OpTic Podcast - CDL Standings are CRAZY, Major 2 Reveal & FormaL’s Streaming Era | The OpTic Podcast Ep. 267

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

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No, for sure. And it's weird, too, because the crimson's are the scariest ones, because those are the ones that are usually fucking hacking. And it's like, holy fuck, dude. Yeah, they're, like, top above, like, the pros I'm planning guns. And there's so many of them? Yeah, there's so many of them. There's so many of them. So many just solo-kewed, like, little crimson guys,

just fucking weird characters in their name. Just hacked up in their unbeated. Just rage hacking. If you see the weird characters, it's shocked. Bro, it's shocked. I had some guy the other day. You see the hieroglyphic shit. I was like, yeah, that kid's cheating.

And I went on, he was, like, rage hacking. He came much after and said, you can ban me. I'll keep coming back again and again. I was like, I don't give a fuck up. I rank that much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, what the fuck? Like, he thinks that you care about it so much.

He was like, ban me fat fuck. I'll be back in 10 days. I was like, what the hell? That's good shit. That's a different level of psychotic. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the optic podcast, episode 267. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. We'll tell you guys more about that later in the episode.

Also, do not forget to check out all of the merch available. shop.opticaming.com. And we have some new pieces on the way very soon. Let me introduce the cast that needs no introduction. To my left. The biggest pussy at the desk. This is Scum. Hello.

The largest. To my right. Formal. And it is right. Mercilese. That's Mr. Merck to you. That's Mr. Mace. Mr. Ramsey.

That's Mr. Ramsey. And then I'm Tony. Of course, my dad's cooler than me. He went on the watch party. And everyone's been telling me how much cooler my dad. dad is than me. Yeah, how's it been? No, it's been a good time. We met up with Mitch yesterday for a beer before he

had a dinner, and then we're going to go watch the hockey game tonight. Hell yeah. Yeah. I feel like Dallas is not like the it's not the best place to host someone unless there's like games going on. Like if you can go to a Cowboys game, a Star's game, Mavs game, I feel like that's like one of the main Dallas things. Yeah. Like, what are you going to do? Go see where JFK got his head blown off?

What the fuck? No, that's a thing that people love to come check out. I know. It's just weirdly worded. Yeah, we were like driving We were like driving past that I was in the car with like Hector and shit for content He's like, yo, this is where JFK got shot And then I like looked up and I was like

Whoa I didn't even know that was in Dallas Yeah, but you know You know when you like see a dock and you see like The landscape of like where it happened It was like I got placed into it literally I was there but it was like whoa I feel like I've been here before

Because I've like watched shit back I think we're just a little young for like That to be Something that we're like I I don't know if excited is the word, but like something that we want to go see. But like my parent's age, this is something that's like... That was a big event.

You know what I'm saying? This is way different for them. The only thing I know about this is from watching that show 1122-63 with Franco. Oh, is that good? I watched that too. I actually, I'm on the finale and I haven't watched it in a weekend. I need to finish it. I love Frankos, both of them.

Both Franco's cool. The only reason I watched it. But yeah, it is kind of crazy. This is right near us. It's crazy this happened. That's insane. Dude, the world's fucking crazy. I like being inside.

I like being at my house on the couch with the fam all there, chilling, got wow up, midnight, death night, unholy, slamming. That's all you need in this world. Some good food, a nice flat screen TV, and a nice gaming setup. And a nice pair of hours. That's all you need. Optic Texas are now 7-0. Good job, Mace. Yeah, good shit, kid.

Good work. You've been doing a good job out there. there, man, seriously. Dude, you've been doing a fucking great job out there. Whatever you're doing, you keep that shit up. Because I'm liking what I'm seeing. Aren't we eight in? Is it eight and else?

Riley choked? Are you just fucking vape-diffing everybody? Is that what's going on, dude? Yeah, no. Hey, how there's a cam, though. I always got to, like, go to the side. Yeah, yo, Mac Meltz didn't give a shit. Yeah, he just rips them.

Mac Meltz, you'd be like, yo, I got time in between search rounds. You try to get a sneaky puff in, and they weren't sneaky. You know, I thought the CDO, like, didn't they? I thought the CDO was not like that. Yeah, they probably don't like that. They defed them. They cracked down on that hard. Claire would literally come up.

Guys, what are we? Toddlers? Please stop vaping on stage. I think they should lean into it. I think they should like zoom in. Like, oh my God. Like, look at this cloud. Neptune is through with Zen in.

Like this cloud. I think the casters should lean into it. Holy fuck, it's a Zendif from Neptune right now. I love it. He's got a double decker in. Pillow Polly. This is a, uh, I don't know, I think the CDL is weird right now because outside of you guys, I actually, I couldn't even think.

the second best team because I feel like it changes by the day. Miami looks good. Falcons look good. The teams that I kind of had there, G2 looks good. The teams that I kind of had second right now were like thieves in Toronto and then they're coming off losses. The league is just weird right now. It actually feels like besides you guys on any given day anybody can win.

Yeah, you guys are Godlike, besides Gine. It's like kind of disturbing. You guys are fucking Godlike. I mean, it's not weird. I mean, it's not weird, but it's like watching you guys play the game at like this point in the game, it looks a lot different than everyone else's team. That's weird. Like, it's like so much different. You guys are playing

at like 2x speed. Kyler is God. Yeah, no. We're just fine now. That guy's a glitch. Probably the best stage I've ever watched Kyler play. Even with his like S&D, I don't even know what to call that Woos, but I mean it's not even really woes. It's kind of just like he's carrying the bomb. He's probably, you know, a little shackled

but he's figuring it out in like some of the matches but everything else he looks insane. Bro, he's good. He's got he's got one three one three four A's got two five and Bruce he hits some crazy snipes that's dude your search I mean I'm not gonna see here in glaze you too much but your search stats

are like actually crazy yeah no might it's a 15 yard battle that's my favorite game mode for sure but since you've like joined the league your search stats are insane because like having a 1.3 1.4 in search for a split is like yo I just fried in search you're doing it

like kind of consistently the fuck's that pick I would love to see I would love to see a new search go up against What map you think? Dude, I just want to see a new search map. We got to get Colossus out of it. Yeah.

I don't know. Why do you keep playing that? We should get Soke in? I feel like if you're playing that map, you don't know. They don't know. Well, you think it's like an R&G map, but just one of those like, like, yo, we want to play this because anybody can win it. Yeah. I feel like if you're picking it, like, you're just tweaking.

Like, you got to get lucky. Yeah. The teams that play, I don't know. I actually, I'm not sure if you agree or you guys, too. I think exposure search is one of my favorite search maps because I feel like you can do different things on the map. Like, you can. Yeah, I suppose good. It's like a, you can go to both bomb sites, you can work mid, you can work low dirt.

Like, I feel like the whole map is viable, whereas there's some search maps. I just like, you got to be able to make plays, and there's literally no plays to be made on Colossus. Yeah, default fucking, oh, they're hitting statue again. Just pray your sniper gets a pick to open up like P2, get a free plant down and the hold statue. It is kind of like watching paint your eye, but I enjoy watching you guys play, no matter what map you're playing right now. Because, I mean, like Formal was saying, it just, I don't know. I'm telling you. There's some,

no, that's not a flag because I'm, I'm guessing up the team collectively. You're guessing him individually. That's more flag

on the play than the team. I had to get you back though. You've been on it, so I had to get you back and I just had to throw that shit out. No, it truly does look, look different.

I can't wait for the major though because I'm just so, I mean, right now the biggest storyline is like Faze and Gentlemates because they're both in, like, the region of not making the major,

like not even flying to Birmingham. And if gentlemenmates or Faze don't go to. Does it make it? Dude, it's possible. If gentlemenates don't go, I actually think that's fucked up. To, like, win the major and then not qualify for the next would be like one of the most. And look at this. Cloud 9's not going.

I'm confident in that. They're six and 20. Then you have, was that, one, two, three, four, five teams that are technically trying to just make the playing. And then you guys play Gentlemates Friday, right? So that's a really hard matchup for gentlemenmates. Well, they're in hell right now. Such weird. They lose to Cina.

and C9 look like the worst team ever after that, with all due respect. I don't really mean to be an asshole, but I don't really... I feel bad for them because they're just sort of fighting an uphill battle right now, but they're struggling outside of that gentlemanmates match, but gentlemen mates just look like a completely different team.

It's like, they can't rely on Neptune anymore to like be that walking three piece because I think the game has just changed where I don't think it's easy to like single-handedly take over like it was last major. Like the pace is too high, people have figured out the game, figured out the game too much.

Dale's been struggling. Dill's been struggling to get kills. Yeah, Dill's been struggling a little bit. I've been saying this on the watch party. We're at the point in this league where it doesn't matter if you're making the right play. If you're not getting the kills that come with it on a somewhat consistent basis, you're kind of costing. Like, it doesn't matter if you're making every single map movement the right way. If you're dropping 0.7s somewhat consistently, you're kind of costing.

No bluenot. But Dill kind of, this kind of happens to Dill, and then he ramps up towards the end of the year, I feel like. You know what I'm saying? Like, this is kind of like a... We've seen him go through like the early to midseason, like, state. droughts and then yeah like you said he comes he comes back strong around the end of the year yeah these guys are just in hell but like dude the thing is it's dude people are calling for roster changes but maybe are they gonna get what the fuck there's no upgrades what do you do with this team

bro they're all like all veterans at this point i would say for the most part like i do who the fuck would you even get bro no matter what happens to this team the rest of the stage if they don't go to go to the land i still don't even think they make a roster change because they still have that thought in their head of like, we just won the land. Like, until they do bad on land, I don't think it's even in their heads to make a change yet.

No. Because they're still leaning back on like the, this is online, it's just so fugues. Like, we just got to go back to land, bro. Like, we're just different on, you know what I mean?

Yeah. So like, I would rather them make the fucking plan and then lose the plan. And then you'd see like, you know, obviously they're having glaring issues in all game modes.

They look fucking ridiculously bad compared to how they looked before, but it's just so hard. I don't think they make a change yet. Was it you the chat? It was you that chatted out Byron, right? Yeah. That boy, Byron, you said get him back in the league.

But there's, again, it's just, who do you? Uh? Byron, he probably got a bonnery. He was like, me. Yeah, I see a clip after him in screams. He popped like a two piece. He was like, I'm so fucking doped up. How this guy?

Nah, Byron goes hard, bro. He got to find that clip, bro. No, he's been playing really well, too. Yeah, everyone around him is gone, right? Like, he's the last of the four. Yeah. of the original team right yeah who was it it was oh yeah tege cap spark yeah

he's got rid of boss yeah tege have been playing well i can finally say that without being like a biased friend tege has been ever since the capsule to pick up tege is kind of looking a little different yeah Vancouver looks solid gwin just had a legacy probably his best series all year yeah that was yeah i'll get props to win that was the best year to say to play no when gwin's when gwin's getting kills like that that's when he's like an actual threat but like that's kills like that vancouver's actually like they could upset some team even lunars too like he was fucking frying too

they both had like 1.3 pluses like I don't know they were fine but I'll tell you what it's so hard to not be reactionary with these online results because it's like the only thing we get to watch like it is brother these are major one champions you guys were on like a what three game losing streak before the major then you got to the major and it just kind of was kind of how we expected it to go so like it is a different different ball game when you get to that stage so I think it would be fucking criminal if these guys don't go to the major and at least get to the playing same with phase I just feel like it would definitely be a

big story, but I do want to see those guys go play on land. You'll replay that. Fucking Merk. Give me too much dope. Then he tells this kid with the pistol league. Yeah, he's so turts.

That's good. Yeah, the league's been a lot of fun to watch. like I'm glad that at least it's not super top heavy like some of the past years like at least you guys are obviously pretty much guaranteed win right now knock on wood but everybody else like you don't really know how these matches

are going to go like a lot of these series turn into coin flips on who's going to win so it's been fun to watch so at least the online matches aren't shit it's impossible to call it's like dude it's like it's the crazy it's been I feel like when terms of like toss up

it's getting like the best time to watch too because the match is actually maddie. Yeah, no, these next two weeks are going to be huge for, like, everybody but you guys. This is the weird part about it where it's like, I kind of, I wish, I'm under the belief that every team should go to the major. But then, like, you have a format like this where now it's actually getting interesting and a top team or two might not go. And it's like, oh, fuck. It actually is. I mean, let me know how y'all think about it.

But the way that I see it, it's like, yeah, teams not going to the major obviously sucks. Like, you want to see everyone there. but you're also playing 11 matches. Like, you got 11 shots. You gotta get shit on to not make it a few. You gotta get bottom two. Oh, the CDL's gonna see this and go, we got them. I mean, it's like, yeah.

We finally got them. No, no, no, no, no. I'd love to see a format change, and I think I speak for pretty much everybody on that. But it's 11 matches, bro. Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's time for a 16-team league because challengers is being ran by pros.

All the pros that are getting dropped this year and like former staple pros are just running challengers. All of them. It's Bush, omit's like Cammy, Asam, Brack, and Real.

Say it again? I feel like that kind of counters your point. I feel like it should get an expansion if like the old pros are getting shit on. What you think, you think if there was a bunch of new players? Yeah, then maybe,

I don't know. I see what you're saying. Yeah, no. I just think that a team like Bush could compete with somebody's bottom team. 100%. And same with the Omit Rock. Like, I just think it would be a little more competitive than people think.

And I think that would light a fire under some of the rest of the teams to try and field like more competitive rosters if like there's more teams. There's more. I don't know. We just came up with the 16 team four teams per pool. Fifth comes in through open bracket and I just can't, I can't sleep at night until the CDL tries that format. You lose sleep? No, I don't lose sleep.

But I do think about it sometimes where it's like the fact we haven't even given the best format we've ever had a shot at the CDL level is like, damn, what are we doing? Brother, if they brought that back, oh my God. It would just be like, everyone would be so fucking excited. I just, I don't understand why they don't, but I'm not going to sit here and beat a dead horse. We've been talking about this since the CDL started. It's like, let's talk to you. Your stream's been killing it.

Congrats, man. It's a legendary comeback. Yeah, you left us out. You've been enjoying it? I'm sure you've been enjoying it. and just see by watching you really enjoying it. Yeah, I mean, I've been having a lot of fun on stream. I mean, yeah, there are a couple of assassins that Seth sends every now and then.

Say some crazy shit. That text you sent me. It's so funny. Did you send him over? I was like, yep. Yeah, but I mean, it's really fun. I mean, watching the matches, like, online, there are times when it gets, like, a little boring, but then my stream pulls me back and, like, we just make something else fun out of it.

Like, you know? See, that's a thing, like, now that you've been watch partying, like, dude, people tell us all the time, they're like, lock in. It's like, dog. Some of these matches, it is literally impossible to lock in. Especially when you watch every single match, it's like, bro. Yeah, there was, like, I think on Saturday when we had, like, the bangers to start the day. And then we ended with, like, C-9 Boston.

No offense to these teams, but it was like, I was like, I was like, God damn it. Yeah, they was pissed. I was like, no. Like, shit like that. Like, it's whatever. They won map three and said he was like, are you fucking serious? Then did they lose map four? It's just different when you have no belief that the team can actually come back and win the series.

If I thought Cloud 9 could actually go to game 5 and win it, I'd be like, fuck yeah. But I just knew my time was being wasted. What is this, Riley? But no, I would... I'm going to hold you in there. I'm going to hold you in there. I got translated Heritage Commons. I took Spanish AP in high school.

Oh, did you? Yeah, not IP, but... Why'd you lie? Wait, do you actually understand what... I mean, I understand some words. Oh, okay. Yeah, some words. It's not like I'm completely capping.

There are some words. I was going to say, Hector. Yeah, it's a fish. I say more to it a lot. Hector gets so doped up when he can understand it and we can't. He's just sitting there smiling. He's like, yeah, medals, yeah. Yeah, I just did this one time on stream,

and then every time they get and listen, and my stream kind of demands it, so I'd have to just transit. Bali. And I do fuck all these players. It's not like on some racist shit. Like, I do fuck with all these guys and, like, been playing with Trakes a lot,

rancor a lot. Dude, I like watching Miami a lot. They're like just a fun team that I think is just always competitive right now. Yeah. Like, I think Trakes has been, he's gotten better and better. is probably like same with last year he's just so much more consistent than he used to be and then rent corn super are are super consistent super is insane with the sniper too i didn't really think

he had that level of bag with it and he actually he does so he's he's fun to watch with the sniper like yeah i was talking to brand i mean i've talked to brand like every night like dude the fucking the we were kind of like comparing him to like a valorant like agent right so he's like he's like he's like um he doesn't snipe like a jet right brayning kind of snipes like a jet yeah or like a chamber Like him and Sib? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. Scrap.

But, like, Super's kind of like Yoru sniping. Like, he'll, like, go somewhere, like, he'll take his little, like, off angle shot, and then he'll just, like, go across the map. Like, and you won't see him again

the same spot. Yeah, you won't even see him in the same spot. So then, like, and then, like, he's not even killing the other sniper. He's killing your teammates.

Yeah. Because he's, like, taking, like, an AR angled, only holding, like, the spot that, like, a BZ he's about to run through. you know what I'm saying?

I like the way he snobled. Yeah, so like at first, Brandon... I think he's the best snipe for the game right now. The most effective. Like, obviously, it's not the flashiest, but he's the most effective, I think. For sure. So, like, I had to convince Brandon, like, yo, you need to start robbing some of the shit. This guy's getting a snip every round.

Yeah. And he was like... Yeah, and then I've seen you guys fly on the den recently. And I see Brandon, like, sitting top of the box, like, on watching the, like, the... A he's a... Yeah, the he's not, Boney's back at all. Like, he's trying to implement it. Oh, this was gross.

This was gross. Oh. And the 1B2 versus Simp and whatever? Yeah, that was gross too. Dude, that has to be infuriating. Like when a good sniper, like, they didn't stand a chance.

Like, there was nothing that they could have done to kill Brandon there. No. It was just a diff. Yeah, no, literally a dip. Yeah. What sucks about this, and I think they might have showed like a replay,

I didn't catch it, but Bruce told me when I talked to him about this that this wasn't even the best clip. He said there was, dude, look at me. Look at a fucking kid throwing a tans from their friendlies. The friendlies, yeah. Yeah, I used to love friendlies. Yeah, there's Sundays went hard.

In the chicken tender basket. But Bruce said that Super was like, I guess, sorry, not Super. It was a booza. He was outer roof, like, on the box heady, preeming P2, and he just, like, slid out left and just quick-stoped his head off. Oh, they scam this, though. Dude, I don't know what they... It was crazy because you guys almost had deja vu the next day.

But, like, Brandon missed the shot, but you got a kill on a 2B4, like, exact same situation. And I was talking to Brandon. Being a sniper's, like, all flow, and he was like, I knew I was going to get any snipes this map. Like, not this one, but the one you guys play on Sunday until he called game. Oh, yeah.

Because apparently he just, like, he gets in this weird bag where he just gets shit on for a whole series, but he just loves calling game. What a pleasure. He's like, you got my train. Yeah, but, bro, like, watch this. Who is this that scams? He just tries running at P2.

Dude, every team that tries to do this, they always die, bro. Yeah, Jaws, Bruce gets a snipe. Droz tries pushing up alone, and Mace and kills him for free, and their number is just dwindle. Yeah, every team that tries to, like, push this out after they get of blood, always loses the trades every single time. What do you think about this game, Matt? What?

You've been grinding ranks. What do you think about this game? Like, do you have, like, the cod bug? No. No? It's just something fun to play after the stream. Like, and I've been, like, playing, I try to play with different pros. Somehow I've gotten latched on the cramp for a bit, and that guy's fucking franticed.

But he's definitely entertaining. And he's actually a lot funnier than I thought. He's like a new age, like funny cod kid. Yeah. Like, he's really fucking funny. And he's just brain dead. Yeah. Yeah, he's funny.

Yeah, he's funny. But yeah, I try to get, like, someone on. Like I said, I've been playing with a lot of the heritage players, like, just because, like, you know, a lot of people don't see them on stream and shit. And, like, they're obviously all disgusting. So grinding a ring session with them is very easy. And then people get to know them, you know.

Hell yeah. But, like, just, but watching, it's just really fun. I don't know. It's because I'm, like, the first year, I'm, like, actually watching or not, but this game looks really fucking fun. Yeah, you definitely probably have, like, a new... I don't know how to describe it.

Like, I still enjoy watching. Fresh legs. Yeah, you got fresh leg. That's exactly what I'm saying. Yeah. They're just nothing worse than a terrible match. Yeah. Like after watching a godlike match too,

like when you get to watch like us or like a banger series and then it goes into like one of those C9 games, I don't mean any disrespect. It's just like fuck. Dude, like imagine the MW3 year where it was literally only four teams and whoever they played, they would just rail. Really? I mean, yeah, in MW3 it was like phase, thieves, New York and us.

and no matter who we played, if it wasn't one of those four, they'd just rail them. So every single match, you were like, okay, well, we know who's going to win. But it was godlike when the top four matched up. Yeah. Like, I feel like the top four matching up in MW3 compared to right now, it's just like completely different. Like, I feel like right now we're seeing so many 3-0s and, like, just, I don't know, it's weird how many 3-0 we're seeing this year.

Yeah, dude, we almost had a full 3-0 day on Saturday. Yeah. It was 1-3-1. It was the last match. Yeah. in Boston fucking trolled What fuck is this shit? Yeah, what is this?

I hate things like this. Is this MW3? Holy shit, Riley. Look how quick he is, dude. He's so efficient. So overwhelming. Yeah, look, oh, it was ultra, not thieves. That's a big gap between four and five. But yeah, bro.

Anytime you'd watch the top four. Anytime you'd watch the top four against anybody else, it was like, okay. That is pretty nuts. I didn't realize it was this big of a disparity. Yeah. So like... That's weird. Imagine how trolly we got.

It looks like so long. Like, I don't know. Dude, MW3. So predetermined almost. Look at Boston. Whoa there, bud. Is it the team that Priesta was on after he won champs? Yeah.

That is so eight. Yes, dude. That's so tough. Going from champs to six wins. Dude, that's not great. Yeah, no, that's tough. That actually does really suck. That's not great.

What is this? Dude, the S&D timings this year have been absurd. Oh, dude, this was insane. Oh, this was nuts. I was trying to get in some spot. Look at this. They're touching ass. Yeah, that's literally, that's not to butt.

It's just a 13 and 4, like... That's such a nice kill to get, though. It's like a plot armor. Yeah, there's everything's wrong your way. Like, even this? Like, what? You get a kill like this, especially in a 5-4, you're like, oh, nice. I'll take that, absolutely. You go back, watch the Vod, you're like, what the fuck?

That's how I'm getting my kill? That's crazy. That's crazy. Dude, Matt's hilarious. Oh, yeah, that's good stuff. Bro, he literally was watching thieves. They get one beat... Never mind.

I'm not going to spoil it. Dude, this guy's great. This guy is great. The mustache makes it better too, no beard. He does look like a fucking freak. Did he actually turn it off? Yeah, turned it right off. That's so good. No, he's great. I mean, to be fair, they got fucking slammed in that game five. Rencore, they just kept lining up for him. It was one V2 after one V2. I know Obesian Hydra were losing full because they could not escape Super Sniper, so like

they couldn't try, they couldn't throw a shoulder, they couldn't make a play. Playing a good sniper on this game's hard. I always hate to play in the snipers. Dude, every game... A couple of Dynamoses. Yeah, exactly.

Every game where there's a good sniper and like the other team has a good sniper, you're just so, you're just so much more apprehensive to do anything on the map. You're like, okay, if I go try to shoulder this, I might just get peeled. Oh, wait. Oh, this is a three-day tournament, right? Oh, yeah, we have early starts.

It's on Friday, I think. Wait, it's a three-day? Yeah, and they're in the UK, so we're going to probably have to be on at like 9 a.m. start for us. Wait, it starts Friday? Yeah. Yeah. What time is it start every day? Oh, really?

Honestly, I don't really mind that, though, because at least, like, teams will get to play more. I've seen some, or my bad for cutting you off. No, you're telling. I've seen something on Twitter that was like the challengers. something about the Challenger starts like 2 a.m. I think it might be the finals like 2 a.m. R. Time or something. Oh, beyond then. Yeah, I mean, it's just overseas events are always tough schedule-wise.

Oh, 4 a.m.? Wait, what does that say? I'll tell you one thing. I'll be fast asleep. I will be in bed at 4 a.m. But the huntsmen are in, you got to watch it. And it's a 24-hour, 24-hour sub-thon. I don't know what the fuck that's going to be. The huntsman make it?

I'll be up. But if they don't make it to finals, I'll be in bed. 100% 4 a.m. Challenger's gonna I'll be up with the Huntsmanor Hayd. When do watch party start? 9 a.m. start for us Friday. 9 a.m. That's not bad. And then 8 a.m. Saturday.

I mean, dude, we woke up at like what, 5.30 for Apex champs? It's kind of I because, like, Hector will bring, like, breakfast burritos and, like, we get to, like, wake up and drink coffee together. It's like a... And it's weird because, like, we're done, and it's, like, 4 p.m. Well, this is your first tournament in Europe, huh? Yeah.

Oh, dude. Oh, really? Dude, you're in for a treat. Those fans are different. They have some of the best fans that you'll ever experience. They're just so loud. They're drunk at 10 a.m. They have unique chance. Are y'all going early? Like a couple days earlier? I'm not sure to be honest Because that jet lag like Oh man I know people love to say like it's not It's not that big of a deal

Bro trying to play cod When you have bad jet lag And you couldn't sleep the night before It's not great You just gotta be on top of it Like there's an app I think That can like It walks you through the exact steps you should take

So you don't really feel jet lag It'll be like Sleep on the plane from this hour to this hour Drink coffee It gives you think I'm a robot I'm gonna shut down I'm gonna sleep I can sleep

That app whenever So like, you can what? I can literally go to sleep whenever. Really? Not this shit. So I'm blessed. You can just flip the switch or out? Not this shit, really?

See, I struggle sleeping on planes. Like, any time we'd go overseas, like, I just, I have so much anxiety. I'm already, like, I'm just speaking. Bro, on the Sadi flight, I think I was literally asleep, like, almost the whole time. Well, you were in the lay flat there? That's different. Wait, what? Were you in a lay flat?

No, I don't know. Oh, no, my mind. I'm just on the chairs with the... You just assumed because that's your life? I thought the company was... They better be putting you in the life, man. Thought the company was shell now. I just put the tray table down.

Dude, that's what I do, but dude, I wake up and my neck feels broken. Yeah, my back. Is that Fargo, dude? Is that Justin's silly Fargo up there? Holy shit. No matter how I sleep on a plane, my neck just feels literally broken whenever I wake up. It doesn't matter if I lean back, if I'm on the tray table. It's always bad.

Never good. Fuck off, LG. What do we think of LG? You ever try one of those pillows? The neck pillows? Are they good? They look. Like your neck won't hurt

But yeah You're gonna have a good time over in London Well Birmingham but Just make sure you Just don't walk the streets at night Are you kidding me? No one's stepping to him They'll step to him

No they won't Oh they'll step There's gonna be cod fans Maybe if I got my optic chain on No they're gonna see cod fans Oh do not wear the optic chain There's gonna be codfair Don't even take the optic chain

That sure gets smashed Yeah Don't bring it to the event Trust me Don't take it. Oh, no, no. Because they're going to take it with a fucking shank. You fucking what, mate?

That's a nice chain you got there, bro. Let me see that. No. You're fucking wanker. Sorry. Oh, man. Huntsman update it's shit. It's not good.

We went 0 and 4 in the elite, which obviously I've seen better. There were three game five, so there's a different simulation where we go three and one. It is what it is. I mean, I talked to them briefly. I was like, listen, you got two choices. You can sulk in this and let it sort of snowball, or you could use this as fuel and put everything you have going into the major. Very simple.

You're coach Carter. It's, I mean, it's true. I mean, I'm not really, once again, we're not going to be a team that just instantly makes a change at the first sign of turmoil. I'm not saying we'll never make a change if things aren't going well, but the boys talk to each other, they're confident that they can bounce back from it. So instead of being part of that Challenger's bullshit chaos where you're just changing after every single loss or poor stint,

I mean, we're going to do what we can to improve. It is what it is. I mean, right now a lot of people talk about Renegade. Our goal is to, of course, make Renegade comfortable. I mean... John's been looking great. No, but he was looking phenomenal, and then he wanted to run flex.

Oh, he's role switching? And I don't think he's as... I just don't think his play style in Call of Duty with how, like, pinch-heavy he is, works with an AR a lot of the time. Now. So now it's just, he's trying to play a different role. And I basically told him, I'm like, John,

do whatever the fuck you want to feel comfortable and let everyone else fill in the pieces. Like, you're still the newest tier. These guys can fill in the map around you pretty confidently. So do you, and then we'll go from there. But yeah, I mean, listen, we're also a bit spoiled. I know I'm yapping right now, but... No, you're good.

I mean, we had Neum and Kipps. And obviously, those guys, if you go to thieves in Toronto, you are a very top level and both of them look great. Challenger player I mean, bro, they went to top four teams so it's not easy roles to fill and you know I think our boys can

figure it out. It also doesn't help that all the players that got dropped from the pro league are now running amuck in challengers. Like Real and challengers, he's literally just laughing at people. So there's just, once again, there's a lot of top level talent and challengers right now but yeah, that's the update. Our boys are working

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A lot more hype for it. This looks like a war zone, P-O-I though. I mean, yeah, it's not gonna... It's not gonna feel like blackout, but at least it's that like... Wait, that's war zone. Yeah, it's...

That's low-key war zone. Dude, you're checking my dope right now. I'm trying to be hype for this shit. I am kind of hype for it. I will play it and shit, and I'm gonna put it in the title, new blackout. But like...

You're not wrong, though, that. But you know what I'm saying? Like, I don't know. I don't want people to think, like 24-hour streams are coming back on Tuesday. You know what I mean? Like it's, this is cool and I definitely understand what they're doing.

But like, let's not call it something different than what it is. Wait, have they shown, have they released like a picture of the map? Yeah, it's worth. Could you pull up the picture, please? You're not going to be getting ripped by LNG 100 miles.

Oh my God, that's a lot of water. That's a blackout of color. I do like the color. That is a lot of water. That's a fuck load of water. That you say it has a lot of water. What the fuck?

It's got fine. When you said that, I actually saw fire. range first and I thought the whole map was blackout and then I just see one to weird shit but you got dope seeing firing range in there was a ditty island down there arsenal did arsenal did arsenal the fuck is that I mean oh old arsenal the people that played this have been gassing it up I'm not sure if that's just like new invite to play at early cheese or if like they truly mean I think I saw Huskers say like it doesn't play bad honestly I hope this is fun as fuck yeah why would love for it

to be very fun we all hope it would look back out heavy metal heroes was the most fun wait this looks a bit blackouty, doesn't it? Like, doesn't this area look a little bit blackouty compared to the rest? Yeah, I think so. A little bit with the potty trees. I think the thing the blackout had, it had like a very like cartoony tint to it almost. Very cartooned. Yeah, which is what made it kind of more juicy to like look at.

You know what I mean? And the headshot sound whenever you get a snipe with the locust or something, just that or the outlaw. Yeah. That shit was. You're glad I said that? Why is the headshot sound back? They even put the old sounds in.

Oh, that's cool. Okay, it's already a success. Like what? Oh, look. Oh, that's actually cool. Oh, that B-O-4 sound, dude. That is ASMR right there. No, I do like that that they did that.

You got to turn that up, Riley. That squelch. That squelch. I'm like you're squishing a bug. Yeah. Do you guys play with classic hit markers? I do. Yeah, I was going to say, I hear this every time I play ranked.

Oh, do you? I think I play the other one. Yeah, yeah. But that's cool. The trauma kit thing? That's block out. Yeah. when you put it in your arm.

I think it's going to be dope. I'm excited. I hope it is fun. I hope it is very fun. The problem with the problem with fuck. What's up, Brucey? Mountain buckets. What?

I think I'm demoted. I'm like one game, two games off. I was getting hard busted last thing. Is, bro, I was getting hard bossed. Is he a dirty grinder on the SCEA?

Or is it face it now? Face it. Face it. But yeah, no, I'm just excited that they're moving away from loadouts finally. No, same. same. I'm not all doom and gloom about it. I am very excited. I just like also also have

like a special thing for blackout. I feel like the problem with war zone, one of the big problems, obviously there were a lot. Cheaters, the list goes on. But it was like every single game that you'd play, it kind of felt like you had a checklist to do. Like, all right, I got to spawn in. I got to do a scab contract. I got to do a most wanted so we can get our Lodi quick. It's like you always, it felt like you were just doing chores every single game. I'm just excited for that to finally be like gone. I feel you. Now you can just land. in, you don't have to go to a contract, you loot up your shit, and you can just kill people and get better shit. And that's kind of what made blackout fun, especially with the R&G

factor of like, you, I'm a land in, am I going to get a good gun off rip? Like, yeah, it's annoying, but also I feel like that's what made it fun because BRs are supposed to feel like a story every single game. It's just like kill people, grab their shit, like war zone. There wasn't really grabbed. Yeah. You weren't looting people with your load up. Bro, you'd have lads and dads landing up at Corey just doing contracts. They'd have 50 grand in the bank and they would just buy everything that they needed. Now it's like you actually kind of need to do shit on the map to get better stuff. And even if you kill someone that's good, they had the same class of as good.

There's no gulag at all? No, there's a redeploy, like, beacon or something? There's a redeploy, like, beacon or something. And I think zombies start coming at you too. That's, fuck. Get the, get the, man. No, weren't there zombies in Blackout? No, I don't care.

Get them. There was, yeah. There was, right? Get them off the moment. No, there was something cool. I saw on the trailer, the Blackout trailer. I saw a monkey. I saw a much of your bomb.

Dang. Somebody was running around with a fucking ray gun, which is cool. Because, like, in Blackout, there was secret, like, Eastrags where you have a reg. You can get a ray gun, you can get the scorpion gun, and you'd get that, like, at the zombies locations. So, like, there will be fun. Like, when you're, like, 10 hours deep in a sash, you're like, you guys want to

go land and just do some weird shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Run around with a ray gun. Like, that'll be fun. Are we playing? Yeah, I mean, I'll be on. Because this I'm going to play for sure. Are you going to fucking play?

Yeah, no. Because you led me on with rank play. I've been in depths of hell. Yeah, well, rank play, dude. Seven circles of hell, right? It was just, dude, rank play was different because, like, before we had the kid, I didn't really know what to expect. I was like, I'm probably going to take a little bit of time off, obviously,

but, dude, I just, the way I see it is that this is my first kid. He's a newborn. Like, I'm never going to get this time back, so I've just been like, dude, and I've played rank for the past fucking, my whole life. So it's like, you're going to get ready to come back because everybody's God. maybe not in this shit hopefully and ranked

everyone's godlike everyone's just cheating everyone's just low-key cheating and no one's ever going to convince me otherwise and that's another thing they're soft aim there's AI aim assist now I'm telling you they're all low-key cheating

they're not blatantly aim-boding and walling like in past now it's like even dirtier it's low-key and they it kind of makes you think that you're awful and I'm not as good as I used to be because I don't play but I know these kids are not that good

there's no way look at last year like dude they came to a point last year I'd get on before the watch party and play ranked. And we were just playing the same kids over. It literally felt like I was getting on to scrim every day. And this year I feel like is a lot different, but it's still new. Like this was around like probably season two of ranked last year, season three. But dude, it was just the same people over and over and over.

Yeah, no, I feel. And it just kind of got so just mind-numbingly like boring because it's like, bro. I know who I'm going to play every morning when I get on. Same kids. Is it still the same SR stuff where you're losing a shit-todd-sr if you lose? And that's intentional, I guess, now. It is intentional, yeah. Because everyone thought it was a bug.

80. And I got knocked out top 250. I'm getting the fuck off. Really? Yeah. Well, you got knocked out the top 250? Yeah, it's very easy to lose that. Because, yeah.

No, I know you lose like 70, 80 for a loss. And then you get like 20 for a win. And it's not like your quad stacked where you're going to win. Dude, that's like four hours of game time. That's like legit four hours of game time if you're winning every game. You're playing duo cues. That is. Yeah, that's pretty...

That is a heavy one. It was bad. I mean, like, I don't know. It's weird. And then you two stack into another team of pros. They get a good kid. You get a bad kid. It's like, okay, well.

No, yeah, it's definitely a lot of problems. But is, uh, does Black gonna have ranked? Or is it just, uh... No, I think it's no ranked yet. That's his face. But I like that. With multiplayer, it's different. Like, I'd like for them to drop ranked ASAP.

Like, right when they get the map set, drop that shit. This is different. Like, just because, again, it's way more casual to ranked. Yeah, but it's fucking worse. What I don't like about this is it seems like your individual performance isn't even like, like if you lose and you drop 50, you should not lose 80SR. Like you should, it should mitigate the blow if you're playing great. If you get destroyed, I get it.

But if you're at least playing well and you lose by one point, there has to be a better way to like scale it. So you're not losing the fluid. Losing 160 SR in 20 minutes. You know what I mean? Like individual performance should be more heavily weighted. Not for sure. I do this system sounds better than last year though

well last year was all last year is just like dude last year is playing the most yeah I didn't like that I feel like this this is better than whoever's just playing 24 hours I agree with you

last year was not great bro like four stack him with Colt last year like you're playing all day bro you're not even like you're not even getting challenged you're just team killing for gifted you know what I'm saying there's no like there's no like you know what I'm saying

you're like all right I'm gonna hide in a corner this whole search and try to get behind Yeah, and you're sitting there with Rainbow Flames a little, you know, until you match hackers and then you lose, and then it's like this weird little like your 30 minutes of not even excitement, just weirdness. Yeah. And they're calling you hackers, and you're like, this is so psychotic. And once in a blue moon, they can find a band and he's so hype. But this year, it's a little different.

Like, there's times where I'm going into a game with another pro and we're both calling out because we know we have to or else we're going to lose. Yeah, yeah. And it's going to fucking hurt. So, like, we don't want to lose, you know? And then like, yeah, I don't know. I definitely see the problems with it. Like, you definitely should not have to win four hours in game. play if you lose three games. Like that's insane, dude.

No matter what rank you are, that's fucking insane. Well, that's not right though. That's not right. That's fucked up. Did they say that like they're changed? Didn't they say they said that they said that they're, this is what they intended to do. Especially if you're frying. What if you just get hard costed? No, yeah, you still lose. I mean, sometimes you'll lose like 30. There's times where I'll lose like 20. But like it's my individual performance doesn't really change that though. It's probably, you know what it is? It's probably weighing their ranks. So if like you play a

crim like one, like if they have two crim ones and you have two iridescence, it's probably like, okay, you had the better team, so we're going to penalize you more. But those iridescence could be ass. No, for sure. And it's weird, too, because the crimson's are the scariest ones, because those are the ones that are usually fucking hacking. And it's like, holy fuck, dude. Yeah, they're like top above, like the pros I'm playing guns. And there's so

many of them? Yeah, there's so many of them. So many of them. So many just solo-kewed pro, like little crimson guys, just fucking weird characters in their name. Just hacked up in their undie? Just rage hacking. If you see the weird characters, it's shocked. Bro, it's shocked. I had some guy the other day. You see the hierarchific shit. I was like, yeah, that kid's cheating. He was like rage hacking.

He came my chapter and said, you can ban me. I'll keep coming back again and again. I was like, I don't give a fuck up. I rank that much. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, what the fuck? Like, he thinks that you care about it so much.

He was like, ban me fat fuck. I'll be back in 10 days. I was like, I was like, what the hell? That's a good shit. That's a different level of psychotic. Yeah. That's insane. It's pretty nuts.

Yeah, I want to see this gentleman's tease major four location. I'm assuming, is this where ESWC was? Oh my God. It's Renaissance. It's the MW3 map. Yep. Renaissance. I think, right?

That's what it's called? Renaissance. Oh, so I used to see that incredible orb guy getting nukes on. Wow, that's a throwback. Yeah, it's a throwback.

I'll never forget that. The MP7, silence rapid fire. I don't know why. Then you get the specialist bonus and you're watching... Yeah, everyone... POV was fucking...

He was fucking... He was either that or 10-10, but he was fucking... He was mouse and key, I think. Yeah, no, I remember the orb days. He was pretty... It was pretty entertaining. Dude, the YouTubers, like, there's always, like, little, like, stints of them.

It was, like, you had, like, the B-O-2 pub stoppers, then you had, like, orb, then you, like, TBNR Frags. Remember him, Preston? Now he's fucking making millions in Minecraft. Now he's running a, like, conglomerate. Yeah, literal conglomerate. Listen, I do think that Paris event's going to be crazy. Yeah. And I'll be damned if we're not there.

Don't look at me. I'll be damned if we're not there. Don't look at me. I mean, I don't... I'd love to go to the rest. I mean, yeah, we're not going to Birmingham, but... Like, I think Dreamhacks would be fun, so Atlanta's gonna be cool. Vegas champs, always cool.

I'll go alone if I have to. We'll be there. Vegas, Vegas Champs. That's a fun, that's a fun champs location. Yo, this champs, can we all get on a craps table together? Dude, everyone always wants to play Blackjack. Can we go play craps and have some fucking fun? Why are you looking at formal?

As if he's coming. I'm going. You are coming? I'm only talking to case on him about my own roof. Oh, you are? coming. Oh, then yeah, we're going to be at a craps table then. Yeah. Well, I was kind of looking to him just as he's in the field of view. Oh, okay. He's in my FOV. 95. Yeah, I'm down, so I hate playing anything else with you. Hell yeah. You hear me? I heard that. I'm going to try to act like

I didn't hear it. I'm down. That's kind of fucked up. Over my shoulder shouldn't have done that. Shouldn't have done that? I didn't. I didn't feel your drink on me a little. I didn't fuck. I did not. Whoa, red. Why did you hit the head? I didn't do that. I didn't do that. I didn't do that, bro. Come on. I actually did that? You did that. Okay, nowadays, I promise I don't do that. I believe it. I sit there and lose while Shotsie goes up and I'm like, brother, where are my fucking cards?

Your aunt two years ago went up 8K right next to me. I don't think I got anything better than a 13 for an hour and a half straight. Was that two years ago? It was like 13, 14, 15 and aunt would get blackjack. I'm like, hell yeah. Good shit. No, but I'm down 3K and 15 minutes. He can't hide it though. It's like weird because

We were all winning but him, and he can't hide the fact that he's fuming, so we're all hype and he's mad. It's a weird dynamic. Well, I'll tell you who was a fucking. Alec on the Huntsman roster. I'm getting a hoed over it. Can I get a 20? Just one.

I sat next to Alec in London when he was on the Huntsman. And it was like Hector. Maybe Hector, you, Alec, and Alec was just, he didn't give a fuck. I was like, oh, no, I had to walk away. I couldn't. And Hector wouldn't tell him no, because he's not going to kill his player's vibe. What are you talking about? Yeah, what the fuck are you?

Blackjack, Alex. You're saying he was betting. like a dumb fuck or what are you saying? He was hitting when he shouldn't. He was just like having fun and I probably took my fucking bet. Yeah, I was like. I was like, I was like a $500 bet on. He hits on like 12 or something.

I was like this is how funny I have to go. Like brow. Yeah. Now Vegas should blit though. We're staying. We got to stay at the area. I think the event's going to be at the Mandalay Bay I think. Well Uber.

That's kind of, that's where we stayed for Coddex. Yeah, Mandalay was nice. You can walk. great through the now there was the mandalay then there's the we stayed in like a no we there's like a hotel that's part

of the mandolet that's connected to the mandalay where we stayed yeah we stayed at the I can't even remember I forget what it was called I feel like every time we go to Vegas we stay is that the champs in you? Yep oh shit it's the Mickelope Ultra Arena well it's a bad day to be a

Mickelope in that motherfucker let me tell you oh they're going to get their money's worth because I'm coming in hot Vegas champs is probably one of the best locations. Once again, the only downside is that you're in Vegas for six days. And that's just like a downside. Yeah, because Vegas for six days is a dangerous. It's not dangerous. Because here's the thing. If you go up on day one, your money's not safe. If you go down on day one, you don't know what's going to happen after that because it could compound or it could get better.

I might go there with only cash. Yeah. If you go up on day one, you got profits to play with the whole time. That's what you think. See, that's what you think. That's what you think. smart man mason's a smart man you pocket some if you go up like 3k day one just keep 3k just play yeah but what happens if you go down 2k day one and now you're trying to get back and then you're down 4k now that's when you chase are still playing

exactly and you're like I shouldn't play anymore are you some sort of square and then you're like well fuck now I gotta go take money yeah like holy fuck okay then maze I guess I'll hit the fucking 18 huh 500 dollar hand you know what I'm like okay big dog no I usually I'm pretty good at sticking

to my limits when I am there because once you go above him you're just like dude this is hell. Well, it's nice in Vegas because you have to literally, like, you got to go to the AT you have to make a conscious effort to go put more money in. Also, no matter what happens to those first five days, come Sunday, you're going to the ATM because everyone's now out. It's Sunday night at Champ. And you can't bet like a little bitch. You're going to be gambling, you know? You can't bet like a bitch. Everyone's watching. No, yeah. What the hell? You look to your right and it's like, another guy on another team's doing $500 hands.

And you're like, what the fuck? Yeah, you come to her let's tape. We'll see formal playing like the inner numbers with 50 cents. You're like, what the fuck? He's got every single thing covered on the board. He's got a whole strap. Yeah, it better be like a pink chip on black and I grab it and walk away. And I'm like, God, he's so cool. That's why we got to play craps, dude.

Because if someone's hot, we sit there, just keep rolling. It's so much on. And everyone's winning. So it's like... Wait, how do you even play... It's just dice. As long as you don't roll 70.

I haven't played it either, but apparently it's like the vivious game with a group. It's supposed to be like the highest odds, I think, of winning in the whole casino. You get the highest odds as a player. I like Bacarop. But the problem is you go up quick or you go down quick. I don't like my buggeron.

It makes me feel like I'm supposed to be like deep in a fucking like a non, non-regulity casino scene where I'm supposed to rip in sigs and I'm surrounded by like other Japanese dudes and no one. They have no pads and they're like taking notes. Yeah, we're all in our mortgage and shit. It's just like it's just a dark, dark place. I don't like Baccarat, but yeah, you can play it. Dude, I was playing Baccarat.

I'm sorry, but you go first. But when I was playing with, we went to UFC fights. It was like me, yeah, me, Jack, Matt, Hector. I forget who else was there. Maybe Dennis. You guys at a private table? That group is loaded. Keep going.

No, we didn't have a private table. This was like five or six years ago. It was long time ago. You guys were still loaded. But bro, Jack. Loaded. What do you mean? That's Fortnite.

That's after Fortnite. Dude, when Jack 2019, real quick, I'm going to cut you off, then you continue. I mean, this story's been sidebarred. I was playing. I was at a table. And this was like when Jack was like really going up. And he just walks up. I'm playing like $20 hands, whatever.

He walks up, puts a 500. chip down loses a guy whatever walks a while so that guy's fucking rich and cool go ahead thank you's in uh but yeah jack literally rolled for like 45 minutes a guy had a bet on the around the world whereas you hit every every other number besides that's a bet you can make yeah it's like i forget the odds it's what are the odds on that crazy got to be the biggest on the table right you can look it up but he literally rolled for like 45 minutes the guy i think he had a hundred dollar chip down maybe less one like 35 grand walked away just won the guy a car Didn't say thank you just picked up his chips walked away.

Didn't say thank you? Nope, nothing. No way. Oh yeah, he's down a shit time. Nothing. That's all you put him in there. One the guy 35K, we're going nuts. Holy shit.

He's probably down one thirty five. That was only down a hundred. Dude, I was playing when I was there. The kids, like he's in a dark son. I was there like, it was crazy. A year ago and I was playing Baccarat. The dude next to me was stressing, taking off his hat throwing it. He looks to me.

He looks to me. He goes, I'm down 250. And I was like, and now I'm like, he's adding so much stress to me. I'm playing like $100 hands and I win a nail biter. He said stressful, huh? And I'm like, dude, don't even fucking talk to me. You're fucking losing.

You're down 250 losing your mind. Yeah, that's kind of like he's paced and throwing his hat on the ground. That's like a backhand like stressful, huh? When I have a $100 chip, I'm being like, go fuck yourself, Bout. Do you guys, do you guys see the people that are on the slot machines like fucking punching that shit? I'm like,

brats. They're deep. Slots are dangerous because I have a shit mindset with slots where I don't play slots in Vegas if I put if I put a hundred if I hit if I put a hundred bucks into the machine and I get nothing I'm like well I've been playing the game long enough toward the win has to be coming here's the other hundred

that's not how it works exactly well I've been on the receiving end of that fuckery but multiple times it's it's all like RTP and shit like the machine's not going to remember you that machine has no feelings it just wants to eat your cash my favorite part about Vegas is the eating, though. I mean, I'm super fat. Oh, my God. They have great restaurants there. All the celebrity restaurants, the steakhouses, they have, they have a good operation going to keep people around. They will keep me around, and I will be fed. I will be fat and happy during that whole week.

Probably hung over a couple days as well. And there's this show called Absinth that was like, I didn't think I'd be a Circus O'League guy. I saw that there was one called Awakening that I thought was terrible, but Absent, Absent was phenomenal. It's like this gritty, dark humor show in like this carnival tent. Vegas is a good time. Did clowns come out? No, dude,

I... There's so much shit to do in Vegas. You guys would love it. There's actually so much shit to do. Like, every day you can do something different. Yeah, but it is... You guys on the stratosphere?

You guys on the stratosphere? I think I've eaten up there. There's a restaurant up there. I'm not doing that. Really? Yeah, you need to be careful, bro. You need to be careful, bro. You need to be careful. Hell of you?

You need to be careful. You need to be careful. You need to be careful. You need to be careful. You should be with it. I always hear it gets hella lucky. Dude, Anna is actually like... Then you're like, then I'm going to get the same sin.

You know, and now it's now scary. No, you need to be with Ant in Vegas, because he's different gravy there now. He's with Dana White and shit. You're just like, um... You did not gamble at all until Sunday. You need to talk to Brandon. Just trust me.

Bro, when we were at Cod next, this was like whenever shots he, just won champs. So like feeling crazy again, you know? Just feeling like the man comes down, chain on, collared shirt. Just looking like a pimp. I'm like, who the fuck is this guy?

He was moving so. differently in Vegas. It was awesome. And I texted him. I said, yo, you making this flight? He said, nah, I'm staying. And he stayed like an extra week. Next thing I saw, I'm not even kidding. This is the actual thing I saw. The first thing I saw was him

standing behind Dana White in a picture. I was like, okay. Then next day, he's streaming from Steve Will Doot's house, like on his setup. I'm like, dude, what is going on? That is crazy. I was like, what the hell is? That is crazy. I remember that. We were like, yo, someone's got to go get him.

That is crazy. If he's there for a couple more days, someone has to go retreat. He's got to get out. Now he's all over the way. Yeah, I don't know what's going on, but it was interesting, Sim. Yeah, that's crazy. What is this, Riley?

To that, some of the fan favorite maps that we haven't seen in a long time, like Meltdown and even Plaza. Sometimes soon. I'm a try it out. Okay. Stateout doesn't really fit that

approach. And Treyrick also wants to maintain that distinction of identity between Black Op 6 and Black Op 7 when it comes to maps like this. Yeah, like Plaza's cool, but I just know it's not going to be used competitively, so I can't get excited about it. Like the same with all of these old school maps. Like, dude, those games,

those maps were some of my favorites and a bit of a slower cod, but you can't play Plaza in this game. You have 90 kills per map. I just think it's more of like, there's fatigue with these old maps coming back, and it's just I feel like they got to do a better job

Like, they need to keep these DLC maps more to a minimum when it's like a recycled map. Just because, like, they're dropping pretty much every season. They're dropping another old map, which is great. But also, like, we want new classic maps. We want maps that are guys. Yemen's coming back. Yeah, but like... Yemen actually could play well, but I just don't know if you guys will play it.

Okay, here's the thing. One thing I don't get is that people were saying that the league said, if you want to replace a map, it has to be Den exposure. or SCAR, right? They were like, you can't remove Blackheart or Colossus. It's like, what the fuck do you mean we can't remove one of the worst maps? Colossus S&D is the worst. You have to allow in the game.

The worst maps to be removed for a map like Saki Search. But apparently that's one of the holdups, which I'm not sure if that's completely true. It is, I think. It's because they're overplayed, but they're overplayed because they're overplayed because they're overplayed because they're good. So like just get the shit maps on or shipmaps out. Yeah, what is that logic? I don't know.

That's like some super TikTok. They're overplayed because the other maps are ass. Yeah, exactly. Like, because Saki, dude, Saki's a cool looking map. And I think for search, that map at least could work in search. It's because, well, Saka, it's because, like, we didn't scrim the first week back,

and other teams did, and they were saying it was too big. Like, Falcon said it was too big. I was like... But then I watched you guys scrimmed gentlemenates, and it looked pretty fun to why. It looked like it played... That map was better than, like, at least two of the maps. 100%.

This map needs to be in. Let's start the agenda. Podcast. Get it in. The Optic Podcast is going to really get this map in, guys. We want sake and we want it bad. It's definitely not too big. And it's a fun name.

Sakey. Sakey map for it's also fine to have some bigger maps because the other maps are so fast-paced and a bit smaller. So it's okay to have a bigger map. It probably just feels like that because usually you spawn in a gunfight in the first five seconds. These new genas aren't used to only having two or three attempts to break a hill. They want to break it 12 times in 60 seconds. You know who's been impressed me with their breaks? Vancouver, bro.

Their teamwork actually looks really good. like they're setting up plays around the back. Like a lot of the times some of these teams you'll just see them headbut, headbutt, headbutt, like if their first hit fails, they'll just resort to hitting like on a Den P4 or something. But like Vancouver actually been setting shit up. I love that shit.

Vancouver looks good, man. All these teams that are picking up challengers players are starting to barring C-9 once again, and I don't mean to harp on them, but it's just a different circumstance. Well, they picked up a whole set of challenge. Young challengers. Spartan Boston's playing still to Ohio level.

Capsiddle, I don't think, Capsidle's not like dominating like he was in challengers, but the team is just playing way better. So I think their pacing is way more cohesive. I feel like Abe was like a step ahead. Kind of like an apathy on EG. He's too far ahead of the game. I guess they won.

I mean, never mind. I don't know. Yeah, I think Abe's good, bro. No, Abe is good. I don't know. I just think he was too fast. I think he was too fast for that roster. I've played with him.

Like, he's good, bro. He's not the BK. Well, that's the hard part about like when you come into the league. There's something wrong. He's not the BK. When you come into the league, you're a new player and things don't go well, it's like, fuck, because that could be so, like, it could be team dependent.

Like, he could just be getting put in, always in the wrong spot. Like, someone's doing the wrong thing. Now I got to fill in. Now I get fucked. My stats look like shit. And it just tanks your stock. It's like, it's so tough. Let's end this the best way possible.

Let's look at the old school McDonald's menu. It doesn't seem real. What was y'all's go-to McDonald's order back in the day? Oh, the chicken selects. I never had that. I never ordered chicken tux. Were the Rants, chicken, BLT, no tomato. Double cheeseburger.

Yeah, double cheeseburger fries. Maybe some. And then six piece nugs. Yeah. Yeah, I'd get that. We had the same order in sweet tea. I get the single cheeseburgers. Same shit.

The single cheeseburgers, I don't know what they do to their cheese there, but that shit is like crack. They were godlike. Yeah, godlike. Dude, look at that menu. Imagine buying a cheeseburger for 33 cents. I remember being a kid and driving home and, like, you're holding the bag, but you're picking out the french fries.

And it's just like, every fry is just hitting so hard. Dude, I was a scumb bag. I was a scumb bag. I used to take the fries that weren't mine. Yeah, same. My sister's fries were like, I would, I would eat some off the top of my sisters. That I get home and still have the large. Because how would they know?

They didn't know. How would they know? I did that shit too. I'd be like, if I took five fries from this one, how are they going to know? Dude, the chicken select. See, some people, some people listen will know how good those were. They were just so, they were so good. And then my parents, they were like,

This place must have been insane. Dude, it's Ocho Cincoe tweeting it too. Yo, he loves McDonald's. He's always eating Mickey's. What is this? What is this, Ra? This account got me good. Sir Matthias of the Greenwell has issued a formal apology to Sir Douglas, the censor,

after comments made during the night's trial of seven. St. Petro, bro. I did say sorry to him. That's a good tweet. I can't laugh. Now that account. I do love me some Game of Thrones. It's just.

Yeah, the new one was good. I loved like, did you see it? Yeah I loved how like Trial episode That was the last episode You watched that shit? Yeah, it was only like six episodes

Some damn But I love like Because Game of Thrones is usually Like hellah serious Like the ambiance You just get the feeling That it's like It's serious

This one felt so much more lighthearted And is Is was like This feels like a comedy But I loved like how lighthearted And fun It was so fun to watch That actor

The kid egg He stole the show show. No, there's only like six. Sir, I need to be yo squire. Egg. He was great. But yeah, that shit was fire. What is this?

This poor guy, he gets just passed up at the finish line. Oh, that's not the finish line. I think he knew there was someone behind him? Had to have. That would piss me off, dude. Oh my God. That would piss me off.

off. Oh my God, dude. He's exhausted. That's something my fat ass has honestly never wanted to do. My fat ass has never been like, dude, I want to run a marathon. Weird second win there. No. I can't think of something I want to do less. Long distance running is not for me. I've done it. Like last year I was on a good stretch of exercising and running and shit, but it's just so tedious. I can't do it. My ADHD brain, I can't. Four students from Purdue created a road. about that can solve a cube in zero point yeah we're fucked

yeah we're close to the end this actually we actually might be in the end game aha wait this is this is not even one second this is slow down this is this 28 second wait let me see let me see if I can blink

nope beat me wait wait wait started again starting wait hold on whoa that's fucking insane looking okay I got a line it That cannot be real. What the fuck? That looked like Barry Allen just fucking came over and did it real quick and got away.

How the fuck can it tell which colors are which? I think we're in the endgame. Do they have like sensors on them? Like they have to, right? Dude, what the hell? Yeah, that's a scary you should have ever seen, Riley. Let's go to something else. I think we're all fucked soon.

Let's go to something else, maybe. Let's do this draft. Ultimate 1-1 draft. I actually, I love doing things like this. Oh, man. So you can't pick something that's already been picked. Correct. And you're just picking the peak

what you consider to be the best. You're trying to build the best list. All right. And it's dessert, vacation city spot, call-a-duty map, superstar athlete. I pick one? What you got? Yeah.

Okay. I'm going to go a New York cheesecake with a strawberry compote on it. Okay. Okay. With strawberry compote. That's a good one. Yeah.

What about you, Zun? I'm going to keep it very, very simple. It's a chocolate chip cookie. Okay. Two, that's too. It's too. It's, it's, it's, it's unmatched. The Pizuki. Oh.

Find me at the BJ's, Key Lime pie. Kee Lime. You're a T Lime guy? Key Lime pie? Only in like, like Florida. Like, if I'm in Florida. Okay, that's refreshing shit.

What's your, what's your vacation city or spot? It's a, it's a snake draft, so now it's Mace. I haven't been, like, I haven't been to Vegas. Where's one place you want to go? I'll say Japan That's a great I can't wait to go I'm gonna say

I'm gonna say Orlando There's just so much shit to do there Even though I'm out of You're a Disney guy That's an L pick Yeah no Maybe you might have to get on them That's an LPick

Well I'm five for five there in tournaments That's why it's always like There's two places I can go here Yeah it's great vibes there I know that whatever I don't pick you're gonna pick I think we have the same two next Maui

Maui but I'm going to take the Almofi Coast, Italy. Amalfi Coast? Oh, yeah. I mean, I didn't realize we're doing try-hard answers like that. What are you mean? We're trying to build the best list. I've never even heard of that.

I've never even heard of that. I'm going to say the Swiss Alps, right? I want to change my answer. No. I'm going to say those TikTok I see a Swedish. You dug your grave. You're going to lay in this out. Those are crazy.

All right, I'm going to go. Trust. Like, what? It's going to be Maui or Saint-Tropay. I know you. Yeah, I'm going to go south of France. That was, it was amazing. That shit's crazy

Because even Future said that's too expensive for me Dead ass I mean it wasn't that bad It's definitely like Call duty map It's not cheap but it wasn't like crazy If you're getting on yachts and shit Call duty map

Uh Raid Boring Yeah I'm in best pick you can have Let me think There's got to be something I gotta have something up my sleeve here Thank you Riley

Put one Put seven piece under that as well It's just a rider Put seven piece seven piece to end my career sorry I'm just taking a second to think here give me standoff it's a good pick it's a great map yeah that would have been my number two

I'll go I'll go fringe solar solar solar you know what I was debating between and now superstar athlete what does that mean just your just superstar dead or alive or anybody Anybody ever? Okay. I'm Brady.

Okay, Brady's a good pick. Jordan. It's a really good pick. Wow. You have a lot of, you have a lot, you could appease the crowd here. Dude, this is, you could appease the crowd. You gotta go, you gotta go the footballer out. The footballer out.

Could go football, soccer. That's the thing. Oh, you would lose this list very quickly if you pick me. Do I have to go? But I am an athlete. Soccer or? Now, LeBron's not fun. I'm gonna go messy.

Dude, why is Bruce just fucking, why is Bruce fucking shouldering us over there? Dude. I'm going to go the biggest sport in the world. Okay, messy? Okay, so I'll go the other side. I'll go Ronaldo. I'm playing to win here. I would go LeBron James if I wasn't playing to win, but I wonder who wins this, like, in the court of public opinion.

You're going to? Is that what you want to hear? Yeah. You think so? I think. Look, dope he this guy. I just saw the twinkle in his eye. You think so?

He's like, let's read the thing. Like actually chat? You know what? Leave a comment down below if you guys think that my list, you know? Like,

holy shit. I think these are good lists. I mean, Orlando was probably the biggest throw. Hey, listen, when you've won multiple tournaments

in a city, you know what I'm talking about. It's like, it's like, hold a special place in your heart. Change my into Atlanta. Treated us well. These were good lists.

Wait, let's see Masons again. Keyline pie. Keline pie was a bit of thought. Keyline pie and solar. Yeah, Mace, you lost. No,

but Japan. Japan and Brandon and Brady Brandon loves Key lime Brian loves Kilime Pie You know what used to hit The key lime pie yoghirts Did you guys have those?

Yeah those hit Yeah those hit See yo play He even knows the brand T2P All right Thank you guys for watching Man it was a pleasure

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