Karma hits back at CDL\u2019s coverage of Seattle Surge Seattle Surge\/Unsplash: ShreyasShah\/CDLDamon \u2018Karma\u2019 Barlow, three-time Call of Duty world champion and player for Seattle Surge, has criticized some of the broadcasting of CDL Dallas, accusing it of overly focusing on his team\u2019s struggles. On paper, Seattle Surge\u2019s lineup is strong enough to be mixing with the likes of Chicago Huntsmen and Atlanta FaZe. Slacked, Octane, Karma, Enable and Apathy all in the same place should be enough to guarantee some high placements. However, they have struggled massively since the inaugural CDL kicked off back in January of 2020. Their struggles led them to swapping out Enable for Pandur, but the issues have continued online. In the ongoing CDL Dallas, they lost 3-2 to Minnesota ROKKR in the Losers\u2019 Bracket and were swiftly eliminated. It is during the ongoing Texan competition that Karma has spoken out, arguing the CDL has focused disproportionately on his team\u2019s failings. The incident began with JoeyNubzy, Seattle\u2019s Head Coach, commenting that it must be a \u201csuper slow day\u201d because the CDL\u2019s commentators were talking about Seattle during the Paris\/Minnesota matchup. He went on to say: \u201cI just feel like I\u2019ve heard the same thing for 6 hours and it\u2019s not even our series anymore.\u201d The comments prompted replies from casters Ben \u2018Benson\u2019 Bowe and Anthony \u2018NAMELESS\u2019 Wheeler, both of whom argued that Seattle\u2019s struggles were a major talking point. What do you want us to talk about in regards to you guys? \u2014 Ben \u2018Benson\u2019 Bowe (@Benson_EU) April 12, 2020 It\u2019s a big talking point, I don\u2019t blame them whatsoever. Haven\u2019t been many upsets so far in this tourney. also as you can tell delays are happening so some fill is bound to come up. \u2014 Anthony Wheeler (@NAMELESS) April 12, 2020 While some CDL fans agreed with Benson and Nameless, Karma wasn\u2019t satisfied with the explanation. He swiftly replied: \u201c2 game 5s [and] teammate just had a kid. Kiss my ass\u201d. Karma is arguing that his team\u2019s struggles are being blown out of proportion, and are far more understandable when considering that Apathy has just welcomed his newborn daughter into the world. This will obviously restrict the amount of practice time he has been able to attend. In a second tweet, Karma highlighted the internet issues Seattle have had to overcome as part of the online event, arguing that they were even struggling to move during some games. tell the stream we couldn\u2019t move yesterday. That\u2019s something you can talk about. \u2014 Damon B (@DKarma) April 12, 2020 He even sarcastically commented: \u201cThat\u2019s something you can talk about.\u201d Fans were split over the discussion, with some siding with the three-time world champion, while others argued that Seattle\u2019s continued struggles were certainly worth extensive conversation. Either way, Seattle will be hoping to see a drastic turnaround in results as we get further into the CDL campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karma hits back at CDL\u2019s coverage of Seattle Surge Seattle Surge\/Unsplash: ShreyasShah\/CDLDamon \u2018Karma\u2019 Barlow, three-time Call of Duty world champion and player for Seattle Surge, has criticized some of the broadcasting of CDL Dallas, accusing it of overly focusing on his team\u2019s struggles. On paper, Seattle Surge\u2019s lineup is strong enough to be mixing with […]<\/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-28246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246","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=28246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}