Call Of Duty Pro Player Slams CDL Event For Lack Of COVID Testing
The Call of Duty League hosted a preseason CDL Kickoff Classic event for Vanguard this past weekend, but professional player James «Clayster» Eubanks of the New York Subliners tweeted criticism of the event's lack of safety precautions.
The weekend-long Kickoff Classic event featured a return to the LAN environment for the first pro event for Call of Duty: Vanguard's 2022 season. The Toronto Ultra took down the Seattle Surge 3-1 in the grand finals of the preseason tournament, and while it was great to see the return of pro league matches, the event now seems to be overshadowed by safety concerns from pro players as the pandemic continues.
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Clayster tweeted a picture of a positive COVID test and said, «Really happy I had to attend a meaningless kickoff single elim event without proper testing and regulations. F***ing pathetic.»
Absolute breakdown from the CDL to only require 1 negative test on Thursday for players and have zero rules for fans (even though we pushed for no fans, daily testing for players/staff) and of course there's a ton of positive tests coming from this weekend. So braindead.
Clayster elaborates in another tweet to say that the Call of Duty League only required one negative test on the first day of the event. Apparently, there weren't any rules in place for spectators at the event, even though Clayster says, «We pushed for no fans, daily testing for players/staff, and of course there's a ton of positive tests
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