Scump accuses pro players of refusing to scrim OpTic over gentleman\u2019s agreements The competitive Call of Duty scene is once again in turmoil over \u2018gentleman\u2019s agreements\u2019, with some pro teams reportedly refusing to practice against teams that don\u2019t conform \u2013 notably OpTic. Gentleman\u2019s agreements have been used in previous Call of Duty titles to allow professional players to have more say in what is banned in competitive play, by simply agreeing in private not to use it. Technically, it is against the rules of the CWL to do so, but it is a difficult rule to enforce, and so gentleman\u2019s agreements against certain weapons, attachments and perks have been a common feature for years. With the re-introduction of specialists \u2013 and new specialist equipment \u2013 there is more than ever up for debate in competitive play. Version 1 of the CWL ruleset has left all but one specialist in play, but professional players perhaps feel this is not limiting enough. Discussions of gentleman\u2019s agreements are typically kept in private, but due to frustrations about lack of practice as the debate over what should and should not be in play, these discussions have spilled over on to social media. OpTic\u2019s Thomas \u2018TJHaLy\u2019 Haly and Brandon \u2018Dashy\u2019 Otell first hinted at issues with tweets stating that \u2018slow AR\u2019 players want to remove all entertaining aspects, and have \u2018another year of WW2.\u2019 mind blowing bro they wanna play another year of ww2 :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing: \u2014 OpTic Dashy (@DashySZN) November 17, 2018 The gentleman\u2019s agreement is believed to be over the \u2018grapple hook\u2019 \u2013 the specialist equipment only available to the \u2018Ruin\u2019 specialist. It allows players to zip quickly to almost any spot in reach by grappling toward it. OpTic\u2019s Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner later directly mentioned the grapple hook as the reason certain other teams were refusing to play them. Later on November 17, OpTic scrimmed against Team Envy, with the grapple hook in play, but beforehand Scump speculated that other teams \u2018despised\u2019 them, and were refusing to play them. On stream, Scump says \u201cI don\u2019t know if we\u2019re GA\u2019d. So we might not have a scrim. Everyone literally despises us. Just don\u2019t understand it.\u201d Of course, not every team has \u2018blacklisted\u2019 OpTic from scrims, but it seems there is a handful of players and teams who do not want to scrim other teams with the grapple hook in play. Amid the controversy, many fans pointed the finger at 100 Thieves player Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat, however he later denied that he had called for gentleman\u2019s agreements on anything. A false narrative consistently gets spread to thousands of fans.. getting super annoying to deal with \u2014 100T SlasheR (@SlasheR_AL) November 17, 2018 It seems that there is confusion even among the pro players themselves as to what is being discussed as potentially agreed out, and what is \u2018false narrative\u2019 as SlasheR claims. With less than a month to go until the first event at CWL Vegas on December 7, the top level of players in Call of Duty don\u2019t have long to get things in order before they are truly put to the test in a LAN environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump accuses pro players of refusing to scrim OpTic over gentleman\u2019s agreements The competitive Call of Duty scene is once again in turmoil over \u2018gentleman\u2019s agreements\u2019, with some pro teams reportedly refusing to practice against teams that don\u2019t conform \u2013 notably OpTic. Gentleman\u2019s agreements have been used in previous Call of Duty titles to allow […]<\/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-30922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922","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=30922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}