Team Liquid explain why they\u2019ve dropped Blackout for Apex Legends Team Liquid have announced that they are closing their Blackout division, with the players instead turning their attention to Apex Legends. The organization\u2019s Blackout line-up, which consisted of Tanner \u2018Rogue\u2019 Trebb, Gage \u2018Caliburn\u2019 Meyer, Thomas \u2018Flanker\u2019 Cook, and Brendan \u2018Casper\u2019 Marino will remain, and the team will also be looking to expand its Apex roster via a \u201cProving Grounds\u201d initiative, through which skilled players can apply. Fans of the former Blackout players may have already noticed that their focus has been Apex Legends recently, with Rogue taking fourth place in the March 1 Code Red tournament. Read more: What settings and equipment do top Apex Legends players use? Shroud, Dizzy, Dr Disrespect and more – In the wake of the move, Rogue has explained why the team chose to refocus on Apex Legends, citing Respawn\u2019s vocal support of esports compared to silence on the matter from Activision and Treyarch for Blackout. \u201cThe first thing would be that there wasn\u2019t any interest from the devs for hosting any events or focusing on anything esport related for Blackout. It was mainly just third parties doing things on their own and supporting the scene. The devs never said anything, they hadn\u2019t shown any interest, so when Apex Legends came out, and Respawn came out and said they would support the esport scene, most of the competitive Blackout players switched over. It didn\u2019t help that Blackout is kind of struggling on PC either. Call of Duty has never been a big game on PC really, it\u2019s always been primarily thought of as a console game, other than when it first came out back with Big Red and stuff like that. So there was no really big player count to hold over Twitch viewers and games would be dying out by 6pm or take forever to start, so it was a pretty easy switch for everybody.\u201d When Blackout released, many considered it a revelation in the battle royale genre \u2013 more polished than the titles that helped popularize the mode originally, like Player Unknown\u2019s Battlegrounds, and a more classic first-person shooter compared to the third-person perspective, building mechanics, and other features that, while making Fortnite unique, might turn off players looking for a more traditional FPS take on battle royale. Unfortunately, after the initial wave of excitement, Blackout struggled to maintain its momentum. Comparatively, Apex Legends continues to break records at a remarkable pace, hitting 50 million players just a month after release \u2013 almost four times quicker than Fortnite did. It\u2019s little wonder, then, that players are making the jump across to the new battle royale. Team Liquid aren\u2019t the only major organization to invest in Apex Legends. While exactly what the game\u2019s competitive scene may ultimately look like remains a mystery, the likes of NRG Esports, 100 Thieves, and Cloud9 have also signed top players in the wake of the game\u2019s explosive popularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Team Liquid explain why they\u2019ve dropped Blackout for Apex Legends Team Liquid have announced that they are closing their Blackout division, with the players instead turning their attention to Apex Legends. The organization\u2019s Blackout line-up, which consisted of Tanner \u2018Rogue\u2019 Trebb, Gage \u2018Caliburn\u2019 Meyer, Thomas \u2018Flanker\u2019 Cook, and Brendan \u2018Casper\u2019 Marino will remain, and the […]<\/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-19018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19018","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=19018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}