Scump explains why Vanguard was the \u201cdagger\u201d that pushed him to CoD retirement CDL \/ ActivisionOpTic Texas\u2019 Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has explained how Vanguard was the \u201cdagger\u201d that pushed him towards CoD retirement, following his emotional confirmation that the Modern Warfare 2 season will be his last as a professional player. The announcement that esports legend Scump will hang up the sticks following the Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty League season was both a surprise and expected. The King has been hinting at it for a few seasons but, being so integral to Call of Duty esports, it also felt like a moment that might never come. While the announcement video certainly tugged on the heartstrings, it didn\u2019t delve into the specific reasons behind the decision. However, in the 3 November OpTic Podcast, Abner explained that his retirement is down to a lack of \u201cpassion\u201d for recent CoDs, stating that it\u2019s been harder and harder to play them when he hasn\u2019t actually enjoyed them. Scump reveals Vanguard was the \u201cdagger\u201d after announcing CoD retirement When asked whether his retirement was comparable to Matthew \u2018FormaL\u2019 Piper\u2019s, who recently won the Halo World Championships after moving away from CoD esports, Scump confirmed that his decision was also down to a lack of \u201cpassion\u201d for recent titles. Specifically, he pinpointed the lacklustre Vanguard season and the game itself as the \u201cdagger\u201d that pushed him towards retirement. \u201cNah it\u2019s 100% passion,\u201d he said. \u201cI said on stream yesterday, there\u2019s only so many CoDs that you can go through where you don\u2019t really love the game until like, it\u2019s old. Hopefully I love this game\u2026 Vanguard I\u2019m not gonna lie, that might have been the dagger. Vanguard plus our season was a dagger.\u201d Timestamp: 18:20 The Vanguard season was rough for OpTic Texas. While they won Major 1 it was downhill from there, crashing out of Champs in fourth. The game itself was widely criticized by pros and the community alike. While Modern Warfare 2 has received more positive feedback to this point, Scump explained that he hopes it\u2019ll be a return to form for the franchise. He finished: \u201cWe had MW, Cold War, Vanguard. So it\u2019s like we had BO4, great. Then we had MW just sets us back. We\u2019ve had good game bad game good game bad game good game bad game\u2026 so hopefully this is the cycle where it\u2019s a good game again.\u201d Only time will tell how the MW2 CDL season goes but Scump and OpTic Texas will be doing everything they can to ensure it\u2019s a successful send off for one of the greatest CoD players of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scump explains why Vanguard was the \u201cdagger\u201d that pushed him to CoD retirement CDL \/ ActivisionOpTic Texas\u2019 Seth \u2018Scump\u2019 Abner has explained how Vanguard was the \u201cdagger\u201d that pushed him towards CoD retirement, following his emotional confirmation that the Modern Warfare 2 season will be his last as a professional player. The announcement that esports […]<\/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-30978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30978","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=30978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}