Reports claim H3CZ to keep LA OpTic spot \u2013 NRG to sell Huntsmen CDL team H3CZ \/ CDLAccording to a report put out by Esports Talk, NRG might part ways with their Call of Duty League team, Chicago Huntsmen, in order for the franchise\u2019s CEO, Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez, to hold onto the OpTic Gaming brand. [jwplayer qYU9URvL] H3CZ\u2019s recent reacquisition of OpTic Gaming from Immortals Gaming Club has sent the Call of Duty League scene into a bit of a whirlwind, and we now may know what could come of it when the dust finally settles. With the OpTic brand tied strictly to the CDL, if Rodriguez is to maintain ownership of it and not have to sell it, then NRG could put their Chicago Huntsmen franchise up for sale instead. According to sources close to Esports Talk host \u2018Jake Lucky,\u2019 the league office is requiring franchises to stay at the city they were originally assigned to, which means that H3CZ\u2019s supposed \u201cChicago OpTic\u201d dream can\u2019t come to fruition. \u201cIt seems that the league itself may not even allow the OpTic brand to leave the city of Los Angeles,\u201d he said. \u201cApparently the league is making it so these brands have to stay with their established cities, which means the Huntsmen would have to stay in Chicago and OpTic would have to stay in LA. \u201cI\u2019ve been told, NRG would, in fact, acquire the OGLA team and spot, and thus sell the Chicago Huntsmen to anyone else, or a newcomer, or a new round of investors who wants to come in the league. \u201cApparently, H3CZ supposedly wanted \u2018Chicago OpTic\u2019 to be a thing, but it wasn\u2019t allowed by the league because OpTic has to stay with that LA branding. So, NRG has to acquire the OGLA spot, and with it OpTic Gaming, and sell Chicago Huntsmen to any newcomers.\u201d Of course, if this was to come to fruition, it would raise massive questions about the roster situations on both teams, especially considering that Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell just left OGLA for Huntsmen this offseason. \u201cThere is no guarantee that the roster swaps would happen,\u201d he added. \u201cThat means, whoever comes in and takes over the Chicago Huntsmen, they would get Scump, FormaL, Dashy, and Envoy, and instead, H3CZ and NRG would be operating with the current OpTic boys.\u201d However, sources close to the situation have advised Dexerto that H3CZ would be able to keep his team intact if these transactions were to happen, meaning the likes of Scump and FormaL, who joined Huntsmen partly because of Rodriguez\u2019s presence, will be able to stay with the CEO. Esports Talk also mentioned that 100 Thieves CEO Matt \u2018Nadeshot\u2019 Haag was \u201call in\u201d to purchase the OpTic spot but was tied down by the organization\u2019s board and their financial obligations. While not confirmed, it appears that the plan may have been for Nadeshot and 100T to purchase that Los Angeles CDL slot and rebrand it to \u201cLA Thieves,\u201d while H3CZ would take his beloved OpTic branding back to Chicago, which seems to have fallen through considering the latest reports. Of course, 100T could still go for a CDL spot by purchasing and rebranding the Huntsmen, if NRG puts it up for sale, but for Rodriguez to hold onto the Green Wall, it appears unlikely that he\u2019ll be able to do so in Chicago. As always, we will continue to update this article with more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Reports claim H3CZ to keep LA OpTic spot \u2013 NRG to sell Huntsmen CDL team H3CZ \/ CDLAccording to a report put out by Esports Talk, NRG might part ways with their Call of Duty League team, Chicago Huntsmen, in order for the franchise\u2019s CEO, Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez, to hold onto the OpTic Gaming brand. […]<\/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-30853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30853","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=30853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}