Clayster hits back at Dallas Empire critics following CDL London Instagram: ClaysterCall of Duty League pro player James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks is not happy with some of the criticisms being leveled against his Dallas Empire squad following the recent CDL London event. The Dallas Empire\u2019s performances at CDL London were much more improved from the season\u2019s first event as they won two of their three matches and finished second after they had gone winless at the Launch Weekend. However, despite the better results, some have continued to criticize the team, bringing up the fact that they\u2019re still 3-4 on the season and have lost thrice to rivals Chicago Huntsmen after claiming they were the dominant team from the preseason scrims. Clayster, one of the two veteran stars on the roster, defended his side in a passionate Twitter rant on February 10, dismissing the criticisms as \u201chilarious\u201d and misguided. According to last year\u2019s World Champion, the Empire are content with where they are at this point in the season considering that they have two rookies on the team and all four losses have come against the League\u2019s top two teams. Read More: CDL London results and final placements – \u201cGot damn, reading my mentions got me feeling like we sh*t the bed or something,\u201d he wrote. \u201c3-4, with three losses to Chicago and one to FaZe, all while two of our players are making their first pro CoD LANs and learning respawn. Progress takes time, y\u2019all\u201d Based on their success in online scrims, Dallas came into the season considering themselves to be the best team in the CDL, a notion that has constantly been thrown back at their faces by critics following their tough start in Minnesota. Even though they got better results, that has continued to be part of the rhetoric surrounding the team following CDL London, spurring Clayster to take aim at those comments. Read More: Top six moments from CDL London – \u201cThis whole \u2018online\u2019 take is hilarious,\u201d he tweeted.\u201d If anyone has watched (which you haven\u2019t), we haven\u2019t been \u2018amazing\u2019 in scrims since before the slide cancel patch. Everyone\u2019s referencing scrims that happened two months ago as \u2018dominating online\u2019 when we\u2019ve been far from it since the patch.\u201d While he didn\u2019t explicitly say so, Clay\u2019s tweets could have partially been in response to some of the comments made by Chicago Huntsmen players Matthew \u2018Formal\u2019 Piper and Peirce \u2018Gunless\u2019 Hillman. Both players, following their 3-0 stomping of Dallas in the CDL London Grand Final, talked about how different the Empire look online vs on LAN, with Gunless even going as far as to say it was \u201cfun\u201d taking them down because of how \u201cseriously\u201d they take online scrims. \ud83d\udd25 @Huntsmen star @Gunless had fun dominating @DallasEmpire at #CDL2020 London. “”They talk a lot of sh*t online so it’s fun showing up on Sunday and beating them down.”” pic.twitter.com\/jwDMqAILsW \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) February 10, 2020 However, that\u2019s neither here nor there, at least according to Clay\u2019s Twitter spiel, as he made it clear that he\u2019s \u201csuper satisfied with the team and how [they\u2019ve] improved from Minnesota,\u201d also making a point to note that he\u2019s proud of his rookie teammates Anthony \u2018Shotzzy\u2019 Cuevas-Castro and Indervir \u2018iLLeY\u2019 Dhaliwal for how they\u2019ve handled the pressure. Read More: CDL 2020 season updated standings – \u201cImagine your first CoD tournament and you have a crowd chanting to go back to Halo and you\u2019re got to player Chicago twice, I would have sh*t myself,\u201d he said. \u201cProud of how Ant and Inder have handled the pressure and I\u2019m excited to see the players they can become.\u201d Dallas will have some extra time to continue working on their game and improving since they won\u2019t be featuring at the next event \u2013 CDL Atlanta in late-February. Their next match won\u2019t be until the second weekend of March, at CDL Los Angeles, where they\u2019ll face New York Subliners in the first round of Group B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Clayster hits back at Dallas Empire critics following CDL London Instagram: ClaysterCall of Duty League pro player James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks is not happy with some of the criticisms being leveled against his Dallas Empire squad following the recent CDL London event. The Dallas Empire\u2019s performances at CDL London were much more improved from the season\u2019s […]<\/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-24638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638","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=24638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}