Scump explains what went wrong for OpTic in Black Ops 4 and CoD Champs Treyarch \/ YouTube: 100 ThievesOpTic Gaming veteran Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has explained what went wrong for the team following their underwhelming Black Ops 4 season, and third-place finish at CWL Champs. OpTic\u2019s 2019 season got off to the best possible start as they won CWL Las Vegas back in the first event, around a monster MVP performance from Dashy. They struggled after though, and placed no better than third for the remainder of the season. Going into Championship Sunday at CWL Champs, OpTic were in an ideal position: in the Winners\u2019 Final against eUnited. However, a choke on Payload Search & Destroy saw them capitulate and lose five straight maps, first falling to eUnited and then 100 Thieves. Appearing on the CouRage and Nadeshot podcast, Scump was presented with a list of his achievements. \u201cAre you kidding?\u201d he laughed. \u201cWe should have won Champs this weekend too. People decided to not show up on Sunday.\u201d While Scump shone on the final day of Champs, his teammates almost unanimously struggled, meaning a lot of OpTic\u2019s maps were lost comfortably. Nade went on to ask what happened after the win at CWL Vegas, explaining that his 100 Thieves roster took down OpTic at all but one of their matchups. \u201cI don\u2019t even think we won maps against 100 Thieves,\u201d Scump replied. \u201cWhich doesn\u2019t make sense because I felt like we were nasty.\u201d \u201cI feel like it was a lack of motivation,\u201d Scump continued. \u201cAnd chemistry, after a certain point. Everyone started bickering again after we started losing. People were on each others\u2019 nerves a lot. Arguing in scrims: people saying let\u2019s take scrims more seriously and I\u2019m over here like \u201ccome on, let\u2019s have some fun.\u201d OpTic\u2019s CoD team has had issues in the past over teammates being at each other\u2019s throats. When the dynasty roster struggled in WWII, the subsequent break up was largely put down to toxicity between players, particularly Scump and FormaL. Scump said it got so serious that \u201cwe (OpTic) couldn\u2019t have fun anymore\u201d. It certainly sounds like there were some personality clashes over the course of Black Ops 4, with Karma and Crimsix getting frustrated with Scump\u2019s attitude. \u201cIan doesn\u2019t take losing for anything,\u201d said Scump. \u201cHe would start yelling and getting mad at us and we\u2019d start laughing at him\u2026 He gets so mad. I feel like it was a lack of motivation. We lost the hunger.\u201d He explained that there was a definite desire to prove people wrong at CWL Las Vegas, but that fell off over the course of the year. At CWL Champs he describes his performance positively, while his teammates struggled. However, he\u2019s quick to point out he also had his bad events this year, so he does not hold it against \u201cone or two people\u201d. Similarly, he pinpoints the loss of the Payload Search & Destroy versus eUnited, with the map being described as the \u201cmomentum swing\u201d by CouRage, an ex-CoD caster. Up 5-3, the Greenwall lost 3 straight rounds to see the series tied 1-1. This momentum shift seemingly killed OpTic, as they lost the next two maps convincingly. They were then eliminated by 100 Thieves 3-0. It sounds like a mixture of factors prevented the roster from hitting the heights of previous years and, with franchising just around the corner, the future of all the team\u2019s members is currently up in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump explains what went wrong for OpTic in Black Ops 4 and CoD Champs Treyarch \/ YouTube: 100 ThievesOpTic Gaming veteran Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has explained what went wrong for the team following their underwhelming Black Ops 4 season, and third-place finish at CWL Champs. OpTic\u2019s 2019 season got off to the best possible start […]<\/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-30967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967","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=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}