OpTic Gaming and Scump Eliminated From CoD Champs 2018
By Nicholas Barth ·
In a result that no one was expecting, Evil Geniuses have eliminated OpTic Gaming from CoD Champs 2018 after a 3-0 victory in the pools stage of the CWL Championship.
The 2018 Call of Duty World League Championship or CoD Champs 2018 was touted to be one of the most competitive professional Call of Duty events that the scene has ever seen, and the final result between the pools stage matchup between OpTic Gaming and Evil Geniuses proved this notion clearly.
With a spot in the bracket play for CoD Champs 2018 on the line, Evil Geniuses need to secure a 3-0 victory over OpTic Gaming in order to guarantee themselves a spot at the Nationwide Arena, while the Greenwall only needed to secure one map victory in order to advance further into CoD Champs 2018.
However, the Evil Geniuses roster consisting of OpTic Gaming nemesis Patrick "Aches" Price, Bryan "Apathy" Zhelyazkov, Adam "Assault" Garcia and Justin "Silly" Fargo-Palmer were able to collect three straight map wins against the OpTic Gaming roster of Seth "Scump" Abner, Ian "Crimsix" Porter, Anthony "Methodz" Zinni and Sam "Octane" Larew to put the CoD Champs 2018 hopes of the team at an all time low.
.@OpTicGaming OUT IN POOLS!!!
— Call of Duty esports (@CODWorldLeague) August 16, 2018
Swept by @EvilGeniuses, OpTic will finish third in pool H and have been eliminated from the 2018 Champs.#CWLPS4 | #CWLChamps pic.twitter.com/s8Nm6iM9FP
After the extremely surprising and disappointing 0-3 defeat, Optic Gaming then needed Supremacy to take out Elevate in their pools stage match in order to keep their hopes alive. Unfortunately for the Greenwall, Elevate would secure a win against Supremacy and officially end the CoD Champs 2018 run for OpTic Gaming.
The defeat at the hands of Aches and Evil Geniuses ends what has been a very rocky CWL season for the OpTic Gaming in Call of Duty: WWII, as the organization dismantled one of the most dominant professional Call of Duty rosters in history, failed to win a single LAN event for Call of Duty: WWII and now has failed to defend their 2017 CoD Champs title with an early exit from CoD Champs 2018 that no one was expecting to see.
(cover photo courtesy of Call of Duty esports)