Scump explains OpTic Texas\u2019 Major 2 struggles amid Vanguard spawn controversy Envy \/ OpTicCall of Duty legend Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has explained OpTic Texas\u2019 struggles at the CDL Major 2, which saw the fan-favorite roster eliminated in 5-6th despite coming in as favorites to make it back-to-back tournament wins. After a poor year under the banner of OpTic Chicago, many Greenwall fans have found exactly what they\u2019re looking for in the start of the CoD: Vanguard season. The new-look OpTic Texas roster of Scump, Dashy, iLLeY, and Shotzzy took CDL Major 1 back in March, meaning they went into April\u2019s Major 2 as firm favorites. However, things didn\u2019t quite go to plan for OpTic, losing 3-0 to Seattle and then 3-1 to Florida to see them eliminated top 6. Now, Scump has explained what he thinks went wrong. Speaking in April 15\u2019s episode of the OpTic Podcast, the King pointed to some questionable spawns as a major reason for their loss to Florida, stating that they were too slow to react when the unexpected happened. \u201cThis was the first time I\u2019ve nerd raged off stage,\u201d Scump said. \u201cWhenever I lose I\u2019m usually like \u2018they just played good whatever\u2019, not this time. I\u2019m walking down the stairs backstage and I\u2019m just raging\u2026 [It was] horrible spawns against Florida\u2026 We noticed it like half a second too late. Brandon was like \u2018wrong spawns, wrong spawns\u2019, I was like \u2018what!\u2019 I was pushing out their side, I lost so much composure.\u201d The spawn in question was indeed controversial, with many CDL pros criticizing the game for its seemingly lackluster mechanics. Despite OpTic wiping Florida off the map, Florida spawned directly behind the OpTic players instead of the expected spawns across the map as punishment for being wiped. Topic starts at 31:50 On the earlier Seattle loss, Scump put it down to poor map vetoes from OpTic, resulting in matches being played on maps Seattle were confident playing. While they were also OpTic\u2019s favorable maps, Scump thinks they should have sought to choose Seattle\u2019s least favorite maps, even if OpTic were less comfortable on them as well. \u201cWe trolled vetoes,\u201d he said. \u201cWe ego-challenged\u2026 we played our best maps and their best maps, they just had a better day.\u201d With fine margins seemingly to blame for the early elimination, Scump and OpTic Texas should be confident of regaining top spot when Major 3 comes around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump explains OpTic Texas\u2019 Major 2 struggles amid Vanguard spawn controversy Envy \/ OpTicCall of Duty legend Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has explained OpTic Texas\u2019 struggles at the CDL Major 2, which saw the fan-favorite roster eliminated in 5-6th despite coming in as favorites to make it back-to-back tournament wins. After a poor year under the […]<\/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-30966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966","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=30966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}