Rise Nation reveal plans to become first Call of Duty League expansion team MLGRise Nation, who won several championships during the CWL era of Call of Duty esports, could potentially be the first expansion team to be joining the Call of Duty League. In the first year of the CDL, twelve teams are participating, with organizations formerly known for their prevalence in Call of Duty being joined by others that are new to the scene, such as Misfits Gaming\u2019s Florida Mutineers. That said, there were many more organizations and investment teams looking to book their spot in the Call of Duty League, and apparently interest hasn\u2019t died down throughout the course of the league\u2019s first year, with it being believed that a number of teams are still looking to get involved. One of those teams appears to be Rise Nation, who won five championships between the Black Ops 3 and World War II competitive seasons. In an interview with ESPN Esports, Rise co-owner and founder Kahreem Horsley spoke about their rebranding and, more importantly, their future plans. \u201cWe do want to move on Call of Duty, as far as the CDL goes,\u201d Horsley said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had talks with them, dating back to last year and as recently as a few months. We\u2019re just getting our marbles all in the right basket so we can take aim at securing a spot for that league specifically. We\u2019re not going to restrict ourselves to that, but that\u2019s our first target.\u201d Co-founder and Tennessee Titans lineman Rodger Saffold also spoke about it, saying that at first it \u201cjust wasn\u2019t the right time to get into franchising,\u201d but that \u201cwe feel like we have a plan and a structure to get back into that scene.\u201d So far, no other organization has publicly spoken about their plans to get involved in CDL 2021, the second season of the CoD League, so in Rise we might be looking at the first official expansion team. This is particularly interesting as it raises questions over which kind of players they might pick up: the org has a long, storied history with Toronto Ultra substitute Daniel \u2018Loony\u2019 Loza, meaning rostermania could get very interesting. Whether they even join the league remains to be seen, but Call of Duty fans might be happy to see an old name cropping up once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rise Nation reveal plans to become first Call of Duty League expansion team MLGRise Nation, who won several championships during the CWL era of Call of Duty esports, could potentially be the first expansion team to be joining the Call of Duty League. In the first year of the CDL, twelve teams are participating, with […]<\/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-30894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894","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=30894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}