Gen.G coach defends their controversial CoD substitutions, believes other teams will follow suit Gen.G coach Joey \u2018Nubzy\u2019 DiGiacomo has spoken in depth about the state of substitutions in Call of Duty on the DraftBuff podcast. Nubzy defended his team\u2019s choices to sub out Jared \u2018Nagafen\u2019 Harrell for Michael \u2018Spacely\u2019 Schmale, only to bring back Nagafen two weeks later, and boldly claimed that all the other CWL teams will soon follow suit. The American team faced criticism on July 3 as they announced SpaceLy would be taking Nagafen\u2019s spot just two weeks after making the reverse move. Following this change, Nubzy suggested that it was unfair for the organization was called unprofessional and cynical for doing something no one else had. He said that this was an intended move and that Gen.G are: \u201cThe first team to take advantage of this\u201d. \u201cThis\u201d being using an active professional player as a substitute. The discussion followed on from Nubzy\u2019s argument that subs weren\u2019t taken seriously at all in 2019, with multiple teams \u2013 such as 100 Thieves and OpTic gaming \u2013 using their coaches to fill the sub role. However, Gen.G have taken advantage of this extra position on the roster, using it as a tool for rotating the squad, based on the form of individual players. Much like any traditional sports team would do. .@JoeyNubzy on the way teams used substitutes in the CWL this year. pic.twitter.com\/T2tZThhkEg \u2014 THE COD REAPER | Lion :lion_face: (@vLionMan) July 9, 2019 Nubzy claimed that more teams will follow suit and take advantage of substitutions in the future. \u201cNext year, your favorite professional players are getting swapped out when they have bad series,\u201d he said. Some fans took this final statement as a hint that the Call of Duty League will follow in the steps Activision\u2019s other franchise league, the OWL, and allow teams to make substitutions mid-series. Poklane on Reddit said: \u201cPretty interesting little thing he says at the end, he heavily implies that next year you\u2019ll be able to sub players in and out every series.\u201d However, Nubzy has since confirmed that his statements were not supposed to foreshadow any imminent changes to the rules surrounding substitutions in competitive CoD: \u201cJust to clear up any confusion, I am not sure at all on how subs will work for next year. What I said at the end was more of an example of subs in every other since work.\u201d Last updated 12:33 ET, July 10, 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gen.G coach defends their controversial CoD substitutions, believes other teams will follow suit Gen.G coach Joey \u2018Nubzy\u2019 DiGiacomo has spoken in depth about the state of substitutions in Call of Duty on the DraftBuff podcast. Nubzy defended his team\u2019s choices to sub out Jared \u2018Nagafen\u2019 Harrell for Michael \u2018Spacely\u2019 Schmale, only to bring back Nagafen […]<\/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-26710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26710","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=26710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}