The London Royal Ravens had to play a map shorthanded on Saturday when Matthew “Skrapz” Marshall was not in his seat for the start of play.
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Emily RandESPN
Day 2 of the Florida Mutineers’ home series in the Call of Duty League started off with a controversial Hackney Yard Hardpoint map between the London Royal Ravens and Atlanta FaZe.
At the start of the map, London players began shooting each other in-game, signaling a restart to the map because Matthew “Skrapz” Marshall was not at his seat. London didn’t move to take a hill until Atlanta were up over 100 points and it was clear that the match would not be interrupted and restarted.
The end result was a 250-104 scoreline and a map win for the Atlanta FaZe. Following the match, Skrapz took to Twitter, explaining that he was away from his seat and did not respond when a referee asked whether the team was ready. London as a team also requested to restart several times.
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Ref asked are we ready to go, I didn’t reply. Whole team asked him 15 times when it started to restart coz I wasn’t here lmao. “No you gotta play”
– london skrapz (@skrapzg) May 9, 2020
Atlanta FaZe coach James “Crowder” Crowder also expressed his displeasure at the fact that the map couldn’t be restarted or replayed.
So we can’t do anything about that start when it comes to a replay or anything so that map stands
That’s super lame :/
– Crowder (@JamesCrowder) May 9, 2020
London came back on Arklov Peak Search and Destroy with a dominating 6-1 victory, resetting the series at 1-1. However, the Atlanta FaZe ended up winning the match 3-1.
The Royal Ravens are still alive in the weekend tournament and will play later Saturday against the winner of the match between the Paris Legion and OpTic Gaming Los Angeles.
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This isn’t the first time that the Call of Duty League has come under scrutiny for refusing to replay a map. During the Dallas Empire home series, the Los Angeles Guerrillas’ Jacob “Decemate” Cato logged off during a match after one of his teammates was disconnected from the server. The ruling from the league was that since Decemate had left the match it was a forfeit (regardless of the circumstances) and the map was awarded to the Empire, despite both teams saying that they would have replayed the map.
