TSM Mande explains why he\u2019s quitting Apex Legends pro play for good Respawn EntertainmentTSM streamer and Apex Legends pro player Mikkel \u2018Mande\u2019 Hestbek has already decided to quit competitive play weeks after he unveiled plans to return. Mande hasn\u2019t been involved in the pro Apex scene since the 2023 ALGS Split 1 Playoffs in early 2023, where he and his team Alliance placed fifth. Since then, the 25-year-old has turned to content creation, streaming full-time under the TSM banner. However, following ALGS Split 2 Finals, Mande announced his intentions to return to competitive Apex Legends. However, just weeks after his initial announcement, the former Apex Legends pro seems to have changed his mind. Mande walks back his commitment to Apex Legends pro play The Danish pro explained he was open to serious offers to play under an organization and was willing to do whatever was necessary to play at the highest level. \u201cAfter watching this LAN I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that I want to play comp again,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI will entertain serious offers only. I outwork every other pro player in the game and I put in the time and effort needed + more (yes I will stop playing path only). That is all thanks.\u201d However, just a little under a month later, Mande has now decided to quit his pursuit of returning to pro play. In a recent livestream, he said: \u201cNo I already told people I\u2019m not going to play pro. I already told the people I\u2019m not gonna play pro. I\u2019m done. I am done for now. I am not going to come back.\u201d The pro-turned-streamer explained that he hates the feeling of needing to play every day to improve, which he says gives him a \u201cheadache\u201d \u2014 and has no intention of returning unless the game sees some major changes. \u201cThe thing is I really want to play, but the direction the game is going, it\u2019s really not fun for me,\u201d he added. \u201cI\u2019d rather like sit here and have fun and troll around and sh*t like that than feel like I need to try and win and like improve every game when I don\u2019t want to.\u201d While Mande has no intentions of returning to pro play, it isn\u2019t completely out of the equation. He explained that if a team needs a substitute player for a LAN tournament he\u2019d consider the offer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TSM Mande explains why he\u2019s quitting Apex Legends pro play for good Respawn EntertainmentTSM streamer and Apex Legends pro player Mikkel \u2018Mande\u2019 Hestbek has already decided to quit competitive play weeks after he unveiled plans to return. Mande hasn\u2019t been involved in the pro Apex scene since the 2023 ALGS Split 1 Playoffs in early […]<\/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-19081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081","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=19081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}