Is Everyone AFRAID of \u201cSCARY\u201d Dallas Empire? CDL Review Activision The final CDL Home Series of the 2021 season is over, with the climax of the Seattle Home Series putting an end to Stage 5\u2019s regular-season excitement and leading players and fans alike to the Stage 5 Major and Champs. We saw some shock results, players turning the burners on to blow away their competition and the seeding for the biggest events of the year take shape. LA Thieves secured a huge reverse sweep over OpTic Chicago, while Dallas Empire locked in the 1st seed in Group B with an emphatic victory over Toronto Ultra. To break down all the biggest wins and losses from the week, join Reverse Sweep\u2019s Katie Bedford, Ian \u2018Enable\u2019 Wyatt and Jonathan \u2018Pacman\u2019 Tucker as they dive into the juiciest storylines. LA Thieves make the comeback As Katie eloquently points out, the Thieves got truly bodied in the first two maps of their Seattle Home Series matchup with OpTic Chicago. Things quickly turned around, though, winning three maps on the bounce to make the comeback against all odds. \u201cI thought it was going to be a quick 3-0, but I was happy to see the resilience out of Thieves,\u201d explained Enable. \u201cWe know that they\u2019re talented, we\u2019ve seen it all year long\u2026 It was a good win for their confidence, hopefully they can use that to get on the right track and beat the teams they\u2019re supposed to beat.\u201d The Major will be a huge test for LA Thieves, and will be the time to not only secure a better Champs seeding, but give the rest of the field something to worry about. Dallas hitting Champs form? Knew Empire were winning when Crim got in his cam’s face like that \ud83d\ude2dpic.twitter.com\/XsXApEFBPA \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) July 25, 2021 Pacman explains that \u201cDallas are at the top of their game, and that\u2019s scary for everyone else.\u201d He\u2019s not wrong, either. Dallas didn\u2019t look like true championship contenders for most of the season, but with Vivid truly finding his place on the roster, they\u2019re becoming formidable opponents. \u201cBeating Toronto again proves their consistency,\u201d Pacman adds. \u201cIt proves that they\u2019re here to stay. Dallas are just taking care of business, beating Toronto who have been at the top since Stage 2.\u201d The Major will be a true indication of where Dallas stands, with Enable thinking they could actually win it. For now, it\u2019s looking pretty good for them. Most clutch moments The defining plays in a team or player\u2019s career are those clutch moments where things look like they\u2019re over, before being brought back in dramatic fashion and everything falls into place. But which were the most clutch moments at the Seattle Home Series? \u201cIt\u2019s got to be the Reverse Sweep from LAT,\u201d says Enable, giving his choice for most clutch moment. \u201cThis was a huge win for them. Being able to reverse sweep OpTic, one of the hottest teams in the game, is huge for their confidence going forward\u2026 It showed that they can compete with the best teams in the game.\u201d Read More: Seattle Home Series: Team of the Week & MVP – Pacman went a different direction, impressed by Minnesota R\u00d8KKR\u2019s turnaround. He said: \u201cThey came out and looked really, really good. In the past they would falter with their Hardpoint setups. Often they would end up getting control but they would get broken so quickly. That didn\u2019t happen this weekend.\u201d Seattle Home Series MVPs The MVP award is often given to players who make complete statistical anomalies of themselves or made clutch plays to earn the win. It\u2019s sometimes a matter of personal opinion, and Enable and Pacman were more than happy to give theirs. Pacman is the first to choose his MVP, giving it to R\u00d8KKR\u2019s Dillon \u2018Attach\u2019 Price after leading his team to a huge victory over Florida Mutineers. \u201cHaving the confidence to make that kind of individual play [when down in S&D], that\u2019s huge. And Attach has always been such a stone-cold S&D player, but to see him do it in that kind of moment was big.\u201d Enable, on the other hand, earmarks OpTic Chicago\u2019s Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner, who is truly reclaiming his nickname of The King. \u201cI think he\u2019s been playing lights out,\u201d Enable explained. \u201cIt\u2019s not only his stats. He\u2019s just been clutching up, whether it be in respawns, S&D, he is making the plays. I know the whole team is doing really well, but I feel like Seth has stepped it up to where he has been very consistent in this game.\u201d 2.75 K\/D for Foam Runner Scumper in Game 1 \ud83e\udd37\u2642\ufe0f pic.twitter.com\/o44yeVcP7W \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) July 24, 2021 Least Valuable Players On the other side of the spectrum, some players struggled at the Seattle Home Series, ultimately preventing their team from grinding out the wins. Enable\u2019s LVP pick went to the entire Florida Mutineers team. \u201cThey did it again. They started out really hot\u2026 and then they just fall through. It wasn\u2019t even competitive, they looked completely lost on the map.\u201d Pacman\u2019s choice for LVP went to someone who didn\u2019t even play: Subliners\u2019 James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks. \u201cI do truly hope that he\u2019s okay\u2026 but you\u2019re supposed to be the leader for these guys, leading them to the promised land. To take a break now, when your team is struggling, to me is weak. You\u2019re leaving the rest of them out to dry.\u201d Be sure to watch full video above for more thoughts on Clayster, OpTic Chicago\u2019s future, Toronto Ultra\u2019s Champs hopes and more on the Reverse Sweep Review Show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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