Why Paris Legion getting Las Vegas CDL spot disrespects the rest of the league Call of Duty LeagueFor three seasons now, Paris Legion have rarely ventured beyond being the most maligned team in the Call of Duty League. Their apparent disinterest has been clear for all to see \u2014 so why are they being rewarded with a move to a premier franchise location? On June 2, 2022, after the rumor mill started to run, it was announced that parent company DM Esports would be relocating and renaming their two franchises. In the Call of Duty League, the Paris Legion, and in the Overwatch League, the Paris Eternal. They will be moving to Las Vegas, a premier spot in any franchised league across sports or esports, and one of the most famous cities in the world. It\u2019s a spot that comes with a lot of pressure to perform and represent in the best way possible \u2014 an attribute that can hardly be used to describe either Paris franchise. So\u2026 regarding those rumors \u2665\ufe0f\u2660\ufe0f\u2666\ufe0f\u2663\ufe0f\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/8hRJzLaBlr \u2014 Vegas Legion (@LasVegasLegion) June 1, 2022 At the time of writing, with most of the season out of the way, Paris Legion sit dead last in the CDL standings, having won just two series\u2019 all year. They entered the season with a ragtag roster of rejected talent, much like they did in both 2020 and 2021, and, to nobody\u2019s surprise, the results have been the exact same. The franchise itself disappears on social media while the others do what they can to engage their fanbase and grow their audience. It seems to only be during the current 2022 season that they remembered their Twitter password, having posted to their fans just a handful of times between the culmination of Champs in August and mid-October 2021. All the while, other teams made sure they were engaging their fans, posting memes, clips, or questions to keep conversations going. It may seem a trivial complaint, but the franchise\u2019s reluctance to do more than the bare minimum for their fans, the wider CDL community, and in particular their players, is something that has been discussed (and mocked) widely within the scene. To make matters worse, we know for a fact that DM Esports wasn\u2019t the first organization to enquire or ask about the Las Vegas spot, with at least one team owner publicly admitting that they asked for it and were point-blank denied. It could almost be forgiven if that team owner wasn\u2019t OpTic Gaming\u2019s Hector \u2018H3CZ\u2019 Rodriguez, who built one of the largest brands not just in CoD but in esports as a whole. In 2021, H3CZ confirmed that he had initially asked for the Las Vegas CDL spot, but that they were not opening that slot for anybody, hinting that the league had big plans for Vegas in particular. This comes just a few months after H3CZ confirmed he wasn\u2019t allowed to take the Las Vegas CDL spot pic.twitter.com\/EwqHwF9Ll7 \u2014 Dexerto Esports (@DexertoEsports) June 1, 2022 Was this their top-secret plan? To hand the keys to Vegas over to the Legion three years into their disappointing tenure as a franchise? The \u2018Sin City\u2019 alias has rarely been more apt. To make matters more bizarre, there appears to have been a real possibility that DM Esports would be pulling Legion out of the CDL entirely. According to CoD esports leaker CDL Intel, and confirmed by Dexerto sources, popular French streamer Corentin \u2018Gotaga\u2019 Houssein had planned to buy Paris Legion alongside a group led by a French television broadcasting channel. This had been in the works since 2021, when the Paris Legion trademark was abandoned. From what I understand there was a group attempting to purchase @ParisLegion since last year which involved French streamer and retired Call of Duty player @Gotaga, and this is what Atura is talking about. https:\/\/t.co\/5yqMAculFu \u2014 CDL Intel (@intelCDL) June 14, 2022 Their motives for wanting to sell up aren\u2019t clear \u2014 many fans have long believed that the organization simply no longer had any interest in being a part of the league, and this may well have played a part in their decision to enter negotiations in the first place. Read More: CDL 2022 standings & schedule – Alternatively, the CDL might have wanted to keep DM Esports in the league and offered the Vegas spot as leverage which, if this were to be the case, really would be a spit in the face of the other franchises that have consistently gone above and beyond to help the league grow. There are a lot of secrets around what\u2019s happened with Paris Legion to get them the Vegas CDL spot. Nobody really saw it coming, and for many fans, it feels like an odd move, especially when we know the caliber of the other team owners who will have asked for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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