After greater than a yr out of the Apex Legends International Sequence, the time has lastly come: Timothy “iiTzTimmy” An has introduced his intention to aggressive Apex. And this time, he appears to be making it an actual precedence.
Timmy isn’t any stranger to aggressive Apex. He competed in final yr’s ALGS Pro League together with his streamer dream/meme workforce, Group SHEEEEEEESH, alongside 100 Thieves creator Jack “NiceWigg” Martin and former NRG creator Anthony “Apryze” Andrade (who, by the way, also announced he was LFT tonight). Even earlier than that, Timmy was a signed Apex professional with Golden Guardians; that’s the place he first made his title within the Apex scene lengthy earlier than gaining notoriety as a serious creator pulling in tens of hundreds of viewers on-stream.
In a TwitLonger, Timmy defined his reasoning for leaving aggressive Apex behind a number of occasions, and why now’s the proper time for him to make a comeback.
In his tweet, Timmy described each his inexperience as a professional participant with Golden Guardians which led to poor outcomes for his squad and in the end him pursuing a profession in streaming, and his personal psychological well being struggles that in the end have been one of many predominant causes he stepped away from competing with Group SHEEEEEEESH.
Timmy went into larger element on lots of these struggles in a YouTube video, the place he opened up together with his viewers concerning the points he’s handled within the current previous.
Finally, a lot of the criticism he acquired from viewers and followers as part of Group SHEEEEEEESH, although the workforce was primarily created as a enjoyable outlet for him and his teammates, “ruined competing” for him. He additionally was in a foul place together with his private psychological well being, as he particulars in his TwitLonger.
“My melancholy was at an all-time low, however I used to be too afraid to publicly say that on the time. I nonetheless may’ve performed, however we spoke as a workforce and made the choice collectively to stop,” the famed Apex persona mentioned.
Now, Timmy says he’s “lastly” at place in his life, and the drive to compete continues to be there. He plans on taking part in within the ALGS Challenger Circuit in Break up Two, the extent beneath Professional League. Whereas Break up Two Challenger Circuit groups aren’t combating to qualify for Professional League, those who place excessive sufficient over the course of a number of weeks can nonetheless qualify for his or her regional Final Probability Qualifier for the ALGS Championship this summer season.
He’s already received a head-start on discovering a workforce, as properly. Timmy says he’ll workforce with former eUnited professional Lyric Quinonez, one other aggressive participant that continuously blurred the traces between aggressive play and content material together with his flashy type of play. Timmy says they’re in search of a controller participant that may act as IGL for the 2 of them—though Timmy’s additionally open to IGLing and “run[ning] us down once more.”
There are numerous gamers that may serve in that capability for the 2, though it will likely be an attention-grabbing reversal of regular participant roles when the controller participant on a professional Apex workforce has to reign in two mouse-and-keyboard-wielding fraggers.
Nonetheless, Timmy and Group SHEEEEEEESH confirmed that regardless of being out of the comp scene for lengthy stretches of time, he nonetheless has what it takes to compete. And with this newest comeback framed as an opportunity to completely enter again into the professional scene and never simply play for content material, it’s troublesome to guess towards the return of aggressive Apex‘s prodigal son.
