HisWattson announces retirement from competitive Apex Legends ALGSApex Legends pro Jacob \u2018HisWattson\u2019 McMillin has announced his retirement from the esport after three years of competitive play. From solo-queuing from Rookie to Predator without using any armor, or climbing from Bronze to Masters without using any tools at all, to consistently placing high in pro tournaments, HisWattson once claimed he was the best Apex Legends player in the world, and some of his achievements can certainly back that up. The 21-year-old signed with FURIA ahead of the ALGS World Championship 2022 last year, where he was named MVP of the tournament and his team placed second, walking away with $300k. However, after three years of competing, the Apex pro has now announced his retirement from the esport. HisWattson announces retirement from Apex Legends esports On July 15, the Apex pro released a statement, explaining why he\u2019ll be stepping down from competitive play. \u201cToday I\u2019ve made the decision to step down from Competitve Apex,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI went from being miles ahead of the 2nd best player to being poop. I tried everything possible to make myself enjoy playing comp, but even when we were winning, I still wasn\u2019t having fun. \u201cI\u2019ve tried looking at it from every angle, but I simply don\u2019t think it\u2019s something that can make me happy. And over time, me not having enjoying it has made my skills deteriorate to the point where I\u2019m no longer content and just want to go back to what made me the best and the happiest I\u2019d ever been: Spamming ranked like a degen and being a goofball on stream.\u201d HisWattson continued, explaining that his teammates or recent performances in tournaments aren\u2019t the reason behind his retirement \u2014 revealing that he\u2019s wanted to \u201cmove on\u201d from competitive Apex for a while, but has been convinced multiple times to continue playing. \u201cThis isn\u2019t because we just did bad or I hate my team or anything,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted to move on before Split 1 even started and multiple times after but got convinced to keep playing every time, and it\u2019s pretty much impossible for me to stay ahead of everyone skill-wise when I\u2019m not giving it everything I have. \u201cIt\u2019s not fair to my teammates or anyone who wants to see me do well that they\u2019re expecting my all when I\u2019m not able to give it to them. Everyone at FURIA is amazing and I apologize for not pulling the plug sooner.\u201d He added: \u201cI\u2019m still going to be staying with FURIA as a content creator. Thank you to Pandxrz, Xera, and Sealion for being great teammates on this journey, and thank you so much to everyone that supported my competitive adventures. I\u2019m very grateful for all of you.\u201d HisWattson will now shift focus to full-time content creation, where he\u2019ll still be representing FURIA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
HisWattson announces retirement from competitive Apex Legends ALGSApex Legends pro Jacob \u2018HisWattson\u2019 McMillin has announced his retirement from the esport after three years of competitive play. From solo-queuing from Rookie to Predator without using any armor, or climbing from Bronze to Masters without using any tools at all, to consistently placing high in pro tournaments, […]<\/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-66660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66660","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=66660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}