OpTic\u2019s Crimsix explains why he thought he might never win a CoD event again OpTic Gaming\u2019s Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter has revealed that following his winless year in Call of Duty: WWII, he worried that he may never be part of a winning team again. Taking 1st place at the 2017 World Championship, Crimsix had secured his 31st major tournament win, but it took him until over a year later before he won another, at CWL Vegas on December 7-9. A roster change midway through the WWII season didn\u2019t do much to help matters either, as the new recruits in Sam \u2018Octane\u2019 Larew and Anthony \u2018Methodz\u2019 Zinni were not enough to boost the team to a win. After finishing top 24 at the 2018 World Championship, Crimsix says he was concerned that he might not be able to build a winning team, worried that the best players might not want to play with him. On episode 9 of the CoD Blast, the OpTic star explained his concerns heading into the Black Ops 4 season, and how it has turned out for the best with the team\u2019s new lineup. \u201cI was just afraid that I might not get a team that\u2019s capable of winning an event again. I knew that if I could build a team that I felt could win, we\u2019d win, at least eventually,\u201d Crimsix explained, \u201cbut I was really worried that people weren\u2019t going to play with us.\u201d The 32 time champion goes on to say that the team has been inspired by the dedication of new players Thomas \u2018TJHaLy\u2019 Haly and Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell, explaining that it has increased the focus of the veterans like himself, Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner and Damon \u2018Karma\u2019 Barlow. \u201cI would say what fuels us most is the newcomers, TJ and Brandon. They wake up every single day saying \u2018I\u2019m going to get on, I\u2019m going to play tournaments, there\u2019s nothing else in my life other than waking up, turning on my PS4, grinding CoD for 12 hours.\u2019 As a teammate, that attitude is contagious.\u201d You can listen to the full CoD Blast episode with Crimsix on iTunes and PodBean. Crimsix has started his own video series named \u2018The Pursuit\u2019 focused on his personal challenge to overtake legendary Halo player Tom \u2018OGRE2\u2019 Ryan, who won 41 events in his competitive career. The first episode of The Pursuit focuses on the new OpTic roster\u2019s first day of competition at CWL Las Vegas, as they played out their pool play matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic\u2019s Crimsix explains why he thought he might never win a CoD event again OpTic Gaming\u2019s Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter has revealed that following his winless year in Call of Duty: WWII, he worried that he may never be part of a winning team again. Taking 1st place at the 2017 World Championship, Crimsix had secured […]<\/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-30569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30569","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=30569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}