Who is Ghosty? OpTic Texas\u2019 new unknown CDL star The RotationOpTic Texas just added Daniel \u2018Ghosty\u2019 Rothe as the newest member to its CDL roster, and most people don\u2019t know the story of this remarkable young talent. OpTic Texas constructed a roster of Brandon \u2018Dashy,\u2019 \u2018Huke,\u2019 \u2018iLLeY,\u2019 and \u2018Shottzy\u2019 for the Major 2 cycle. The new-look team went on a tear in the final two weeks of qualifying, going 3-1 and securing the first seed for Major 2. In Boston, OpTic had a fine showing before falling to the Los Angeles Thieves in the loser\u2019s semi-finals. A fourth place wasn\u2019t good enough as OpTic once again reshuffled its deck, this time turning to an amateur player. Ghosty steps into the CDL spotlight after balancing life as a college student while chasing his dream of becoming a professional Call of Duty player. Who is OpTic\u2019s new player Ghosty? On February 9, OpTic Texas announced the signing of Ghosty in place of iLleY. Ghosty is currently a pre-law student at the University of Illinois, and he started his CoD career by joining the schools esports team in 2020. It wasn\u2019t until 2022 that Ghosty got his first big break with the Boston Breach Academy team. He moved in with popular professional CoD player Doug \u2018Censor\u2019 Martin at the end of Call of Duty: Vanguard. However, his time with Boston was short-lived, as he started the Modern Warfare 2 Challengers season with Iron Blood Gaming (IBG). IBG had a slow start to the season, placing top 16 and top 8, respectively, in the first two North American Cups, and then placed top 12 at the CDC Raleigh Open. The roster decided to go separate ways, heading into CDC Elite Stage 1. Longtime CoD veteran Tyler \u2018Felo\u2019 Johnson created a Challengers team called TFeL Enterprises and picked up Ghosty. The team gelled well, placing second in the Elite Stage 1 Playoffs. The Rotation named Ghosty as the Elite Stage 1 MVP, leading the amateur league in hardpoint and overall KD. After finding success together, FeLo and Ghosty joined forces again on Decimate Gaming with \u2018Ulisses\u2019 and former CDL pro \u20182Real.\u2019 Decimate Gaming went on to win the fifth NA Cup and the CDC Boston Open. In the Boston Open Final against the R\u00d8KKR Academy, Ghosty posted an unreal 1.35 KD, and 98 of his 131 kills were non-traded kills, meaning he was doing a lot of the work on his own. And in the Semi-finals against Elevate, Ghosty had a 1.45 KD in a dominant 3-0 series sweep. Against former CDL pros Spart, Neptune, and Diamondcon, the rising star had a 1.30 KD in a 3-1 series victory as well. OpTic Texas doesn\u2019t usually rely on amateur talent, but the Green Wall may have just swooped up the next big name in Call of Duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who is Ghosty? OpTic Texas\u2019 new unknown CDL star The RotationOpTic Texas just added Daniel \u2018Ghosty\u2019 Rothe as the newest member to its CDL roster, and most people don\u2019t know the story of this remarkable young talent. OpTic Texas constructed a roster of Brandon \u2018Dashy,\u2019 \u2018Huke,\u2019 \u2018iLLeY,\u2019 and \u2018Shottzy\u2019 for the Major 2 cycle. The […]<\/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-34904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34904","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=34904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}