Simp and Kenny butt heads as LA Thieves abuse \u2018banned\u2019 item in $30k CDL kickoff tournament Call of Duty League\/ActivisionThe $30k Call of Duty League Kickoff Classic was fans\u2019 and players\u2019 first chance to see competitive CoD: Vanguard. It ended in drama, though, as Atlanta FaZe\u2019s Chris \u2018Simp\u2019 Lehr hounded LA Thieves\u2019 Zack \u2018Drazah\u2019 Jordan for ignoring Gentleman\u2019s Agreements. Gentleman\u2019s Agreements have come to be commonplace in Call of Duty esports. While there is a set of restricted weapons and items, such as shotguns or certain AI-controller killstreaks, there are some that vary by title each season based on what the pros want to ban. In Vanguard, there have been countless debates over the use of smoke grenades and sniper rifles in the competitive landscape. While it initially seemed as though snipers were out, in order to keep smoke grenades in, both of them were in play at the CDL Kickoff Classic. Some players were unhappy to see how the smoke grenades were being used, though \u2014 players can sit in the smoke and see through it to pick off opponents while remaining invisible within the smoke. Simp let LA Thieves and Drazah, who he accused of abusing the mechanic at the $30k Kickoff Classic, know exactly how he felt when they were knocked out of the tournament. Read More: CDL Kickoff Classic 2022 results – \u201cWell deserved loss for doing this in a match,\u201d he said, in response to a clip of Drazah using smoke grenades to gain a \u2018one-way\u2019 vision of his enemies. \u201cThis is the exact reason why smokes shouldn\u2019t be in competitive right now.\u201d Drazah\u2019s teammate, Kenneth \u2018Kenny\u2019 Williams, leaped to his defense, saying that the \u201dsame energy should be applied to snaking but we\u2019re still not ready for that convo.\u201d By this, he means the \u2018snaking\u2019 accusations that have followed FaZe\u2019s Jovel \u2018Cellium\u2019 McArthur in recent years, with players bemoaning his use of unfair movement mechanics. Lmaoooo! Same energy should be applied to snaking but we\u2019re still not ready for that convo\ud83d\ude42 \u2014 \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddedOpTic Kenny (@Kuavo) January 24, 2022 Simp replied in kind, saying \u201cIt\u2019s also pretty weird how snaking got patched and still sh*t on you and draz and everyone else in the league last year.\u201d Kenny finished the conversation saying that \u201cthe fake villain thing doesn\u2019t fit you,\u201d clearly not able to reach a compromise with Simp. \u201cPatched\u201d, we\u2019ll call it that. And that was when you weren\u2019t doing this fake villain thing\u2026 it doesn\u2019t fit you. \u2014 \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddedOpTic Kenny (@Kuavo) January 24, 2022 There\u2019s clearly space for a rivalry to grow between Atlanta FaZe and LA Thieves, two of the biggest franchises in the CDL, and there\u2019s definitely no love lost between their two franchise players. Whether we see changes in the pros list of banned GAs off the back of this remains to be seen, but as it stands, there\u2019s a serious case to be made for smoke grenades to not be allowed going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Simp and Kenny butt heads as LA Thieves abuse \u2018banned\u2019 item in $30k CDL kickoff tournament Call of Duty League\/ActivisionThe $30k Call of Duty League Kickoff Classic was fans\u2019 and players\u2019 first chance to see competitive CoD: Vanguard. It ended in drama, though, as Atlanta FaZe\u2019s Chris \u2018Simp\u2019 Lehr hounded LA Thieves\u2019 Zack \u2018Drazah\u2019 Jordan […]<\/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-31234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31234","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=31234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}