CWL/2018 Season/Dallas Open

2018 CWL Dallas Open was the first Major International offline event for Call of Duty: World War II. The event took place in Dallas, Texas, from December 8–10, 2017.

Format

 * Open Bracket
 * 160+ teams from North America, Europe and Asia Pacific
 * Double Elimination
 * Best of 3 Series
 * Best of 5 Series in final Winners and Losers rounds
 * Top 4 Winner's Bracket teams qualify for Pool Play
 * Top 4 Loser's Bracket teams qualify for Championship Bracket Loser's Round 1
 * Pool Play
 * 20 teams: the Top 10 North American teams, the Top 5 European Teams and the Top 1 Asia Pacific team based on CWL Pro Points (as of 06:00am ET on November 28), plus 4 teams from the Open Bracket
 * 4 pools of 5 teams
 * Best of 5 Series
 * Top 2 teams in each pool are placed in Championship Bracket Winner's Round 1
 * 3rd Place team is placed in Championship Bracket Loser's Round 3
 * 4th Place team is placed in Championship Bracket Loser's Round 2
 * 5th Place team is placed in Championship Bracket Loser's Round 1
 * Championship Bracket
 * Double Elimination
 * Best of 5 Series

Game Types and Maps

 * Hardpoint: Ardennes Forest, Gibraltar, London Docks, Saint Marie Du Mont
 * Capture the Flag: Ardennes Forest, Flak Tower, London Docks,
 * Search and Destroy: Ardennes Forest, London Docks, Saint Marie Du Mont, USS Texas

Broadcast Talent
The full talent lineup for the event is as follows:

English Stream Talent

 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Ben "Benson" Bowe
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Miles Ross
 * 🇺🇸 us Clint "Maven" Evans
 * 🇺🇸 us Jack "CouRage" Dunlop
 * 🇺🇸 us Joe "MerK" DeLuca
 * 🇺🇸 us Thomas "Chance" Ashworth
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Phillip "Momo" Whitfield


 * 🇺🇸 us Rich Campbell
 * 🇺🇸 us Jessica Brohard
 * 🇺🇸 us Rondez "Fox" Green
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Jamie "Dirk" Ruiz
 * 🇺🇸 us Chris "Tunn" Tunn
 * 🇺🇸 us Guy "Blaze" Spencer
 * 🇺🇸 us John "Revan" Boble

Spanish Stream Talent

 * es Axel "AxeeL" Martinez
 * es Joan" Prieto" Prieto
 * es Oriol "Uri" Ruiz
 * es Sergio "Frenezy" Ferra

French Stream Talent

 * fr Sacha "Pyro" Cohen
 * fr Laurent "Zankioh" Bosc
 * fr Julien "BRK" Vanhove
 * fr Quentin "Breizhix" Bonno

German Stream Talent

 * de Marius "Jamarz" Westlund
 * de Sven "SweeN" Welling

Italian Stream Talent

 * it Ivan "Rampage" Grieco
 * it Andrea "Sperle" Sperlecchi

Observers

 * 🇺🇸 us Quintin "Paradox" Johnson - Alpha
 * 🇺🇸 us Rob "ImmortalSpawn" Ambrose - Alpha Skycam
 * 🇺🇸 us Mike "FikeMairless" Fairless - Bravo
 * 🇺🇸 us "Waldo" Kinne - Charlie
 * 🇺🇸 us Mark "MazezRealm" Perozo - Delta

Open Bracket
Due to the large size of the Open Bracket, we will only display the Round of 32 and beyond. Click here to view the full bracket

Winners Bracket
[32DEMLGOpenW]

Losers Bracket
[32DEMLGOpenL]

Winners Bracket
[8SE]

Losers Bracket
[MLGColumbus2014L]

Final Bracket
[DEFinal]

Streams

 * usuk MLG - Alpha
 * usuk MLG - Bravo
 * usuk MLG - Charlie
 * es MLG - Spanish
 * fr MLG - French
 * de MLG - German
 * it MLG - Italian


 * usuk Twitch - CallofDuty
 * usuk Twitch - CallofDutyBravo
 * usuk Twitch - CallofDutyCharlie
 * es Twitch - LVPes2
 * fr Twitch - MLG_FR
 * de Twitch - MLG_German
 * it Twitch - MLG_ITL

Announcements

 * October 25, CWL 2018 Season Reveal - callofduty.com

Videos

 * CWL Dallas Open Draw Show - mlg.com
 * CWL Dallas 2018 Kicks Off This Weekend - mlg.com
 * Team Kaliber are Your CWL Dallas Open Champions - mlg.com
 * Team Kaliber's Post-Championship Interview - mlg.com
 * The Top 5 plays from the CWL Dallas Open Presented by PlayStation​ 4! - youtube.com
 * Top 5 Plays from CWL Dallas Pool Play Presented by PS4 - youtube.com

MLG Recon Episodes

 * Episode 1 - mlg.com
 * Episode 2 - mlg.com
 * Episode 3 - mlg.com
 * Episode 4 - mlg.com
 * Episode 5 - mlg.com

Articles

 * Beginners guide to watching CWL Dallas - dotesports.com
 * Killa's team forced to forfeit their match in Open Bracket - dexerto.com
 * Event was evacuated due to bomb threats on Dec. 8th - centeraltrack.com
 * Event was evacuated again due to an unknown reason - dotesports.com
 * eSports players and personalities praise MLG for their hard work - dexerto.com
 * Team Kaliber crowned CWL Dallas Open Champions - businesswire.com
 * FaZe prove a lot of people wrong with their placing - ''dexerto.com