The legendary Call of Duty player Matthew “FormaL” Piper is set to retire from the professional Call of Duty scene and pursue his career as a content creator.
FormaL is one of the most famous professional Call of Duty players of all time alongside his teammate Seth “Scumb” Abner. He has been playing professionally for eleven years and has achieved much more than most of the other professional players.
His time in OpTic Gaming back in 2014 were the best times of his career. He played under the same roof for more than three years and made one of the biggest impacts on the professional Call of Duty scene. During that time, OpTic won 18 tournaments including World Championships and MLG tournaments. On top of 18 tournament wins, FormaL has 22 Major championship wins.
Even at the latest times of his career, FormaL won the CDL 2020 Duo of the Year award alongside his teammate Scump. He was one of the most special FPS players of all time as he won Major championships in both Call of Duty and Halo.
FormaL announced his retirement from Twitter and shared a Twitlonger to share his thoughts and feelings with all his followers. Many professional Call of Duty players including Scump shared their best wishes with him.
According to the announcement, FormaL will retire and not compete professionally in the upcoming years. Thus, he will be more active on streaming platforms. In the post he shared, FormaL mentioned not being close to the fans made him “uncomfortable” in a way and he wants to link with them more.
OpTic Chicago’s Dylan “Envoy” Hannon announced his free agency a couple of hours ago it was not a mystery that OpTic Chicago were going to make more changes. However, FormaL’s retirement decision was not expected. Now, OpTic have Scump and Dashy on the roster.
