Across all levels of sports, whether it’s high school, college or professional, basketball, baseball or football there is one thing that separates the great players of today and past, from the best players of all-time: championships. When you talk about professional basketball, Michael Jordan is the unanimous greatest individual player of all-time, as his 6 NBA Finals championships speak for themselves, not to mention he is 4th all-time in NBA scoring, a 14-time All-Star, recorded 5 MVP awards, 10 Scoring titles, and the list goes on and on. However, out of all of those personal accolades none of them equate to a championship. Championships are so highly regarded that Bill Russell, who has 11 NBA championships, is considered by many to have at least deserved to be in the discussion for one of the best to ever play. With professional Call of Duty maturing to the point where we are beginning to keep track of players’, and teams’, statistics at sanctioned Major League Gaming events, it will hopefully lead us to the point of giving out personal accolades such as Most Valuable Player, Slaying Title, etc. That being said, we as a community have reached a point where we must begin to give credit where credit is due, begin to reward our star players with acknowledgments. Patrick “Aches” Price won his 19th Call of Duty Championship at MLG Columbus the weekend of Thanksgiving as his team, FaZe, dismantled the heavily favored OpTic Gaming in one of the most thrilling series of games we have seen in some time now. With the victory Aches pushed himself even farther ahead of his former teammate, Tyler “Teepee” Polchow, who has 17 championships, and has solidified himself in Professional Call of Duty history as the winningest player ever, by two championships. Since player statistics have only been charted and made public in the past year, and there have never been any individual player accolades given out, the only measure of a player that we have is, you guessed it, championships. Now, don’t get it twisted, Aches is a remarkably talented player. He had the 16th highest K/D ratio (1.05) at the event, and played with stitches in his swollen hand during the final day of the event. Also, let’s not quickly forget that Aches has been considered at times during various Call of Duties to be one of, if not the best, top players in the world. So, it would not be difficult to conceive that if there were personal accolades that Aches would have some of his own, only adding to his legacy. Like I said before, as a community we need to take this next step forward in our maturity and give credit where credit is due. Until someone surpasses him in championships, Patrick “Aches” Price is the greatest player in Call of Duty history, and let’s not so easily forget it. Don’t get caught up in the hype of “god squads,” instead we should all give a mature salute to the best to ever do it, and be thankful that we have come to a point where we can crown someone, and have it mean something. So, from everyone here at Velocity eSports, and the rest of this amazing community, we salute you, Pat, and hope you continue in your winning ways, and we thank you for your commitment to this community! Written By: Jonathan Diamond
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