Empire coach Rambo hits back at criticism for dropping Huke: \u201cIt\u2019s not a friendship league\u201d Dallas Empire\/Call of Duty LeagueDallas Empire\u2019s Call of Duty League coach Ray \u2018Rambo\u2019 Lussier has spoken out about the team\u2019s controversial decision to drop Cuyler \u2018Huke\u2019 Garland back in April, saying that the backlash hurt but it was a necessary step to win championships. The Empire received huge backlash when the move was first announced, especially since he was by far their best player throughout Stage 1. Since then, Huke joined LA Thieves and has been in and out of the starting line-up, confirming some critics\u2019 suspicions that maybe he actually wasn\u2019t the standout, game-changing talent some thought he might have been. It\u2019s been a tough season for all parties involved, but Rambo has explained that there was simply no other option. Appearing on stream for a Q&A session with viewers, Rambo was asked about the Huke situation and spoke about it in-depth. Read More: Can John solve LA Thieves\u2019 CDL problems? – \u201cThis sounds crazy, but I think I\u2019ve worked my reputation enough to really showcase that we\u2019re not just going to do something out of spite or for the wrong reasons,\u201d Rambo explained. \u201cWe\u2019re going to do something because our team isn\u2019t successful, we need a change.\u201d He added: \u201c It\u2019s not a friendship league. You\u2019re getting paid to win tournaments and you want to win tournaments\u2026 If a teammate doesn\u2019t allow you to do that, that\u2019s going to hurt whatever relationship you have with the player.\u201d Rambo added that, as far as he knows, there is no bad blood between Huke and the rest of the team, though he does have \u201ca little bit\u201d of a problem with the player \u201cfrom the conversations we had after the fact.\u201d Dallas looked very good at their last outing, coming second at the Stage 4 Major and pushing Atlanta FaZe to a game 9 in the grand final, with each player firing on all cylinders and looking like championship winners again. Time is running out for Dallas to win a championship this season, with just the Stage 5 Major and the as-yet-unannounced Call of Duty Championship event left. Can they get the better of Atlanta FaZe by the end of the season?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Empire coach Rambo hits back at criticism for dropping Huke: \u201cIt\u2019s not a friendship league\u201d Dallas Empire\/Call of Duty LeagueDallas Empire\u2019s Call of Duty League coach Ray \u2018Rambo\u2019 Lussier has spoken out about the team\u2019s controversial decision to drop Cuyler \u2018Huke\u2019 Garland back in April, saying that the backlash hurt but it was a necessary […]<\/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-26008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008","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=26008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}