NICKMERCS hits back at claims he can\u2019t compete with Fortnite pros Following the conclusion of the Fortnite World Cup qualifiers, FaZe Clan\u2019s Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has hit back at suggestions he isn\u2019t as good as some of the other professional players. After ten weeks of grueling online open qualifiers, the finalists for the World Cup \u2013 which takes place July 26-28 in New York City \u2013 have been finalized for both the solo and duo tournament. To the surprise of many, a number of top players from other major tournaments, such as Team Liquid\u2019s Ryan \u2018Chap\u2018 Chaplo and FaZe\u2019s Dennis \u2018Cloak\u2018 Lepore, failed to book their place, after Epic Games decided to lower the age requirements to allow younger players to compete. Among the players to miss out was popular controller player NICKMERCS, who performed admirably alongside his friend and teammate Nio Rooch, but was unable to qualify from arguably the toughest region in the world. However, the former 100 Thieves member hit back at the idea that he wasn\u2019t as good as his fellow competitors, after winning a fight against Team SoloMid stars Anthony \u2018Zexrow\u2019 and Vinny \u2018Vinny1x\u2019 Gilgan. \u201cI know people say I\u2019m bad \u2013 but I ain\u2019t fucking bad,\u201d he said. \u201cI still body all these fucking nerds all the time. I got Ceice\u2019s ass yesterday, I got Zexrow\u2019s ass yesterday and I got Vinny\u2019s ass yesterday.\u201d Nick highlighted his opponent\u2019s editing speed as the biggest advantage they have over him and admitted he could perform better if he changed his controller binds, allowing him to edit on the left stick. He said: \u201cIt would definitely be better for me if learned L3 edit.\u201d While the 28-year-old may have missed out on qualification this time around, there is plenty more tournaments in the pipeline to prove his skills, including Epic\u2019s first ever competitive trio event. No World Cup for ya boy, but that\u2019s just the beginning. Made it to Sunday & secured prize money in all 10 qualifiers, I\u2019m proud of that! Back to the drawing board for the Trio tournament in a few weeks! Thanks for all of the support, ya\u2019ll the best. #MFAM \u2014 Nickmercs (@NICKMERCS) June 22, 2019 It has been confirmed that Nick and Nio will partner up with fellow Twitch streamer Ali \u2018SypherPK\u2019 Hassan in the event which takes place on July 13-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NICKMERCS hits back at claims he can\u2019t compete with Fortnite pros Following the conclusion of the Fortnite World Cup qualifiers, FaZe Clan\u2019s Nick \u2018NICKMERCS\u2019 Kolcheff has hit back at suggestions he isn\u2019t as good as some of the other professional players. After ten weeks of grueling online open qualifiers, the finalists for the World Cup […]<\/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-76628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76628","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=76628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}