Wednesday, September 19th saw the official esports reveal for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and the 2019 Call of Duty World League (CWL) season take place at the studios for Treyarch. One of the most anticipated and major announcements that was expected to come out of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 esports reveal for the 2019 CWL season was whether or not teams would be compromised of five or four players. It was soon revealed that the 2019 CWL season would feature a five player team format, and Red Reserve wasted no time in announcing their fifth player for Black Ops 4.
5v5 is a big change and so is this.
— Red Reserve (@RedReserve) September 19, 2018
Welcome @Bance. #RESERVED? pic.twitter.com/HSNPQRgTKQ
Red Reserve took to its official Twitter account soon after the official announcement of the 2019 CWL season for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 switching to a five player team format and revealed that former Splyce member Ben "Bance" Bance would be joining its roster.
Bance will be joining the likes of Joseph "Joee" Pinnington, Rhys "Rated" Price, Trei "Zer0" Morris and Matthew "Skrapz" Marshall on the Red Reserve Call of Duty roster that saw a great amount of success in the 2018 CWL season for Call of Duty: WWII with multiple top finishes throughout this past year.
Thanks for telling us hahaha!!
— skrapz (@skrapzg) September 19, 2018
However, it looks as though Red Reserve did not inform the rest of its roster that Bance would soon become their new team member as Skrapz was a tad surprised at the announcement.
With the final confirmation that teams will now need five players to fill out their rosters for competition in Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 for the 2019 CWL season and organizations likely already have been working to secure a fifth player in preparation of the major change in the esports scene for Black Ops 4, there will no doubt be plenty of other major roster announcements to be announced in the very near future in the same manner of Bance being announced as the fith member of the Red Reserve roster.
(cover photo courtesy of Red Reserve)
