swag's ESEA Invite demo pack
By: lurppis
Time: 2012-07-03 09:49
Event: ESEA Invite Season 11 Finals
Game: Counter-Strike 1.6

We present you a demo pack featuring all POV demos of Maximum Effort star Braxton "swag" Pierce who led all players in statistics at the ESEA Invite Season 11 finals.

Despite of being only fifteen years old, Pierce has shown enormous talent at the three ESEA finals events he has attended with his team Maximum Effort. After barely falling short against EG at the season nine finals, he has secured two championships for his team in seasons ten and eleven.

After topping both FPR and ADR for last season, many expected his numbers to drop when paired up with Jordan "n0thing" Gilbert this season. However, Pierce did not disappoint, repeating his rating (1.33), FPR (0.88) and ADR (92.8) topping performance and also winning the most (4) one-versus-two situations, having the fourth highest headshot percentage (0.179), getting the most overall (247) and AK47 (134) frags. He also had fifth most assists and ended with a +79 K/D ratio.


swag once again proves he's a top player in North America 

Although the vast majority of POV demos were not saved from the ESEA Invite Season 11 finals, we managed to secure all of Pierce's demos thanks to ESEA. His most memorable performance came in the consolidatïon final where he combined for a score of 50/12 for +38, a rating of 2.35 and a massive 1,390 FPR.

You can find all of Braxton "swag" Pierce's POV demos from ESEA Invite Season 11 Finals by clicking here. Pierce's team Maximum Effort is still without a sponsor so if you're interested in partnering up with the best team in North America, you can contact them via e-mail.

Tags: swag, ESEA Invite Season 11 finals

nice :)
2012-07-03 09:51:04
talents
2012-07-03 09:52:19
nice
2012-07-03 09:54:56
he is fucking awesome, not the best opponents but still very impressive.
2012-07-03 09:57:24
yes, he's really good.
2012-07-03 10:04:52
hes gifted and skilled
2012-07-03 10:02:17
fifteen years old :o
2012-07-03 10:02:27
TBH , a good player !
2012-07-03 10:08:21
by: PooN
#9
dAMN
2012-07-03 10:08:40
sick 15 years old :p
2012-07-03 10:09:15
a lil bit too late to be good at cs1.6:D
2012-07-03 10:11:30
sad but true
2012-07-03 10:19:15
+1
2012-07-03 11:05:11
still good to see the new talented players
2012-07-03 11:38:48
True.
2012-07-03 14:54:49
+1
2012-07-03 18:31:55
not his fault :)
2012-07-03 11:39:21
good player,,,,,,, watched his POVS
2012-07-03 10:18:45
feel sorry for him as he's starting to become really good but the game is dying fast
2012-07-03 10:32:25
ohgod
2012-07-03 10:38:03
good one

Post edited 2012-07-03 10:55:01
2012-07-03 10:54:56
Come on anyone sponsorship ex-WinFakt and Maximum Effort for GameGune!!
2012-07-03 10:58:30
+1
2012-07-03 10:59:47
nice, but what is ADR (92.8)

Post edited 2012-07-03 11:02:06
2012-07-03 11:01:53
Average Damage per Round.

It is like the old gamesense on gotfrag, where the damage is capped. For instance in a pub server, an awp headshot is something like 440+ damage, on ESEA all damage is capped at 100. Also, if an enemy has 1 hp and you kill him, you only get credited for 1 hp of damage.


FPR (frags per round) is the same thing as hltv.orgs KPR (kills per round)
2012-07-03 11:29:28
I know what FPR is :D ty for explaining
2012-07-03 11:43:34
Is this to get a more accurate score of skill? Because a few nades vs eco rounds will throw that statistic way off.
2012-07-03 15:44:05
not really, its taken over every round of the game and averaged together. doing like 120 dmg on one eco round wont help you if you can't get kills on gun rounds
2012-07-03 22:58:39
120dmg?
A properly placed nade can do 300 damage easily. Basically any fast eco ace will give you ~500

But this was a dumb thing for me to argue about, statistics in game cannot be measured properly unless you somehow ignore the eco frags which is pretty much impossible. I'm just saying that this statistic is not much better than a normal frag statistic.
Another flaw with it would be, you can theoretically make five amazing awp shots and end up doing 5 damage.
2012-07-03 23:03:32
you can fully kill 3 people with one grenade? teach me your ways
2012-07-03 23:12:15
No, but you can do 60 damage to five people.
I'll just let that slide and we'll car it a brainfart on your part

2012-07-03 23:17:13
Hahahaha
2012-07-04 22:15:21
how old is he?
2012-07-03 11:17:04
15
2012-07-03 11:34:08
Let's see how he's doing vs. top teams.
2012-07-03 11:28:09
love to see him playing aim_map vs GTR :D
2012-07-03 11:30:58
why aim map vs. gtr, cant see the point since gtr isnt that good on aim_map? I bet swag cant beat IncredibleOrb @ aim_map.
2012-07-03 15:56:11
Orb is too good for all players on aim_map.

Post edited 2012-07-03 21:32:16
2012-07-03 21:30:16
Orb didnt even place top5 against swedish semi pros / randoms in fragbites 1on1 at dreamhack
2012-07-04 22:17:12
When ?
2012-07-04 22:18:30
Dreamhack summer this year
2012-07-05 21:48:14
And you should probably know that he didnt play cs from last year, so probably he didnt participated or only formally came for fun.
2012-07-05 23:04:39
kid gone wild
2012-07-03 11:33:58
wow just imagine all the chicks that now want him! Lucky, lucky guy...
2012-07-03 11:41:34
in counter-strike? I do not think that so many chiks would want him.. If he was competing in motocross or somethin but in counter-strike ? :D:D
2012-07-03 11:57:17
I imagine proteryan was just being ironic.
2012-07-03 14:06:28
Yeah i was just thinking the same but who knows right? :)
2012-07-03 15:07:58
Yeah, who knows if there's girls out there ready to go wild for gamers! A minority for sure :P
2012-07-03 15:27:44
:)
2012-07-03 20:23:31
Well the geak style is "IN" right? Geaks are the millionaires of the future.
2012-07-18 18:53:30
Motocross haha? wtf
2012-07-03 17:28:02
oh you do not know what that is ? I feel sorry for you... :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWJpOC-78Jk

2012-07-03 20:35:20
I do, a real chick-magnet xD
2012-07-03 22:56:06
by: wrd-
#33
and who say that we don't have new talents in cs 1.6?
2012-07-03 12:10:49
he isn't best player in america, he just got little #swag, but he must learn more if he wants to get real #swag!
2012-07-03 12:28:11
Omg, on every fcking topic about swag you desperately trying to be funny.
2012-07-03 12:59:10
desperately tryin to get some #swag
2012-07-03 13:30:25
Hahahaha troll =D
2012-07-03 17:41:46
Haha this is priceless
2012-07-04 13:05:56
#swag #cool #boy #states #united #follow #me #crack #smoke #weed #everyday #day

Post edited 2012-07-04 20:40:11
2012-07-04 20:39:47
Nice.
2012-07-03 12:34:24
I dont get it kids those days... when i was 15 then i was outside and had really fun and played football but every child this days is playing some fps games, where will the world end?..
2012-07-03 13:04:39
This year?
2012-07-03 13:13:59
He just won 10k$ with his team, ujELLY ?
2012-07-03 13:35:57
Nope because i never said i was jelly and i have money enough so i dont need 10k$. Wierd that everyone hates you on hltv and you always gets into a fraction.
2012-07-03 13:48:33
Suure ;-)
2012-07-03 14:17:51
yeah...this is globalism era
2012-07-03 13:45:31
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#50
times change, ask your parents if they were wasting their time posting on internet forums when they were your current age... you can't compare different generations
2012-07-03 14:23:15
Parents? i am not talking about 40 years back i am talking about 5-10. And iternet forums did not exist back then ;)

Post edited 2012-07-03 14:30:07
2012-07-03 14:29:30
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#52
times change, i didn't start playing until i was 15 (didn't even have a pc until 14, just a playstation) but nowadays people start playing cs when they're younger. similar to n0thing, his older brother started playing years and years ago and got him playing the game.

if your older brother (whether or not one exists or not) told you when you were 10 years old that you could make money playing a video game, you might have wanted to play it a bit earlier too, can't really compare the two.

besides, it's not like he can't play football, basketball or whatever it is he's the most interested in, while playing cs
2012-07-03 14:34:23
Do you know if 100% will participate in any tournament in europe, such as game gune?
2012-07-03 15:00:55
by: lurppis - HLTV.org
#58
not unless they can find a sponsor
2012-07-03 15:19:15
The times have not changed in the last 5-10 years in this direction. The factors that determine whether you end up being a person who goes out and plays sports or one that plays video games is determined by:

Where you live
Your friends
Your parents
Coincidence
Economy
Siblings
Genes
Endless amounts of random factors

The factors that lead to a person going "Well, kids, back in my day(...)what is the world coming to!?" based on a person they know nothing about and thinking that it's because times have somehow changed:

Ignorance
2012-07-03 15:53:53
More kids plays video games today than 10 years ago
2012-07-03 16:53:26
I'm not denying this, and it doesn't make your comment any less ignorant.
2012-07-03 17:08:26
You are ignorant lol.
2012-07-03 18:16:26
and now you're older and you play all day :-(
2012-07-03 18:33:43
by: sike
#81
The truth of it is... If he can keep his grades up and hes having fun what difference does it make? It's better he wastes his time on a video game at 15 years old rather than 18-20's. He's 15. Its funny we never mention how 20something year olds waste time playing rather than going to college or getting a career started. But a 15 year old doesn't have any time to waste?
2012-07-03 18:51:37
Yes waste time on school is much better.
2012-07-03 20:07:49
by: sike
#88
Like I said if he keeps his grades up it doesn't make a difference. I don't know if he is nor do I care. I'm just making a point.
2012-07-03 20:13:25
Its not good for him to sit at a chair 24/7 and not sleeping and btw the gamers today arent up to their grade.
2012-07-03 20:24:37
pfff u make me tired.
2012-07-18 18:57:46
i don't really get your idea, i mean, i've been playing cs for like 10 years already in a "top" level here in my country (watch out for the "" cause argentina hardly has any top level to be sincere), and even though i have to practice with my team during night (and in argentina we are used to play really late, from like 23pm to 3am or even more) i to go to work, study, play soccer (only in weekends), go out with my girl

i mean, of course im not payed to play so during daytime i dont even touch cs, but at night it's always fun to join my teamspeak channel and chat with my teammates and get to play some matches.

there's no need to "quit" life if you wanna play cs competitively

Post edited 2012-07-04 00:13:29
2012-07-04 00:12:17
I dont think you should call your self pro but ok
2012-07-04 00:28:34
i know im not a pro, CS in argentina is really far away of having any pro team, as nobody (i mean NOBODY) has ever been paid for playing here, so yeah, playing in this country takes A LOT from players.
2012-07-04 04:12:43
k
2012-07-04 13:29:50
He cant beat TBH tho!
2012-07-03 13:41:08
in my opinion he is top 3 in the world at the moment
2012-07-03 13:44:53
calm down
2012-07-04 20:42:39
kids got skill!
2012-07-03 14:02:24
Amazing

Wish he had a good cs 1.6 to grow into, he came at a wrong time in cs.

Maybe he can translate the same skills into his next game of choosing
2012-07-03 14:07:33
good cs player, has no real swag tho in that gay hollister tee
2012-07-03 14:41:22
what does swag mean ?Isn't it "something white ain't got" ?

Post edited 2012-07-03 14:50:37
2012-07-03 14:50:25
Something We Africans Got.

Post edited 2012-07-03 15:22:41
2012-07-03 15:21:52
that is almost the same definition I said, but I'm not sure of what it really means, so that's why I asked an american to tell me.
2012-07-03 17:11:29
~it's something like style.
2012-07-03 17:46:34
by: ohai
#76
It's simply the word swagger shortened and used as an adjective. The definition of swagger is: Walk or behave in a very confident and typically arrogant or aggressive way: "he swaggered along the corridor".

Post edited 2012-07-03 18:18:45
2012-07-03 18:18:24
Reply on #53

He is a freakin nerd lol, just like majority of US players

Post edited 2012-07-03 18:10:04
2012-07-03 18:06:26
u jelly of his money :-(
2012-07-03 18:36:18
Nice, i will check some of his POV's tonight when im @ home =)
2012-07-03 15:22:46
great player.
2012-07-03 16:09:38
Nice
2012-07-03 17:48:15
he's good, but he has everything to prove. US counterstrike = CRAP
2012-07-03 18:35:07
kid got some great movement
2012-07-03 18:56:32
There are a lot of great young players all over the world, not just europe or just north america and they are the proof that this game isn't dying, he is getting bigger;) YOUNG PLAYERS ARE THE FUTURE, NOT OLD PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING OTHER GAMES THAN CS, like lol, sc2, dota2
Even if this has no sense at all
CS has been the past, CS is the present and CS IS THE FUTURE!!! And stop denying this,because you want this, all of you, why do you stop fighting for your beloved game? stop saying the fact that 1.6 is dying, if you will keep fighting for it, he will survive, because neither the sponsors nor the tournaments are real, WE ARE...NOT THE PLAYERS, THE PEOPLE THAT WE ARE!!! we can also make tournaments, because we are the community of this game and if unless we support our game, who should?
Support 1.6 everywhere, anytime to anywho, present this game to your friends, your friends's friends, to everybody if you want to keep this game alive.........
2012-07-03 19:11:34
yeah puclic servers are the future! Open your eyes. Where are the $ 100,000 tournaments?
2012-07-03 19:33:42
kid got da swag and killed it
2012-07-03 22:08:10
wanna see this guy in more tournaments
2012-07-03 22:37:11
frod wont join because he dont want to babysit
2012-07-03 22:38:10
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH

no
2012-07-04 03:19:34
Very nice player
2012-07-03 23:30:42
swag is bad...

ASS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scegdO2TWPk
2012-07-04 03:24:53
very nice action
how long has swag been paying cs?
2012-07-04 09:47:39
such a nice skilled player!
2012-07-04 10:44:33
cool a boy who nerds a soon to be dead game. good job.. go to school and learn something usefull
2012-07-04 14:01:18
You can easily tell from the demos that NA teams are so much worse than Europeans. He's a very talented player but he couldn't do shit against the top teams around here
2012-07-04 17:58:17
MOVIE ABOUT SWAG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpR2aTW3mnI&fea..
2012-07-05 05:56:06
"15 Year Old CS 1.6 Prodigy"

if he was a prodigy he would have 6 months of 1.6 under his belt.. he has 8 years. the rate at which one could learn is immensely accelerated during the age of adolescence.

starting with a fresh brain untainted by influence, memories, habits, etc is a massive advantage when learning.

if they do get picked up by a sponsor and sent out for an intl event or two, they're gonna get slaughtered. there is a learning curve to overcome there as well, regardless of how skilled or talented you are. I'd rather see the 08 lineup of EG go to battle, than 100%.

Post edited 2012-07-05 19:58:34
2012-07-05 19:54:28
nice skill!=D
2012-07-18 19:00:47
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