OpTic\u2019s SlasheR mocks ACHES and Guerrillas: \u201cLA\u2019s backup team\u201d Star pro player Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat, captain of OpTic Gaming Los Angeles\u2019 Call of Duty League team, has taken shots at in-city rivals LA Guerrillas, calling them the city\u2019s \u201cbackup team.\u201d With only just a couple of months until the inaugural 2020 season of the CDL kicks off, there are already some fiery rivalries beginning to form between several of the 12 participating organizations. Many expect the in-city rivalry between Los Angeles\u2019 OpTic Gaming and Guerrillas to be among the fiercest, especially since those are currently the only two franchises that are sharing a home city in the CDL. Read More: ACHES slams \u201cfake\u201d OpTic CoD franchise – SlasheR, one of OpTic\u2019s three new signings this offseason, threw some more fuel on that fire in his November 13 editorial \u2018Player Stories\u2019 article that featured on the official CDL website. The longtime pro used some condescending language when speaking about Guerrillas, making specific mention of their own captain and outspoken veteran Patrick \u2018ACHES\u2019 Price. \u201cThe record needs to be set straight,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe captain of my city\u2019s backup team, the Los Angeles Guerrillas, likes to think he\u2019s the biggest threat to OpTic Gaming Los Angeles, but come on now, really? I saw the Guerrillas\u2019 announcement for Patrick \u2018Aches\u2019 Price and I\u2019m not worried. He tries to say he\u2019s the boots on the ground king but the last couple years say otherwise. There\u2019s no doubt which team Los Angeles will be known for, and it won\u2019t be his.\u201d \u201cThe battle for Los Angeles will be really cool. Well, it won\u2019t really be a battle. It\u2019s just going to be us winning all the time, but he already knows that.\u201d SlasheR believes that having two totally different teams based in Los Angeles will be good for the fans and atmosphere, although he admitted the fact that the two sides will be captained by veterans who love talking trash came as a total coincidence. \u201cIt\u2019s actually hysterical to me how the two Los Angeles franchise teams worked out. None of this was planned, it just so happened that Aches and I are the captains of the two teams. I love it for the fans. We\u2019ll keep the banter up.\u201d The 2016 World Champion confessed that he and ACHES haven\u2019t always been on the best terms, but vows to keep their personal rivalry \u201cstrictly in-game\u201d and maintain the friendship that the two have \u201csomewhat\u201d brokered. \u201cOur personal rivalry is strictly in-game. We teamed together back in the day and we hated each other \u2013 literally hated each other. You can\u2019t have two hardheaded people on the same team. Now? We\u2019ve become friends outside the game \u2013 somewhat.\u201d On paper, it would be hard to argue against SlasheR\u2019s OpTic roster being superior to Guerrillas. The team boasts a combined three World Championships, two of the biggest young stars in Dashy and TJHaLy, and Kenny, who made it to the Grand Final of the past two CWL Championships. On the other side, ACHES is the only two player to have world championship experience, having won CoD Champs twice himself, while the remaining four players have a combined four major trophies between them. OPTIC GAMING LOS ANGELES ROSTER Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat – Thomas \u2018TJHaLy\u2019 Haly – Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell – Kenny \u2018Kenny\u2019 Williams – Jordan \u2018JKap\u2019 Kaplan – LOS ANGELES GUERRILLAS ROSTER Patrick \u2018ACHES\u2019 Price – Ulysses \u2018AquA\u2019 Silva – Jacob \u2018Decemate\u2019 Cato – Renato \u2018Saints\u2019 Forza – Andres \u2018Lacefield\u2019 Lacefield – The two teams will face off against each other for the first time during the CDL Launch Weekend in Minnesota on January 24-26. However, most fans will be looking forward to their first-ever meeting in Los Angeles, as the two teams will host their own weekend of matches March 6-8. Make sure to check out the full schedule of matches for the 2020 CDL season, as there are several weekends of star-studded action to especially look forward to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
OpTic\u2019s SlasheR mocks ACHES and Guerrillas: \u201cLA\u2019s backup team\u201d Star pro player Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat, captain of OpTic Gaming Los Angeles\u2019 Call of Duty League team, has taken shots at in-city rivals LA Guerrillas, calling them the city\u2019s \u201cbackup team.\u201d With only just a couple of months until the inaugural 2020 season of the CDL […]<\/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-30611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30611","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=30611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}