Indeed, the inaugural season of the franchised Call of Duty League boils down to one final event. Accordingly, following thirteen events, the post-season remains. A total of $4,600,000 are on the line for the world’s largest console esport. Read on to learn How to Watch the 2020 Call of Duty League Championship!
Heading into this season of Call of Duty, many mourned the loss of the traditional sense of ‘CoD Champs’. In earlier years, it used to be an Open event, where any team can beat anybody. However, for the franchised model, only the 12 Call of Duty League teams will be participating in the event. Earning their seeds by placing across the multiple events, the stages of the tournament have spread out the action.
Here are the twelve League teams taking part, ordered by season placings:
- Atlanta FaZe
- Dallas Empire
- Florida Mutineers
- Chicago Huntsmen
- New York Subliners
- London Royal Ravens
- Toronto Ultra
- Minnesota Rokkr
- OpTic Gaming LA
- Paris Legion
- Seattle Surge
- Los Angeles Guerillas
Regardless of the growing pains of an inaugural season, the competition has held up. Without question, this will be the greatest competitive Call of Duty event in history.
Format
For dramatic effect, Activision has split up the event into two consecutive weekends. Initially, Playoffs will take place from August 19-23rd, setting things up for Championship Weekend August 29-30th. In terms of format, the two weekends are identical and follow the same bracket.
Indeed, a double-elimination BO5 bracket serves the competition. However, the Grand Final will in-fact be a BO9 series! Accordingly, the team emerging from the Losers Bracket will start off with a 0-1 impediment.
Based on the season standings, here’s how the bracket stacks up:
All in all, everything is on the line. Playoffs basically sets up the Championship Weekend to finish everything off.
Schedule
In addition, a schedule is available, thought multiple match-ups are still to be determined:
August 19th
- Paris Legion vs Seattle Surge
- OGLA vs LAG
August 20th
- London Royal Ravens vs Toronto Ultra
- New York Subliners vs Minnesota Rokkr
August 21st
- Chicago Huntsmen vs TBD
- Florida Mutineers vs TBD
August 22nd
- Losers Round 2 – Both Matches
- Atlanta FaZe vs TBD
- Dallas Empire vs TBD
August 23rd
- Losers Round 3 – Both Matches
- Losers Round 4 – Both Matches
August 29th
- Losers Round 5
- Losers Final
- Winners Final
August 30th
- Grand Final
For a detailed schedule, visit here.
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Predictions for the 2020 Call of Duty League Championship
For the majority of the season, there have been four teams on top of the entire competition. Evidently, this has been reflected in the standings. The following are the favourites to take the entire event:
- FaZe Atlanta
- Dallas Empire
- Florida Mutineers
- Chicago Huntsmen
Constantly, these four have been vying for pole position. On the whole, from the four, many have written off FaZe Atlanta as the team to win it. Defined by consistency behind two of the five Call of Duty League 2020 MVP nominations, ‘Simp‘ and ‘Cellium‘, they have seemed unstoppable at times.
Meanwhile, the only teams to show them up consistently are the other three. Dallas packs a combination of veteran experience and young talent which has put them as the second favourite. Since both Dallas and FaZe start off one series away from the Winners Finals, their chances of winning are very high.
On the other hand, both Florida and Chicago have fallen off as seen at the last event in Toronto.
Speaking of which, an underdog that has had everyone shaking their heads is Toronto Ultra. Managing to take down the top four teams in the league at the last event, nobody knows what to think of them. Was it a fluke?
Otherwise – should the rest of the league be counted out? Well, due to a lower seeding, other team’s chances are much worse. Regardless, this is competitive Call of Duty – everything can change in a month. During this post-season, teams are learning each others strategies and doing their best to study opponents. Competitors such as NY Subliners and LDN Royal Ravens have massive upset opportunity.
