In the CoD League, the official e-sports league of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, there has been a technical issue. This is causing a lot of frustration among the players who are now loudly criticizing the league.
These are the professionals in question: Seattle Surge has existed since September 2019 and is currently playing in the opening season of the Call of Duty League as a team for Seattle (Washington). Their success in the league has been rather modest, with a 3rd-4th place as their best result in recent weeks.
However, Surge features well-known professionals like Sam “Octane” Larew, who recently provided valuable tips for assault rifles in Modern Warfare. Octane has been in CoD e-sports since 2014 and is considered one of the best assault rifle players in the world.
After a loss on Saturday, July 18, against the London Royal Ravens, there was considerable frustration at Surge. From their perspective, the match should have been replayed.
Pros are angry, criticizing the league
What happened? In the match against London, Seattle played the Hardpoint game mode on the map St. Petrograd. After they won the first round and had the lead in the second, team captain Josiah “Slacked” Berry experienced connection issues.
He got disconnected from the game and could not reconnect, which led to a loss for Seattle despite having a significant lead.
However, the Call of Duty League decided that this was a player error (via dotesports). The result stands, and a match replay is not planned.
This is how players are reacting: The decision has led pro Octane and his teammates to criticize the league. Phrases such as “outrage” and “The league is so damn bad” are being thrown around.
Even team captain Slacked joined the discussion and criticized the league’s approach. He believes they are the “test dummies” on which such system errors are tested and improved. The rule for connection drops will certainly be changed after the game (via Twitter).
Pro Apathy, who has already become a world champion twice, agreed. It is
