Standy and Attach relive Minnesota R\u00d8KKR\u2019s epic CDL comeback Call of Duty LeagueOn August 1, 2021, Minnesota R\u00d8KKR achieved one of the rarest feats in Call of Duty esports \u2013 a best-of-nine reverse sweep to take home the Call of Duty League Stage 5 Major title. In a new documentary by Dexerto, Dillon \u2018Attach\u2019 Price and Eli \u2018Standy\u2019 Bentz relive the greatest comeback in CoD history. Down 0-4 in the Grand Final of the Call of Duty Stage 5 Major, it looked as though Minnesota R\u00d8KKR\u2019s dream run was over. Making a Grand Final in a season their highest finish at a Major had been fourth was no small task. However, the glory was likely soured by the 5-0 sweep the Toronto Ultra was likely about to hand them. But then it happened. Minnesota found a second wind and bounced back to take the series 5-4. In a new documentary by Dexerto, \u2018Behind CoD\u2019s Greatest Comeback\u2019, R\u00d8KKR players Standy and Attach relive the season-defining moment. R\u00d8KKR heat up after a cold 2021 The 2021 season could have been better for Minnesota R\u00d8KKR. In the four majors prior to late July\u2019s Stage 5, R\u00d8KKR cracked the top five once. Stage 1: 9th – Stage 2: 4th – Stage 3: 10th – Stage 4: 6th – But coming into Stage 5, things were looking up. The team earned a third-place finish in the group stage, placing them in the Winner\u2019s Bracket for the Major. However, that meant an opening match against the red-hot Atlanta FaZe, who R\u00d8KKR were 0-2 against in the season. In the first shock of the Major, R\u00d8KKR prevailed 3-1, moving on to face the equally in-form Dallas Empire, who they were 2-4 against in 2021. And again, Minnesota won 3-1. \u201cWe were feeling really good, we beat FaZe, the only team to beat them in not a game 5 the whole season,\u201d Attach said. \u201cAnd then we played Dallas, another team that had got second in the major before, beat them 3-1\u2026 so our confidence was at an all-time high.\u201d The win over Dallas catapulted R\u00d8KKR into the Winner\u2019s Final, where they would face the Stage 2 champions, the Toronto Ultra. While R\u00d8KKR and Ultra considered each other rivals, dubbing their matches \u2018The Battle for the North\u2019, Toronto were undefeated through four matches against Minnesota. But the streak would end as R\u00d8KKR stomped Ultra 3-0 to reach the Grand Final of the Stage 5 Major. However, the Ultra came looking for revenge as they beat OpTic Chicago in the Loser\u2019s Final to set up the rematch with Minnesota. The Final \u201cWe didn\u2019t get a warm-up before the finals because the other teams were out and they played OpTic in losers and we played against our coaches in a 3v3 raid so it wasn\u2019t the best warm-up to get the comms and everything warmed up,\u201d Attach explained. Toronto dominated the first map of the final, taking it by a score of 250-34. The blows kept on coming for R\u00d8KKR, as they lost maps two and three in equally convincing fashion. While they were able to put up a fight on map four, the eventual loss meant the team was looking at a near-impossible situation. \u201cWhen you\u2019re down that bad, you don\u2019t have anything to lose, so we\u2019re just like, \u2018OK, let\u2019s go out there and do our thing\u2019, and we were really good at Miami SND and we were really confident, so we were like, \u2018let\u2019s go and do our thing, let\u2019s take that one map, and then just go from there,’\u201d Attach said. R\u00d8KKR indeed showed their dominance on Miami, taking a hard-fought 6-3 victory. \u201cSo we were taking a bathroom break, talking to each other, and we were like, \u2018hey, it\u2019s all good, let\u2019s just have some fun, if we lose we lose, but hey, if we lose we\u2019re going to lose going down hard,’\u201d Standy said. Ultra seemed helpless as R\u00d8KKR just kept on winning. Map 6 (Control on Garrison): 3-1 R\u00d8KKR – Map 7 (SnD on Standoff): 6-2 R\u00d8KKR – Map 8 (Hardpoint on Apocalypse): 250-165 R\u00d8KKR – The map eight win meant that the Grand Final was going somewhere few had thought possible an hour or so earlier \u2013 a deciding map nine. It would be SnD on Raid, which was a mixed situation for R\u00d8KKR. While they were 2-1 in SnD rounds in the Final, they were also 0-2 on Raid. Standy opened the final round with a clutch double kill to give R\u00d8KKR the lead. He put them up 2-0 with a triple kill in round two. R\u00d8KKR extended their lead to 4-1 before allowing Ultra back into the game with two clutch rounds that put the score at 4-3. That would be the last time Ultra won in Stage 5 as another clutch double from Standy put R\u00d8KKR up 5-3 and then they were able to hold off the plant from Toronto\u2019s Tobias \u2018CleanX\u2019 J\u00f8nsson to complete the impossible. \u201cIt felt like we were in a movie\u2026 It was just the craziest rush ever\u2026 I felt like I was going to pass out after that, I was like, \u2018oh God, I\u2019ve got to sit down,’\u201d Attach said after the win. Standy, arguably the hero of map nine, was already looking ahead to the next moment. \u201cEveryone was just joking around with me, saying, \u2018you\u2019ve made a BO3 reverse sweep, a BO5 reverse sweep, a BO7 reverse sweep, now a BO9, now they\u2019ve got to add BO11s and you\u2019ve got to go down 0-5,’\u201d Standy said. \u201cAnd I was like, \u2018that\u2019s not good for my heart, but I\u2019d be up for the challenge.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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