Los Angeles Thieves

You gotta believe like, you know, you're deserving of a top team.

Uh, especially after like how the year went, uh, I was definitely looking at the top options, like to see what I, you know, what I could possibly do, like LA thieves, like phase to see what they're, they were going to end up doing because the roster mania was really crazy at that moment.

Like, everybody's like everybody's on pause because Paco's on vacation so it was like you're just

waiting

That's when everyone was like, no one knew how good that team was yet.

Yeah, exactly.

So, you know, for all the OpTic fans, like OpTic was a great team that year, but at the end, but going into that event, I felt like all we had to do was beat LA Thieves and we could win this.

And then we beat them.

They don't just win.

Even in the beginning of LA Thieves' team last season, they had a lot of superstar, insane amount of talent.

But the chemistry just wasn't there yet until the meta changed.

They got Neom, and then it flowed better, and it started working.

He likes to get into dubs.

Niamh always liked to play by the wood wall and jump up.

So, yeah, I even learned some LA Thieves strats yesterday when I talked to Mo.

But then you said being up 2-0 at Champs.

the reason Allucca is saying this, 'cause this is also, we forgot to mention, his first ever professional match.

His first ever professional Call of Duty match was at Call of Duty Champs, the biggest tournament of the year, versus LA Thieves, the major three champions and the runners up at major four.

So this is Allucca's first ever professional match.

Okay, so go ahead.

... to keep him was bad.

He reveals he turned down Cloud9 while M80 and LA Thieves offered him a good amount of money and was ready to join the Thieves before they ultimately went with DK.

Wait, s- D- Thieves picked DK over Renker? Is that what I'm hearing?

I don't know.

I'm not sure exactly what it'll really look like, because I think I said it when we talked about the reporters, like there's not a lot to go on.

Like we don't, we don't, Usually with LAT's reported roster, we can kind of get a sense of where that team is going to go, what it will look like considering the past iterations of LA Thieves and all of that.

But I just don't know if we have that much information about M80 at this point, but I am optimistic.

And hopefully it'll all work out for everybody.

In BO7, you had to play slower for your team to help you.

So it was hectic at times.

And he said that if he wasn't on the LA Thieves, that he wanted to play with his good friend Joe DeCeeves on the Paris Generates, which is something that you had mentioned earlier this offseason that we weren't entirely sure what the LAT roster was even going to look like.

Regardless of if Scrap and Hydra returned, was Abizi going to return? Was Niamh going to return? No.

Mm-hmm

... pretty, which was pretty much what it was at l- at the start of last year, Don, with that LA Thieves team.

Scrap and Hydra, uh, aBeZy and, um, Kenny, you know, put those four on a team and was like, "Damn, this team looks great." They weren't that great.

Picked up Niam.

Um, so obviously all it could take is a meta change.

But this, uh, when the new game comes out, you don't know what type of team you're getting.

This LA Thieves team could be terrible or it could be very good.

Um, I just like, I do like the fact they're taking a chance on a European player that doesn't even speak to these guys like that, and they're just like, "Right, fuck it.