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Player | Brax |
Real Name | Braxton Pierce |
Country | United States |
Team | T1 |
Game | Valorant |
Age | 25 |
Birthday | September 20, 1996 |
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Braxton “Brax” Pierce is a full-time content creator and streamer who is currently signed to T1. He is a former professional VALORANT and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player. He was part of the IBUYPOWER match fixing scandal (then playing under the gamertag “swag”) which resulted in him being banned for life from official CS:GO tournaments.
He retired from CS:GO in February of 2020 and signed for T1 as a professional VALORANT player. He briefly joined TSM before returning to T1’s main roster, and moved on to streaming and content creation in October of 2021.
FAMILY
He has a dog called ‘Bella.’
NAME ORIGINS
He originally used the handle ‘Swag’ as a joke starting from the sixth grade based on a song, Turn My Swag On, by Soulja Boy that was popular around that time. He then changed it in June 2017 after having a vote on his Twitter feed, with 72% of his community voting for the change.
GAMING ORIGINS
Brax and his older brother grew up skateboarding, hanging out with their cousins and playing basketball. He was introduced to Counter-Strike 1.5 by his uncle when he was seven years old. However, it was only a few years later after his family moved following Hurricane Katerina, that he and his brother bought themselves a copy of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).
They soon became hooked and would constantly compete against one another. His desire to beat his brother is what ultimately lead him to hone his skills to the point where he felt that he could attempt to compete at LAN events.
PROFESSIONAL GAMING
He began playing CS:GO LAN ESEA tournaments with Back2Back Gaming when he was 14 years old, with his family accompanying him to the first two events. He went pro soon after and moved to various other teams over the years.
His parents were supportive of him, but on condition that he balance his schoolwork and pro-life. For this reason, when it became difficult for him to commute, he switched to online schooling after two-years. He then went on to pursue a fulltime gaming career when he graduated from high school.
Brax joined compLexity Gaming in 2013 but left them in March 2014 in order to join iBUYPOWER. In April 2015, he joined Cloud9 as an analyst and then later as a team-member. However, he had to settle for streaming soon afterwards following a ban from competitive play for match-fixing. He returned to competing in tournaments briefly in May 2017. He remained with Cloud9 until May 2019 when he joined Team Lazarus as part of their competitive team.
In February 2020, he decided to switch to pro-. He joined T1’s team in March 2020 and remained with them for a year. He joined TSM in March 2021. However, this was short-lived, as he returned to T1 in June that year. But again, this proved short-lived and he announced his retirement from Valorant altogether in favor of pursuing full-time content creation in October 2021.
RELATIONSHIPS
He is in a long-term relationship with SamanthaG.
INCOME
Brax is estimated to have around 500 subscribers, with an average viewership of ~1,619. This means that he should be earning at least $1,750 USD per month, excluding additional income from tiered subscriptions, tips, Twitch cheer bit donations, sponsorships, team salary, advertisements and tournament winnings. EsportsEarnings totals his esports winnings at over $82,000 USD.
STREAMING HOURS
He doesn’t have a set schedule due to his professional commitments.