OpTic\u2019s Scump & FormaL complain about \u201cunfair\u201d Ultra player locations in CDL YouTube, OpTic ChicagoA week after the Toronto Ultra won the Call of Duty League\u2019s Stage 2 Major, OpTic Chicago\u2019s Scump, FormaL and the squad are criticizing the CDL for allowing teams to play from certain locations. The CDL Stage 2 Major shocked a lot of people, as the underdog Ultra stormed through the bracket, taking out top-tier teams \u2014 including OpTic \u2014 en route to a first-place finish and $200,000. While the league announced that LAN events are finally coming, OpTic still had some choice words for the regional issues with online play during an episode of their podcast. In the Stage 2 Major, Toronto bested OpTic 3-1, lost to the Atlanta FaZe 1-3, then proceeded to beat the LA Thieves, Minnesota ROKKR, Dallas Empire, and FaZe consecutively (with a cumulative 14-5 map count). Pointing out that practically every team bested by the Ultra were located in Dallas, Texas, OpTic CEO Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez spurred a conversation about regional connectivity issues that his players were more than happy to address. In response to concerns over OpTic\u2019s performance, H3CZ introduces the topic of online play by expressing excitement to take things offline: \u201cI think that all of this will be solved the second that we get back to LAN.\u201d This leads to Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper bringing up what appears to be an elephant in the room regarding the Ultra\u2019s location: \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t be letting another team play us from another country. I\u2019m being serious. They shouldn\u2019t be allowed to compete from Toronto \u2026 I think it\u2019s unfair.\u201d Among echoes of agreement, Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner points out that the Florida Mutineers present a similarly difficult situation \u2014 as their players are spread out across different areas. In sum, the team seems to agree that a team playing too far from the majority of the league, or too far from each other, presents too much connectivity inconsistency. As Scump summarizes the complaints, Toronto and Florida are the chief concerns: \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be allowed to be spread out. You shouldn\u2019t be allowed to be in another country. That\u2019s even worse than being spread out.\u201d The point is amplified by OpTic proceeding to list out all of the teams located outside of Dallas, which are only five of the league\u2019s 12: the Los Angeles Guerrillas, FaZe, Florida, the London Royal Ravens, and Toronto. Read more: Ultra in control of CDL \u2018Group of Death\u2019 – Ultimately, these concerns over online connectivity are ideally subject to temporary circumstances. While OpTic may criticize Toronto and Florida for regional issues, the CDL hopes to move to LAN in the future and teams are likely hoping that will solve all problems caused by this era of online play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic\u2019s Scump & FormaL complain about \u201cunfair\u201d Ultra player locations in CDL YouTube, OpTic ChicagoA week after the Toronto Ultra won the Call of Duty League\u2019s Stage 2 Major, OpTic Chicago\u2019s Scump, FormaL and the squad are criticizing the CDL for allowing teams to play from certain locations. The CDL Stage 2 Major shocked a […]<\/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-30601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601","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=30601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}