Scump calls for new CDL roster change rules after LA Thieves bench SlasheR ActivisionOpTic Chicago\u2019s Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has called for changes to the Call of Duty League roster rules, shortly after it was announced that LA Thieves would be benching Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat for the Stage 2 Major. The news that SlasheR would be demoted from the starting Thieves line-up shook the CoD esports community. He is arguably one of the best players in recent years and seemed pretty much undroppable. He was replaced by Zack \u2018Drazah\u2019 Jordan, the second LA Thieves roster change of Stage 2, after they picked up Carlos \u2018Venom\u2019 Hernandez to replace Donovan \u2018Temp\u2019 Laroda. With so much swapping and changing occurring in the league throughout Stage 2, Scump has called for changes to be made. Appearing on the OpTic Podcast, Scump \u2014 joined by Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper, Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez and Nick \u2018MaNiaC\u2019 Kershner \u2014 got onto the topic of LA Thieves. After briefly discussing the roster swap, Scump let his thoughts be known. \u201cI don\u2019t think it should be allowed during a Stage,\u201d the OpTic star said. \u201cThey should have to play with that team the rest of the Stage, unless it\u2019s an emergency or health thing.\u201d With H3CZ challenging this opinion, Scump continued: \u201cThey shouldn\u2019t be allowed to switch someone in mid-Major\u2026They\u2019re about to go into the Major with a different team that they played the whole Stage with!\u201d (For mobile users, timestamp at 18:50) While LA Thieves did make two roster changes during Stage 2, only Venom was a new acquisition. Drazah was the team\u2019s substitute since the start of the season, and has proven exactly why CDL teams have a substitute or two. Rules around roster changes aren\u2019t exactly clear. By the looks of it, franchises can pick up and drop players whenever they want, providing contracts are respected. This could raise some questions going forward, and make the CDL reconsider how they allow roster changes to happen. For now, though, LA Thieves are looking to reap the rewards at the CDL Stage 2 Major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump calls for new CDL roster change rules after LA Thieves bench SlasheR ActivisionOpTic Chicago\u2019s Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has called for changes to the Call of Duty League roster rules, shortly after it was announced that LA Thieves would be benching Austin \u2018SlasheR\u2019 Liddicoat for the Stage 2 Major. The news that SlasheR would be […]<\/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-30938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938","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=30938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}