Enable: OpTic need to break \u201cmental block\u201d to become CDL champions Activision\/YouTube: Dexerto Call of DutyOpTic Chicago look like they\u2019re finally turning their Call of Duty League season around\u2026 but they still have one huge obstacle to overcome if they want to win championships again. Throughout Stages 2 and 3 of the 2021 CDL season, OpTic seemed to lose their way. They started their season as legitimate contenders but they quickly fell to the wayside as other teams learned the game and overtook them in the standings. At the Stage 3 Major, though, that seemed to change. They started in the Loser\u2019s Bracket and went on a bit of a run, falling in a devastatingly close Game 5 matchup against Toronto Ultra, arguably a top-two team in the game. On Reverse Sweep, hosts Ian \u2018Enable\u2019 Wyatt and Jonathan \u2018Pacman\u2019 Tucker explain why a \u201cmental block\u201d could be the difference between winning and losing against the best teams for OpTic. While discussing OpTic\u2019s steady rise back to the top, the Reverse Sweep crew obviously had to talk about Atlanta FaZe, and where OpTic are falling short of them \u2014 especially in the manner they\u2019ve lost to them. \u201cIt\u2019s got to be a confidence thing,\u201d Pacman says. \u201cAnyone can say they believe they\u2019re going to win, but do they actually feel like they\u2019re gonna win? I\u2019m just not sure.\u201d Enable reiterated what Pacman was saying, too. \u201cThey\u2019re competitors. They\u2019re not going to tell you there\u2019s a mental block but it\u2019s clearly got to be there. If you can get a nice, solid win, I think we could see OpTic really breaking into that top tier and then being a legitimate contender for the rest of the year.\u201d While OpTic have looked great throughout Stage 4 against mid to lower-table opposition, they were absolutely slaughtered by Atlanta FaZe when they met up. There is very clearly a huge improvement in OpTic\u2019s gameplay, but if they can\u2019t even get close to beating the best teams, it signals a huge issue for them going forward. Whether they can beat that mental block, however, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Enable: OpTic need to break \u201cmental block\u201d to become CDL champions Activision\/YouTube: Dexerto Call of DutyOpTic Chicago look like they\u2019re finally turning their Call of Duty League season around\u2026 but they still have one huge obstacle to overcome if they want to win championships again. Throughout Stages 2 and 3 of the 2021 CDL season, […]<\/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-26031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031","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=26031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}