FormaL says pro CoD players being offended by trash talk are just \u201csoft\u201d Call of Duty LeagueOpTic Chicago\u2019s Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper has responded to claims the competitive CoD community is \u201cgetting soft\u201d, suggesting that the majority of players are now able to shrug trash talk off. The change to the CDL, from the old CWL, represented the biggest shift in competitive Call of Duty\u2019s infrastructure since it first began. However, despite the founding of 12 new franchises, there was perhaps not as much turnover in players as was originally planned. The core veterans \u2013 Clayster, Crimsix, Scump, Slasher and more \u2013 all made the jump into the franchised league, even if some, like Karma and ZooMaa, have since hung up their controllers. Some fans have been disappointed by the change to the CDL, suggesting that the new teams mean old rivalries and feuds have been forgotten. FormaL, though, suggests it is down to the presence of veteran players, who have long since got used to playing with and against one another. On a recent episode of the OpTic Podcast, FormaL responded to the topic of trash talk (or the lack of it) in the CDL, with the question also asking whether the League and its pros have \u201cgone soft\u201d. \u201cSpeaking of pros,\u201d FormaL replied, \u201cI feel like we\u2019ve known each other for so f**king long now, no one should get that butt-hurt. Like the video we put out a couple weeks ago\u2026 we\u2019ve all been in this sh*t for so long that if you\u2019re getting that hurt, you\u2019re just soft. We\u2019ve all shot sh*t at each other, it\u2019s been so long. Everyone\u2019s talked sh*t to each other at one point or another, and meant it.\u201d Timestamp: 38:50 \u201cWe know we\u2019re gonna play against each other [again],\u201d he said. \u201cLike even if we lose Champs last year, we know we\u2019re gonna play you at Champs next year too. It\u2019s a cycle, we\u2019re just gonna keep playing each other over and over again. So if you\u2019re just getting tight over random comments you\u2019re just soft as a person.\u201d When referencing the video they made a few weeks back, FormaL is referring to their ranking of CoD pros. The video garnered backlash from certain pros, even being branded as \u201cdisrespectful\u201d by retired player RamboRay. FormaL is essentially saying that the bad blood and trash-talking is still present, pros have just become far better at shrugging it off and leaving it in the heat of the moment. Those that aren\u2019t able to do so are \u201csoft\u201d. However, FormaL doesn\u2019t consider it to be all that meaningful, suggesting that player relationships outside of matches have reduced the venom behind much of the trash talk. His nonchalance towards it probably goes some way to explain his confusion when ex-pros reacted negatively to comments he made in the tier list video. The second CDL season kicks off properly with the Atlanta FaZe home series, from February 11-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FormaL says pro CoD players being offended by trash talk are just \u201csoft\u201d Call of Duty LeagueOpTic Chicago\u2019s Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper has responded to claims the competitive CoD community is \u201cgetting soft\u201d, suggesting that the majority of players are now able to shrug trash talk off. The change to the CDL, from the old CWL, […]<\/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-26540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26540","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=26540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}