Call of Duty League

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I wanna talk about CDL WrestleMania, 'cause I came across this thing, and I think, a- and I hate, obviously because of, of what I am and who I am and what I believe in that this esports should be.

This is true.

It would've...

But the, the back-to-back games, that's a, that's a fact.

That's the king.

They're doing what the CDL should've did with Scump.

That's what I said.

And a lot of those leagues have actually shrunk back or sort of, sort of now it's sort of a holding pattern.

You know, I can remember when the Call of Duty league first started interviewing the then chief executive about how they were going to have teams all over the world.

And there was a, there was a London team, quote unquote, there was a Paris team, the franchising of it, all that stuff.

And I'm just interested as to why none of that promise or none of those sort of offers that were being made by senior people in positions of power in esports at the time about the popularity of it more broadly.

So I enjoy Call of Duty land.

There

were a couple of Welsh boys years ago when I used to follow Call of Duty League that were really good.

And so that sort of had... grip me in as well because you do want to support someone that where you're from right so it does help um look we could talk i'm fascinated by this and uh i could talk more about this all all for ages but we should probably touch on some of the other stuff that we've come that has come in from the discord not just um just basically take over this i mean

When ranked comes out, look, nothing is wrong with ranked.

But what if you add CDL-style series? Like, let me play a best of five for the week or something like that.

Let me play a tournament style right before major one.

Something like that.

I mean, that would be awesome.

Yeah.

You'd be able to simulate like, cause a lot of people, everyone that's in ranked as everybody, but the vast majority of people that are in there follow the CDL.

And that's kind of what everybody wants to be.

People are going to be so mad at me.

What? But I think it's crazy that they have like professional Call of Duty League and there's aim assist on professionals.

That's

why it's not as popular as

How to fix Pokemon Gen 10.

M80 Boston is coming to the Call of Duty League.

And we got my man Dandro here.

back on the scene.

I'll just auto-set my team every week and just make sure the lineup is there.

That's not going to be super competitive.

Speaking of things that are competitive, the Call of Duty League is a competitive league.

You know what? There's going to be some new faces.

There we go, Tillery, and the rest of the shots

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I think they're in other esports.

I actually don't know too much about all the teams that this company owns.

I want to say there's a COD League team, like Toronto or something.

Yeah, I think they have

He also owns the Los Angeles Gorillas.

Who are they? They are in the Call of Duty League.

Video games.

Really?

And on today's episode, we have more roster mania news.

We have a new organization in the CDL continuing a six, maybe seven year long trend in the Call of Duty League of never having the same teams in back-to-back years.

We also have one of the CDL teams seemingly kind of giving up and scaling back their operations as we go into the 2027 season.

We also had the continuation of the NW4 beta.