Enable explains why Empire have \u201cregressed\u201d in CDL 2021 & might need a roster change Instagram, @ianenable \/ Call of Duty LeagueThe Dallas Empire haven\u2019t met the expectations raised by their Call of Duty League Championship in 2020, leading Reverse Sweep\u2019s Enable to suggest that a roster change may be needed. When you win CDL Champs and go into the next season with nearly the exact same roster, expectations are understandably high. Unfortunately, while the Empire are still the second-ranked team in the entire league, they have yet to prove themselves a real threat to win a $500,000 Stage Major. Two stages in, with the third Major on the way, Dallas present more question marks than fear. More concerned than most, Reverse Sweep\u2019s Ian \u2018Enable\u2019 Wyatt debated the team\u2019s future with co-hosts Katie Bedford and Jonathan \u2018Pacman\u2019 Tucker. Boldly professing that he\u2019s not sure if the Empire \u201ccan win a Major with this roster,\u201d Enable elaborated on his point to an unconvinced Bedford and Pacman: If other teams are improving while Dallas regress, something\u2019s gotta give. Pacman wasn\u2019t willing to accept Enable\u2019s first hot take at all: \u201cOh\u2026 no, no, no. That\u2019s cap.\u201d Noting that it took Dallas months to find their form in 2020, he specified that Anthony \u2018Shotzzy\u2019 Cuevas could be the difference-maker moving forward: \u201cThere is this Shotzzy level that he gets to, where he\u2019s ridiculous. And once he gets to that level, it transforms the roster completely. They can win with this roster.\u201d While Enable accepts that argument and agrees he \u201cmight have stretched it,\u201d that hope for improvement is directly at odds with what he has seen this season: \u201cThey\u2019ve regressed in my opinion. They haven\u2019t improved in game mode.\u201d Elaborating on that perceived regression, Enable explains that Black Ops Cold War isn\u2019t Modern Warfare\u2019s \u201c5v5, where you can thrive off chaos.\u201d Instead, \u201cthis is a very structured Call of Duty. And I think that could be a reason why some of the players aren\u2019t performing well.\u201d While Pacman and Bedford agree that the Empire haven\u2019t impressed as much as expected, the former asserts that Dallas is too stacked with star power \u201cto improve on the roster that they have.\u201d Nonetheless, Enable remains uncertain. The former pro is willing to walk his original hot take back a little bit, but still believes the roster is on thinner ice than most are willing to acknowledge: \u201cMaybe I overstepped a little bit with that comment, but I think we need to see something. Because they\u2019re just kind of getting by and other teams are improving at a fast rate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Enable explains why Empire have \u201cregressed\u201d in CDL 2021 & might need a roster change Instagram, @ianenable \/ Call of Duty LeagueThe Dallas Empire haven\u2019t met the expectations raised by their Call of Duty League Championship in 2020, leading Reverse Sweep\u2019s Enable to suggest that a roster change may be needed. When you win CDL […]<\/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-26017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017","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=26017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}