swag

Braxton "swag" Pierce (born September 20, 1996) is a professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player from North Carolina, United States. He is most known for his time in compLexity and Team iBUYPOWER. He was widely considered to be one of America's best young talents. Following a Valve investigation, he was one of 7 individuals permanently banned from Valve events for his participation in the North American match fixing scandal.^[1] He was previously a CS:GO streamer and analyst for Cloud9.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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Professional Career[edit]

swag's first major appearance in CS:GO was being part of Team Dynamic during Season 12 of ESEA. From there, he joined compLexity, which competed at ESL One Katowice 2014, as well as multiple ESEA seasons. Later, he was acquired by iBUYPOWER^[5] in exchange for Todd anger Williams^[6].iBUYPOWER were widely considered during this time to be the best North American side. During his time on the team, they reached the FACEIT League - Season 2 finals, after beating then-Team LDLC.com (now Team EnVyUs)^[7], before suffering a loss to fnatic.

After their successes, the iBUYPOWER roster changed massively, with swag remaining unchanged throughout. On the 5th of January, he and his fellow teammates left the iBUYPOWER organisation and founded GX. They were widely expected to be secured by Evil Geniuses. On the 26th of January, following rumors that a CEVO Season 5 match vs NetcodeGuides.com had the result fixed by the then-iBUYPOWER roster^[8] ^[9], swag was banned alongside 6 other people from all Valve-sponsored events.^[1] On the 24th of July in 2017, swag and former members of IBP were unbanned by ESL, allowing them to compete in ESL sponsored events. ^[10] On the 6th of September in 2017, swag and former members of iBUYPOWER were unbanned by DreamHack, allowing them to compete in DreamHack, including Open and Masters events. ^[11]

Gear and Settings[edit]

Mouse settings ^[12] (list of)
Mouse	Effective DPI	cm/360	in/360	DPI	In-game sens.	Windows sens.	Accel.	Raw input?	Polling rate
Logitech G703	480	86.6	34.1	400	1.2	6/11	1.05	1	1000 Hz
Last updated on 2018-09-30 (78 days ago).

Hardware ^[12] ^[13]

Mouse		Mousepad
	Logitech G703		SteelSeries Qck+

Monitor		Refresh rate	In-game resolution
	ZOWIE by BenQ XL2540	240 Hz	1920×1080

Keyboard		Headset
	Logitech G Pro		Sennheiser GSP 300
Last updated on 2018-09-30 (78 days ago).

Crosshair settings (list of)
Style	Size	Thickness	Sniper	Gap	Outline	Dot	Color	Alpha
`1`	`1`	`1`	`1`	`-3`	No	Yes (`1`)	Light blue (`4`)	`255`
Last updated on 2018-06-14 (186 days ago).

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`cl_crosshairalpha 255; cl_crosshaircolor 4; cl_crosshairdot 1; cl_crosshairgap -3; cl_crosshairsize 1; cl_crosshairstyle 1; cl_crosshairusealpha 1; cl_crosshairthickness 1; cl_crosshair_sniper_width 1; cl_crosshair_drawoutline 0;`

Highlights[edit]

Career Achievements[edit]

Date	Placement	Tier		Result		Prize
2018-12-15	A44th	A2Major	BLAST Pro Series: Lisbon 2018	2/1/2	Grp. S.	$15,000
2018-08-05	A11st	A3Minor	Fragadelphia 12	3 : 0		$18,250
2017-07-30	A11st	A3Minor	Fragadelphia 11	3 : 2		$20,000
2015-11-19	A11st	A2Major	RGN Pro Series	2 : 0		$15,000
2014-10-26	A22nd	A1Premier	FACEIT League - Season 2	1 : 3		$10,000
2014-10-11	A11st	A2Major	CEVO Season 5 Professional	4 : 1		$5,000
2014-06-29	A11st	A1Premier	ESEA Season 16 - Global Invite Division	2 : 0		$20,000
2013-11-30	A33rd - 4th	A1Premier	DreamHack Winter 2013	0 : 2		$22,000
2013-08-18	A22nd	A1Premier	ESEA Global Finals Season 14	1 : 2		$8,000
2012-07-01	A11st	A2Major	ESEA Season 11 - Invite Division	2 : 0		$10,000
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