Nadeshot Claims Scump Could Be Five Times Bigger If He Quit The CDL
The competitive Call of Duty world would not be the same without three people. Hector "Hecz" Rodriguez, Matthew "Nadeshot" Haag, and Seth "Scump" Abner. Back in the birthing stages of the competitive scene, it was Hecz's OpTic Gaming which captured the hearts of many Call of Duty fans, with brother-like duo, Nadeshot and Scump (Scumpii back in those days), being the face of the Call of Duty world.
However, Nade has since moved on from competitive gaming to become the owner of 100 Thieves, whilst Scump has stayed committed to being the 'king of COD'.
Dubbed by many as one of the top three players ever, alongside Damon "Karma" Barlow amongst other names, Scump still remains strong, playing for Chicago Huntsmen, a top-four side in the Call of Duty League. With his eyes set on getting another World Championship ring this month, Nadeshot has claimed that he should quit competing to become a full-time streamer and he doesn't care about competing as much as he used to.
In a popular podcast series on Hecz's YouTube channel, named The Eavesdrop, episode 67 saw Hecz and Nadeshot sit down and discuss a huge variety to topics. They covered everything from gross backstories, to life as a CEO of an esports organisation, and the future of life-long friend Scump.
Just after the forty-minute mark within the podcast, Hecz and Nade discussed Scump, with Nadeshot claiming that he would be a huge streamer if he quit the Call of Duty League.
"Can you imagine if Seth tried?" questioned Nade, before adding "I truly believe, and you know Seth is being paid well playing for the Huntsmen and he can still win tournaments and is capable of that, and it's a hard chapter to close in that book and you [Hecz] might not want him to do that yet or maybe you do, but I think if Seth quit Call of Duty and went full-time on Fortnite and was a full-time Warzone streamer, he'd be five times as big as he is now".
He later claimed that "Dude he has like 6,000 concurrent viewers whilst everyone else is streaming Warzone and he's playing scrims. He's not even talking to the chat, he's not even trying. If Seth applied himself [to streaming] and quit all of the competing b*llsh*t, he would be... well dude, forget about it." insinuating that he has the potential to become one of the biggest streamers on YouTube.
Both parties on the podcast did go on to defend the king, after Hecz's previous guest, Anthony "NAMELESS" Wheeler ranked Scump outside of the top ten greats of Call of Duty, having him below players such as Chris "Simp" Lehr who has only been around for three years.
Hecz said, "every time somebody ranks him outside of the top ten like NAMELESS was on the podcast, and all these new sources talk about Seth and how he's not in some peoples top ten, I know psychologically that some people don't want to give him his props because they want to up other people".
"People forget how dominant Seth actually was. Especially in 4v4. Obviously, we had a rough go of it in some years in some tournaments when we were playing together [for OpTic Gaming], but Seth was unkillable on some games. Modern Warfare 3, nobody was touching Seth. Black Ops 2, I mean he was breaking Hardpoints by himself. People have got to give Seth the credit he deserves." responded Nadeshot.
Seth is an all-time great.
- Nadeshot
Nade and Scump had a brotherly bond, despite turbulent results at major championships, however, they quickly ascended to the top of the pack within the competitive scene, winning the first-ever MLG X-Games whilst at OpTic. Nadeshot ended the section regarding his former teammate, by claiming "if you don't have Scump in your top ten, you're out of you f*cking mind".
Scump's Chicago Huntsmen side kick off their search for another World Championship ring on Friday, August 21, in the Playoffs, before the Championship Weekend on August 29.
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