How Standy turned Minnesota ROKKR into a winning CDL team ActivisionThroughout Stage 2, Minnesota ROKKR went from being one of the main punching bags for top Call of Duty League teams to dominating them, and it all came down to one player: Eli \u2018Standy\u2019 Bentz. Of course, Standy isn\u2019t just carrying the ROKKR on his back. He\u2019s put in some insane performances, but he has the right pieces around him to make it work. That said, the difference in the team\u2019s performances after bringing him in for Michael \u2018MajorManiak\u2019 Szymaniak has been substantial. But what exactly is it about Standy that has made them a genuine dark horse contender in the CDL? STRONG league debut for @ROKKR rookie @Staaandy against one of the best teams in the #CDL2021 \ud83d\udd38 1.52 series K\/D \ud83d\udd38 13\/4 in S&D \ud83d\udd38 Led lobby with 64 kills \ud83d\udd38 Swept OpTic on their best mapsAnyone doubting the roster move now? pic.twitter.com\/igMMh86D5E \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) March 25, 2021 Standy fixes ROKKR\u2019s biggest issue During Reverse Sweep Round 11, Dexerto\u2019s Andrew \u2018Enigma\u2019 Campion highlights the one key factor that has made Standy an imperative part of the ROKKR\u2019s team: pacing. Looking at each player\u2019s engagements per 10 minutes throughout their CDL matches, there was clearly a contrast. Preston \u2018Priestahh\u2019 Greiner and Lamar \u2018Accuracy\u2019 Abedi are faster players, and this caused issues with the slower pace of MajorManiak and Dillon \u2018Attach\u2019 Price. The importance of a cohesive playstyle between the entry SMG (now Standy) and a team\u2019s flex (Priestahh) is highlighted, and with these two working much more in tandem, they\u2019ve been able to beat out top CDL sides. The outcome is exactly what Enigma describes: the team now looks like they\u2019re playing together as a proper unit. This is especially important in respawn modes, and Minnesota\u2019s Hardpoint record pre-Standy (2-9) was one that needed vast improvement. Now, it looks like he was who they needed all along. How else has he aided ROKKR? Objective play It\u2019s also pointed out that Standy is contributing much more hill time than MajorManiak was, around a 20% increase. Of course, in Hardpoint especially, the importance of this can\u2019t be understated. Those extra seconds in the hill have clearly been the difference between winning and losing. Slaying power Finally, Standy\u2019s slaying power has been truly incredible. While Major had a 0.99 KD, Standy has had a top 10 ratio in Stage 2, clocking in at 1.08. Getting into the hill, picking up kills, Standy looks like he was the exact piece Minnesota was searching for. Now, we have to wait and see just how far this young star goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
How Standy turned Minnesota ROKKR into a winning CDL team ActivisionThroughout Stage 2, Minnesota ROKKR went from being one of the main punching bags for top Call of Duty League teams to dominating them, and it all came down to one player: Eli \u2018Standy\u2019 Bentz. Of course, Standy isn\u2019t just carrying the ROKKR on his […]<\/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-26908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26908","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=26908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}