Hector 'H3CZ' Rodriguez

Let's run this shit, man.

Mark said he's going to be here at 10.07, so I got here at 10.07.

Mesero. No, the mocojete in Chicago. Oh, Mago?

Like Gaylord Fockery founds out he has a son?

You remember that shit? No, I don't. What? I don't remember that. You don't remember he gives him the truth serum and he goes on stage at the wedding and he's like, that's my son? You don't remember that shit? Yes, I do now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, you'll be retired.

You wouldn't take you? Hell no. You would take a mini you immediately. Well, yeah, me and Iz are, we're going to start trying to have a kid here soon.

Yeah, we've been talking about it.

No. But, but, I can't, I've been saying no more, no more weed at all. I've been like, that's, that's mainly why I've been trying to get in like.

Dude, you know how many people have gotten... No, but yeah, that's why... Wait, do edibles count? That's why I've been trying to get in, like, good shape, because we're going to start trying, like, next month.

Like, trying, trying.

yeah you didn't miss oh yeah but yeah weed slows down your swimmers so it does yeah yeah i don't know that yeah yeah like if you if you smoke a lot it it slows down your swimmers and shit it's like the worst thing for like your sperm really not to get like anatomical on on motherfuckers anatomical but yeah yeah no more no more weed no more nothing you listen to asap rock man i listen to action bros that's my dog

Neck tattoos, praying hands couldn't help me. Yeah, we've been talking about it for a while. So now it's time to do it. I'm excited.

I want a boy first.

Boy first. I want one of each, though, for sure.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've never talked about your kids. I was like, you're tweaking. What about you? How many kids do you want?

Growing up with my two other brothers, that bond that we had, I would want

But big shouts out, K-Son, bro, for real. I mean, there hasn't been any Halo stuff. That land was so much fun to watch. It was only the top four teams. That shit was absolute gas, bro.

I just think SR's nuts.

I don't even think it's, like, our team. I just think they're fucking nuts.

Once they, like, finally hit flow and shit?

Their teamwork looked really good. Like, when I was watching... Yeah, yeah, their teamwork looked really good. But then SR, bro, like, dude, Frosty... Every time Frosty picked up a Sniper or Royal 2...

it was just GG dude they just weren't fucking missing it's like every time Royal 2 got a snipe he would hit some crazy shit Frosty was hitting flicks it looked like he was on mouse we were like what the fuck is that Frosty's insane bro he would like you know how hard it is he would just like flick yeah like he would like be centered and like half flick and just rip someone with a sniper Frosty's literally the best and we were like what the fuck he's insane he's really good at flicking he's always been that good always always has been that good one of my favorites that ever played at least it's not gonna be boring though

It's kind of a two-team league right now, though. It's SR and us.

Really? But, yo, talk a little bit about streaming scrims. How's it been? I mean, bro.

Naturally.

Yeah, no, they got nothing to be ashamed of. SR is just nuts, bro.

It's going to be fun. Shopify Rebellion. Watching those two battle out, like, they're going to be in pretty much every finals, I feel like. It's going to be fun to watch them all year long.

But they can see that anyway. And that's what I always try to tell people. It's like their coaches are literally sitting there watching mini-map.

They can just screen cap your mini-map.

Like if you're not scrimming us, you're not getting...

If you're sharing comms, you don't get to like sit there and say whatever you want, which is like a big thing. I feel like it's a big thing. Like if you want to talk shit, like you muzzle yourself a little bit. But I feel like being able to talk shit in scrims is like half the fun. Like what the fuck is this kid doing? And then that gets clipped all over the place. But it would be great content.

Are you going to keep doing it?

But what if you guys have a bad start to the stage? Just hypothetically, of course. I don't think you're going to, but.

And then... And if he got shit on, it's, like, it's his first week back. Yeah, exactly. Like, he might get shit on a little bit. But he didn't.

Yeah, I mean, I know it's been, I mean, bro, it is literally like, again, there's only been pretty much for Call of Duty rank play, like, and nobody at this point, like rank play, you I can only play it for a couple hours. And it's like,

I can't even play that yeah I can play it for a couple hours and then I start to be like I'm playing Hossie for the third time in a row holy shit and then it starts to like wear off but no you guys streaming scrims I mean bro there was like what 50,000 total 60,000 just watching scrims yesterday it's like a fucking CDL match that's so cool what is this Matt the thing about it yeah look at that yeah

But I feel like you guys streaming scrims as well, A, it makes you guys go harder because you don't want to obviously get shit on, like, on stream. And then B, the other team doesn't want to get shit on, on stream.

Yeah.

Yeah, you're really good about that, which is something I tip. Whenever you guys were going through your rut, you'd still turn on your stream. Even through roster changes, you'd still turn on your stream.

It's tippable. I love that. Because it's hard. Whenever all that social pressure's on and everybody wants answers, and it's hard to sit there and... Give them answers. Well, yeah, I mean, obviously you're not going to give them all the answers, but it's hard to sit there. It's like you're at a press conference.

Oh, so now we're minute watching?

Miami. Miami. We're in Fort Lauderdale, but the event's in, wait, is it in Miami?

I don't think it's in Miami. I hope it's in Miami. I think it's in Boca Raton.

Every minute counts. We're minute watching? He said 10.07. I literally was like, I'm going to show up fashionably late. I showed up 10.09. Okay, whatever, but...

Yeah, I got to ask, how do you feel like going into this? Stage? No, just like this next, bro, there's eight weeks straight. Like, this is it. This is the final stretch of the year starting this weekend. It's eight weekends straight. It's three weekends of quals and then the major, and then there's no break from major three. Like, you fly back Monday, there's matches that Friday. Deadass.

So it's three major and then three again major and then there's like a month off till champs. A month off? And then a month off till EWC.

It's probably like three weeks.

Like how long will you cut them off before champs? Like I'm assuming you'll probably do like maybe a week And then, like, the two weeks leading into champs, just radio silence? Or are you not going to stream them at all?

I don't know the exact... Yeah.

And then EWC, you'll probably stream... Oh, yeah.

I'm sure, right? Because that's not even, like, it's not even, like, a CDL event. It started the CDL season. Yeah.

I don't know why Maxwell's ringing a bell. Probably not Maxwell.

When's the roster lock before champs? Like, when is the final roster lock? I don't... I mean... Because we've seen... This roster mania has been, like, nuts.

I mean, we know all the teams. It's like... Everybody knows all the teams because at this point it's like... Everything's already leaked. What the fuck else would they do if the leaks aren't right?

He has to be. Where else would he go? There's rumors that he was going to Ravens, and then those fell through.

And now it's like, now he's going to Rocker, and you guys play Rocker on Friday.

I think that team could be... He might help them a lot.

If Nero picks it back up, they're nice. That's going to be a fun one to watch. But yeah, this split is going to be... I think this is going to be the best split competitively that we've seen in a long time.

I can't wait.

I feel like every team was still kind of competitive. Even the middle pack teams could upset. But now I feel like everybody's making actual good roster changes.

It's not like...

Especially Falcons. Falcons are on the team. Now they're rumor picking up Pred. They're picking up who else? Pred, R-Cities, Fellow, and then X-Net or something like that?

Oh, Priestess. Priestess, sorry.

R-Cities? Oh, so it's not Fellow. No, it's not Fellow.

Yeah, and I'm excited to see how Exnid plays with, like, a North American.

Ant's sitting here like, I don't know if I can speak right now. Oh, no, no, no.

We're fucking tweaking, bro. We're fucking tweaking.

That's fucking crazy how that works, isn't it?

The odds are insane.

Nah, this weekend's matches are, like, lit.

They are lit.

Yo, DiVincenzo reminds me of Miak. DiVincenzo.

10 points each.

Dude, there's only, you guys only have 10 more league matches, and then the rest are majors.

no it's just just league 10 league matches and then two majors and that's that's it so like these matches start to really matter those 10 points are huge those will be fun man you guys you guys look great which is great to see and we haven't even seen you guys play search either which is like i feel like your search is gonna be dude caesar said it the other day even though it's fucking hilarious he said we're gonna be dirty neslo player like do you know what neslo is or no

I mean, I feel like search is kind of easy. It's like... You just plug in.

I was watching you last night play the S&D 8s, those dealership nades. You guys threw them shits, and Atige was like- Two-piece. I'm writing that down. He's not even going to write it.

Yeah, they got like a two-piece pre-nade on dealership off spawn because you can nade like everything on that shit map.

What do you think about it?

What do you think about dealership church?

I mean, it's just so fast.

It's like rounds are over in like 20 seconds.

But yeah, this weekend's matches, bro.

I don't really know anything on it. Really? Yeah, I got a wedding to go to. You're not going to be here for Kenny versus the boys?

I didn't risk it. Dude, when we went there for my bachelor party, we walked into this huge Airbnb mansion, and it smelled like just poop.

Dude. You remember that?

Yeah, it had a twang to it, for sure. It had a twang. And I was in the master, and that's where it was coming from? Dude.

The smell of the house... Can I see it? We got it locked in. Wait, you haven't seen it yet? It's in the chat. Shut up.

Yeah, like if you have a cocktail with ice in it, you got to be careful.

Jersey, though? We have a coconut water filter.

Coconut water filter? Coconut. Coconut.

Yeah, yeah. It's a coconut. It's under the sink.

How does it not run out? Huh? You got to change it.

No, I just think this weekend's matches are fire. Yeah, I think this is going to be the most competitive split. And we just have bangers. We have LAT Vancouver on Sunday. I mean, we have FaZe Toronto. We obviously get to watch the boys play two matches this weekend. They play Minnesota with Kenny. And then who else do they play? Cloud9. That's going to be a good one.

I mean, it's just fire matches, and they do so much.

They mean so much to everybody. It's like, this is crunch time.

It's going to be fun to watch, man. Verdansk comes out Thursday. I don't even think I'm going to play it anymore. Did I? What? Well, not on Thursday, because... I'm going to watch scrims.

Well, honestly, Thursday is when Verdansk comes out, but I guarantee you it's supposed to drop at noon central, I think. I guarantee you the servers are going to be fucked. It might not even be out until 3 p.m.

Well, Rivals is finally on a downtrend. All the streamers want to play. Tim said he wasn't going to play. Tim's coming to play it. Nate said that he wasn't going to play. He's coming back to play it. So I feel like people are finally starting to get a little sick of Rivals.

He said he wasn't going to play it.

Yeah.

Yeah, right.

Yeah, right. But, yo, this trailer, it goes hard. We don't have to watch the whole thing because it's three minutes, but the song they picked, Bohemian Rhapsody... Connie Miller. I mean, that's just dope. Imagine when you first drop into Super. Everyone's landing Super. Are you going to play with us? I'm actually down, dude. Yo, Thursday after scrims, you want to play? I'm actually down. Really?

I'm actually down. It's pretty good. I'll watch scrims and we can play. This is the only map that I... I'm just a poor boy.

You definitely wouldn't know.

Wait, are you actually down? Because I'll book it.

Bueno, you think Bueno will play? Oh, fuck. You think Bueno and like Zin?

I'm booking it. They'll be fire.

Do you think Warzone will like fuck with you at all? Like...

I mean, it's all Black Ops 6 guns and stuff, so... Yeah, it's all the same movement.

Yeah, this shit's going to be fire, man.

Yo, I actually did play MapleStory because TP was like hella into it when he was coaching us and we played it for not a lot, but I did play it. That's like super like super cartoony like anime art style. Yeah. Not my thing. Just not my thing.

You watch anime yet?

Yeah, I've seen that.

You don't know that shit?

Like your anime waifu. I don't know. It's like a thing. People have like pillows and shit of like anime girls and they'll snuggle it.

Yeah, like a wife. Like an animal.

Oh, yeah, wait. Why did you send me that picture yesterday? Was it because of my setup? Like you set the aquarium in the background. I was like, wait, why'd they just send me that? Is it because I always have like an aquarium?

Nah, it's just a vibe. Do you fuck with the new room? I feel like that's like the best room to play in.

Your back's like turned to everybody. Let the record show.

Yeah, they sent me this yesterday, and I was like, these guys are trolling, bro.

He's been grinding, which is what I like to see. He's been, like, he's been grinding. Even after scrims, he's, like, hopping on, playing 8s and shit. You guys are really all liking 8s. I've seen Brandon playing 8s.

And you're playing the ones against him. I saw you guys play the 1v1 on Dealership.

Yeah, it's good to see, like, after the split that you guys had, that you're, like, in a... It feels like you guys are in a, like, just good spot as a team right now. Like, everybody's grinding.

It seems like scrims are going well. It's, like, I feel like we're in a good spot right now.

No, you guys were, like, 0-1. Nine at that point, or 0-12. Oh, really?

Well, I think, wasn't LAT, that was your third match.

Oh, it was our fifth?

Wow.

Yeah. Dread getting on any social media just down horrendous. See, it's surprising, though, that you say that was the match because that should be the match that you guys do lose.

Even if your team's, like, bad, you're always going to miss your ex-teammates. Unless they're just assholes.

Let's talk about the Optic Major. The Optic Halo Major coming up end of this month. Actually, I wanted to do a watch party for Halo, but you guys play FaZe on Sunday. You play FaZe that Sunday. So what we'll probably do, we'll probably watch the first two matches and then hopefully Halo's still going and we're still in. I don't know who plays last, but go watch Halo.

That's what I kind of want to.

At ESA.

1914? No, no, I'm saying black of four.

Dude, if he throws this event, oh my God. It would just be... I don't really know anything about it.

You think the pros won't come down?

I disagree. I think that place will be fucking packed.

The times that we've had in that bar. Deadass?

Just like, I mean, just everyone was there. Just think like a Sunday at an MLG event. Everybody's there. There's different games there. Everyone from COD, every pro's there drinking, talking shit, roster moves are happening.

I don't know. It's not the same vibe, though.

Uh...

I feel like it depends where it is. Like if it's like our major, there'll be a good amount.

It's going to be a Cod event. Like Cod teams are going to be there.

He wants to do Cod and Halo. Yeah, he wants to do like an MLG event.

This would happen, like, next year, probably.

Should be so far.

Right there. Lots of chatter about.

Yeah, hopefully they can make it work. I mean, that would be awesome.

Yeah, our major, 18th through the 20th, first Halo major. It's going to be fire.

Yes, sir.

Go back. Yeah, he was on the Warriors.

Seven ejected? Seven ejected? Oh, yeah. The whole game was different at that point. They're bringing in the bench players, everybody.

They said they wanted a day off. They ain't playing today. They're going to crawl real quick.

They went to a nice ass steakhouse and fucking ate.

No, no, no. I was actually pretty buttoned up.

You heard that shit?

You know Matt Craig's working.

Those would be fire with the jerseys. Like the colorway, those would look fire with the jerseys.

Put your cart in there? That's hard.

Yeah.

Just in case Buzz ever... Gets out, goes to the neighbor's flower bed again. Crazy motherfucker.

I'd go home, take a nap for like an hour, wake up, scrim, play till like 2 a.m., not do shit, do my homework like the next morning, sleep in study halls. I was on like a crazy schedule in high school. I'd sleep through my study halls-

Yeah, he was coming in. He was the only one rivaling your drip.

He stopped trying to impress. He has no comp anymore. Are you kidding me? What?

The other night, I raided Kyler after scrims and shit. Maybe not after scrims. I can't remember. But I didn't know. He doesn't read his chat at all. So I'm like, yo, who should I host? And they're like, Kyler, Kyler, Kyler. I'm like, I'll throw a host to my boy Kyler. Literally, I go into his chat. The first thing I read is, I don't read my chat. If you want to watch me play...

welcome no if you want to watch me play i'm thankful or something or something like that it's great though and he did i don't even think but he texted me after he was like thanks for the raid bro and i was i was just crying because everyone's like he really doesn't read jet he just sits there locked in no i dropped some gift to the uh like uh i don't know a while back a month month and a half ago when he was on the team and i was way i waited waited i'm like i'm out of here man

Yo, Kyler's been tucking though.

Kyler against like FaZe, Thieves, like all like the top talent teams. Kyler's always like, is he going dumb hard in those?

Yeah, Kyler's the man. It's good to have him back, man. It's good to have him back. They've been fried until you guys 7-1 phase yesterday.

That had to have felt good.

Yeah, you guys were tucking.

No, that line in that room had to have been fucked. Okay. That's not true.

That's a good point.

We were the first seed.

I was looking at the ping sheet, because JP sent me your scrim sheet, and it shows all the pings for every team, and I was like, why does LAT ping 20 to Dallas? They ping 20 or some shit, and you guys ping 2.

It says 2 on the sheet.

No, everybody knew. I'd show up to like parties and shit. They'd be like, oh, you're a gamer. I'm like, yup.

No, they have a... What is it? Dark Fiber. Phantom? No, they have Dark Fiber. You know that shit's good.

Whoa. Dark Fiber sounds like a camo. Who has that? Dark Fiber.

You know, they have like 10K, 10K or some crazy shit.

And then you got Bell Fiber.

We know the stories about Bell Fiber. Bell Fiber goes hard. Mm-hmm. AT&T, obviously.

They're like, I'd smoke you. I'm like, yeah, right.

Huge shouts out Kaysan. He was getting a lot of flack for the... Because there was no winner's advantage going into the finals. But, like, I get it because it's not like a sanctioned HCS event where they have this whole staff that comes in, takes everything down, puts everything up like an event staff. He, like, facilitated this whole thing.

And he was basically like, if we ran a bracket reset, then those people wouldn't have left until, like, 3, 4 a.m. Because that was at Complexity's offices.

Yeah, no, he invited me out, but I was like, yeah, we went to dinner like the night before and I was like, bro, I can't do another dinner. I'm tired for like a week.

I heard that. I was like, ooh.

What is it?

Mikosina Burrito? You know what I get every time? The poblano sauce tacos. It's like a thick cream sauce with poblano peppers in it. I think that's what Quezon got. You get ground beef in it instead of the chicken. Oh, man. I heard they were going to Mikosina. I was like, fuck. Fuck, I love those enchiladas.

Got to.