{"id":29774,"date":"2025-01-28T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/nadeshot-and-nameless-think-pro-cod-players-need-to-stop-being-friends-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:19:04","slug":"nadeshot-and-nameless-think-pro-cod-players-need-to-stop-being-friends-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/nadeshot-and-nameless-think-pro-cod-players-need-to-stop-being-friends-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadeshot and NAMELESS Think Pro CoD Players Need to Stop Being Friends &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nadeshot and NAMELESS Think Pro CoD Players Need to Stop Being Friends 100 Thieves CEO and founder Matt \u2018Nadeshot\u2019 Haag believes that too much friendship currently exists within the professional ranks of Call of Duty esports. As a former pro player, he thinks that too many CoD pros are close friends nowadays, which is diluting the competitiveness within the esport. Nadeshot was live-streaming on August 1 with former pro player turned CWL analyst Anthony \u2018NAMELESS\u2019 Wheeler when he he brought up the topic of friendship in CoD. \u201cAll the Call of Duty pros need to stop being friends too, too many friends. It\u2019s like the NBA right now. Everybody\u2019s tight, everybody\u2019s homies, there\u2019s no like grudge matches dude.\u201d NAMELESS then mentioned Rise Nation\u2019s Danny \u2018Loony\u2019 Loza as an example of how pro players need to be if the competitive nature of the esport is to become heightened. \u201cThat\u2019s why the coolest shit is like playing \u2018Loony\u2019 because they have like a rivalry, there needs to be way more of that.\u201d Loony has been known to be involved in rivalries with some other pro players, specifically eUnited\u2019s James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks. The pair have jawed at each other on the main stage and social media on more than one occasion this CWL season. Read More: Karma and Parasite Voice Concerns Regarding \u2018Bullet Drop\u2019 Being Added to the CoD: Black Ops 4 Beta &#8211; Continuing the conversation, Nadeshot presented a couple of hypothetical ways that the pro scene can get fired up once again, mainly involving longtime veterans Patrick \u2018ACHES\u2019 Price and Adam \u2018KiLLa\u2019 Sloss. \u201cSomebody needs to rush the stage and throw a left hook on ACHES and bring that dude\u2019s fire back. He needs to start roasting everybody again. We need KiLLa to be a top player.\u201d \u201cWell, we are fucked if that\u2019s what we need. Sloss is my boy, I talk to him like every other day. But no way Sloss is going to be on a top team again, no way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nadeshot and NAMELESS Think Pro CoD Players Need to Stop Being Friends 100 Thieves CEO and founder Matt \u2018Nadeshot\u2019 Haag believes that too much friendship currently exists within the professional ranks of Call of Duty esports. As a former pro player, he thinks that too many CoD pros are close friends nowadays, which is diluting [&hellip;]<\/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-29774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774","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=29774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}