Puckett hits back at criticism after calling out homophobia from CDL fans after Rambo defense Twitch: CallofDutyCall of Duty League desk host and veteran esports personality Chris Puckett has fired back at criticism levied against him in recent days after he called out homophobia in the community and faced backlash for it. On Sunday, January 15, the first week of CDL Major 2 qualifiers was nearing its end as Boston Breach faced off against the newly-formed OpTic Texas roster, with OpTic taking the bout 3-2 after much discussion around their roster moves, bringing Cuyler \u2018Huke\u2019 Garland in to replace Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell, beforehand. There were many memes flowing about head coach Ray \u2018Rambo\u2019 Lussier reportedly leaving scrims early to go bowling, an accusation made by Dashy in his tell-all Twitch stream, including from the broadcast itself, though mostly all in jest and lighthearted. However, once OpTic had notched their win against Boston, Puckett gave a short speech on how important it is that fans of the esport show respect to Rambo, given his accomplishments as both a player and a coach, as well as having worked developer-side on World War II. Shortly after said speech, Puckett put out a couple of tweets that suggested he had seen some homophobic comments made by members of the community after the fact. He said: \u201cThere\u2019s no place for homophobia in this community or my timeline \u2026 don\u2019t turn into a trash human because things didn\u2019t happen the way you thought they would.\u201d What followed, though, Puckett likely didn\u2019t expect, as fans across both Twitter and Reddit hit out at him, accusing him of lying about receiving homophobic comments, or using it to cover up a segment that some fans didn\u2019t like or thought was out of place. After receiving more abuse across social media, Pucket took to one of the Reddit threads about him to explain his thoughts and demand better from the community. \u201cWhat pissed me off was the amount of ignorant tweets, chat replies, and twitch DM\u2019s telling me to \u2018get Ray\u2019s c*ck out of my mouth,\u2019 and to \u2018get off his d*ck,\u2019\u201d he explained. \u201cYou can argue with my points all you want, but come up with something better than \u2018how\u2019d his seed taste.\u2019 We\u2019re smarter than that, and you are better than the behavior you show behind a keyboard.\u201d Puckett didn\u2019t address the situation again on either Twitter or Reddit, likely looking to put the situation behind him, but it certainly left him disappointed to see some of the comments that were made. After three weeks of Major 2 qualifiers, the 12 best teams in Call of Duty will be headed to Boston to fight it out on LAN for their share of the $500k prize pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Puckett hits back at criticism after calling out homophobia from CDL fans after Rambo defense Twitch: CallofDutyCall of Duty League desk host and veteran esports personality Chris Puckett has fired back at criticism levied against him in recent days after he called out homophobia in the community and faced backlash for it. On Sunday, January […]<\/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-30778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30778","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=30778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}