OpTic Podcast - OpTic WORLD CHAMPIONS, HECZ HITS 1M SUBS | The OpTic Podcast Ep 184

Episode Date: July 26, 2024

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Yeah, we got script next week. I'd be delusional. I mean, I'm going to be delusion for a little bit. Maybe that first day I'm going to be like on Mars. Like, holy shit. I'm like, bro, I'm like, dude, what I have a ring? I might even put a ring. I might put ring in my clan tag.

Just check everybody out of the lobby. Just check everyone that joins. I promise you're going to check people out. These and gentlemen, the green wall returns to the number one spot in the world. two, three. We have three world champions sitting here today. We have on my right, my man, Shotsie, we have scumper jumper and we of course have dashy to my left. Newest member. So, newest member to the, uh, to the, uh, to the little champs to the very short list of world champs.

That's what I kept saying to Seth on that. I'm, yo, I'm in the club. I texted him. I texted when I got home. I actually texted both these guys. And I was just like, good shit, proud of you guys, you know. And then his response was His was just like, thanks You know, his was hilarious. He's like, I'm in the club. I'm in the World Champ Club, come on. That was good.

It was comedy. Wait, we peaked at 171? I don't know if that's true. I thought it was 131. Yeah, I think it was, no, I think it was higher than that. I think it was the highest that I physically saw was one like 37. Damn. 137.

Wait, where'd you get that number from? Okay, YouTube dashboard, man, right there. I mean, shit, maybe, because like sometimes on Twitch, when you run an ad, it, like, shoots the viewers up for a little bit. So maybe, maybe it shot the viewers up. I mean, we'll take it. I'm not arguing. Listen. We'll take 171.

Sure. And it wasn't because of no ads, because obviously there's no ads being ran on YouTube, right? Uh. Anyway, it's 170 fucking one. Sometimes. Not a lot. Okay. It's, it's 171, just period.

Okay. It's, it's not, let's not, let's not, what I don't want to happen is to add on to, to, you know, the current state of things as to as to that. I just want to... Asterix? Fucking optic home event, 171 because of ads. I mean, the optic home event's the big one. We should, we should, should we talk about that?

Let's just go down the list and then if we come across that, I guess I have a lot. Now, speak your piece. Because I'll say one thing. Go ahead. I'll say every... Get me started. You jump started. I can say the players haven't even entertained this.

We've been on fucking cloud nine. You know what I mean? I don't even know what the fuck's happening. The thing is, I mean, I keep telling Hector, in like five, ten years, whatever it is, nobody's going to remember where the event was. They're going to remember just... Who got the ring?

Exactly. They're not going to... I can't wait to see the ring. But didn't the CDL... Like, holy... But didn't the CDL... Wasn't there like... Didn't they, like, throw out a line and be like,

who wants to host champs? Okay. We aren't? That's where I tap in. Yeah. First and foremost, I would like to say that it doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good the things that are being said.

I do agree with Pat in the sense that the CDL should have ran this thing. Okay. But they didn't. Somebody had to step up to do it. And anybody out of the 12 fucking teams, how many majors will it for? Anybody out of the eight teams could have done it. Okay. For the last four years, we have been raising our hand to help.

as we always have since 2000 and as long as I can go, 2006, as long as I can remember, we have been there to help. And to sort of be put in a situation where you have to explain yourself, what I can tell you is that it could have been worse, okay? You're going to see a screenshot on the stream right now between me and Roger and Page and Andrew, Peterman, and Maddie, where I say that this logo is not approved. It has wallace on the image.

Okay. Now, up until this point, I've been telling them that it cannot be, well, let me finish. Let me finish reading this, I guess. This is champs presented by optic, not optic call of duty champs, which it fucking very well could have been.

After that, I text, it needs to be neutral. Even though we have the right and are approved to call it an optic major, we cannot, it is not right. This was April 3rd at 637 p.m. Okay. We could have, we could have, we could have made that as, as, as, as, as, we could

have titled it different. We could have titled it whatever the fuck we wanted because it was our, it was, it was, it was given to us because we raised our hand to do it. Another thing. For major four, for major four, and I know you guys want to talk about the, I mean, I guess it doesn't matter now. Where they placed 12th and we got out of the running, like that event, we also put in our hat for, okay? We didn't have to, okay?

The same way that no other team had to raise their hand to run it, the same way that the team that was awarded that event didn't, we still raised our hand because I wanted call it duty to be in a good place. I wanted to hold up and go above and beyond our end of the fucking bargain. And our side of the partnership, I wanted to make sure that it was a good one. And what happened? We had a closed event, right, Matt? Let me make that bigger. We had a close event. What am I looking at, Matt?

Yeah, the stage four major and then Call of Duty League playoffs and then Calduty was, okay, half of the viewership happened when we came in 12th place, okay? Would it have been different if it would have been in a live? event thrown by optic if that will if if if if major four would have been the optic major as it should have been or as it could have been that's one thing but they wanted to give us champs because of obvious reasons right and you guys saw those reasons this past weekend no good deed goes unpunished okay now i understand what they're saying were the drums necessary no would we have brought them to places like i don't know what what i will say is that it just i i i i

I've been a little bit like angry at what's been spinning off. And it's all distractions. And that's why I haven't said anything publicly. That's why I didn't put this text out publicly to, I could have gotten mad impressions off for that. You know what I'm saying? That's the name of the game. But I didn't want no retweets because I didn't want to draw attention to negative shit.

I didn't want to draw attention away from the fact that these men have won a world championship, one of them for the first time ever. We did a good thing. It was the best call of duty tournament that this e-sported. has ever seen, period. By far. Okay. The Green Wall is big.

Okay? And I find it hilarious that people get mad when our fans, when the Green Wall leaves, when we're no longer in the tournament. They want them to stick around when it's beneficial for them. They call them fake Call of Duty fans because they don't stick around to watch other teams that aren't optic. I don't go to any Rocky. I don't go to any clippers.

I don't go to any Spurs games. Do you know why? I am not a fan of those. You know, I couldn't give a fuck less. So for people to be mad when our fans leave the venue, when that goes, and then when people tell me,

yo, you should encourage them to stay, and I do, but maybe I shouldn't. Because why the fuck is it okay? Like when Scrappy, when Scrappy was fucking winning, what was the green wall doing? They were cheering for fucking

Scrappy. When somebody was playing against Faze, what was the crowd doing? Chearing for the team that wasn't Faze. That's cool. It wasn't too loud then. It wasn't a benefit to that one team. But it's a benefit when it's us because it's

louder, sure. He's been. He cooking. The fact of the matter is, the fact of the matter is, The fact of the matter is, is that we have worked our asses of tirelessly to make sure that we do what we can to bring in and entertain an audience. Second thing, the second that you walk into a venue and you see thousands of people there, everything needs to go out the window and you are there to entertain them. You are there to, you are there to perform for them. Okay, they're not there for you.

You are there for them. We are there to serve. We are there to entertain. That is our job. So any fucking pro player out there that thinks for a second that they are there to see you, no. You are there to entertain them with your performance. Okay?

We are there to serve the crowd that fucking ultimately pays the bills for the amazing opportunities that we have in front of us. So the drums, the walkout of the dynasty team like that was all crowd service which is what everybody should be fucking focused on crowd service entertaining the masses

that is what we should be doing and apparently nobody else fucking gets it but we sure is fuck dude and what are we going to do allow for 17 people who disagree with the way that this thing was ran or the thousands upon thousands and the 171,000

people out there that's who we're there to serve It feels bad. It doesn't feel good. It does not feel good to have to explain ourselves when we try to do the right things. What do you think this fucking event would have looked like if it would have been held by somebody else? Do you guys not remember AW? Or when was it when you guys were playing on the platform all the way the fuck up there?

Do you guys remember the fucking silliness? The silliness of people having to get in a fucking elevator to get on stage all the way above while the VIP people are sitting right in front can't see shit. There was no elevators. It was a walk. It's a walk. Whatever. I got up there like.

And I was exhausted. I was gas. You got to give me a moment, ref. Yeah, dude, exactly. All right. I will show you texts that I had when I saw people in VIP section complaining about the jig arm and all that immediately. And not kindly. Immediately I fucking sent out a text to my team.

And I said, this is fucking unacceptable. Whoever sold these fucking tickets in VIP. that didn't sit in those seats and realize that there was something wrong, that's an issue for me. And those people will be made held accountable for that. Okay. I have, I and everybody here are Optic, we go above and beyond and everything that we do that has to do with the thing that we love most. Okay. Do I agree that the league, it should have been neutral? Yes. Do I agree that the league should have been the one to do this? Yes. Did they? Why didn't they?

Did you see the tournament that they threw for Major 4? That could have been held by us? It does not feel good, especially again, when I had receipts that clearly fucking point towards the fact that I was trying to make it as neutral as possible. But once you get in that fucking building, our job is to fucking entertain. Okay? Fine. We won't host any more tournaments. All right.

There you go. So you want to fucking hear. Fine. We won't help. Entertain. We did. Mike drop. Bye.

We edit that the mic drop That's all I have to say about that It does not feel good But the same The same goes and it's as famous as time No good deed goes unpunished Damned if you do Damned if you don't

Well why does an optic step up They have the biggest famis They should be blah blah Okay so we have the biggest family Because we're trying twice as hard as everybody else So now you want us to try three times as hard to grow everybody else. Come on, man. Like this, this fucking blueprint on how we did this thing is public.

You have me in a podcast in 2013, 14, 15, 12, 11, 2010, 2009, explaining why it's important for fucking players to care about their brand. Okay? And I say that at the, as opposing myself as an org owner. I am imploring pro players to be bigger brands so that they can negotiate a better deal with me in which the org has to pay more. But I still do because it's the right thing. We are all in a building phase of e-sports. Eastports is not in its final fucking stage. We haven't had 100 years of runway the way that the NFL has.

We haven't had 100 years the way that the NBA has. Well, fucking many years has been around for. we haven't had those decades of building. Small minds will never lead the fucking way as long as I'm fucking around. I just cannot allow that. And it's for your own fucking benefit. For fuck's sake. We never hid our strategy.

We never, you know what I'm saying? It's not a secret. We shared the blueprint. Esports orgs have implemented said blueprint and some of them have really stuck to it and instigated it. Not instigated, but implemented it. Thank you. Into their strategies. And some have found success and some gave up too early.

Let's get some fucking some brains, man. Like it's, I shouldn't feel the way that I feel for helping. Straight out. Now, that's the last thing I'm going to talk about it, maybe. But let's reset. Let's talk about the thing that's most important. That needed to be said. Thank you.

I hit, I mainly subscribers on YouTube, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. That's the end of podcast. All right, let's, now that that's out of the way,

and I wanted to wait till later because I didn't want that to be the thing that sets the tone for this podcast, so we're going to do a hard reset right now. Beepi, pooh, bo, bo, beep, pee, pee. COVID shot. Be, me, me, me.

All right, let's start with you, man. Obviously, like, going into the weekend, you're coming off of a 12th, 12 place finish. Everybody's on your dick talking shit. You're not a superstar. You're not the super star.

Superstar. Also, was I the first one to call you the superstar? I do believe that I was. I do believe that I went on that campaign hard. The Shotsie's the fucking superstar. You know what I'm saying? Probably. Anyway, everybody's on Yaw Johnson because you guys played bad and rightfully so.

I even talked to you guys and I said to you, I'm like, who broke my team? Remember that? I'm pretty sure that was with me and me and AG. No, it was with everyone. Who broke the team? Yeah. Who brought my team? We just won fucking Toronto

against Toronto in front of Toronto And And who broke my team? How come on fucking Didn't win a single fucking match on a weekend For fucking four weeks?

And he broke us for a little bit I mean Yeah So From what I remember Major 4 No, no, no, I was just, it was just a question that we, I want to talk about the thing that we, that everybody should only be focusing on. And I sent out a text in the fucking optic chat, do not discuss this thing anymore.

Okay, the focus should be on the fact that we won a world championship and people are trying to distract everybody from this celebration. Everybody's son. It's a celebration, bitches. Everyone's feeling good and then everybody's like, no, no, no, let's feel bad. My bad. I just, comedic relief. Tell us about the weekend. Going in there, it's a 12th place team.

Any doubts, any, like, tell me everything about it. I'm going to shut the fuck up now. Yeah, and going in, obviously, your most recent tournament, getting the last place, fucking, literally played one match in Burbank. Fucking, we honestly could have showed up to Seth's wedding at that point. Should have came through? We honestly should have. Actually, no, you shouldn't have because everyone got sick.

So it's probably good you did. Actually, yeah. Not me. I got a strong immune system. Everyone got sick. So then, yeah, the practice. The good thing is, is that the practice leading up to champs was like the most productive practice. I've said, I'd say we had the entire, you know, year.

And that's obviously, like, the best thing that, you know, the team should be doing going into the champ. So I was really, really confident going into the tournament. Obviously, you know, we just got us the last. But I feel like you're able to tell how good you are based on your practice. And I feel like the teams that we were playing against, we were like, I want to really say sling. but we were doing like really, really good. And that's one thing that

prior to this event, obviously we weren't doing like major four. So, um, yeah, we just looked really good going into this event. And then we showed up to the event. Uh,

you know, first couple days were obviously really good in practice. I forgot who we played in LAT thieves, New York, phase, I think. And then, uh, our first match was what,

Thursday against L.A.G. L.A.G. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah, no, Ken and Brandon was like, just give me through the first ones I think I can't find those guys I think AG said that too The best team ever, I promise you

LAG's the best team Yeah Can't find them They're just like Just give me through the first one I promise you And then I got them Shit I got them through the first one

And then who would we play next We play thieves Oh my God, that was a grueler That was the reverse sweep That was a grueler We're down two O But like it was one of those two O's We're like, how the fuck are we down two O?

Yeah, yeah We should not be losing these maps Because we lost the what first map I think we I forgot the score but second map was round 11 we're up 4-1 that map and then the control and then every other map

was pretty it's pretty convincing and then subliners we played them back to back to obviously for the chip um bro they're like the they're so funny to play against around who subliners just because like

the way they play is so interesting no one plays like them like they're obviously trying to win but But it's almost as if they're doing it in the most fucking weirdest way it didn't. Like, you know how every team is somewhat different? Like, they have like a game plan and shit like that. Where obviously they have a, like, a structured game plan. But I feel like they strive off like getting kills, like a lot, a lot of kills.

Looks like they freestyle a lot, if that makes sense. Yeah. Like obviously they have a game plan. But it's more like if they're not getting kills, it doesn't really seem. I don't fucking how excellent it, bro. But they just play for kills. They need kills to like do whatever they're doing. They need a lot of kills.

They need an extra kill sometimes, especially spawn killing me a couple times. They need a spawn kill me specifically and then go to the... They're playing for checkouts on Brandon, and then they're hitting you. And then, and then they'll... Did we get Brandon? Oh, we got them twice.

We got them twice. You're a hippie two, let's go. 43. Why did you have to kill with that extra time? But leading up to champs, we could shout out complexity, right? Shout out of Jackson Lake, that's my man right there. No, yeah. Shout out complexity for allowing us to play their office.

That show was actually lit too. Yeah, no, their set-ups were cool. That's a good location. You're like right, dude, you got Kane Raso across the street. You got fucking city works. You got concrete cobble. You got Marquis sushi. You have Mikosina.

That's the spot. I was like, we got ahead of Mikosina. I remember going there in Cold War with you guys. That place is godlike. So good. We went to Ernie's yesterday. But go ahead. We need to start going out more, man.

You got to start going out to eat. Yeah, listen. What do you mean we? That's all we do. That's all that's on y'all. That's a fact. That's a fact. Me and A.G.

We're hearing up ascension. Actually, I did have the cane. That's a pizza place, right? Yeah, I got a regular pizza pepperoni. Margarina. Was it good? It was pretty good. He didn't like it because it was oven.

Because the cheese was like, it was like goops of cheese. Yeah. Yeah, like mozzarella. It's mozzarella. But like, I'm saying like when I took the bite, bro, like I almost choked on it. Yeah. How's the crust?

I'm a crust guy. Oh, it's the best. It's good. It has like burnt pieces on it. Yeah, it's good. Oh, my God. He's good. He wants dominoes.

He wants pizza. Yeah, yeah. Which, which, listen. Payne Roso's like our favorite pizza here now. Like, yeah. Better than the Rosadis? Yeah. No.

Yeah. No. Oh, yeah. Because Rosadis has you feeling like slumpy after. Yeah. Kane Raso is like, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

No, yeah. I mean, I was just hitting Kane. Actually, I only hit that once. And then there was, like, other shit in there. But, yeah, I mean, it was fun. Shout out fucking, you know. Kane Russell. Shout out Kay and Russell.

And that's your coffee, right? Shout out fucking JP, Damon, of course. They obviously had a lot to do with Irwin. And fucking shout out to my team as well. Yeah, I was, I mean, obviously, I was with JP. I've never been coached by Damon. So, like, how was Damon? Damon?

I've never seen it, bro. Obviously, like, he's a good coach because, like, he will say his input, right? And, like, he's DB3. So, like, we're going to listen to him. Yeah, or DB4, actually. So we're going to listen to him, obviously. But, like, bro, I'm telling you right now on Sunday, like, I mean, you could have vouched on this. Like, it was, I don't even know how I explained.

I knew we won. I swear to God, bro, this guy literally pulled up. And, like, JP is usually, like, our Vod guy, right? And, like, yeah, I pull up. And I think he's, like, that third one. I think it was me, then Ken showed up and then Damon, right? And, like, usually it's, like, JP or, like, pageant on them but it's damon right he's on he didn't say a word to me he put his computer on

he's watching vod i swear to god that he literally is mumbling his make goes cafe and he's just literally saying like what they all do and then like after we watch a full map he basically broke down their fucking their starting threats on on their lows on control and their their defense is turning threats and like it's just funny looking at that shit because like you sure it's you yeah David was on. Bro, it's usually Mars on Sunday. Even in search,

he was like, yo, you guys should be doing this if they do this, this is this. I'm like, damn, no, no,

no, even in the free fraud. I'm joining the game. This guy is leaning. He's shitting on me. I'm like, what the fuck? It's champ Sunday.

I'm like, Damon, relax. Let me get a free me. Oh yeah. He's that's funny thing. No, we didn't know the walkout.

We didn't know that walkout, like, you know the dynasty walkout. So, like, he was wearing his jersey. So, like, I thought he was fucking a lot. Well, no, I just thought. How did that fucking jersey?

He literally had that tight-ass jersey. Tiny-ass nipples. Yeah, tiny-ass nipples. Just fucking flicking. I wish I had tiny nipples. And he was also ripping in the free. So I'm thinking, is he better just come back? Like, is he just ready for this thing?

He's like, fuck it. I'll do it myself. You 12th place fucks. What? He's like, well, I'll do it. Brandon just gave it to me. Now, yeah, but Jake B is a nerd, though, dude. He has so many stats, bro.

it's actually fucking insane. Yeah, he does. I mean, yeah, JP has his own fucking statistic program that he coded. I mean, Seth knows. Like, you're like, hold on, JP would be like, your, Brandon. Like, for P2, it's like, you haven't gotten to kill him three days. Oh, I remember that.

He, like, he, like, what map did he check me? Was Zarko? Yo, no, he, no, he fucking checked me on hydro, and then I became, like, the best hydro. No, you would have got on that specific. I remember, I think it was a P3. If I remember correctly, I think, like, our biggest thing is that we weren't, like,

rotating the P3 to P4. Like we kept like flipping ourselves to the back and then like once he told you that I swear to God actually remember that No no he didn't say that he said a stat he was like Seth Why do you stop getting kills on P3 and P4? And I was like I was like my ass on B3 and P4 No I was like I was like I was so caught off guard because he never said anything like that But I was like what the fuck are you talking about baby And it like loki like it made me it made me want to get godlike at hydro so I could fuck with him and then I got Godlike at

Yeah, yeah, but it's, you know, J.P.'s the man. He checked me, he checked me for sure. What was the answer? Huh? What did you answer him? I don't fucking remember. I was like, I don't know, JP. I guess I'm just getting, like, caught out.

I'm not getting straight. I don't know. I'm just not going to kill. What was your least favorite map in that, like, competitively in that game? In that game? Yeah. From where you can remember. Or just control.

H. No, control has always been like my bread and butter. Yeah, no, control that game was good. No, HP. My least favorite HP? Yeah, like, no. Probably Hydro No

No Because Embassy was hell of fun Because Embassy was like the bang What's the beach one? Hydro I liked Hydro The Beach one The Hydro?

The hydro's the one That's like a red map Right? Yeah it's like stone and shit Yeah red clay The beach one The beach one With the fucking boat in the middle

There's a boat in the middle What's a boat in the middle? A fucking a ship Texas USS Texas You have a team? Dude, am I tweaking? Gavitu, you're thinking, oh, he's thinking about Vanguard.

Yeah, it's wrong game. Hector's thinking what the wrong game. Maybe hotel, because hotel was like, you got in a psychon, hotel was fucking. Oh, hotel. I could see that. Yeah, I can see that. Yeah, I was thinking about the game before that.

All right, so, like, tell me about the experience of the crowd, man. Like, I mean, obviously this is. I can look Brandon fucking out because I'll be talking to. We're going to get to Mr. Join the club. I always fucking lit, dude. I don't know, bro. I was on my stream yesterday.

I was like, I swear to God, every single time I go on stage, like, if you pull a venom, like search of venom, and like, that's how I feel like, yeah, yeah,

you'll see. Start sticking your tongue out and shit. You see Damon, like his, dude, look at David. I'm telling you right how David's game ready.

I promise you. Oh, yeah. Trust me, I know he's game ready. But that way, wait, wait, that was the coolest thing

from the event. It was like the, what's the light up shit in the crowd? The wristbands? Oh my God. I saw that on my desk on set. It started on Saturday. It wasn't there Thursday or Friday.

I saw that shit on my desk are like when we walked in. I was like, yo, no fucking way. And then I looked at the crowd and they were all like lighting up and I was like no way. It's so cool. They were all synced, right? No, yeah, yeah, yeah. So how do you do like that? You know how by trying?

Do you know what people get when they go? You know what they what they do when they go to another event? Do they get light up fucking synced fucking lights? I mean, you go to a Mavs game, they have that chase. Mabs game, but what about any other major? No, no. Okay. Well, again, no good deed goes.

Like, we tried our fucking essence. Also, whoever the fucking prick that was, first of all, the- There was a couple of them. Yeah. There was a couple of them. No, I will say this. Like right there, that guy right there. Who are you standing in front of, man?

The one that was flicking people off. Yeah, we got to, you know, I was saying it all weekend on the watch party. I was like, yo, that guy's getting. Way too close. He's getting way too close to them. This guy's like this far from with his fingers in his face. I'm like, bro. Nah.

Like you got to fucking chill out. Like, yeah, I'm glad you had Caesar in front of me, trolling. I'm glad you had a good time. Wait, what the fuck? Someone went in the middle like that? I do not. No, it was a drone. Oh, that's a drone.

No, I'm kidding, dude. There was actually someone. Wait, wait, wait, go back. Go back. Wait, Brendan, do you remember this? Do you remember someone walking straight through us? Oh, I just had to. Right here?

Lou, loo, right here, right here. Nah, there's no way this is somebody flying. Yeah, no, this is a camera, like, mounted on some shit. Yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a gimbal. Like the, I don't remember this. Let's see if you see the reflection of the guy holding it right here. Would you have a funny, did you have, oh, you had kids. He was Loki flying.

I had Caesar. Okay, let me, let me address this shit right here. First of all, you cannot, you cannot put the actions of one person on an entire fucking fan base. Okay. Of course. Also, Optic isn't. responsible for the behavior of a fucking human wearing a jersey. Can you prove to me that he is not really another fan,

another team's fan and he just wore our shit to make the Greenwell look bad? I mean, I could argue against that all day long. But what I will say is that, look, I've been to sporting events in the fucking 90s, okay? And it gets rowdy, okay, and all that. But racial slurs, like, don't be a fucking, you can't be, you can't be racist. and a member of the Green Wall when I am Mexican, we have a Lebanese, we have fucking Shotsie, we have Kenny, like that makes no sense to me, how you could be a racist and scream racial slurs

on a team that's led by a brown person. I mean, even that, though. We got a lot. We got the multicultural on this one. And you know what else? And I've addressed this before. When was it? It was, I think we had like a, who the fuck was it?

We, at one point, we had, you, Shotsie, Ili. Who else was our teammate at that, in that point? No, and then beyond that, was there? Kyler. Kyler. All right. When we made the switches, some fucking fan hit me up. And he's like, he's like, you fucked up on that.

He's like, I thought you were trying to make a statement on this. you know, on a minority all team. And I said, I never, ever, ever, ever look at that shit. If you're qualified, you're going to play. I'm never going to give you a chance because you are a certain fucking color. Because nobody gave me a chance because of a certain fucking color. What I earned I earned because of my fucking brain and my motherfucking tenacity. And yes, being Mexican is a superpower, but we won't talk about that.

Okay. Don't do that shit. Or if you do that shit, don't be wearing our fucking jersey. Well, I mean, it goes past racial slurs, too. There's obviously, I heard the, I mean, I've seen on Twitter. There was a lot of, like, homophobic slurs. I saw that, I mean, I saw the video of Troy where. Somebody called him a fat.

Yeah, like personally insulting his appearance. I mean, it goes way past. Like, you should just know. There's a line that you don't cross. Unless you're someone's friend, don't talk shit about their appearance. Okay? Only, I do that to my friends. Sure.

But you're strangers. I mean, I feel like people, I feel like people know the line. I feel like if they're going to cross it, they're just going to cross it because that's what they're about. You know what I'm saying? Don't cross it in front of me. But you know what I'm saying? You still cross the line, bro. Suppose that.

Because, I mean, again, I just knew they were saying crazy shit. I definitely do feel bad for it. Based off the body language, I knew people were saying crazy shit. Yeah, I just don't like it when when Pat and others. bring up the fact that Lacefield was being screaming. Like you can't blame that on the entire fucking fan base. Like, that's just fucking ridiculous.

We don't support it. I don't think that we need to to make a statement saying that we don't fucking support it. It should be fucking obvious. Look at the skin I'm in. Okay? You're fucking morons. You got a caramel roster. Yeah, and it was

not deliberate either, right? It's just the way of the world. Agee is not an American either, right? He's from Australia. Like, come on, man. I don't want to talk about that shit. But do not act like that in one of our jerseys. Okay, if you choose to, we ain't going claim you, period. And you know what else? If you're around a person like this, let's be like, yo, man, shit. Put it down a little bit. Ain't nothing wrong with your say. It's like, yo, you're crossing the line. Monitor each other. When we're out there getting fucked up

and I'm stumbling and shit. Like somebody says, like, maybe no more old-fashioned hacks. I mean, you know what? Thank you. Yeah, we don't. Let me throw somebody in H-D.

You give me another one? You give me another one? Yeah, we don't. Enablers. Take one more. One more for the road. This is something that I was saying before that. I want to ask you,

obviously, about your experience. But I did say this, Seth, in 2010, when the first ever million-dollar tournament happened for Call of Duty, Optic won that. Seven years later, in 2017.

Optic won that world championship seven years later. Yo. It's a game of sevens. Lucky number seven. I feel like waiting out of this seven. We're not waiting another seven though.

It's not an open, an open invite. We're breaking that seven shit. You think so? I ain't waited. Next year, back to back. No one's ever done it. We not win seven.

No one's ever done it. No one's ever done it. We're primed for it. What about you? Let's start with your prep. What was your prep like? And like, what were you focusing on as dashy to sort of support your team going into this weekend.

Boy, it's really digging? Yo, Hacks, lunch? I can't. I got another meeting. Have fun out there, though. Take care of it. How can I help you guys? Let me get two beers. We eat one ribby medium, one double burger, one buffalo chicken sandwich,

one order or nachos, one cassidia, and one sausage roll. Three milkshakes. Extra ranch. Open or close. Open. How different... Do you think there's other e-sports owners and CEOs that have somewhat of a similarity to how you... We're ready to close it out. So your totals $567.93 charge of this card?

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Relationships, friend group, green wall, RR and ranked play. Definitely not one thing that came to mind, but you know what is growing? What about your sales on Shopify? It's that easy. I mean, basically, like, I mean, Ann already alluded to it like before, but it's just our practice. I just wanted to make sure that every day that we got on, it was just productive.

So, like, at least I can just control what I can control. So at least my effort, energy, making sure I was engaged, just having, like, I guess, a contagious vibe that people are just, that want to show up and, like, just win. I feel like whenever we're all locked in, we all want to win, you know what I'm saying? I feel like we're unstoppable. So that was basically my, I guess, effort. And then going into the attorney, at least in the matches, if somebody had it, like, and had it. AG had it Ken had it I was just making sure like okay they're in rhythm I don't want to like how do I just basically how do I basically just keep this going you know what I mean I don't

want to mess up their like takeover by doing something that would throw them off or do anything that I guess wouldn't support them or enable them so I was like I'm gonna get in the hell I'm gonna bump them you know what I'm saying you know what I'm saying like let's go you go we're fucking winning this shit I was making sure like I saw and he was like bump I was across yeah yeah I'm close just go just go just go P-P-P-B-P-B-P-B-Rio. I was like, hey, you got it. What's a bump?

Bump means like he's on the hill, but he's like, someone like, push him off the hill so I can go to like this. Oh, gotcha. So he can push out while you fill in his spot. I'm like, yeah, I'm like, yeah, I'm close to the hell. I was not close to the hell. I'm like, yeah, oh, I'm just like, fucking piss on a spring into that shit. Like, basically it for my part. All right, what about the crowd?

Oh my God, the crowd was insane. I mean, I swear the crowd. It was basically a fifth man. I know it's like, corny to, like, corny to, like, everyone usually says that like go-to-line but oh my god like single-handedly like like especially against like the thieves like that series like just willed us like through like certain moments and I mean as soon as you got up there it was like a drug it was like going right

through your body and I'm like oh my god I feel like I could fucking run through a wall right now yeah it's one of those shout out to the crowd I swear dude like that's a weekend I'll never forget yeah no one none of us will ever um I'm gonna be talking about this until the next championship I got five rings Well, a wedding ring, right? But I got two HALA world champs Two Call a Duty World champs My wedding ring

Yeah, I got a million subs Yo, that's crazy Dude, I legit got fucking emotion I didn't think I would No, you didn't, man Yeah, I did. Well, you didn't see it because I am a stoic So hard. It's trying so hard

Because we We wanted to go grab him, come Have him sit down. Yeah. And be like, yo, check your shit. Did you guys have like the countdown? Yeah. So he was at like 9-80? 9-61.

So Friday. I think, I think, okay, so we got, okay, so the first wave then must have got you to 980, because it must have been a two-wave thing. Yeah. And then at 980, we said the day before you weren't on the watch party. We were like, all right, tomorrow we're 100%. We're going to have over 100,000 viewers. The boys are in champ or in finals.

So we're like, tomorrow we're going to have a hard push. And it was like. You got to say that on the stream or Twitter? other. Yeah, yeah. Well, we said it on the stream, but like to each other. Yeah, yeah. And then the next day, obviously champs, you were at like 981 or 982, 93 maybe,

and it shot up like 20K in like five minutes. And we didn't think that was going to happen. That's motion. That's motion. And then we sent Porter to go get him and we tried to make it a surprise for when he sat down. It was. Yeah, well, we told Riley like, turn off the fucking thing, Riley. Because Riley had it

up on his screen. We're like, Riley, take it out. Yeah, yeah. And sat down and they were like check your phone and and then he he like you didn't get emotional i did i know when you're getting emotional no no i did i did i did i did 100% get emotional yeah what's right there 969 look at damn 973 and then bam i'm telling you damn so it was like i've been at nine i've been in 960 for like two years you know i mean if you look at that wall right there it says one it's it says august of 2019 on there that i'm like one million like that's where i was going to put the goal plaque.

So July 20th, you were at 973. So it was more than that. Because July 20th was the day before finals, right? Yeah. It was 21st. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's influence right there.

And I do appreciate it. I was, especially when the chat was like, fucking saying it's like, congrats, congrats. I was like, no, they weren't. Once I sat down. Oh, yeah. Once I sat down. Yeah.

We were like, keep spamming optic because we were acting like we were running a giveaway. They're like, so even if people were trying to spoil it, it'd be hard. It was so fast. I didn't see it. I didn't see it. I think he's smart. And then they're like, check your, check your phone and look at your sub count.

And as I reached out, I like it processed and I'm like, no fucking way. And then I opened it and I couldn't find the home button on my app. And I'm like, I can't even fuck. I'm like, where do I go? Like I was overwhelmed. I'm like, where the fuck do I go? And it was crazy. It was crazy.

I will say, though, the crowd, when I was in the suite and I had the Wallace flag and I was swinging that shit, I can only imagine what it must feel like making a fucking play on that. Because if I'm waving a flag, and I'm feeling this energy. I mean, you felt that obviously when you came out, you felt that when you were up in the thing, when that many people are screaming at you in a positive. way. Like that is true energy that

you can't even, it's immeasurable. There's no way to describe that that ampness that you get. It was a memorable weekend for sure. I'm telling you that's a drug. Like I promise you it is. You get up there, you're on the cheetah. Like, that's what I'm going to say. It's funny that you mentioned that because like

leaning up to champs, I made sure that like I was full like, like Brandon said, fully invested in like basically having contagious energy so where like all your teammates are just involved right so mine and AG's like method was literally just drinking caffeine

right like a lot of caffeine wait a second wait a lot they had a fucking different caffeine Ken is here for fucking voucher for proof also okay I'm gonna say a lot of energy drinks just a lot just variations of air because you got to a point where I didn't feel it anymore right it really made me fucking fall asleep

if anything but anyways it's like like kind of crazy because yeah obviously Thursday took fucking caffeine up until Saturday right but then Sunday I thought to myself like

it's literally the biggest fucking obviously the biggest day for the ring and I was just like I feel like what the caffeine is doing I feel like the crowd could already do so I literally went into tournament or went into that day with no caffeine which like I haven't played

no caffeine like fucking I don't even know And, yeah, I played on stage with no caffeine Preeturet it up I took a lot of risk out of it. I took a lot of risk out of that event. I even played with a new controller right then and there or on Thursday.

New controller, no caffeine? He said, fuck it. That's run chance finals. But he fried? Yeah, I started slow a little bit and then I forgot a little map. It was out, it was real. Rio, I was like, all right.

Oh, yeah, once you get the flow? I was all right. I'm good now. I was like, yeah, we're chilling. No, that's insane. Nice. Shout of the crowd. Yeah.

Kenny, you want to come up here really quickly? I want to hear your experience. Take over my seat and just essentially tell me, I want to know what it felt like from your perspective, that the energy of that fucking crowd. Just tell me. So it's not, obviously, not my... Thank you. It's not my first time winning champs.

But I will say this is probably like the craziest venue ever been at, craziest event. I mean, it's my favorite so far. I think the energy from the crowd, just, even after winning, like, first map was just, like, insane. Like, you feel unbeatable, you feel untouchable. Like, I feel like that, like, that was, like, the experience. Like, for me, like, after every mat that we won, you can just tell, like, the energy was just getting bigger and bigger. And, like, like, people get, like, feel it. Yeah, and, like, every gunfight just kept, it felt easier. As the game went on, I feel like, the gunfights got easier. I feel like the crowd made, like, because usually people say the crowd

makes you nervous but the like the crowd made me feel like like I said untouchable like I was just like blowing so like I'm like yo every time I get a kill they're screaming yeah I'm like even if he goes on in the back that's what I'm saying so like for me like this experience was crazy like like crazy so like I was even telling like my fam after like I don't think I've ever experienced anything like that like even like the walkout to the walk out like yeah the walker in front of us it's like a passing of the torch type of thing like the crowd was just I know the word aura is thrown around a lot but that fucking walk out with them four was

God was God like yeah shit was Godlike because he's just seeing I'm like holy shit this is four fucking not just just optic legends but like legit cod legends you know what I mean because you guys have all four been like the best at one like at one game for like so long but like the cameras couldn't like pick up like how loud

it was in there because like watching it back oh my God dude no no it does not do it just it sounds loud on stream but in person it was like even when like when our headsets We have white noise in our head, and I can still, like, barely hear y'all half the time. Like, it was. Yeah, it was insane.

I'm not going to lie. How loud was it, Seth, when you did that, when you first, like, the crowd first, like, saw you guys this four, like getting... Oh, I blacked out. I don't remember. I don't remember at all. I mean, it was obviously loud. But I don't, I don't really remember. They had the violence playing.

Look at JP. Processed JP. He's getting active in the back. He's getting active. Look at them. You guys showed out. I'm not going to lie. That was...

Who'd you have in front of you, Ken? I had Caesar. For me? At Bago. Oh, wow. Baco. I had Caesar. It's so troly.

Caesar's going for fucking checkouts in front of me. But yeah, that shit was crazy. Even like the little green lights, like that was dope. That was almost like concert vibes. Yeah, that was like concert vibe. Now, you know what I liked about that too? It's like if Toronto was playing. They won, then the entire stadium would like light of purple because it was like all like in sync with like everybody else.

It was so fucking cool. That is broken. Yeah. So maybe like Toronto had a lot of. I mean, like, New York, when they beat you map 3... Is you yellow? Yellow, yeah. Wait, really?

Yeah, like, even, like, in the winner's finals, it was, yeah. That's actually, it's fault. It wasn't just for us. It just depends, like... You can take a piss. You could take a piss, and then, like, you would know who wins, because it'll light up, right? Basically.

Yeah, if you came out, like, as the map ended, yeah, you would know who won. You'd be like, let's fucking go! Unless it was like... We fucking won't. Oh, yeah, you're taking a piss. and it starts going green. You're like, yeah, but if it goes yellow,

you're like, no. Fuck how they lose that shit. Like L-A-G, Toronto, though. I don't know how they did it. Oh, yeah, when it went round 11, I noticed this and not run 11? This is the first time I noticed it too. A whole stadium goes red

because it's the round 11 thing. You know what I'm saying? And that too? Yeah, so whenever it goes, you know how like on stream? Yeah, yeah. It'll be like, they'll have like their own like a round 11,

I guess like fucking intro or whatever. Yeah. But it goes all red, like all the braids. I'm like, damn, what the fuck? Yeah, that shit was sick. to add that for more events. Like that show was so cool. Hopefully. Hopefully people took a couple things from the event and start. Yeah. No. Oh my God. That event, forget about it. Oh, my. Like, we can't, I can't go back. If we go back to like a Miami event, like the one we had major two, I'll fall asleep, I think, on the stage.

I mean, I would assume that it's probably going to go back to. You're right. You know what I'm saying. Okay, no more, no more major force cages. No more major fours. There's got to be at least a crowd. It's got to be at least a ground facts at least bring our fam you know what i mean like we can't bring bring our family at least insane that's insane that's insane yeah so even jp's on the feds he's like they're like uh where can we say like uh i don't know if you guys could be out of here maybe just actually stayed in the cages bro they and they close that shit all right so obviously champs electric now e-sports world cup coming up we got about what three weeks until it? How are you guys

feeling? Going into that that now that you've won the ring and talk to me. It's definitely interesting because literally this has never been done before. Yeah. Like having like a well besides like what? Maybe AW or something like that? Yeah but even Chambers is in the beginning, like that's like different

though because the season was like you knew the season was still like a thing. He's almost like back to back champs. It was like yeah like in the middle. When was World's? World was the last event because that's the event I played it. I got top six to that event. that's an event I played you at for like the well was it the first time maybe it was the first time

oh was it I think it was well I thought see I didn't even remember the champs was like earlier that yeah chance was earlier that year because who won it did not one and then like worlds happened at the end of the year which was like literally the last event oh shit so yeah this is like this is definitely unique then I mean this is like this is like the biggest event of the year followed by the second biggest event

exactly at least prize pool wise so so I mean it's a second big event of year Because, like, normally, like, your our off season we already started. That's what makes it even crazy. Like, all season would have already been started and we just have been vibed. But, like, now that they go back and play the game again is kind of weird. Not a lot. This is my first time doing it, so I'm like, I don't know how.

I imagine. Yeah, we got a lot of chance. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, we got a script next week. I'd be delusional. I mean, I'm going to be delusion for a little bit. Maybe that first day I'm going to be like on Mars. Like, holy shit.

Fucking. I'm like, bro, I've been ring. I'm like, dude, what the fuck I have a ring? I'm like, dude. I might put ring in my clan tag Yeah Just check everybody out of the lobby Just check everyone that joins

I promise I'm gonna check people out And I'm gonna have fucking big rings playing by Drake And the fucking on the game chat Because I got a really big team I'm not gonna lot though I don't know Like I'm like nervous or like anxious for the event though I don't know

I think I don't know Just going out of the country Be like kind of like It's definitely gonna be different Exactly So like, I don't know. I feel like when I get there, I'm going to be excited. Like, as like stuff starts becoming more comfortable,

and when I get there, I feel like I'll be excited. But right now I'm just kind of like anxious. That's how I am. Like, whenever you're like traveling, like obviously the travel day sucks, that travel day is going to suck. Oh, for sure. I mean, it's just far away. I'm not going to be so.

I'm weird. I like the longer flights. I'm just weird. Yeah. Because like the bigger planes and the longer flights, like, I like, because like the smaller planes, I feel like you feel more of the turbulence and like stuff like that. And I can't.

I'm not like, I can't do that. I wonder how, yeah, we're probably gonna have a couple things. You get blankets and stuff on these flies and you just be knocked. Oh, wait, can you look up Qatar? Is it, can we see the airway or the airway can't say? Wait, you look up some of those flights? I want to see the double deckers, the double-bar airways. You guys might be on one.

I mean, depending on. Oh, that motherfucker. Wait, oh, I was on the, I was on the seating thing today and it shows there's like a baby, like, thing in front of the seat. Did you guys know that? You guys first? It's called a burst. He's called it like a basis If I was first I'd be at the airport right now

I'd be fucking that excited You're in the lounge right now I'd be fucking abusing the fucking perks right now Wait are you, wait What are you guys sitting on this? I think we're fucking economy Nah hell no Or not economy

Yeah you guys gotta have At least premium economy No no we have regular I mean we want champs Yeah I'm upgrading in though Yeah I'm upgrading to We want champs I'm my upgrades here

Yeah you got me fucked If you think I'm sitting 18 dollars in this damn fucking No I'm not gonna lie down the bigger plans though Like it ain't that bad Oh really? I've done it

100% it's actually not I feel like people be saying like you don't get no room with these flights but I mean maybe I'm just a smaller person but bro I've I thought there's hell of room economy definitely has more room like especially on these like bro the like wait you said the food is good too yeah hell yeah I mean I don't know we flew to maybe I don't know when I flew to Japan it was nice yeah because like they got to but I think they they're obviously going it off where you're going. So I don't know what type of food they don't give us. Well, I mean. Yeah, that is like they might give us some like

Mediterranean. Exactly. But I don't know. Her guitar is like the food's going to be gas. Because I mean, you think like American Airlines are usually looked at as like worse than like the top. That's true. Yeah. Like ETHAD ETHAD airlines like Lufanza like all those airlines

are like they say they're godlike compared to like. We got the worst shit apparently. Yeah. American Airlines? Apparently American is the probably the worst shit. Really? Yeah, wow. And that's all we fly. I thought that show has got like...

Qatar Airways is probably fire. Yeah, oh yeah, we know. We started hitting up the Delta. Actually, I heard United's the worst shit, actually. But back to what I was saying. Like, I'm usually like... I'm usually tweaking, like, until we get to the hotel. And then when you get to the hotel, it's like, all right, now I'm settled in.

You can kind of understand the environment. I've never been... I've never even thought I would ever go to Saudi. Yeah. Like, I don't think I've ever planned it, like, thought about it. Like, granted, it might be a nice, ass place to go to. I just have never thought about going. So, like, going to a place that you never thought about going.

It's kind of like... The Warzone guy said it was, like, really nice. I've heard. What war zone guy? I asked Shifty about it. Shifty, like, all those guys? Oh, yeah. I only talked to Shifty about it, but he said it was, like, super, super nice.

They have, like, fast food restaurants. They got, like, canes and shit. They got, like, yeah, it's, like, it's, like, You go there, they're just Chick-fil-A. Yeah, they're just Chick-fil-A. I forget what other restaurants you said, but they got, like, canes and nice, like, fast-food places. I mean, you guys- I do want to try, like, food there, though.

Yeah, you got to hit a kebab shop, right? Yeah, I mean, you got to, yeah, at least try it. You got to. Yeah, no, I'll definitely try it. The kebob shops are probably elite. Like, get a gyro from there? Oh, they're probably... Oh, they're probably...

Oh. They're probably insane. But also, it's going to be way different. like after playing at champs and then going to that because watching the Warzone broadcast it didn't look like there were like that many fans or just in the venue. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Like there was like one bleacher set and it was maybe like maybe a couple hundred people max. So it's going to definitely be a little bit different of an atmosphere but I'm hyped for you guys because the stage looked like sick. No, the stage looks insane. Like the stage, the production, like everything. The thing I'm not,

It's single a limb Is it actually? Yeah Oh yeah Like after groups After groups It's single a limb Oh shit

It's one of those So it's like an X games Yeah Yeah yeah Yeah yeah Because both X games Because think about it There's 16 teams

And it's what A three day tourney From Friday to Sunday Yeah That's probably the only way They could fit it in Wait is it from I thought it was like

Five day thing No I think it's Friday to Sunday I'm pretty sure So if it's three days And they got to fit 16 teams And there's only one stream Because back in the day Like you know

They would have like Bravo Charlie Delta If there's more That would be like 12-hour street. Yeah. I mean, there's no way. They got to have, like, other matches being played. So how does the, I don't know.

How does the pool stuff work? How do you know who gets drawn in a pool? I think our pooled. They already did them? Yeah, you guys have, I think, Vegas and Carolina. Vegas, Carolina and Falcons. Are we got the Falcons? No, I don't think we have Falcons.

But that's what it's, wait. I could be wrong. Because I thought Falcons. That's kind of hard, though. We're going to play against the fucking home team. Yeah, that's all right. But yeah, pools are out. I think Toronto, there's one.

There's one death, quote, death pool. Yeah, it's like Toronto and NYU, I think. Or something like. Toronto face. Seattle. So, no, there's one pool that's insane. Oh, it's Seattle. Toronto phase.

Where are two guys get out of groups? Get out. Yeah. There's Toronto phase. Yeah. Wait, that's kind of crazy. It's two teams get out. So two, two just get insta eliminated.

And then it's a single limb. Single limb. But it's like, it's like actually like World Cup vibes. You know, single-leman, like, you know what I'm saying? True? You have 90 minutes. That is a good point. We're going to have to be Argentina.

Because they won. Nah, if you guys go back to back, though, that's like what? 350K in three weeks. That ain't too shabby. That is not a bad payday. That is not a bad payday. But I'm super excited to watch party. I don't know if we're on Twitch or YouTube yet, but it's going to be.

That tournament's going to be just hella cool because, like, after seeing it once, I feel like it's going to, like, it's going to become a yearly thing, like an annual thing. So, I mean, it's really nice for you guys. I mean, in the community, just to have like. Not a champs almost. Yeah, another huge prize pool tournament. My huge fan of, I'm listening. I'm all for adding an extra event.

And if it's not, it's not just any extra event, it's like also like a fucking basically another champs type of event. Like, I'm down. I feel like what would be cool about it too, though? It's like moves like every year. year. Oh, like to a different that's what I was thinking. Like that would be lit. That would be lit. I'm not going to lie. I don't think it's moving. Well, obviously, right not. I don't think it's like there. I'm just saying. I'm just saying.

It would be dope. Yeah, I think I don't think it's moving. But also, I mean, kind of segueing off of that, the International Olympic Committee unanimously unanimously voted yes for the creation of the Olympic Esports Games. That's all that. That's dope. Fortunately, no cod No cod no CS no FPS besides maybe Fortnite

Wait CS did it in Like league or something No see no no FPS Like no shooters Which I get I know leagues in Is it yeah league that like for sure Rocket League's probably gonna be in

For some shit Wait why is that Probably gonna be in That's how she knows I mean just like for I don't know I'm just gonna go out of limb But I think for advertising

purposes Like advertisers especially like traditional advertisers that would advertise around the Olympics like your huge name brand companies but Valerate though I feel like Valor is more in like the cartooning yeah

yeah yeah I don't know exactly but like whenever you shoot whenever you get a head shot in Val there's that blood that explodes from their head so it's like I don't know whatever you should think of the future that kind of fucking disintegrate

like they'll go to FPS or no I don't know I think the FPS game has to be like the undisputed like biggest game it was like literally the most insinently BCS but like it I think it would have already been CS I don't think any game gonna be a league for a minute maybe Dota but like league is still just league I mean even then though I just don't think I don't think they'd like be able to get around the

the FPS and like the real guns and I don't see S is way too hardcore fucking I that's what I say I feel like Valor isn't be the only one that like pushes the border line like literally defense is called counter terrorist like terrorist is offense counter terrorist I mean imagine playing for an Olympic gold medal though that's fucking insane I can't wait so Rocket League's in there that would be fucking insane Matt pull up the

pull up the games it's like yeah so like NBA 2nd I think I'm putting fighting games Rocket League I mean it makes sense that the sports games are like yeah it makes sense but the fighting games we might as well

yeah they're kicking the shit out of each other that's what I'm saying mobile games Rocket League is going to be fucking hard. Isn't Conmel in like the biggest mobile game? One of them, but again, it falls under that umbrella

of like an umbrella. What other mobile game? I got to put a match trial a couple years ago. Clash or Clans. Nah. Respectfully, no way.

They get over Connell. That's a clan's. It's a bangor game. Listen, fun game. It's a chance. It's out of Olympics. I'm not going to lie.

Listen. Tell me they're like this. What the fuck, dude? They got my gems. What the fuck? GGs, man. Silver. What?

Yo. I actually got roasted for my clip when I was like, I got roasted. I was racing. Come up. I'm like, dude, one shot on the fucking back. What the fuck is that? Dude, my phone died too. You what the fuck?

Like, dude, I didn't just play with it. Lucky cry, bro. Yeah, I'm gonna be, I'm gonna low key be like on a little bit of hater shit when people are winning Olympic gold medals. I'm gonna be like. Is some haters shit? Man, that shit is too cool. Like, we got the X-Games gold medals, but they're getting Olympic gold medals.

X-game is like what, like the national, but like fucking is what, a global Olympics? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like the whole world. Bro, I might be on a little bit of hater shit. That shit is crazy. So like the obviously like there is so like, let's say if you're on a team, like if you're playing at the Olympics and you're probably just playing for your country, right? Like at that point. I don't know how it's going to work.

That's actually a good question. Because I don't know if they're going to do like clubs, like how they're doing it for the Eastports World Cup. So Fortnite is going to make it. Damn. I wonder if it's like you have to rep like it's like a national. That will go hard if it is. I'd have my blender and fucking Damon. That has to be how it works, bro.

You don't think so? Maybe. It has to be. There is no way. I just feel like with e-sports it's like I feel like the talent pool for especially some of these games. Like there's probably no community for certain countries for some of these games. Yeah, but I feel like it was like that for like basketball for like the

limits for the longest time until like better players start yeah yeah the limit the n a team was just running people for like the longest time now it's like actually like a battle for most of these because after after the south sedan game the odds went from like a thousand to one for south sedan to win to 100 to 1 and the USA's got like bumped like back like how was that a close game also I'm telling you it's like develops over the years like he would just get better so that's how it's it's just a country because like team us They do like eight years ago. That shit.

I'm 50 and a half. Like, turn this shit off. That's what I'm saying. They do like the show match games before the actual Olympics. Like the USA does like a world tour basically, like playing like Slovenia and South Sudan and Canada and just all these different countries. That's the one that. LeBron did the, he won that show, right? Took over.

Yeah. He like, he like scored the. Yeah. He like scored the. He like made a one point number. But like now that they see these exhibition games and they're like, yo. These guys lost by one point. It's like now the odds.

Because people are just assuming that USA's going to go in with fucking bra and KD book, like Steph. They're like, nobody's touching these fools. And then Salcedanamo's almost pizza. That's what I thought. I'm like, damn. That shit's crazy. But we have hit one hour on the podcast. You guys got anything else to say? I mean, just about how you're feeling or any closing moments here?

Shout out green wall. Yeah, shout out the green wall. That's it. Got out the wall, man. I finally recovered. Brick by your good? Did you? Yes.

Yeah? Bro. Oh, my God. I'm still like, I'm still like, I'm still like cloud. No, and I'm not going to love. Yesterday was like, wow, full regain. I actually went to the gym and everything.

There you go. Once you go to the gym and get the blood flowing and you sweat it out a little bit, that's what you feel. I was sweating it out because even at the gym I was almost about the yak. I'm like, oh, look. I'm like, I had to go home. Hold up. I need a gatorade.

It was one of those. you step in five minutes hit like one workout and you're like I can't do this shit walk out I've done that before I was like I cannot do this just walk out I felt I felt horrible about it um but yeah congratulations to you guys I'm excited I'm super excited to watch you guys get back after it just with like all the confidence in the world get back into another tournament setting yeah three weeks I know you guys might have you know different opinions got to But I'm hyped to watch it I wonder, wait, are we gonna play in our CDL accounts?

It's so random, but like... Yeah, yeah, no, we are. We are? Good question. You're asking some good questions. You're gonna lie. Yeah, because, like, literally the only way to actually play online

is through, like, the CDL accounts. But all right, guys, thank you guys for watching. This was episode 184 of the pod. See you guys in the next one. Peace, boys.