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The Seattle Surge made an announcement on Thursday that its Call of Duty League roster will be returning for next season.
This news comes after the team finished in third place at the Call of Duty League Championship last month.
In 2023, the group consisting of Lamar “Accuracy” Abedi,Makenzie “Mack” Kelley, Daunte “Sib” Gray and CDL Rookie of the Year Amer “Pred” Zulbeari will make an effort to improve upon their best-ever season.
Last September, the team acquired the talents of veteran Accuracy in addition to Sib, Pred, and Mack. Additionally, they selected Sam “Fenix” Spencer to take over as the new head coach and they selected Brandon “Novus” Hewitt to take over as the new general manager.
It appears Seattle is in excellent shape to have a successful season with the comeback of the squad’s rookie duo, Sib and Pred, as well as CDL veterans Accuracy and Mack.
Both Pred and Sib showed that they were more than ready to step into the limelight, as evidenced by their nomination to the 2022 CDL All-Star squads, despite the fact that they were relatively young and had limited experience competing in the top-flight Call of Duty esports event.
The Seattle Surge experienced difficulty at several points throughout the 2022 CDL season; the team went on three distinct streaks of many losses in a row, but they were able to find their stride at the appropriate times. The first incident of this kind occurred in May, when Seattle launched a nine-match winning streak, the highlight of which was a 5-3 triumph against Atlanta FaZe in the cup finals of the Toronto Major in June.
At the CDL Championship, Seattle regained another stride and went on to defeat the London Royal Ravens, Toronto Ultra and OpTic Texas before being ousted by FaZe in the finals of the loser’s bracket. Despite the fact that they were defeated, Seattle had their best finish at the end-of-season tournament since the beginning of the league with a third-place finish.
However, due to the fact that numerous other teams in the league have modified their rosters in the hopes of increasing their own chances of winning the world championship the next season, the Surge’s journey to the championship might be a challenging one.
Seattle Surge is a professional Call of Duty team under the Luminosity Gaming esports organisation, which is owned and operated by Enthusiast Gaming and Canucks Sports & Entertainment.
After the formation of the Surge in 2019, Seattle moved up to the CDL for the beginning of the 2020 season. Damon “Karma” Barlow, Sam “Octane” Larew, Bryan “Apathy” Zhelyazkov, Ian “Enable” Wyatt and Josiah “Slacked” Berry were the first members of the team’s starting lineup. Joey “Nubzy” DiGiacomo was the team’s head coach at the time.
The Surge did not perform very well in the Call of Duty 2020 league matches during either of the first two Call of Duty games they competed in (Modern Warfare and Black Ops: Cold War). As a result, the team finished in last place in the 2020 CDL Championship.
During the 2020 and 2021 seasons, the squad went through a number of roster changes and adjustments, including the addition of players like Casey “Pandur” Romano and Nicholas “Proto” Maldonado.
