Ex-CoD pros criticized for joining college Call of Duty league CCL Call of Duty League\/CCLA group of former Call of Duty pros and upcoming amateurs \u2014 including CoD world champion Justin \u2018SiLLy\u2019 Fargo-Palmer \u2014 have enrolled at Bay State College to join the collegiate Call of Duty league with a full scholarship. The CCL is widely regarded as the best place for top college CoD teams to compete, with players earning scholarships to get them through their education as well as making a bit of money for competing. While it\u2019s been a good place for upcoming talent to gain recognition, there has been some backlash as SiLLy\u2019s team, complete with a former pro and several top AMs, is set to compete. An announcement was made on December 14 that the squad would be competing in 2022 for Bay State, and it\u2019s caused a stir online. The squad that will be competing sees SiLLy alongside Timothy \u2018Phantomz\u2019 Landis (who previously competed for Evil Geniuses in Black Ops 4, as well as as a substitute for Paris Legion), Dillon \u2018Wrecks\u2019 Slotter, and Jacob \u2018Druxy\u2019 Eldridge. CCL rules dictate that competitors must be full-time students at their respective colleges, so each of these players will be getting a fully-funded university education \u2014 but it\u2019s caused some upset online. Jukester on Reddit said that this is just a case of \u201ctop players coming in forming super teams and just finessing cash from college kids who are actually grinding.\u201d Over on Twitter, Azlo said that it \u201cdefeats the point\u201d of the CCL. Silly, Phantoms etc in the CCL now?! Doesn\u2019t that defeat the point? idk \u2014 Azlo \u2022 Eli (@AzloOfficial) December 15, 2021 Meanwhile, it looks like this might not be the last of the big CCL announcements. Another player who has competed in the CDL, Adam \u2018GodRX\u2019 Brown hinted that he might be willing to make the move \u2014 and this could point to more players following suit. With Challengers players\u2019 impatience towards the scene growing, the CCL could be the perfect outlet for players to compete while also getting an education for their future careers. With a franchised league, collegiate esports could be the future when it comes to team recruitment, similar to leagues such as the NBA and NFL. Whether this works out in a similar way for Call of Duty, however, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex-CoD pros criticized for joining college Call of Duty league CCL Call of Duty League\/CCLA group of former Call of Duty pros and upcoming amateurs \u2014 including CoD world champion Justin \u2018SiLLy\u2019 Fargo-Palmer \u2014 have enrolled at Bay State College to join the collegiate Call of Duty league with a full scholarship. The CCL is […]<\/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-26199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199","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=26199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}