Recently, the entire Seattle Surge team took to Twitter to voice its outrage against the Call of Duty League because of their controversial loss against London Royal Ravens. Sam “Octane” Larew was the most vocal of all the members. His followers know of his venom-spitting rampage on Twitter, following the events at the 2020 London Royal Ravens Home Series match.
I needed to make this video to talk about the things that have happened to my team this year.
Nothing in this I say is incorrect, everything I bring up did in fact happen to my team at some point during this league.https://t.co/bL9Xnh8w70
— Sam “Octane” Larew (@OctaneSam) July 18, 2020
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Apparently, the league fined Octane for his outraged tweets. He went on to tweet about that as well, and it appears that he had to take down all the posts expressing his displeasure, immediately after. However, the video he posted on his YT channel, talking about his team, is still up. Earlier today, he apologized for his behavior on Twitter.
Looks like Octane got the worst of the outrage against Call of Duty League
This is what Octane posted on Twitter earlier today, apologizing for his actions.
I want to take the time to apologize for the way I reacted after our series against London. The circumstances got the best of me and I reacted in the heat of the moment in a way I shouldn't have. Moving forward I'll try and represent myself in a more professional manner.
— Sam “Octane” Larew (@OctaneSam) July 20, 2020
Interestingly, the tweet immediately before this one was this:
"It is a player-related issue, the result will stand." https://t.co/GV6jkWYD7Z
— Sam “Octane” Larew (@OctaneSam) July 20, 2020
We do not know if Octane was truly repentant or coerced into it, but the tweet right before it makes you wonder. Twitter users were quite suspicious of this apology too.
Here are some replies to Octane’s aforementioned tweet. A twitter handle, going by the name CDL Intel, even called this a “hostage situation.”
https://twitter.com/OneEyeBlackJack/status/1285362990196371458
Then we have this one:
Octane as the CDL typed this on his computer pic.twitter.com/avL1WiDhZO
— Ethan Price (@Paradox_EP) July 20, 2020
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As you see, many believe that the Call of Duty League forced an apology out of the player. This does make sense, given the fact that Seattle Surge had a legitimate reason to get angry with the result of the match. The League brushed off “Slacked” getting disconnected as an issue on the player’s part. hence, the organizers made no offer of a replay. CDL stood by the match results even though Seattle Surge faced London Royal Ravens a player short.
The Surge incident might bring about a change in League rules
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The structure and format of the event had to be changed due to the pandemic.?This incident may result in the League becoming more considerate about connectivity issues; at least as long as the competition continues online.? While these are uncertain times, surely the organizers will take into account, and consider solutions for, certain issues moving forward.
What do you think of Octane’s reaction?
