The Call of Duty League’s second Minor tournament is approaching, but it seems not every team is prepared for it. It has been a month since OpTic Texas won a single map in competitive play, scoring 1 – 3 in a loss against the Carolina Royal Ravens at Major I in Madrid.
This poor losing streak, which now sits at zero maps won to nine lost, comes after Pred rejoined the roster, which many fans are now starting to judge as an erroneous action. Up next, OpTic Texas will face the Vegas Falcons at Major II, and that has the Green Wall concerned.
Will the Vegas Falcons’ first win come over OpTic Texas, the reigning Call of Duty League Championship winner?
The Mighty Have Fallen
OpTic Texas went into Major I as the favourite to win, but the team got passed from pillar to post, being pushed into the lower bracket by the Heretics and then being ejected entirely by the Carolina Royal Ravens. It was Atlanta FaZe that ultimately lifted the trophy in Madrid.
Nobody could have predicted what would happen thereafter.
OpTic Texas has failed to win a map in three fixtures, a fact that is having a visible impact on the squad. Following a loss against Atlanta FaZe on February 15, OpTic’s Dashy seized his camera and tried snapping it. In terms of map records, OpTic Texas isn’t alone at the bottom of the table.
The Vegas Falcons are yet to win a single match, and so far this stage, the team has secured a map record of 2 – 12. Similarly, LAG M8 has produced a map record of just 3 – 9 with zero game wins.
In a dire spot, the Vegas Falcons have found themselves the laughingstock of the Call of Duty League. They’ve never won more than a single map in any series, and they haven’t come close to producing a single CDL point in the pro standings.
This past week of competitive play was a boon for some teams, though. The LA Thieves produced a 3 – 0 record, beating Carolina, Vegas, and Ultra without too many issues. In stark contrast to OpTic Texas, LAT secured that win record while dropping just one map.
Surge has also won every fixture so far in the run-up to the Major II tournament in Texas. It was just a couple of weeks back that Surge announced the signing of Neptune, an appropriately-named player who stepped up to replace Hicksy. He has proven to be a star player already, with the team walking all over Cloud9, LAG M8, and even Atlanta FaZe, the Minor I and Major I champions.
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