Red Reserve blame players for CoD exit despite owing thousands The company behind Red Reserve\u2019s Call of Duty team, Red Reserve AB, have officially \u2018discontinued\u2019 operations in CoD esports, after a turbulent Black Ops 4 season, but the players are apparently still owed money. Red Reserve\u2018s all-British roster started out the new Black Ops 4 season full of optimism, moving into a team house in Las Vegas and managing to qualify for the CWL Pro League. However, internal team issues and organization troubles have led to the team\u2019s total collapse, with all players now officially free agents. Red Reserve AB blame player \u2018performances\u2019 and high salary demands Although it has been expected for some time, the Board of Red Reserve AB, a subsidary of Red Reserve Entertainment, officially announced that they were ending their activities in Call of Duty esports on April 15, via a press release, and appeared to lay blame largely with the players. Read More: Sources: FaZe Clan and Denial CWL Pro League lineups revealed following Red Reserve split – Translated from Swedish, the press release states: \u201cthe operating cost of the team due to the players\u2019 high salary requirements is far too high,\u201d as well as calling the market \u201cimmature\u201d, specifically \u201cpoor profitability.\u201d The statement also cites \u201cmutual discord\u201d between the players, and therefore did not \u201cperform the absolute top results that are necessary to justify further investments.\u201d It\u2019s true that members of the team have publicly displayed their personal grievances with one another, although it doesn\u2019t explain the missing salary and prize pool money which they claim to be owed. Currently, Red Reserve\u2019s CWL Pro League spot is set to be sold to FaZe Clan, who failed to qualify for the Pro League through the \u2018Last Chance Qualifier\u2019 in January. Now-former Red Reserve player Rhys \u2018Rated\u2019 Price claimed on April 5 that the organization still owed the players $40,000 in prize money, and had not received salary in two months. Hasn\u2019t paid us salary in a couple months, owes us 40k prize money each.. I\u2019m waiting for the cameras to bust in & tell us we\u2019ve been framed not to mention we all have entire set ups in the house. https:\/\/t.co\/OETZU9NQhA \u2014 Rhys Price (@Rated_COD) April 5, 2019 These tweets were posted on the same day that the team were kicked out of the Las Vegas team house, essentially left to fend for themselves in a country that was not their home. It was also claimed that a number of Red Reserve staff had also not been paid, and that communication had broken down within the organization. Former players Matthew \u2018Skrapz\u2019 Marshall and Trei \u2018Zer0\u2019 Morris are expected to form part of the new FaZe Clan lineup, while their former teammates Joseph \u2018Joee\u2019 Pinnington, Ben \u2018Bance\u2019 Bance and Rated are expected to join Denial eSports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Red Reserve blame players for CoD exit despite owing thousands The company behind Red Reserve\u2019s Call of Duty team, Red Reserve AB, have officially \u2018discontinued\u2019 operations in CoD esports, after a turbulent Black Ops 4 season, but the players are apparently still owed money. Red Reserve\u2018s all-British roster started out the new Black Ops 4 […]<\/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-30815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815","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=30815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}