Slasher concerned that OpTic, FaZe and 100T will miss out on CoD franchise league Esports journalist Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau has explained why Activision Blizzard \u201cneeds\u201d move to a franchised league \u2013 including whether or not their favorite team will even be in the league, and if they are, there are lingering questions about their original names remaining in the first place. While the first five teams have already been announced, with Team Envy even securing a spot, three of the biggest names are still yet to be announced as having a place. For Slasher, that\u2019s something that will have to change because Activision Blizzards \u201cneeds\u201d them, regardless of who has already bagged a spot. \u201cGen.G is not the first team that I think of like whos missing,\u201d started Slasher, speaking to Cheddar Esports. \u201cRight away, it\u2019s where\u2019s FaZe, where\u2019s OpTic, where\u2019s 100 Thieves? FaZe and OpTic especially are like Call of Duty history \u2013 they\u2019re the two teams. That\u2019s why people tune into Call of Duty esports now.\u201d Read More: Overwatch League team in the Houston Outlaws whereas FaZe and 100 Thieves are yet to invest into having a team. \u201cThey do not have an initial relationship with Activision Blizzard right now, but Activision Blizzard needs them in the league,\u201d added Slasher. \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen if the Call of Duty league starts and there\u2019s no FaZe, no OpTic or 100 Thieves.\u201d i spoke to @CheddarEsports on Activision Blizzard franchising Call of Duty by the time the first season starts next year i expect FaZe, OpTic, and 100 Thieves to all be there \u2013 and Activision Blizzard needs them to be pic.twitter.com\/2lFmuXMtfX \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) May 10, 2019 Slasher followed up his comments on Twitter, expanding on why he believes Activision Blizzard needs the teams \u2013 adding that they all have \u201cleverage in negotiating\u201d whenever that happens. FaZe, OpTic, and 100T have the leverage in negotiating with Activision Blizzard who need them for Call of Duty to succeed, but will still end up paying tens of millions of dollars Acti Blizz NEEDED Twitch for the first season of OWL and Twitch still paid them $45 million a year \u2014 Rod Breslau (@Slasher) May 10, 2019 While many fans might assume that the OpTic, FaZe, and 100 Thieves are pretty much guaranteed a spot, that doesn\u2019t seem to be the case. Plenty expected OpTic, at the very least, to be within the first batch of teams announced \u2013 yet that didn\u2019t happen. Things become complicated for FaZe and 100 Thieves as they could try and compete for the same Los Angeles-based franchise spot. The notorious CoDBurner, an insider on all things CoD esports, has already claimed that the Los Angeles franchise spot had become the subject of a huge bidding war \u2013 with FaZe not interested. However, it still remains to be seen if any of the iconic Call of Duty brands are able to work their way into the upcoming franchised league anytime soon. –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Slasher concerned that OpTic, FaZe and 100T will miss out on CoD franchise league Esports journalist Rod \u2018Slasher\u2019 Breslau has explained why Activision Blizzard \u201cneeds\u201d move to a franchised league \u2013 including whether or not their favorite team will even be in the league, and if they are, there are lingering questions about their original […]<\/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-31290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31290","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=31290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}