100 Thieves CoD coach Crowder explains why coaches shouldn\u2019t be allowed on stage Crowder (Twitter) \/ 100 Thieves (Twitter)Despite being the coach of 100 Thieves\u2019 professional Call of Duty team, James \u2018Crowder\u2019 Crowder does not believe coaches should be allowed to be with their teams on stage during matches. The question of whether coaches should be allowed on stage during matches has been circling around the competitive CoD community for several years now. In previous years, such as the Black Ops 2 season, coaches were allowed to stand behind their team and be in constant communication with them, even during the course of matches. The rule change led to a sharp decline in the number of coaches for a few years, until almost every pro-level team began to hire coaches again over the past 12 months or so, leading to more and more fans wondering if the CWL will begin to let them be on stage during matches again. Speaking on this topic on their March 9 podcast, Crowder, FaZe Clan\u2019s ZooMaa, CWL caster Maven, and CWL analyst NAMELESS all seemed to agree that it would not be such a good idea. Cheating could become an issue The first argument brought up against having coaches on stage was that it could open the door for a lot of teams to start trying to take unfair advantage of having an extra man be involved in the match. \u201cI don\u2019t think so, and my reasoning is because people can cheat if they do that,\u201d said NAMELESS. Maven, who himself has had some coaching experience with UNiTE Gaming and Team Curse, gave a first-hand account of how big of an advantage a coach can have. \u201cWhen I coached UNiTE, because I didn\u2019t know CoD like that, literally all I did was I was their eyes bro,\u201d added Maven. \u201cLike when someone didn\u2019t spot something, because you know when you\u2019re really focused on one side of the screen, you\u2019ll miss stuff. I was literally just there eyes, that\u2019s just horseshit.\u201d Might take away from player roles The reason that Crowder, who just coached 100 Thieves to their first ever major tournament win at CWL London, doesn\u2019t want coaches to be allowed on stage is because he fears it will impede player development. \u201cHaving an in-game leader, having that aspect to you as a player goes a long way,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you were able to have a coach to be the leader while everyone is zoned in and playing, it would kind of be lame.\u201d ZooMaa, a prominent pro player himself, believes that players should not be able to rely on a coach to do some of their job for them. \u201cI feel like part of being a good player is being aware, and if a coach is doing that job for you, it just takes the whole point away,\u201d he explained.\u201d You can watch the entirety of episode one of the Crowder Hours podcast below, with the discussion about coaches starting right at the beginning. With all four pretty much in total agreement about why coaches shouldn\u2019t be allowed on stage during matches, it\u2019s probably safe to assume that most, if not all, of the pro players and coaches agree with them as well. With that said, it\u2019s highly unlikely that the CWL and MLG will change their stance on their policy regarding coaches, so fans should not expect to see a sixth member on stage anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
100 Thieves CoD coach Crowder explains why coaches shouldn\u2019t be allowed on stage Crowder (Twitter) \/ 100 Thieves (Twitter)Despite being the coach of 100 Thieves\u2019 professional Call of Duty team, James \u2018Crowder\u2019 Crowder does not believe coaches should be allowed to be with their teams on stage during matches. The question of whether coaches should […]<\/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-22060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22060","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=22060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}