Excelerate Gaming CoD manager explains why FA5TBALLA is being dropped from CWL Pro League team Another controversial roster change has captured headlines in Call of Duty esports, this time involving North American organization Excelerate Gaming. On February 22, Excelerate Gaming announced that they were transitioning Ethan \u2018FA5TBALLA\u2019 Wedgeworth to the substitute\u2019s role and promoting former sub Christopher \u2018RobbieB3319\u2019 Astudillo to the starting squad. As a result, FA5TBALLA will lose his status as a pro player, and any benefits that come along with it, such as a guaranteed spot in future tournaments and any potential prize money. After the roster change became official, FA5TBALLA posted a message on Twitter in which he emotionally recounted his side of the story, expressing his frustrations and sadness at the demotion. \u201cIt was extremely hard for me to even type this out as I had a mental breakdown and went into shock when I received the news,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI have been up for 40 hours or so now, I have no idea what the future holds for me. I can only hope for the best.\u201d sadly the owner did someone has to slide first I asked him if he knew where all the harpoints were located on the CWL maps and that there is more to COD then a sheet of K\/Ds he had no answer \u2014 ExG Mr. Balla (@FA5TBALLA) February 22, 2019 Apparently that tweet was the last straw for ExG, who had not yet released an official statement or explanation at that time, and CoD team manager \u2018j0rdinho\u2019 proceeded to explain on Reddit that FA5TBALLA was not telling the full story. \u201cJustin didn\u2019t use his K\/D as justification,\u201d he posted. \u201cEthan refused to listen to what was being told of him, and HE used his K\/D as the reason he was being scapegoated. He wasn\u2019t dropped for K\/D, he was dropped because he was incredibly toxic and uncoachable, and refused to listen to anyone but himself.\u201d \u201cThis change stemmed from the team, and as an organization we felt the need to carry out the decision based on their remarked regarding team atmosphere and overall cohesion.\u201d Their main contention was with the fact that ExG has played just three matches in the CWL Pro League thus far, going 1-2, and that it was way too early for a change of this magnitude. I begged my org owner to at least let me finish my division matches vs the lower seeded teams he wasn’t having it \u2014 ExG Mr. Balla (@FA5TBALLA) February 22, 2019 But did the org make the decision or was your whole team trying to do this? Either way feel like it\u2019s pretty dumb considering you guys weren\u2019t bad by any means \u2014 100T Priestahh (@Priestahh) February 23, 2019 Ah see now that\u2019s just pathetic. You guys looked good, and people win events with negative K\/Ds. You also only playing like three matches. What a joke. \u2014 FaZe ZooMaa (@ZooMaa) February 23, 2019 Fastballa GRAFTED for that spot, could see the guy put everything into getting in the league over the years to get thrown to the side with his dream. Imagine qualifying for a league for the power to go to suits, franchise rules with no suit money. \u2014 Dylan Daly (@MadCat) February 22, 2019 ExG currently sit in sixth place of Division B at the CWL Pro League, tied with Team Envy and 100 Thieves at 1-2. You can keep updated on all scores, schedules, and standings my visiting our dedicated CWL Pro League hub. How do you feel about this roster change? Do you think FA5TBALLA has a right to be upset, or is his demotion his own fault. Tweet us @DexertoINTEL and let us know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Excelerate Gaming CoD manager explains why FA5TBALLA is being dropped from CWL Pro League team Another controversial roster change has captured headlines in Call of Duty esports, this time involving North American organization Excelerate Gaming. On February 22, Excelerate Gaming announced that they were transitioning Ethan \u2018FA5TBALLA\u2019 Wedgeworth to the substitute\u2019s role and promoting former […]<\/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-26205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205","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=26205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}