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[American content creator and professional Call of Duty player] {{Multiple
issues| [date=January 2023] [date=February 2023] }} {{Infobox Pro Gaming
player | ID = Scump | name = Seth Abner | name_trans = | image = Scump at
OpTic first MW3 Lan 2023.jpg | caption = Abner in 2023 | role = SMG Slayer |
birth_date = [1995] | birth_place = | nationality = American | team = | league
= Call of Duty League | game = _Call of Duty_ | nickname = | career_start =
2011 | career_end = 2023 | years1 = 2011 | team1 = Quantic LeveraGe | years2 =
2011–2012 | team2 = OpTic Gaming | years3 = 2012 | team3 = apeX eSports NA |
years4 = 2012–2014 | team4 = OpTic Gaming | years5 = 2014 | team5 = Team
EnVyUs | years6 = 2014–2019 | team6 = OpTic Gaming | years7 = 2019–2020 |
team7 = Chicago Huntsmen | years8 = 2020–2021 | team8 = OpTic Chicago | years9
= 2021–2023 | team9 = OpTic Texas | highlights =
- COD World Champion ( 2017 )
- 30x Call of Duty Tournament Champion
- 2× MLG X Games champion (2014, 2015)
- 2016 Esports Console Player of the Year
- 2021 World Series of Warzone Solo Yolo Champion
| module = {{Infobox Twitch streamer | subbox = yes | channel_name = scump |
years_active = 2010–present | followers = 1.597 million | stats_update = 10
November 2023 }} }}
SETH ABNER (born June 30, 1995), also known as SCUMP or SCUMPERJUMPER, is an
American content creator and former professional _Call of Duty_ player.
Associated with OpTic Gaming for much of his career,[1] Scump last played for
the Call of Duty League team OpTic Texas. Abner is a two time Major League
Gaming (MLG) X Games gold medalist. During the first ever Esports Awards in
2016, Abner won the Esports Console Player of the Year award. In August 2017,
Abner achieved his first ever Call of Duty World Championship. He is
considered to be the most popular and one of the greatest Call of Duty players
of all time.[2][3]
** _Call of Duty_ esports career
*** _Call of Duty: Black Ops II_ (2012–2013 season)
Abner played for OpTic for the _Call of Duty: Black Ops II_ season. OpTic
would take their only 1st-place finish at UMG Chicago, but would never finish
outside of the top 10. OpTic achieved a 3rd-place finish at the 2013 Call of
Duty Championship to finish off the 2012–2013 season.[date=February 2023]
*** _Call of Duty: Ghosts_ (2013–2014 season)
Abner stayed on OpTic going into the _Call of Duty: Ghosts_ season. However,
after a 9th-place finish at the MLG Fall Championship and a 13th-place finish
at UMG Philadelphia, Abner announced he would be leaving OpTic and joining
Team EnVyUs alongside Merk, ProoFy, and Goonjar because of a rivalry with
Nadeshot. Less than two-weeks after his departure from OpTic, Abner announced
that he was leaving Envy and returning to Optic. He would rejoin the lineup
of Nadeshot, MBoZe, and Clayster for the Call of Duty Championship 2014. The
squad finished 3rd for the second year in a row. After that tournament, the
team picked up ProoFy to replace MBoZe, who then became captain of OpTic
Nation. The new team placed in the top eight at UGC Niagara, and was invited
to attend the MLG X Games Invitational. Here, OpTic advanced all the way
through their bracket to face Team Kaliber in the Grand Final. OpTic won, and
Abner became one of the first gold medalists for _Call of Duty_. The next few
events were inconsistent for OpTic, with 4th and 5th placings at Gfinity 3,
UMG Dallas, UMG Nashville, and MLG CoD League Season 3 Playoffs.[date=February
2023]
*** _Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare_ (2014–2015 season)
Upon release of _Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare_, OpTic parted ways with
Clayster and ProoFy and added Matt "Formal" Piper, Ian "Crimsix" Porter to the
team. The team initially placed second to Crimsix's longtime teammate Aches
at the first event of the season, and afterwards placed first at UMG Orlando
2015, the MLG Pro League Season 1 Playoffs, and the Call of Duty
Championship's NA Regional event. At the 2015 Call of Duty World
Championship, the team placed a disappointing 7th after they went into the
event as the clear favorites. After the event, Abner's longtime teammate,
Nadeshot, decided to leave competitive Call of Duty and was replaced by Damon
"Karma" Barlow, with Abner becoming the team captain. As the new captain of
OpTic Gaming, Abner led the team to 6 more championships and 2 more Pro League
Regular Season wins to end the Advanced Warfare season. They won ESWC Zénith
2015 and Gfinity Spring Masters 1 with Enable in place of Karma, but as they
returned to the United States they went to California to compete at UMG
California 2015 with Karma. When they won UMG Cali it marked their 3rd
straight event win in three consecutive weekends in three different countries.
They then finished 1st in Season 2 of the MLG Pro League to qualify for MLG
Pro League Season 2 Playoffs at the summer XGAMES in Austin, Texas, where he
and OpTic defended their title and won his second gold medal. OpTic and Abner
then finished 2nd to FaZe Clan at UMG Dallas 2015 and Gfinity Summer
Championship. They bounced back as they won UMG Washington D.C. 2015 and MLG
Pro League Season 3 Regular Season, where they went 11–0 in the season. Once
again, they fell short and placed 2nd to Abner's ex-teammate, Clayster's FaZe
team for the final time in AW. Abner then went on to win the final event of
Advanced Warfare, MLG World Finals, with OpTic Gaming. He stated that the
World Finals was the only event where he felt like he got carried, but it
still marked Abner's and OpTic's most successful year by far. They won 9
championships, all 3 of the online Pro League Season, appeared in 10/11 Grand
Finals, they won many online tournaments hosted by MLG and UMG, earned
1,651,320 pro points, and Abner had the most pro points out of any player with
447,975.[date=February 2023]
*** _Call of Duty: Black Ops III_ (2015–2016 season)
Going into the _Call of Duty: Black Ops III_ season Abner confirmed that OpTic
Gaming would not be making any roster changes, like many other teams. OpTic
Gaming went on to successfully qualify for the Call of Duty World League NA.
OpTic gaming placed 2nd in the first event of the season, the "Totino's
invitational", losing to Rise Nation in the final. After entering the next
event with a top-4 seed, Abner and his team were met an even worse placing of
4–8 along with the other top-seeded teams, however the event suffered from
technical difficulties leading to an apology from the event's management.[4]
Abner has won now two 25k tournaments hosted by UMG gaming and one 25k
tournament hosted by ESL.[date=February 2023]
Alongside teammates Crimsix and FormaL, and Karma,[5] Abner won the 2016 Call
of Duty World League Stage One Finals Tournament of North America for _Call of
Duty: Black Ops III_. The tournament was presented by PS4 with a grand prize
of $250,000 for the winning team.[6] Abner also won MLG Anaheim and MLG
Orlando with OpTic Gaming.[7]
*** _Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare_ (2016–2017 season)
After competing at four Call of Duty World Championship events and failing to
win first place at any, Abner achieved success at the 2017 Call of Duty World
League Championship in the title of _Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare_. His
team, Optic Gaming won first prize ($1.5 million) in the Call of Duty World
League final.[8][9]
*** _Call of Duty: World War II_ (2017–2018 season)
Initially, Abner remained the leader of OpTic Gaming going into WWII. After
inconsistent placings at numerous major events, the roster split up after a
series of poor tournament placings, with Abner performing badly individually.
They kicked FormaL and Karma and recruited players Sam 'Octane' Larew and
Anthony 'Methodz' Zinni.[10] But their problems weren't solved, as they placed
5–6th at the CWL Anaheim open, 7–8th at stage two playoffs and 17–24th in the
2018 Call of Duty Championship. This was the first time since Modern Warfare
2 that OpTic Gaming failed to win a single championship throughout a season.
*** _Call of Duty: Black Ops 4_ (2018–2019 season)
At the beginning of the _Call of Duty: Black Ops 4_ season Abner teamed up
with Karma, Crimsix, TJHaly and Dashy, as this was the first year that
competitive _Call of Duty_ used a five-man roster.[11] OpTic Gaming won the
first Black ops 4 tournament, CWL Las Vegas 2018, bringing home $100,000.[12]
As of 2019 Abner has had the 5th highest earnings in _Call of Duty_ history
($652,140).[13]
*** _Call of Duty: Modern Warfare_ (2019–2020 season)
Ahead of the 2019–2020 CDL season, Abner announced via his personal Twitter
account that he had left OpTic Gaming.[14] On October 24, 2019, it was
announced by NRG Esports via its social media channels that Abner had joined
its currently unnamed CDL franchise, which on October 30, 2019, would be named
Chicago Huntsmen.[15]
*** _Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War_ (2020–2021 season)
Ahead of the 2020-2021 CDL season, NRG Esports had acquired the OpTic Gaming
brand and rebranded the Chicago Huntsmen into OpTic Chicago.[16]
*** _Call of Duty: Vanguard_ (2021–2022 season)
Ahead of the 2021-2022 CDL season, Abner joined the newly formed OpTic Texas
after OpTic Gaming merged with Dallas Empire's partner organization Envy.[17]
*** _Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II_ (2022–2023 season)
Ahead of the 2022-2023 CDL season, Abner announced that he would be retiring
at the end of the season. However on January 17, 2023, Abner announced his
early retirement, marking the end of his 12-year career.[18]
** Personal life
Abner was born on June 30, 1995, to Kristen and Shawn Abner, a retired
professional baseball player.[19] He graduated from Cumberland Valley High
School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, in 2013.[20] After retiring from
competitive play, he focused on being a content creator and streamer for the
Optic organization. In 2024, he was named the Esports Personality of the Year
at the 2024 Esports Awards.[21]
On August 15, 2025, Abner announced that he and his wife were expecting their
first child together.[22]
** Awards and nominations
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- ! Year ! Ceremony !
Category ! Result ! [Ref.] |- | rowspan="2" | 2022 | Forbes 30 Under 30 |
Games | [Included] | align="center"| [23] |- | The Streamer Awards | Best FPS
Streamer | [nom] | [24] |- | 2024 | Esports Awards | Esports Personality of
the Year | [won] | [25] |}
** Books
- [author=Rodriguez, Hector ]
** References
[Reflist]
** External links
[Professional Call of Duty competition] [Authority control]
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esports players Category:People from Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Category:Team Envy players Category:Living people Category:1995 births
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