Team WaR owner explains why top CDL Challengers roster might be leaving Twitter: OfficialTeamWaROne of the most successful Call of Duty Challengers squads is looking for a new organization to represent as Team WaR\u2019s owner has explained why keeping the roster under their banners just wasn\u2019t possible. While the Call of Duty League\u2019s amateur counterpart has franchise teams promoting prize pools of over $10,000 regularly throughout the season, one of the top Challengers teams has been forced to explore new options. As former world champions like Christopher \u2018Parasite\u2019 Duarte slam the new format, and highlight how Challengers is already failing due to the costs associated with backing any given lineup, Team WaR\u2019s owner has explained why the org might be done with Call of Duty in 2020. Team WaR\u2019s Challengers run saw them finish third out of 168 teams at the Launch Weekend Open in Minnesota, place fourth at the CDL London Open, and most recently, walk away with a first-place finish at the CDL Paris Open. Accumulatively, the squad earned a total of $31,000 in just a matter of months, but according to org owner Kevin \u2018Surge\u2019 Pichardo, the ends do not appear to justify the means as the team is now looking for a new place to call home. \u201cThe boys want to go to every tournament in North America. They just came out of a win so they definitely want to continue that run,\u201d he explained throughout a bittersweet announcement on March 3. \u201cBut from an org standpoint, for us personally, it \u2018s out of our realm. It\u2019s not in our budget to fly them out to every event because it\u2019s very costly when you\u2019re flying over a UK team to the States.\u201d CDL Free Agent Organization Announcement pic.twitter.com\/ARz81ClpCV \u2014 Team WaR (@OfficialTeamWaR) March 3, 2020 With 13 international events lined up in the calendar year and only two of those upcoming events taking place in Europe, it\u2019s a great deal of travel for the org to cover without reaping much return in the way of tournament winnings. \u201cI proposed [to] them what we can offer them, it\u2019s just a matter of if they find a better opportunity that will let them go to every tournament,\u201d he explained. \u201cI don\u2019t want to hold the boys back and doing this is players first. I want the best for them.\u201d The roster is looking for an organization that will be able to financially back them, yet if that doesn\u2019t come to fruition, it appears as though they will stick to their roots and continue on with Team WaR sending them to select events when possible. \u201cNot going to lie to you guys, this is hitting me hard,\u201d the owner expressed on his personal Twitter shortly after the announcement. \u201cF**k man. I might be off the radar for a bit but you know where to find me if you need me.\u201d Not going to lie to you guys, this is hitting me hard. Fuck man. I might be off the radar for a bit but you know where to find me if you need me. Love you guys, really could use a Spoons in LA right about now \ud83d\ude02 \u2014 Kevin (@WAR_Surge) March 3, 2020 \u201cI hope it ends up working out and we reunite for the rest of the year. I\u2019ll be their number one fanboy for the rest of the year regardless of if they\u2019re under the WaR umbrella or not.\u201d There\u2019s no denying that the move has come at an emotional cost as the roster just brought Team WaR its very first overall win at the CDC Paris event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Team WaR owner explains why top CDL Challengers roster might be leaving Twitter: OfficialTeamWaROne of the most successful Call of Duty Challengers squads is looking for a new organization to represent as Team WaR\u2019s owner has explained why keeping the roster under their banners just wasn\u2019t possible. While the Call of Duty League\u2019s amateur counterpart […]<\/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-31686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686","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=31686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}