FormaL Joins Luminosity Gaming Call of Duty Roster

Today, Luminosity Gaming announced the addition of former OpTic Gaming player Matthew "FormaL" Piper to its Call of Duty team. The announcement confirms recent rumors and speculation that OpTic Gaming would be replacing Formal with former Luminosity Gaming player Sam "Octane" Larew. FormaL joins Jonathan "John" Perez, Jordan "Jkap" Kaplan and Josiah "Slacked" Berry on the newly formed Luminsoity Gaming Call of Duty team. 

“When I first heard about the potential to have Formal on the team, I thought I was being pranked.  Optic had been together for several years and enjoyed an unimaginable amount of success as a four.  As a fan of the game myself, it came as a surprise.  I have vivid memories of our matches against Optic where I thought we were on a sure path to victory and Formal would change gears and take over the game," said Luminosity Gaming founder Steve Maida. "The man is an absolute beast and I believe he will flourish playing alongside John, Jkap and Slacked.  I have no doubt his transition will be seamless and it won’t be long before he’s lifting trophies as a member of Luminosity Gaming."

With the announcement of ForMaL's addition to Luminosity confirming Octane's departure from the team to his destination that has been leaked as OpTic Gaming, some community members were upset over the fact that Luminsoity had made the announcement before the highly anticipated next episode of OpTic's documentary series Vision, as the upcoming episode is expected to reveal the new OpTic Gaming Call of Duty roster. However, the organization responded to these concerns stating that they had reached an agreement with OpTic to make the announcement of FormaL joining the team before the release of Vision. 

OpTiC management and ours agreed we would post shortly before them. Visions content will still be anticipated and enjoyable to watch as they do a great job with it. Think positive friend <3

— Luminosity Gaming (@Luminosity) May 6, 2018

With the addition of one of the top AR players in professional Call of Duty, Luminosity will be looking for FormaL to help in the team's quest to capturing multiple championships throughout the rest of the Call of Duty: WWII season. 

(cover photo courtesy of MLG)