Shotzzy explains how Dallas Empire can become world championship level again ActivisionSo far in the 2021 Call of Duty League season, Dallas Empire have failed to reach the dizzying heights of their Modern Warfare year. Star player Anthony \u2018Shotzzy\u2019 Cuevas-Castro says, though, that their issues require only a simple fix. While Dallas haven\u2019t exactly been being stomped, they\u2019re very much playing second fiddle to an incredible Atlanta FaZe side. And that\u2019s not where this team expects to be. After an incredible Modern Warfare season, culminating in a dominant world championship win, the Empire should always be vying for top spot in the eyes of players, management and the fans. Right now, though, they\u2019re not quite there, and we spoke with Shotzzy to find out exactly what was going wrong with Dallas Empire, and how they can reach championship-winning form once again. The first flaw that Shotzzy points out is how little he and his teammates \u2014 Ian \u2018Crimsix\u2019 Porter, Indervir \u2018iLLeY\u2019 Dhaliwal and Cuyler \u2018Huke\u2019 Garland \u2014 manage to find their A-game at the same time. \u201cFor us, when we play the best, it\u2019s just whenever everyone is having their little moment,\u201d Shotzzy said. \u201cIf you look at the scoreboard, when we\u2019re winning the most is when everyone has neutral stats and everyone\u2019s doing the job.\u201d While often, especially in respawn modes, you\u2019ll see teams win off the back of some insane individual performances, Shotzzy clearly feels that a more balanced approach with everyone mucking in is their key to victory. That\u2019s not all, though. The 19-year-old adds that there seems to be some discrepancy between scrims and their actual matches \u2014 which could prove to be a huge issue if they aren\u2019t able to perform when the pressure\u2019s on. \u201cFor some reason, we can\u2019t translate our scrims into matches,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s just because people play different in matches. Once we find that balance like we did in MW, I think we\u2019ll be good.\u201d Of course, while Shotzzy clearly believes firmly in the abilities of his team to become championship-caliber again \u2014 and for good reason, too \u2014 the Empire have their critics. Some, like Reverse Sweep\u2019s Jonathan \u2018Pacman\u2019 Tucker and Ian \u2018Enable\u2019 Wyatt have argued that iLLeY needs to step up to get the team on top again. Whatever happens next, we expect Shotzzy to be on top of his game as always, and it\u2019ll be interesting to see how Dallas improve going into Stage 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shotzzy explains how Dallas Empire can become world championship level again ActivisionSo far in the 2021 Call of Duty League season, Dallas Empire have failed to reach the dizzying heights of their Modern Warfare year. Star player Anthony \u2018Shotzzy\u2019 Cuevas-Castro says, though, that their issues require only a simple fix. While Dallas haven\u2019t exactly been […]<\/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-31143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143","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=31143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}