of one of it\u2019s biggest names in Colby \u2018dizzy\u2019 Meadows, who said he would be looking to \u201cexpand his content\u201d in a new streaming venture, won\u2019t have helped either. That\u2019s not to say Respawn or EA are letting the scene disappear, however. Far from it, considering the developers just recently announced a brand new $3 million Apex Legends Global Series set to begin in February of next year. The move could also remind players like Ninja, who are currently ignoring the Apex scene because of it\u2019s relatively small size compared to other A-list esports like League of Legends and Counter-Strike, that the game is still in its infancy. After the title\u2019s shock release in February, the game has only been around for just over ten months, and will mark its first birthday with the start of the sizeable $3m professional circuit. In comparison, Fortnite of course super-sized their esports scene with a $40 million World Cup, but that event came more than two years after the initial release of the battle royale, giving Respawn and EA plenty of time to play catchup. Read more: Leak suggests 3rd person mode coming to Apex – If that\u2019s the case maybe Ninja might have to rethink whether he made the right call on his pro future \u2014 if he can\u2019t qualify for the Fortnite World Cup two years in a row, maybe Apex\u2019s ever-growing scene will welcome him back with open arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ninja reveals why he\u2019s \u201creally happy\u201d he didn\u2019t go pro in Apex Legends Just days after an accidental ban locked Tyler \u2018Ninja\u2019 Blevins out of Apex Legends, the Mixer superstar has admitted he\u2019s \u201chappy\u201d about his choice to stick to professional Fortnite instead of 2019\u2019s shiny new battle royale. The streaming giant, who had a […]<\/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-18370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18370","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=18370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}