Scump claims OpTic Chicago \u201cdon\u2019t suck\u201d despite lackluster CDL Stage 3 results Twitch: ScumpWith the Stage 3 Major fast approaching, CDL star Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner returned to Twitch after a near two-month break to discuss OpTic Chicago\u2019s latest performance, explaining how the team doesn\u2019t \u201csuck\u201d in light of recent criticism. It\u2019s safe to say that Stage 3 wasn\u2019t all too kind to the Green Wall. Finishing fourth in Group B, OpTic secured just two series wins over Seattle and London. Both of these victories came in week one. Ever since, they\u2019ve been on a rough losing streak, winning just two further maps across three matches. Dropping to eighth place in our overall power rankings, various teams have been able to pass them by throughout the season. Now looking ahead to a lower bracket start in the upcoming Major, OpTic has a considerable mountain to climb. Despite struggling against top squads in the CDL, Scump still believes they\u2019re a well-rounded team capable of big wins. Booting up his stream for just the second time in seven weeks, he addressed the criticism head-on and outlined just how challenging Stage 3 has really been. \u201cIt\u2019s just been a cycle,\u201d he said at the very beginning of his latest broadcast. While OpTic continued streaming their team practice deep into the 2021 season, that has since come to an end as the lineup moved to offline scrims in March. Without his stream to fall back on, the grind has become monotonous for Scump. \u201cIt\u2019s so weird not streaming. My days are just so repetitive. Wake up, eat, scrim, just nothing other than that, it\u2019s so strange.\u201d While the schedule may be more tedious, the worst aspect now is that \u201cnobody can see [their] practice,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe practice every day without streaming. We go into our matches and we\u2019re losing. People just assume we suck, which we definitely don\u2019t.\u201d Read more: Behind the OpTic and FaZe CDL scandal – If fans could see their performance in scrims, maybe it would turn the conversation around. But for now, Scump realizes it all boils down to \u201cnot executing in matches.\u201d With some fresh wins under their belt, weeks of hard work out of the public eye could all be worthwhile. In the meantime, there\u2019s simply \u201cnothing to show for it,\u201d he admits. \u201cThe past three weeks have been so sh***y.\u201d Down on their luck in official matchups, OpTic hasn\u2019t found a series win in almost three weeks. After narrowly dropping out of the last Major in the most unbelievable way, they\u2019ll be hoping to turn things around with a much better showing in the Stage 3 Major. Read more: How FormaL Became a Call of Duty legend – Starting in Round 2 of the lower bracket, OpTic\u2019s first game falls on Friday, May 14. They\u2019ll be taking on the winner of Surge vs Guerrillas to start their run where just a single loss will send them packing once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump claims OpTic Chicago \u201cdon\u2019t suck\u201d despite lackluster CDL Stage 3 results Twitch: ScumpWith the Stage 3 Major fast approaching, CDL star Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner returned to Twitch after a near two-month break to discuss OpTic Chicago\u2019s latest performance, explaining how the team doesn\u2019t \u201csuck\u201d in light of recent criticism. It\u2019s safe to say that […]<\/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-30958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958","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=30958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}