In one of the most entertaining show matches in the Call of Duty scene of late, OpTic’s ‘Legacy’ squad wiped the floor with OpTic Texas’ 2024 roster. It was a brilliant event that saw eight OpTic players from past and present take to the stage to compete in a best-of-nine show match on 2013’s Call of Duty: Ghosts. It was always tough to predict a winner, but nobody anticipated the OpTic Legacy squad beating OpTic Texas 5 – 1.

It was the ‘OpTic Legacy Match’, a special one-off event sponsored very visibly by CashApp, and it allowed fans and viewers to win some of the unexpected prize pool. By ‘unexpected’, we mean that when the dust had settled and OpTic Legacy stood victorious, they were taken aback by there being a prize at all. They were there for the entertainment – they didn’t expect to pick up a cash prize for dominating the younger, up-to-date OpTic Texas squad.

‘How Quick They Forget’

During the OpTic Legacy Match, two teams went head-to-head, but they were made up of dramatically different competitors:

OpTic Legacy

MBoze
Scump
Crimsix
Karma

OpTic Texas

Kenny
Pred
Shotzzy
Dashy

For reference, the OpTic Legacy team has almost two hundred chips and seven world championships between them. By comparison, OpTic Texas collectively boasts a total of just two rings. It was a showdown between the cutting-edge, modern-day OpTic Texas squad and a team of arguably the most iconic, recognisable forces in Call of Duty esports. It went phenomenally well for OpTic Legacy, and at times, it seemed as though the older players weren’t even actively competing – they were just having fun.

At the end of the match, the OpTic Legacy team was interviewed, and Scump said:

‘New OpTic Texas team, they come in, everyone wants them to get a dub, but we had to shut that shit down, and shut that shit down we did, and we’ll do it again.’

Following that, Damon ‘Karma’ Barlow, at thirty years old and one of the winningest players in Call of Duty history, said:

‘I don’t think I even woke up today, I was kind of worried about this one.’

The Importance of the Off-Season

At the moment, nobody in Call of Duty is doing the off-season better than OpTic. For the most part, the organisations that hold up the foundations of the Call of Duty League stand silent during the off-season, which has now been running for more than 100 days. Not OpTic, though – this is the latest in a line of events and show matches put on by the organisation, which is arguably the most recognisable brand in esports today, potentially behind the likes of FaZe.

It’s not going to be long until we find out when the next season kicks off, though – Call of Duty NEXT is taking place later this week, on the 5th. That’s the event where we learn about the future of Call of Duty, the COD esports scene, and the likes of Warzone and COD Mobile. It’s one of the biggest Call of Duty events of the year for news, and you can bet your last dollar we’ll have all the coverage right here on Esports.net.