{"id":41674,"date":"2025-03-17T20:54:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/?p=41674"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T00:54:53","slug":"optic-texas-replace-kenny-with-skyz-ahead-of-cdl-major-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/optic-texas-replace-kenny-with-skyz-ahead-of-cdl-major-2\/","title":{"rendered":"OpTic Texas replace Kenny with Skyz ahead of CDL Major 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Call of Duty League (CDL) defending champions OpTic Texas have released Kenneth &#8220;Kenny&#8221; Williams from their active <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/call-of-duty\/\" title=\"Call of Duty betting guide\">CoD esports<\/a> roster following a disastrous run through the second stage of the season.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the Green Wall finalised a humiliating run through <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/call-of-duty\/league\/\" title=\"Call of Duty League betting guide\">CDL 2025 Stage 2<\/a>, managing a 3-19 map record and just one victory &#8212; in the final match of Major 2 Qualifiers against the Los Angeles Guerrillas M8.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A true World Champion, in and out of the game. We&#39;re grateful for the leadership and legacy you&#39;ve built with OpTic<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kuavo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kuavo<\/a> \ud83e\udd96 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jphrK0wSEn\">pic.twitter.com\/jphrK0wSEn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; OpTic (@OpTic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OpTic\/status\/1901710139565978091?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Having shown close to nothing ahead of the Texas Major, OpTic have decided to make drastic roster changes and cut ties with their long-standing member, Kenny, who has been with the team since July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Kenny&#8217;s departure comes as no surprise, as the CDL community has been calling for his sacking for most of the stage.<\/p>\n<p>While the 25-year-old was not solely to blame for OpTic&#8217;s historic 18-map losing streak, his performances left much to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>He averaged a sub-0.81 Kill\/Death (KD) ratio over the first six games of CDL 2025 Stage 2, his lowest outcome being 0.32 against Los Angeles Thieves in the final week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Played some of my worst CoD in my career recently, this was to be expected,&#8221; Kenny said in an X post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sad, but gotta get back to where I need to be mentally so I can get back to doing what I do best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even though Kenny&#8217;s departure was expected, few anticipated OpTic to turn to Cesar &#8220;Skyz&#8221; Bueno as his replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Skyz started the 2025 CoD season with Los Angeles Guerrillas M8 before he was benched in February and replaced by Preston &#8220;Priestahh&#8221; Greiner. <\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Skyz joins OpTic as a proven player with a stacked resume, which includes a world championship title from 2023 and a silver medal from last season with the New York Subliners.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to debut for his new team on Friday, March 21, at 4:30pm local time (CDT) in the losers&#8217; bracket of the CDL 2025 Stage 2 Major.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/sites\/\" title=\"Best esports betting sites\">top CoD betting sites<\/a> have OpTic priced as $26.00 underdogs to win the Major, behind Toronto Ultra ($15.00), Vancouver Surge ($8.50), Atlanta FaZe ($2.25), and Los Angeles Thieves ($1.80).<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/news\/\" class=\"contentLinkBtn\">More esports news<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpTic Texas have replaced Kenneth &#8220;Kenny&#8221; Williams with Cesar &#8220;Skyz&#8221; Bueno on their Call of Duty roster ahead of the CDL 2025 Stage 2 Major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":19816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,735,3016,3871,3707,3850,1825],"class_list":["post-41674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-call-of-duty","tag-call-of-duty-league","tag-cdl-major-2","tag-cesar-skyz-bueno","tag-kenneth-kenny-williams","tag-los-angeles-guerrillas-m8","tag-optic-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41692,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41674\/revisions\/41692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esportbet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}