Swagg under fire after admitting he shouted call-outs at $2.5m CDL Champs tournament YouTube: SwaggFaZe Clan Warzone Kris \u2018Swagg\u2019 Lamberson has come under fire after admitting that he was making call-outs for Atlanta FaZe players at CDL Champs, a world championship-crowning Call of Duty tournament with $2.5m on the line. On August 7, Atlanta FaZe were in the grand final of Champs, facing off against eventual winners LA Thieves, duking it out for the lion\u2019s share of the prize pool as well as championship rings and further cementing their names in the Call of Duty history books. One huge point of controversy at the tournament, though, was the crowd calling out for their favorite teams at certain points in games, the main example being during tense Search and Destroy moments, such as ninja defuses or in 1v1 scenarios. The casters during the matchup were even urging the crowd to \u201cshut up\u201d during these intense moments hoping not to ruin the competitive integrity of the all-important match, but Swagg has admitted that he did actually call out for FaZe at one point during the Search and Destroy. He said: \u201cYou had to be there, but there was a time when aBeZy was in a 1v1\u2026 Bro, the guy starts defusing on 100 Thieves, it\u2019s dead quiet, and I yell out \u2018Yo, check bomb!\u2019 It was f**king hilarious \u2026 and he checks the bomb right after it. It was so funny, everyone started laughing.\u201d Of course, players and viewers alike were disappointed to hear the crowd calling out for teams in the Champs grand final, but both teams were both victims and beneficiaries of these call-outs. Taking to Reddit, a number of CoD esports fans voiced their disappointment in Swagg over the incident. \u201cFans should not be able to influence rounds like this lol. Just sucks,\u201d said one user, while another said that the \u201cWorst part is that he still doesn\u2019t understand that it\u2019s wrong.\u201d Others went as far as to call it \u201clame as f**k\u201d and call Swagg himself a \u201closer\u201d for doing what he did. There\u2019s definitely a strong debate over how much fans should be allowed to influence matches like these, with some even calling for the return of soundproof booths for competitors, though it\u2019s unclear whether that\u2019s a real option given health and safety restrictions. Given Swagg\u2019s involvement with FaZe Clan, you can see why he\u2019d want to support his team and give any help he can, but the competitive CoD fans aren\u2019t so happy with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Swagg under fire after admitting he shouted call-outs at $2.5m CDL Champs tournament YouTube: SwaggFaZe Clan Warzone Kris \u2018Swagg\u2019 Lamberson has come under fire after admitting that he was making call-outs for Atlanta FaZe players at CDL Champs, a world championship-crowning Call of Duty tournament with $2.5m on the line. On August 7, Atlanta FaZe […]<\/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-31592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31592","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=31592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}