OpTic H3CZ says CDL teams not consulted in YouTube exclusivity talks Activision\/YouTube: HECZOpTic CEO Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez claimed the Call of Duty League did not consult team owners on a potential return to YouTube. The Call of Duty League began exclusively streaming on Twitch at the start of the 2023 season after a three-year partnership with YouTube expired. Fans celebrated the move, and it paid dividends for viewership numbers. Just Under 193,000 viewers tuned in to the main CDL stream and separate watch parties during the season\u2019s opening weekend. Viewership numbers received another boost when Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner retired after CDL Major 1 and transitioned into streaming. His first CDL watch party on Twitch peaked at around 95,000. Despite bolstering a strong following on Twitch, sources close to the situation told Dexerto that the CDL is in talks to bring matches back to YouTube exclusively. H3CZ reacted to the news during Scump\u2019s CDL Major 2 watch party and told fans he doesn\u2019t believe the rumor is true. H3CZ gives his take on potential YouTube CDL takeover Sources told Dexerto that the Call of Duty League will be transitioning back to YouTube following Major 2 in Boston. During a live stream on February 3, H3CZ argued, \u201cI don\u2019t think that rumor is true because I don\u2019t think that the league would not talk to their partners who paid a bunch of cash to be a part of this franchised league.\u201d Scump asked if he would still be able to host CDL watch parties if the league switched platforms, and H3CZ responded yes. However, the OpTic Texas owner also half-seriously said, \u201cthis may be the last watch party ever.\u201d Call of Duty community members reacted negatively to the rumor. Ben Nissim hosts CDL watch parties alongside former Call of Duty pros Thomas \u2018Zooma\u2019 Paparatto and Patrick \u2018Aches\u2019 Price. Nissim responded, \u201cProbably helps keep the lights on, but this is a massive blow to the community that has helped bring massive viewership on Twitch.\u201d LA Thieves player Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew added, \u201cIf the CDL goes back to YouTube after all the positive growth from co-streams\/Twitch culture, that\u2019d be a huge L.\u201d CDL content creator KeviSkillz argued, \u201cThe CDL was driven to near collapse under the previous YT exclusivity deal. The open move to Twitch and the emergence of watch parties saved us.\u201d We will provide an update once the league provides more clarity after Major 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic H3CZ says CDL teams not consulted in YouTube exclusivity talks Activision\/YouTube: HECZOpTic CEO Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez claimed the Call of Duty League did not consult team owners on a potential return to YouTube. The Call of Duty League began exclusively streaming on Twitch at the start of the 2023 season after a three-year partnership […]<\/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-30501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30501","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=30501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}