Octane explains how FaZe \u201ctrolling\u201d led to Surge upset at CDL Stage 5 Major YouTube: Octane \/ Instagram: atl_fazeSeattle Surge completed one of the biggest Call of Duty League upsets this year when they took down Atlanta FaZe at the Stage 5 Major. Star player Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew has now revealed how \u201ctrolling\u201d antics from FaZe cost them the series. When Seattle took down Atlanta at the latest CDL Major, it was instantly labeled one of the greatest upsets in competitive CoD history. A bottom four team taking out this year\u2019s most dominant force left spectators shocked. In doing so, Surge handed FaZe their worst placement yet. While it appeared to be a close series on the surface, going all the way to round 10 in game five, FaZe may not have been putting their best foot forward, according to Octane. Before the eight talented pros sat down on stage, FaZe was \u201ctrolling\u201d right out of the gate, he revealed in an August 5 YouTube video. Live reaction to the upset \ud83d\udd0apic.twitter.com\/ODSNpdlxaF \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) July 31, 2021 Ahead of every CDL match, teams are required to go through the veto process. It\u2019s here where various maps are picked or banned for the upcoming series. In this vital lower bracket match between the number one seed in FaZe and the number nine seed in Surge, it was during the vetoes where \u201ctrolling\u201d began. \u201cGarrison Hardpoint has been our auto-veto because we\u2019re dogs*** at it,\u201d Octane explained. However, at the Stage 5 Major, they chose to leave Garrison in the mix to ban one of FaZe\u2019s \u201cstronger maps\u201d instead. Although Garrison, a well-known weakness of the Surge lineup, was available to pick, FaZe refused to lock it in. Before long, the series was underway and Moscow was the setting for the opening Hardpoint. As a result of FaZe not choosing Garrison, \u201cthey lost\u201d and Surge has a huge \u201cboost [of] confidence\u201d moving forward. Maps two and three went the way of FaZe as they were both fairly strong picks for the formidable roster. \u201cThey absolutely body bagged us,\u201d Octane joked. But Surge was fully expecting this outcome across both S&D and Control. \u201cHardpoints were the catalyst for the series,\u201d he added. \u201cThey trolled the vetoes super hard because they gave us Moscow and Raid.\u201d When it comes to Raid Hardpoint, Surge was fully confident they\u2019d \u201cmatch up well\u201d against FaZe here. \u201cWhenever we play Raid in scrims with them, we tend to win the map pretty handily.\u201d It was just an 18-point difference that secured the win this time around, but it was another Hardpoint win on the board regardless. All that remained was a final S&D on Standoff. Despite being wiped out 2-6 in the first S&D of the series, it was poor killstreak usage that secured the game five win, according to Octane. \u201cBoth of those streak rounds were some of the worst streak usages that I have ever seen. It was not good. They super duper choked the use of both streaks.\u201d Read More: CDL Stage 5 Major Highlights – \u201cThat\u2019s how we beat Atlanta. They trolled the Hardpoints and kinda trolled the last map as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Octane explains how FaZe \u201ctrolling\u201d led to Surge upset at CDL Stage 5 Major YouTube: Octane \/ Instagram: atl_fazeSeattle Surge completed one of the biggest Call of Duty League upsets this year when they took down Atlanta FaZe at the Stage 5 Major. Star player Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew has now revealed how \u201ctrolling\u201d antics from […]<\/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-30311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311","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=30311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}