The Challenger’s Elite Series houses the next best and greatest Call of Duty professionals, only for them to be stuck in the CDL’s division two.
History of the Call of Duty League’s Division 2
The Call of Duty League has always had a series where amateur and pro-amateur’s can compete in the Call of Duty Leagues’ version of division two. First, there was actually a way to where amateur pro teams and amateur pros could actually go and qualify to enter the league through open qualification brackets and tournaments.
The former league, the Call of Duty World League, had a complex system where there were two divisions of teams. The first division was full of the big professional teams such as OpTic and FaZe, where the second division was full of smaller teams from around the world such as Mindfreak and Team Sween.
The Call of Duty World League was full of excitement with smaller teams beating the bigger teams in spectacular fashions as the underdog. This was only possible by the system created where smaller amateur teams could qualify for the Call of Duty World League to play with the “big dawgs”.
However, ever since the Call of Duty League decided to switch to franchising its teams within the league. There have been a lot of pros and cons to there being an Elite series for the Call of Duty League.
The Pro’s
There are many reasons as to why the Challengers Elite is a great thing when it comes to the aspirations of the Call of Duty League being a top-tier Esports league. According to pros such as Paul “PaulEx” Avila and Carlos “Venom” Hernandez, who have come up to the big leagues from the Elites Series.
Both PaulEx and Venom were on teams in the Challengers Elite Series where they both received high praise and showed off their great skills on the Call of Duty League’s second-biggest stage. They both expressed their appreciation for the Call of Duty League and the Challengers Elite Series because they would not be where they are without it.
The Con’s
In addition, there are a lot of cons to the Challengers Elite Series as well. One major con is that the majority of the players within the series will stay in the series for the remainder of their careers.
Most of the players, being former professionals and former world champions like Austin “Slasher” Liddicoat where he is unable to play for any team due to his contract and knows, if he goes to the challengers series, he might never be on a pro team again. This was shortly after he was benched by the Los Angeles Thieves. He tweeted his frustrations of being in the middle of being on the bench or running the risk of being in the Challengers Series.
“A bench team would do better than a league team, no cap,” said Slasher.
Former world champions like Slasher and Patrick “Aches” Price, who are both in the challenger’s scene, might never reach the main stage again with this format. But the real question that needs to be answered is whether or not this is the correct path for professional players or if this path is not beneficial at all towards players in the Call of Duty scene.
Featured Image Courtesy of the Call of Duty League.
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