CoD caster Benson no longer with CDL amid \u201cmisconduct\u201d rumors DexertoCall of Duty caster Ben \u2018Benson\u2019 Bowie has confirmed that he is no longer with Activision or the Call of Duty League. In a Tweet on July 14, Benson announced that he was \u201cno longer\u201d in his roles at Activision and the CDL, but couldn\u2019t divulge more due to advice from legal council. \u201cHey friends, in case it is not clear, I\u2019m no longer with Activision & the CDL!\u201d the caster wrote. \u201cUnfortunately, I can\u2019t say much due to advice from legal council (that should tell you everything).\u201d However, Bowie likewise claimed that the past week \u201chas been the best week of my life, hands down,\u201d and promised more information soon. Hey friends, in case it is not clear, I’m no longer with Activision & the CDL! Unfortunately I cant say much due to advice from legal council (that should tell you everything) What I can say is, the past week has been the best week of my life, hands down. More info coming soon! \u2014 Ben ‘Benson’ Bowe (@Benson_EU) July 14, 2020 The caster\u2019s step down from the CDL comes in wake of the firing of fellow caster Philip \u2018Momo\u2019 Whitfield, who was released from the company due to inappropriate text messages he\u2019d sent to women in the scene. While Benson himself has not confirmed the reason for his parting with the CDL, a post on Reddit has claimed that he was let go for similar reasons to Momo. Esports insider Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau said on a podcast on July 13 that another CDL caster had been let go due to similar reasons as in the Momo case, immediately sparking speculation. The Reddit post was made by Emilia Rose, a competitive Call of Duty player, who was one of the women who reported Momo. Although she says that she did not also report Benson, she claims \u201che was definitely let go from the CDL for similar reasons to Momo.\u201d On July 1, Benson tweeted that he had received \u201can incredible offer\u201d \u2013 his first indication that he was moving on from casting the CDL. Yesterday was full of emotion. I got an incredible offer to top it off \u2014 Ben ‘Benson’ Bowe (@Benson_EU) July 1, 2020 Benson was one of the most prominent casters on CDL broadcasts, and had also casted for Activision prior to the franchised league, in the CWL (Call of Duty World League). He has been a Call of Duty caster since 2013, first with MLG. He has also worked on soccer broadcasts in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CoD caster Benson no longer with CDL amid \u201cmisconduct\u201d rumors DexertoCall of Duty caster Ben \u2018Benson\u2019 Bowie has confirmed that he is no longer with Activision or the Call of Duty League. In a Tweet on July 14, Benson announced that he was \u201cno longer\u201d in his roles at Activision and the CDL, but couldn\u2019t […]<\/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-24729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729","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=24729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}