Crimsix hits out at \u201cunplayable\u201d servers ahead of CDL Chicago via CDLDallas Empire\u2019s Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter expressed concerns with the Call of Duty League\u2019s situation for the upcoming Chicago homestand, calling the official servers unplayable \u2013 even for host teams who are located near them. Due to the worldwide health crisis, the CDL, as well as prominent esports leagues, have transitioned to a fully-online format. While esports fans can still enjoy these top tier events in some capacity, the execution for the new format has been having natural setbacks along the way. One of those issues was noticeable stutters during the recent Dallas Home Series, which weren\u2019t attributed to the stream of the event but were actually instances of game lag for the hosts, according to Crimsix. This means that official CDL matches were being plagued with connection issues. While that\u2019s to be expected from teams that are playing numerous states away from each other, Crim noted an added layer of difficulty for those located near one of these \u201cneutrals servers.\u201d \u201cThe servers are not playable,\u201d Crimsix said. \u201cEvery lag spike that you saw on stream last weekend, was not connection-based problem with the stream. It was the actual game lagging on the host. Us & Huntsmen getting punished for being in the same location by these so-called \u2018neutrals.\u2019\u201d According to the longtime Call of Duty veteran, notifying the CDL about the problems during the Dallas online event didn\u2019t yield an encouraging outlook for Chicago. If I get fined for this then so be it. But I WILL NOT have my \u201conliner\u201d reputation tarnished. Dropped a worse k\/d online than at CDL LA!!! That\u2019s how you know something ain\u2019t right here. \u2014 FaZe Crimsix (@Crimsix) April 22, 2020 \u201cWent through proper channels and still nothing getting changed for CDL Chicago,\u201d he said. Crim showed a handy map of the servers across the U.S. Though teams like the Huntsmen and Empire are situated close to these locations, choosing to play on them during official matches \u201cclearly isn\u2019t neutral for [them, so it\u2019s] not an option.\u201d Read more: 6 players to watch during CDL Chicago – With the CDL adapting to online conditions as much as possible, one concern lies in the competitive integrity of event matches. Went through proper channels and still nothing getting changed for CDL Chicago so now I’m tweeting about it: CDL Dallas was played on neutrals servers in San Francisco, Texas(but clearly it isn’t neutral for us; not an option), Chicago, Ohio, and Virginia. pic.twitter.com\/IyaF1v36KV \u2014 FaZe Crimsix (@Crimsix) April 22, 2020 One the one hand, it makes sense to make a team play on a distant, thus unreliable, server even though they\u2019re situated next to one, relatively speaking. If not everyone can have a good connection, then no one does. Read more: Chicago Home Series schedule, brackets, more – But in the case of teams like Empire, the next available server is halfway across the country, both ways, if they\u2019re not allowed to play on the local source. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how the league responds to the public complaints which had very real implications during CDL Dallas to avoid potential issues for the upcoming Chicago Home Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Crimsix hits out at \u201cunplayable\u201d servers ahead of CDL Chicago via CDLDallas Empire\u2019s Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter expressed concerns with the Call of Duty League\u2019s situation for the upcoming Chicago homestand, calling the official servers unplayable \u2013 even for host teams who are located near them. Due to the worldwide health crisis, the CDL, as well […]<\/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-25424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424","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=25424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}