H3CZ responds to ROKKR’s controversial tweet after OpTic loss
A day after the Minnesota ROKKR posted a controversial, trash-talking tweet following theirCDL Stage 2 Majorwin against OpTic Chicago, H3CZ has officially responded in defense of his team’s reactions.OpTic Gaming’s CEO, Hector ‘H3CZ’ Rodriguez, is as established a figure as it gets in the gaming world. From trash talking as a player back in 2006 to navigating corporate drama as an executive in 2020, he has seen and been a part of all sorts of spice.So things had to have gotten particularly heated for H3CZ to jump in and drop a 25-minute video on a Sunday. And things did, as Twitter boiled following an unbelievable OpTic loss to Minnesota the day prior — after which the ROKKR social media team posted abit of trash talk.Minnesota beat OpTic in Map 5, Round 11, on a 1v3 that many have already dubbed one of the wildest moments in CoD history. Immediately afterward, the ROKKR shared a controversial tweet that spurredbacklash from players like Seth ‘Scump’ Abner. The tweet has since been deleted, so H3CZ has come out and cleared the air.
https://twitter.com/DexertoIntel/status/1381003829450276871As seen in a screenshot from H3CZ’s video, the ROKKR’s tweet included face cams of OpTic’s players immediately following the loss with a caption that read “We are witnessing a breakdown” and OpTic’s hashtag “BrickByBrick.”Considering how emotional the loss was, Scump called the social media post “disrespectful” and “classless.”
Despite elaborating that this tweet was a “rookie” and “unseasoned” move, H3CZ continues on to squash the beef. Having spoken directly with friends on the ROKKR’s organizational side, H3CZ concludes that they are “good people” who mean well — they just had a social media manager go “rogue.”
Emphasizing that the ROKKR’s postgame content should have centered on their own team’s accomplishments, rather than their opponents’ distress, H3CZ reaffirms his mantra: “Treat others how you want to be treated.”
