Dallas Empire

Dallas Empire is the official Call of Duty League franchise team of Dallas, United States. It is owned by Envy Gaming, Inc and is the successor to Team Envy, which had competed continuously in Call of Duty between 2007 and 2019. They won the first ever Call of Duty League Championship in 2020.

Modern Warfare
Dallas was revealed as one of the first five Call of Duty League teams on May 2, 2019. On October 10, the team revealed they would be announcing one player a day, starting Monday October 14. The first player to be announced was Clayster, followed by former Halo world champion Shotzzy, Huke, iLLeY, and Crimsix in the four succeeding days. On October 19, the team branding was revealed as the Dallas Empire. Tommey joined as the team's first substitute on November 4 followed by MuTeX joining as the second substitute and Search and Destroy analyst the next day. Less than a month after joining, MuTeX was kicked from the team due to offensive language used by him on his stream. Tisch joined as the replacement substitute from top amateur team UYU on December 12.

After dominating the early preseason online tournaments, Dallas entered Launch Weekend as one of the top teams. Their dominance did not directly translate over to LAN as they were defeated by Chicago Huntsmen and Atlanta FaZe in their two matches. Despite those teams being two of the other top three teams, Dallas was already being nicknamed as "onliners". They silenced some of those doubters by defeating crowd favorites London Royal Ravens and making the grand finals of London in Week 2 but ultimately fell to Chicago Huntsmen again. In Week 4, they showed up and proved they were a top team. After losing to Atlanta, they beat Florida Mutineers to get out of groups, and then took down OGLA and Minnesota RØKKR to give Huke, iLLeY, and Shotzzy their first major Call of Duty championship. After an extended break due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, Empire returned in Week 5 for their home series. They got out of groups easily but lost to Minnesota RØKKR in the rematch of the previous grand final. Week 6 would be the Empire's most impressive performance yet. They beat Chicago and Atlanta in the bracket to claim their second championship.

The team had nearly two months off before returning for Week 9, where they made it out of the losers bracket in their group following a loss to FaZe. In a game 5 round 11, they fell to eventual champions Florida Mutineers in the semifinal. Week 10, brought another semifinal appearance but as a second seed after losing to Florida Mutineers in the group stage. They lost to Atlanta FaZe 3-2. Dallas finally claimed the throne again with a victory in the London Home Series. It would be the most dominant win by any team to date as they finished with a 12-1 map count. In the final week, Dallas made another semifinal appearance but fell to home series hosts Toronto Ultra in the semifinal. That loss cemented their #2 finish in the season with 250 CDL Points.

Dallas started the Call of Duty League Championship 2020 in Winners Round 3 where they beat Toronto Ultra 3-2. The Empire then beat Atlanta FaZe 3-2 in the Winners Final. In the Grand Final, they beat Atlanta FaZe again, this time 5-1 to win the first ever Call of Duty League Championship. This win gave Clayster and C6 both three World Championship rings while Huke, iLLeY, and Shotzzy got their first.

Black Ops Cold War
Less than 24 after winning the Call of Duty League Championship 2020, the league announced the change back to 4v4 competition. Clayster was the odd man out and became a restricted free agent on September 1. Hastr0 confirmed soon after that the team would be trying to sign the other four players to long-term deals. FeLo joined as substitute on January 22, 2021.

The world champions entered the season as Top 2 favorites alongside Atlanta FaZe, and fans would get that matchup in the first Major of the season. Dallas finished atop their group, won their Winners Round 2 series against OpTic Chicago, and met Atlanta in the Winners Final where they were promptly 3-0'd. Dallas fought back into the Grand Finals with a win over New York but FaZe was too strong and beat Dallas 5-2. Stage 2 saw Dallas drop down to the third place in Group B, after losing out on the three way tiebreaker between them, Minnesota, and OpTic. After beating New York 3-0 and edging out a 3-2 victory over Minnesota, they found themselves in another Winners Final against Atlanta FaZe. The result would be the same as they lost 3-1, and were then subsequently defeated 3-1 by Toronto Ultra in the Losers Final.

After winning their first series of Stage 3 against Paris Legion, the Empire shocked the community late on that same day by benching Huke for FeLo, who had been performing well in the Challengers events so during the season. The split the remainder of their matches 2-2 to finish in third place in Group A. Huke was sold to the LA Thieves on May 4, ending his nearly five year tenure with the Team Envy organization. Major 3 went as bad as it could. Dallas lost to both Atlanta FaZe and OpTic Chicago without winning a single map - eliminated at Top 8. FeLo was then moved back to the bench in favor of Vivid, who joined from LA Guerrillas after getting benched there.

Trivia

 * "Crowned Victorious", one of the team's hashtags, is an homage to a team of the same name that Clayster and C6 played together on in 2008
 * Dallas won the first ever Call of Duty League Championship.
 * Dallas (via Team Envy) became the first org to ever win two World Championships.