H3CZ tells story of how Infinite management tried to drop OpTic\u2019s Call of Duty team Call of Duty roster. In an episode of his popular Eavesdrop Podcast which released on Monday, May 27, H3CZ, alongside Davis \u2018Hitch\u2019 Edwards, discussed some of the difficulties they have encountered working with OpTic\u2019s parent company Infinite Esports, and a specific moment that they attempted to drop their legendary Call of Duty team back in late 2018. \u201cHow many times did we save Infinite from the beginning?\u201d H3CZ asked Hitch. \u201cWe\u2019re only going to talk about the one. The one. Where they tried to drop the Call of Duty team.\u201d \u201cThere were contract issues, but it wasn\u2019t the contract or the players but the people they were represented by that was the issue,\u201d H3CZ stated. \u201cBecause of that external factor \u2013 that had nothing to do with the players \u2013 they got to the point where they didn\u2019t want to deal with that anymore, \u2018so we\u2019re going to have to let them go.\u2019\u201d \u201cSo I go in there, and I said: \u2018There\u2019s nothing to talk about. We\u2019re not dropping the Call of Duty team, period. I don\u2019t give a fuck. We\u2019re not dropping the team. If they leave, I leave, and everyone else leaves.\u201d The OpTic Gaming CEO then explained that he asked Infinite to give him the weekend to smooth things over with the team, only to receive a call from the player\u2019s agent on the Saturday who informed H3CZ of an email he received that stated Infinite would find the team \u201ca new home\u201d in two weeks. H3CZ concluded: \u201cI remember telling them step-by-step why what they were doing was fucked up. And they thought \u2018Finally, this is how we get rid of him.\u2019 Twice they tried to get rid of me. I continued to be a pain in their asshole for the rest of time.\u201d Clip starts at 1:40:42 for mobile users. Following the blowback from H3CZ about their decision, Infinite held on to the OpTic Gaming Call of Duty squad and saw their decision pay off when the team won CWL Las Vegas back in December 2018. Hitch confirmed that the players were talking about accepting contracts from other teams at the time though, which shows just how close OpTic Gaming came to losing one of the most legendary teams in all of esports. Much like this scenario, the future of OpTic Gaming\u2019s Call of Duty lineup remains up in the air, as Infinite Esports continue to try and offload the entire organization, with bids from Immortal and H3CZ himself believed to be two of the possibilities. Disclaimer: Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez is a minority shareholder in Dexerto Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
H3CZ tells story of how Infinite management tried to drop OpTic\u2019s Call of Duty team Call of Duty roster. In an episode of his popular Eavesdrop Podcast which released on Monday, May 27, H3CZ, alongside Davis \u2018Hitch\u2019 Edwards, discussed some of the difficulties they have encountered working with OpTic\u2019s parent company Infinite Esports, and a […]<\/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-26799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799","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=26799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}