Clayster defends Dallas Empire over Huke benching: \u201cThey\u2019re trying to get better\u201d Activision \/ DexertoDays after Dallas Empire made the shocking announcement that Cuyler \u2018Huke\u2019 Garland would be moving to the bench, former championship-winning teammate James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks has spoken up to defend the decision. When news broke late on April 23 that Huke was being benched by the Dallas Empire, it caught the entire Call of Duty scene by surprise. The 21-year-old was holding his own throughout the first two stages, Empire was second in the overall standings, and they had just won a match that very day. No one saw it coming, so naturally, the reception was a mixed bag of confusion and frustration. With Tyler \u2018FeLo\u2019 Johnson stepping into the starting lineup, nobody was certain what led to the sudden change. Days removed from one of the biggest roster shakeups in 2021 and former Empire champion Clayster has chimed in. While there\u2019s plenty of outrage with Huke on the bench, Clayster took the chance to defend his former team. \u201cIt takes so much balls to do a change like Empire did,\u201d Huke\u2019s former teammate said on Thomas \u2018ZooMaa\u2019 Paparatto\u2019s The Flank. \u201cThe fact that people are roasting them is insane.\u201d From Clay\u2019s perspective, it\u2019s a risky move, but they\u2019re only doing it in hopes of improving. \u201cThey\u2019re a top-three team trying to get better,\u201d he stressed. They could have rested on their laurels but they want to reach that top spot yet again. Moreover, he outlined plenty of other factors that would have made the shuffle worse. First of all, \u201cthey\u2019re trying to do it with people they have under their umbrella already.\u201d By rotating FeLo into the mix, it\u2019s not as though they\u2019re replacing Huke with an outsider unworthy of the spot. Empire is also testing the new starting four in \u201cLeague matches. This isn\u2019t a Major, this isn\u2019t Champs,\u201d Clay added. \u201cThey\u2019re trying something out and they\u2019re getting relentlessly roasted for it. \u201cIn reality, it has to make sense from their point of view.\u201d While Empire\u2019s initial statement did little to clarify the decision, ZooMaa quickly sided with Clay, outlining that \u201cthere\u2019s probably so much more to it. \u201cThere could be stuff going on behind the scenes. Sometimes you don\u2019t know the whole story.\u201d Despite keeping things fairly close against the Stage 2 champions Toronto Ultra in their first series with FeLo, Empire ultimately suffered a 0-3 loss in the London Home Series. Read More: Scump calls on CoD devs to improve new maps – With barely a few days of practice together, both Clay and ZooMaa wants fans to \u201cgive them a bit more time\u201d before properly judging the roster move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Clayster defends Dallas Empire over Huke benching: \u201cThey\u2019re trying to get better\u201d Activision \/ DexertoDays after Dallas Empire made the shocking announcement that Cuyler \u2018Huke\u2019 Garland would be moving to the bench, former championship-winning teammate James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks has spoken up to defend the decision. When news broke late on April 23 that Huke was […]<\/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-24625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24625","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=24625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}