Huntsmen\u2019s FormaL explains why beating Empire was \u201cso satisfying\u201d Huntsmen – Twitter \/ Empire \/ DexertoThe Chicago Huntsmen got a convincing victory over Dallas Empire in day one of the CDL Launch Weekend, and legendary Call of Duty pro Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper said the win was \u201cso satisfying.\u201d Despite the CDL not having even kicked off yet, the Chicago Huntsmen and Dallas Empire came into the Launch Weekend already considered by many to be utter rivals. Not only are they two of the highest-rated teams, but both organizations have remnants of the old OpTic Gaming \u2013 Team Envy \u2018eClasico\u2018 rivalry, as well as players on each side who once were teammates during the peak of their careers. Their highly-anticipated first meeting, however, ended up being much more one-sided that many expected, as Chicago upset the higher-rated Dallas team 3-1 and looked like the more dominant side throughout the affair. Following the match, ESPN Esports caught up with FormaL, who was outstanding in his performance, and asked for his opinion about the matchup and the result. \u201cBoth teams, you could tell they really wanted to win that and there was a lot of trash talk leading up to the event and there was a lot of animosity in the match for sure,\u201d FormaL said. \u201cBut to come out on top like that is just so satisfying.\u201d Much of the discussion leading up to the Launch Weekend had been about how dominant the Empire had been in their preseason scrims, hardly losing to anyone in their practice matches. FormaL, speaking about Dallas\u2019 performance, reiterated what his teammate Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner had said a few weeks ago \u2013 the dominated scrims \u201cdidn\u2019t matter because LAN is where everything counts.\u201d Read More: ACHES criticizes CDL after map forfeit – \u201cFrom how they were playing online to the event, online is just a different atmosphere,\u201d he explained. \u201cGuys are playing at home. They\u2019re really comfortable. They take different challenges and they play a little bit differently. Onstage when the lights hit you and the crowd is going \u2026 it affects you mentally.\u201d FormaL\u2019s reaction to the victory and how it was \u201cso satisfying\u201d makes a lot of sense considering the trash-talking that went on between the two organizations and their players leading up to Launch Weekend. He and Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner did not like Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter mocking a poster of OpTic Gaming\u2019s World Championship victory in 2017, which explains why the T2P were yelling and gesturing so demonstrably following the win. https:\/\/twitter.com\/CODLeague\/status\/1220865301031587841?ref_src=twsrctfwtwcamptweetembedtwterm1220865301031587841&ref_url=httpswww.dexerto.comcall-of-dutyscump-roasts-crimsix-after-huntsmen-dominate-empire-at-cdl-launch-weekend-1318279 While FormaL left his comments for his interview with ESPN Esports, Scump wasted no time to talk his trash, hopping on the analysts desk in the post-match discussion and sending a special message to Crimsix. Follow all of the Call of Duty League action with our CDL Launch Weekend hub, which features the livestream, updated scores, the full schedule, recaps interviews and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Huntsmen\u2019s FormaL explains why beating Empire was \u201cso satisfying\u201d Huntsmen – Twitter \/ Empire \/ DexertoThe Chicago Huntsmen got a convincing victory over Dallas Empire in day one of the CDL Launch Weekend, and legendary Call of Duty pro Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper said the win was \u201cso satisfying.\u201d Despite the CDL not having even kicked […]<\/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-27742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742","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=27742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}