Ranking leaked Call of Duty franchise team names from worst to best ActivisionOn October 9, the franchised Call of Duty League was officially announced, and before long the website had been completely swept for potential leaks \u2013 and they delivered. The team names were out before Activision had time to react, and some are definitely better than others. After the 12 names leaked, there\u2019s been plenty debate over who has the best brand to represent each city. Some of these names are closely linked to the city itself, some take inspiration from their parent company, and some I just can\u2019t quite work out. Although we haven\u2019t seen any logos or official colors yet, I\u2019ve taken a look at the team names (still technically unconfirmed too), ranking them from worst to best. Of course, this is totally subjective. 12. New York Subliners Subliners, as far as I can tell, isn\u2019t even a real word. Which would be fine, were it not for the fact that the intended meaning behind the word \u2013 presumably to do with New York\u2019s infamous subway system \u2013 is something that New Yorkers likely don\u2019t want to be reminded of when they watch esports. 11. London Royal Ravens London Royal Ravens just raises so many questions. Most importantly, why Royal Ravens? What\u2019s wrong with London Royals, or London Ravens? Both of these would be infinitely better than a combination of the two, mainly because having two words (three with the city) just seems unnecessarily clunky. 10. Los Angeles Guerillas Honestly, I don\u2019t think this is terrible. I just think it\u2019s incredibly bland \u2013 it\u2019s entirely arbitrary and offers little more than a word loosely related to warfare. It\u2019s uninspiring and sounds like it was just picked out of a hat. It\u2019s fine, but that\u2019s as much as I feel about it. Perhaps the logo will enlighten us more. 9. Atlanta FaZe Good work from Atlanta making the FaZe connection, earning them a history in Call of Duty that many of these franchises won\u2019t have. But\u2026 it\u2019s only FaZe. We\u2019ve had them in Call of Duty for the past decade anyway. Nothing new here and no points for creativity. 8. Florida Mutineers This is a name that I think will grow on me, but for now, I don\u2019t really feel anything towards it. I think when the branding is officially announced and explained, it could have a good story behind it, but I don\u2019t feel that way yet. 7. Los Angeles OpTic Much like with FaZe, we\u2019ve already had OpTic in CoD for as long as CoD esports has existed. It\u2019s a name we\u2019ve all become familiar with and, when new teams and brands are entering the space, it just seems a little boring and dated. 6. Chicago Huntsmen Chicago is likely going to be the crowd-favorite once the league rolls around, and NRG co-CEO H3CZ has seemed pretty confident in his branding choices \u2013 but I can\u2019t help feeling a little disappointed. As with Mutineers, I think I\u2019ll end up liking the branding, but Huntsmen seems pretty run-of-the-mill as far as team names go. 5. Minnesota Rokkr I feel like Rokkr (presumably stylized r\u00f8kkr) has been incredibly underrated in discussions since names were leaked. It\u2019s odd, but it\u2019s unique, and that gives Minnesota something interesting to work with when it comes to branding and potential support. The word, an old Norse term linked to twilight and the end of the world according to Wiktionary, has links with Minnesota\u2019s NFL team, the Vikings, and is intrinsically linked to Minnesota as a whole. 4. Toronto Ultra The top four in this list are what I consider to be the \u201ctop tier\u201d of names. Truthfully I\u2019m not blown away by any of these names but Ultra is the first of four that I believe is solid as it stands. It sounds like a real team name, which I can\u2019t say for a lot of these. One can only hope the fans don\u2019t end up being referred to as \u2018the Ultras\u2019 \u2013 definitely some negative connotations there. 3. Dallas Empire Dallas Empire is nice. \u2018Empire\u2019 would really work with most cities \u2013 I know I would\u2019ve liked this for New York. But Dallas definitely works too, and certainly gives some grandiosity to the franchise. 2. Seattle Surge Seattle Surge beats Dallas Empire for just one reason; alliteration. Even if it wasn\u2019t, I still think Surge is a solid name: it sounds like something a professional gaming team should be called. I can\u2019t say the same for Guerillas or Subliners, unfortunately. 1. Paris Legion Good work, Paris. Although I don\u2019t think the competition is fantastic, you\u2019ve got the best name in the franchised Call of Duty League. It sounds regal, it sounds important, and it sounds like a team you should be afraid to come up against. Hopefully the team can live up to the standards of the name. There\u2019s my personal list; I think the top three or four names are all interchangeable and could easily justify putting any of them in that top tier, but for me, Paris just about takes the cake with Legion. It\u2019s worth remembering that these names haven\u2019t been confirmed yet. Although it seems likely that they\u2019re correct, we should wait until each team\u2019s official announcement before judging them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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