Report: OpTic Chicago negotiating sale of CDL spot to OWL\u2019s Washington Justice Tonya McCahon For Activision Blizzard \/ ActivisionThe Call of Duty League\u2019s OpTic Chicago may be finding a new home, again, as reports indicate that the Overwatch League\u2019s Washington Justice are in talks to purchase and relocate the league spot. According to Jacob Wolf at DotEsports, the Overwatch League\u2019s Washington Justice are \u2018progressing\u2019 on a deal to acquire and relocate the CDL\u2019s OpTic Chicago spot. This follows earlier rumors that OpTic\u2019s brand is set to merge with the CDL\u2019s Dallas Empire. As Wolf reports, the Justice\u2019s ownership group \u2014 Washington Esports Ventures \u2014 are \u201cone of two serious parties\u201d currently positioned to buy the Chicago, Illinois team slot from the team\u2019s owners at NRG Gaming. CDL Washington team? If the deal goes through, the Justice are expected to move the squad from Chicago to Washington, D.C., with little word on what will happen to the current OpTic roster. Up to now, the OpTic brand has already changed locations twice in the past two years \u2014 with OpTic Los Angeles formed for 2020, then re-acquired by Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez for 2021. While not yet verified, earlier rumors claimed an Envy Gaming and OpTic merger is primed for 2022 in Dallas, Texas. CDL OpTic Dallas team? If this report comes true \u2014 Chicago will be sold to Washington, meaning the city will have a second esports team, covering both of Activision-Blizzard\u2019s franchised leagues. The cost of doing so is unclear, but can be estimated upwards of $20 million according to information given by 100 Thieves\u2019 Matthew \u2018Nadeshot\u2019 Haag, who purchased the OGLA team slot to form the LA Thieves. Additionally, should the initial OpTic and Envy merger report come true, then Washington will have to start from scratch roster-wise, as Dallas will field a four of Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner, Anthony \u2018Shotzzy\u2019 Cuevas-Castro, Indervir \u2018iLLeY\u2019 Dhaliwal, and Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Report: OpTic Chicago negotiating sale of CDL spot to OWL\u2019s Washington Justice Tonya McCahon For Activision Blizzard \/ ActivisionThe Call of Duty League\u2019s OpTic Chicago may be finding a new home, again, as reports indicate that the Overwatch League\u2019s Washington Justice are in talks to purchase and relocate the league spot. According to Jacob Wolf […]<\/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-21957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957","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=21957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}