CoD pro Octane reveals how 100 Thieves worked out their internal issues Logan Dodson – @100ThievesIt\u2019s no secret that 100 Thieves\u2018 Call of Duty team was mightily struggling leading up to and into the CWL Pro League, and pro player Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew has given some insight into that difficult period for the team. Major questions arose about 100 Thieves following their underwhelming 9-12th placing at CWL Vegas, and those questions only intensified after their poor start in the CWL Pro League qualifiers. Despite their temporary bounce-back and eventual qualification, the team did not look right to many, and their suspicions were confirmed when Maurice \u2018Fero\u2019 Henriquez was stunningly demoted to the substitute\u2019s role in favor of Preston \u2018Priestahh\u2019 Greiner, who had just been loaned from FaZe Clan. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t an easy decision by any means,\u201d Octane said in an interview with RealSport. \u201c[We] ultimately arrived at the decision to move Fero to the bench because of some in-game issues and the possibility to add Preston to our starting roster.\u201d \u201cHe brings a great attitude to practice every day in terms of personal improvement and the ability to take criticism well,\u201d Octane said of Priestahh. \u201cThis is a trait a lot of pro Call of Duty players don\u2019t have, so right from the game it\u2019s been great.\u201d Of course, Priestahh was not the only addition 100 Thieves made at the time, as they also brought in world champion pro James \u2018Crowder\u2019 Crowder as their first ever coach. \u201cChris [Crowder\u2019s]addition was felt on the first map of day one of him joining the team,\u201d he explained. \u201cBeing a player not even 3 months ago, and an amazing player at that, allows him to understand the game beyond just what spectators or coaches that haven\u2019t played may see.\u201d According to Octane, prior to the recruitment of Priestahh and Crowder, the team was plagued by internal issues that was directly affecting the way they were performing in-game. \u201cI think we all could see the issues in our own game,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I think, before the change with Preston and Chris [Crowder], we all had a lot of animosity towards each other just from how badly we were playing, so it hindered us from improving by a lot.\u201d Now, with the addition of both the new player and coach, the team has been able to handle certain situations a lot better, thanks particularly to Crowder\u2019s presence as a great communicator. \u201cWe all knew the problems that we had and we were just too stubborn to actually attempt to fix it,\u201d he admitted. \u201cSo having Chris as a voice of reason in a lot of these situations definitely facilitates conversation a lot better than before.\u201d Of course, despite the addition of these new members, 100 Thieves continued to struggle into the Pro League, going 1-2 in the first week. However, things turned around spectacularly once Priestahh and Crowder got acclimated with their new setting and had ample time to inject their influence. 100 Thieves finished the second week 4-0, improving to their overall record to 5-2, good enough for first place in Division B going into the CWL Fort Worth break. \u201cWeek 1 was the same as week 2 minus the ability to close,\u201d said Octane. \u201cMoving into week 2 we understood our issues (communication on stage was number one for us) and quickly turned that around and began to play like the team we knew we were.\u201d Out of the 16 pro teams competing at CWL Fort Worth, 100 Thieves come in as arguably having the most momentum, which they could definitely use to their advantage. With some teams going through roster changes and others through struggles of their own, Octane and his squad have a great opportunity to turn what was a horrid start to the season into one to remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CoD pro Octane reveals how 100 Thieves worked out their internal issues Logan Dodson – @100ThievesIt\u2019s no secret that 100 Thieves\u2018 Call of Duty team was mightily struggling leading up to and into the CWL Pro League, and pro player Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew has given some insight into that difficult period for the team. Major […]<\/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-25025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25025","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=25025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}