{"id":56415,"date":"2025-01-28T18:33:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/nickmercs-shuts-down-courages-apex-predator-rank-celebrations-got-carried-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T18:33:21","slug":"nickmercs-shuts-down-courages-apex-predator-rank-celebrations-got-carried-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/nickmercs-shuts-down-courages-apex-predator-rank-celebrations-got-carried-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"NICKMERCS shuts down CouRage\u2019s Apex Predator rank celebrations: \u201cGot carried\u201d &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NICKMERCS shuts down CouRage\u2019s Apex Predator rank celebrations: \u201cGot carried\u201d NICKMERCS \/ CouRage100 Thieves co-owner Jack \u2018CouRage\u2019 Dunlop has finally hit Apex Legends Predator rank, but NICKMERCS isn\u2019t buying into the hype. Having joined fellow creators TimTheTatman, NICKMERCS, and Cloakzy in taking a break from Warzone, CouRage has decided to take ranked play to a new level. This time, pushing for Masters\u2019s rank and now Apex Predator. Unfortunately for Jack, after he announced his achievements on Twitter, people started commenting under his post about how he didn\u2019t really deserve it, attempting to invalidate his skills. Among those \u2018haters,\u2019 is actually his fellow Warzone teammate Nick, who has claimed CouRage was carried by his teammates NiceWigg and Tannerslays. NICKMERCS responds to CouRage hitting Predator After reading a comment in-stream regarding CouRage\u2019s reactions since reaching Apex Predator rank, the leader of the MFAM had this to say: \u201cYeah, I don\u2019t know. I love Jack, I really do. But I don\u2019t care if I\u2019m on stream or if it\u2019s him and me sipping a drink, I\u2019m gonna tell him. He got carried.\u201d Continuing on, Nick says: \u201cI don\u2019t care. I\u2019ll tell him,\u201d showing that even though they are friends, he\u2019s not hesitant to tell him how he feels \u2013 even if CouRage doesn\u2019t think he was. CouRageJD claps back When you\u2019re in the spotlight the way CouRage is, there are bound to be people \u2018hating\u2019 on you and tearing down any accomplishment you manage to achieve. It seems he\u2019s had enough now, too. In his original tweet announcing his rank achievement, the YouTube streamer stated: \u201cTo the thousands of people who have tweeted me I got carried and that I\u2019m not good enough to get Predator, you\u2019re all trash. \u201cSpend more time getting better at the game instead of chirpin.\u201d Apex. Fucking. Predator. To the thousands of people who have tweeted me I got carried and that I\u2019m not good enough to get Predator, you\u2019re all trash. Spend more time getting better at the game instead of chirpin\u2019 Solo\/Duo queue ONLY to Predator. GG! pic.twitter.com\/dkk5Y2eyzL \u2014 Jack \u201cCouRage\u201d Dunlop (@CouRageJD) August 19, 2021 Not to mention this tweet a few hours later, where he brags about his ranking. Me going to sleep tonight knowing I\u2019m Apex Predator and all the losers in my mentions telling me I got carried will never accomplish what I did pic.twitter.com\/tuP6J0Y0ok \u2014 Jack \u201cCouRage\u201d Dunlop (@CouRageJD) August 20, 2021 Apex Legends Reddit users respond The streamer\u2019s original tweet made it to the Apex Legends subreddit, where a screenshot of was posted and members of the subreddit questioned his skills. This sparked a little bit of anger in CouRage, as he then posted a tweet explaining his path to Predator. In the tweet, he said: \u201cGot the first Reddit hate thread of my career. Here is my response,\u201d with two pictures of text explaining how he made it to Predator rank. Got my first Reddit hate thread of my career. Here is my response. The Internet is an interesting place. See you all on stream later. pic.twitter.com\/MnkKSb7nE2 \u2014 Jack \u201cCouRage\u201d Dunlop (@CouRageJD) August 20, 2021 CouRage goes on to state in his pictures: \u201cSo, this season I deliberately took it upon myself to solo queue and shot call all my games to help me understand the game better. I literally didn\u2019t earn a single point from High Predator with a full squad. Anyone that watched my stream or kept up with the tweets of my off-stream gameplay would know that.\u201d The streamer continues talking about how he has been playing with NiceWigg and Tannerslays, before finally admitting that he was carried to Diamond 4 rank. So, maybe CouRage might have been carried to predator halfway, and he definitely had help from pretty talented people. One thing is for certain, though\u2026 He\u2019s not going to let anyone take it away from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICKMERCS shuts down CouRage\u2019s Apex Predator rank celebrations: \u201cGot carried\u201d NICKMERCS \/ CouRage100 Thieves co-owner Jack \u2018CouRage\u2019 Dunlop has finally hit Apex Legends Predator rank, but NICKMERCS isn\u2019t buying into the hype. Having joined fellow creators TimTheTatman, NICKMERCS, and Cloakzy in taking a break from Warzone, CouRage has decided to take ranked play to a [&hellip;]<\/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-56415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415","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=56415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}