OpTic & ROKKR Winners Final? COD Champs predictions | CDL Reverse Sweep Preview Show DexertoThis year\u2019s Call of Duty League Championship event is finally here and with matches just about to get underway, our Reverse Sweep crew of Jonathan \u2018Pacman\u2019 Tucker, Ian \u2018Enable\u2019 Wyatt, Katie Bedford, and special guest Justin \u2018SiLLY\u2019 Fargo-Palmer are here to preview the final Cold War tournament. For the CDL\u2019s top eight teams, just one final showcase is all the remains in the 2021 season. After months of grinding, the biggest CoD event of the year is finally upon us as Champs is mere hours away. The four-day event kicks off with two upper bracket and two lower bracket games, with the likes of LA Thieves and Florida Mutineers having just one life from the very beginning. $1.2 million is up for grabs for the winning squad but the path won\u2019t be easy. To preview the monumental event and make their predictions, our Reverse Sweep crew is back to give you the rundown on Champs. Clayster returns for NYSL\u2019s Champs run After taking a break throughout Stage 5, Clayster is officially back in the mix for Champs. The veteran has seen and done it all throughout his illustrious career, including victories at three Champs events. But can he lead yet another squad to the finish line? \u201cIf [NYSL] has any chance of making a run, it had to be with Clay,\u201d SiLLY argued. Although the break came at a challenging time, it may have been \u201creally good\u201d for the team before one final push. \u201cI\u2019m glad he\u2019s back,\u201d the fellow world champ added. Quick shout out to @Diamondcon_ Missed both CDL & Challengers Champs as a spot starter for @Subliners, while still posting a 0.99 K\/D this season. Consummate professional \ud83d\udc4f pic.twitter.com\/sqC9eEgoag \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) August 13, 2021 \u201cTo give them a legitimate chance at winning this thing, it has to be with Clay,\u201d Pacman agreed. Though Enable wasn\u2019t exactly on the same page. While he believes NYSL has more potential with Clay in the lineup, he\u2019s also concerned \u201cthe floor is a lot lower.\u201d With barely a few days of practice upon his return, no one knows how the New York lineup looks with Clay ahead of their biggest event yet. Will OpTic finally reach their potential in Cold War at Champs? While Clay\u2019s return highlights one side of the stage, NYSL finds themselves against OpTic in their opening series. Could this finally be where the Green Wall stands tall? \u201cOn the biggest stage of the year, you expect the big dogs to do great,\u201d SiLLY explained. With OpTic clearly the fan favorites going into Champs, he\u2019s confident this will be \u201ctheir best event of the year.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/DexertoIntel\/status\/1427411037918318592 Coming off an impressive showing in Stage 5, their \u201cbest of the year,\u201d according to Enable, his expectations are high as well. Though they have their work cut out for them. A win against NYSL drops them right into a series against FaZe. If OpTic is to make the winners finals, they\u2019ll have to take down this year\u2019s best team on the way. Can ROKKR win back to back LAN events? After their historic reverse sweep to close out the Stage 5 Major, it\u2019s safe to say ROKKR has all the momentum on their side heading into Champs. But is one good performance enough to invoke confidence in our Reverse Sweep crew? \u201cTheir [Stage 5 Major] was kind of ridiculous,\u201d Pacman said. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to call it a fluke because they beat everyone.\u201d If they can carry that energy forward, Champs could very well be theirs for the taking. But while they \u201chave all the momentum,\u201d predicting them as Champs winners is still a \u201cshot in the dark\u201d from SiLLY\u2019s point of view. Players to watch at Champs A total of 12 games are set to be played throughout the full Champs event. At a maximum, any team from the upper bracket can play in six of those games. But which players will stand out on the run and push their team towards the top? For SiLLY, it has to be the returning Clayster. \u201cHe\u2019s back in the mix, he\u2019s back on LAN with the fans, it\u2019s his environment,\u201d the veteran explained. \u201cI\u2019m expecting him to fry.\u201d Meanwhile, Pacman couldn\u2019t pick against the most successful player in CoD history, Dallas Empire\u2019s Crimsix. \u201cI feel like Dallas is gonna win Champs so I\u2019m going with Crimsix. Crim played a pretty average Modern Warfare season but at Champs he just turned up. He knows what to do when it matters.\u201d \u201cPeople are gonna say I\u2019m biased,\u201d Enable chimed in, before once again backing his boys in the LA Thieves. While they start in the losers bracket already, Enable wants to see Kenny \u201cstep up and be that superstar\u201d throughout a huge run to the finals. CDL Champs 2021 opening matchup predictions The CDL Champs 2021 winner kit includes\u2026 black forces. May the most nefarious team win \ud83d\ude08 pic.twitter.com\/eGS5ewDnWi \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) August 13, 2021 To get the biggest show of the year underway, we have four huge games set for the first day \u2013 two in the upper bracket and two in the lower bracket. This means two squads will be sent packing before Champs weekend even begins. The very first series pits ROKKR against Empire in what\u2019s sure to be a barnburner. Both Pacman and Enable sided with Empire to get the opening win, while SiLLY picked the Stage 5 winners in ROKKR. Next up is the highly anticipated NYSL vs OpTic matchup. For this one, all three Reverse Sweep panelists are in favor of the Green Wall. \u201cI don\u2019t think OpTic is gonna lose first round and go into loser\u2019s at Champs,\u201d SiLLY explained. Bold predictions for the final Cold War event After a year of shocking upsets and surprising events, it\u2019s only fitting that Champs could be the most unpredictable competition yet. \u201cI\u2019ve been gassing Minnesota with my bold predictions all year long,\u201d Enable stressed, now ready to \u201cflip the script\u201d on them. \u201cMinnesota loses to Empire, they fall down to LA Thieves, lose to LA Thieves, pack your bags,\u201d he said. Meanwhile, Pacman joked that the \u201conly big upset\u201d in the entire Champs bracket is \u201cMutineers winning a match.\u201d Therefore, his hot take is that Ultra will lose two games in a row and have their year come to an unceremonious end. \u201cI\u2019ve got an OpTic vs ROKKR winners finals for my bold prediction,\u201d SiLLY added. Which CDL team will win Champs 2021? TOMORROW: The beginning of the end for the #CDL2021 season. Who’s HYPED for Champs? \ud83c\udfc6 pic.twitter.com\/k2lPWEIo47 \u2014 Call of Duty League (@CODLeague) August 18, 2021 Last but not least, the Reverse Sweep hosts made their final predictions for the year. When all is said and done, who will be walking away with a shiny new Champs ring on their finger? \u201cI\u2019ve got Dallas and FaZe running it back in the finals again,\u201d Pacman said. But to pick one true winner, he has Empire winning their second Champs event in a row. \u201cIf I had to pick, I feel like FaZe just doesn\u2019t let that happen again,\u201d SiLLY countered. While the final showdown might be the same as last year, he can\u2019t see FaZe falling short twice. \u201cI feel like the easy answer is always just FaZe,\u201d Enable added. \u201cThey\u2019re the best team this year by far. I\u2019m going FaZe vs Toronto in the finals. I know it\u2019s not a hot take but I want to see them get a win and secure their dynasty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic & ROKKR Winners Final? COD Champs predictions | CDL Reverse Sweep Preview Show DexertoThis year\u2019s Call of Duty League Championship event is finally here and with matches just about to get underway, our Reverse Sweep crew of Jonathan \u2018Pacman\u2019 Tucker, Ian \u2018Enable\u2019 Wyatt, Katie Bedford, and special guest Justin \u2018SiLLY\u2019 Fargo-Palmer are here to […]<\/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-24737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737","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=24737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}