OpTic Gaming spark controversy after mocking “rigged” Call of Duty League

Modern Warfare and the Call of Duty League’s inaugural season have both been criticized by players and fans alike, but OpTic Gaming Los Angeles may be the first organization to publicly join in on the fun.

The $4.6 million Call of Duty League Playoffs are finally here but the talk of the town took a totally different tone before the first matches were even played.

Ahead of their opening-round elimination match on the first day of the CDL Playoffs, OpTic Gaming set Twitter ablaze with a video mocking the CDL and Modern Warfare for conspiring to rig the league through issues like ping and sporadic spawns.

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OpTic Gaming’s now-deleted Tweet.

In the video, OGLA refers to the CDL as an “organization that seeks to break the dreams of all those in its path,” before elaborating that whether through the “issues with ping” or “spawns on the map,” the league will “decide which team should be in the lead.”

Ultimately, it feels like the Green Wall just wanted to know “what the f**k is going on?” Unsurprisingly, like the fallout from their last controversial Tweet about the Chicago Huntsmen, the team has now deleted the tweet and backtracked heavily. 

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The video, which they describe as “the last video in our satirical series,” was subject to unrelenting memes and controversy from fans, players, and other teams. In an effort to further clarify their intentions, they have given in and let everyone know that “it was meant to be a joke.”

As for community response, it has been…mixed, to say the least. While many continue to unleash frustration stemming from the original Immortals-OGLA buyout and compare this content to H3CZ’s OpTic standards, various professionals in the scene have simply chimed in to joke about a possible incoming fine.

The Seattle Surge’s Sam ‘Octane’ Larew, a player very familiar with lambasting the CDL, memed about a fine while caster, Chris ‘Puckett’ Puckett, joked that the team would both lose their first-round match and get fined, making them the only side to lose money this postseason.

The Mutineers couldn’t resist poking fun at their LA counterparts either; as one of the league’s best-run social media accounts, it seemed only a matter of time until the Floridians also chimed in with a meme of their own.

Now that it’s deleted, a fine is likely unlikely, but the roasts still ran amok, and even under OpTic’s tweets explaining the joke and backtracking on their original post, many members of the community, including former member ‘Aaron Create,’ continue to express their frustrations about the org’s decision to post the video.

The Green Wall will hope that their performance at the CDL Playoffs will be a lot better than their meme game; OpTic kick off their postseason campaign facing elimination right away versus crosstown rivals LA Guerrillas in the first round.

You can watch that and all of the Champs matches live via our Call of Duty League Playoffs & Championship Weekend hub, which also includes live scores, brackets, and more.