Luminosity bench Gunless as CWL Pro League struggles continue MLGCall of Duty player Pierce \u2018Gunless\u2019 Hillman has been moved to the team\u2019s substitute position as LG continue to struggle in the CWL Pro League. The organization\u2019s Black Ops 4 season started well, finishing fourth and CWL Las Vegas, and securing victory at CWL Fort Worth \u2013 an event where Gunless was named the \u201cmost valuable player\u201d. Since their win in Texas, LG have struggled, placing top eight at CWL London, while sliding down the CWL Pro League table, currently sitting bottom of Division A with a 5-12 record. Luminosity drop Gunless, bring in Ricky In a statement released on Twitter by founder Steve Maida, Luminosity confirmed that Gunless \u201cwill move to the substitute roster and our coach and former professional player Richard \u2018Ricky\u2019 Stacey will be moved to the starting roster.\u201d Maida stated that following the tournament win at CWL Fort Worth \u201cthe team atmosphere slowly deteriorated,\u201d and \u201cdespite attempts to rectify the situation, we\u2019ve reached a point where change is necessary.\u201d \u201cWe ask that you respect our judgement, decision, [and] the players\u201d concluded the Luminosity founder, \u201cAnd do your best to support them in this temporary time of turbulence.\u201d Gunless and more react to benching Following the announcement that he was being benched, Gunless tweeted that it wasn\u2019t his decision to be removed the the starting lineup, but he accepted the decision made by Luminosity. \u201cThe only thing I\u2019m going to say about the situation is that I didn\u2019t force myself on the bench,\u201d wrote the Fort Worth MVP. \u201cI respect the organization\u2019s decision and whatever they decide to do.\u201d The only thing that I\u2019m going to say about the situation is that I didn\u2019t force myself on the Bench and that I respect the organizations decision and whatever they decide to do \u2014 LG Peirce (@Gunless) May 23, 2019 Michael \u2018Spacely\u2019 Schmale immediately told Gunless to \u201chit [his] line\u201d if he would like to \u201crun [the] open [bracket],\u201d while FaZe Clan\u2019s Matthew \u2018Skrapz\u2019 Marshall asked him if we wanted to win a \u201cproper event\u201d this time. The benching of Gunless comes during a week where rumors circulated that he wasn\u2019t scrimming with his team, and arrived at the MLG Arena just 15 minutes before their Pro League match started. Fellow pro player Patrick \u2018ACHES\u2019 Price defend the player throughout the week, pointing out that during LG\u2019s 3-1 defeat to Reciprocity, Gunless was the only player to finish with a positive kill\/death ratio. Luminosity\u2019s new-look lineup will be in action for the first time on May 23, when they take on Division A leaders OpTic Gaming in the CWL Pro League. Luminosity CWL Pro League Starting Lineup Josiah \u2018Slacked\u2018 Berry – Johnathan \u2018John\u2018 Perez – Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2018 Piper – Nicholas \u2018Classic\u2018 DeCostanzo – Richard \u2018Ricky\u2018 Stacey –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Luminosity bench Gunless as CWL Pro League struggles continue MLGCall of Duty player Pierce \u2018Gunless\u2019 Hillman has been moved to the team\u2019s substitute position as LG continue to struggle in the CWL Pro League. The organization\u2019s Black Ops 4 season started well, finishing fourth and CWL Las Vegas, and securing victory at CWL Fort Worth […]<\/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-28444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444","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=28444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}