Karma baits fake \u201cannouncement\u201d to shade CDL coaches MLG[jwplayer br5AuoVJ] Legendary Call of Duty pro Damon \u2018Karma\u2019 Barlow incited massive speculation by teasing an announcement, only to use the opportunity to shade coaches across the Call of Duty League he retired from just months ago. While the 27-year-old Karma decided it was time to hang up the sticks midway through the inaugural CDL season, he has remained prominent in the community by participating in Warzone tournaments, providing wholesome content with his daughter, and giving his thoughts on the professional world\u2019s happenings. Amidst a turbulent CDL Rostermania period, with the league shifting to 4v4 and rosters being scrapped or revamped everywhere, the former GOAT teased the CoD community by proclaiming that he had an announcement on the way. While the most obvious speculation surrounded prospects that he may have taken a coaching gig with a team or a content creation role with an organization, it turns out that the (former) GOAT was simply baiting in order to take a not-so-subtle shot at the majority of salaried coaches. I’m sitting here watching while your coach who’s probably not even broke t8 in 4 years or more is telling you how to play or someone is throwing irrelevant stats at you thinking they matter. I don’t know where this is going but I have no announcement. \u2014 Damon B (@DKarma) September 19, 2020 Explaining that there was \u201cno announcement,\u201d it appears that Karma just wanted a chance to criticize the lack of experience from overconfident coaches and analysts in the professional world. He expressed the inherent peculiarity for current players that a \u201ccoach who\u2019s probably not even broke T8 in four years or more is telling you how to play or someone is throwing irrelevant stats at you thinking they matter.\u201d Moreover, the former OpTic Gaming superstar also appears to be taking shots at teams for sticking with inexperienced coaching staffs rather than making it a priority to recruit him and all that he brings to the table. While it\u2019s unclear who Barlow is specifically targeting here, he raises an interesting point: after his retirement, the Dallas Empire\u2019s Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter and James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks each won their third World Championship while coached by Raymond \u2018RamboRay\u2019 Lussier. Interestingly, the Empire were one of three final four teams to have a head coach with substantial high-level playing experience, along with Atlanta FaZe (James \u2018Crowder\u2019 Crowder) and Chicago Huntsmen (Troy \u2018Sender\u2019 Michaels). So while it\u2019s unlikely that Karma is attacking those specific coaches and franchises, it seems that the rest aren\u2019t immune from the same criticism that other aspiring coaches in the scene, such as former pro Dylan \u2018MadCat\u2019 Daly, have also expressed. Got coaches who are about to have 3 different entire rosters within 12 months but getting new contracts pic.twitter.com\/0D33uS8SkI \u2014 Dylan Daly (@MadCat) September 19, 2020 Of course, there\u2019s still a ways to go before the 2021 season kicks off, more than enough time for one of the CDL franchises to reach out to Karma and bring him on as a coach. But for those who thought that the three-time World Champion would have an easy transition from playing to coaching, maybe the market isn\u2019t as open as people think it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karma baits fake \u201cannouncement\u201d to shade CDL coaches MLG[jwplayer br5AuoVJ] Legendary Call of Duty pro Damon \u2018Karma\u2019 Barlow incited massive speculation by teasing an announcement, only to use the opportunity to shade coaches across the Call of Duty League he retired from just months ago. While the 27-year-old Karma decided it was time to hang […]<\/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-28231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231","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=28231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}