CWL/2019 Season/Las Vegas Open

The 2019 CWL Las Vegas Open was the first Major International offline event for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. The event took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from December 7–9, 2018. It was the final event before the Pro and Open tournaments were separated.

Format

 * Open Bracket
 * Seeding based on CWL Pro Points from the WWII season
 * Double Elimination
 * Best of 3 Series
 * Best of 5 Series in qualifying 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
 * Top 12 teams from 2018 CWL Pro League Stage 2. Any team that doesn't retain three of four players from their roster will be replaced by teams with the highest amount of combined CWL Pro Points from the WWII season
 * 4 teams from Play-In
 * 4 teams from Open Winner's 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
 * Top 4 teams qualify for 2019 CWL Pro League
 * Top 32 teams qualify for 2019 CWL Pro League Qualifier

Game Types and Maps

 * Hardpoint: Arsenal, Frequency, Gridlock, Hacienda, Seaside
 * Search and Destroy: Arsenal, Frequency, Gridlock, Hacienda, Payload
 * Control: Arsenal, Frequency, Gridlock, Seaside

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

Casters

 * 🇺🇸 usa Clint "Maven" Evans
 * 🇺🇸 usa Joe "MerK" DeLuca
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Ben "Benson" Bowe
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Philip "Momo" Whitfield
 * 🇺🇸 usa Thomas "Chance" Ashworth
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Miles Ross

Analysts

 * 🇺🇸 usa Anthony "NAMELESS" Wheeler
 * 🇺🇸 usa Jonathan "Pacman" Tucker
 * 🇺🇸 usa Jeremy "StuDyy" Astacio

Host

 * 🇺🇸 usa Katie Bedford

Open Stream

 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Alan "Bricey" Brice
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england Chris "Tunn" Tunn
 * 🇺🇸 us Guy "Blaze" Spencer
 * 🇺🇸 usa Jamie "Dirk" Diaz Ruiz

Sideline

 * 🇺🇸 us Jessica Brohard

Observers

 * 🇺🇸 us Quintin "Paradox" Johnson - Alpha
 * 🇺🇸 us "Waldo" Kinne - Bravo
 * 🇺🇸 us Jonathan "GhosT" Perez - Charlie
 * 🇺🇸 us Alex "KnightyKnight" Irwin - Delta
 * 🇺🇸 us Mike "FikeMairless" Fairless - Open Stream
 * 🇺🇸 us Richard "Heinz" Heinz - Open Stream

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
 * usuk MLG - Delta


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 * usuk Twitch - CallofDutyCharlie
 * usuk Twitch - CallofDutyDelta
 * usuk Twitch - CallofDutyOpen

Announcements

 * August 19, The first event of the #BlackOps4 season: CWL Las Vegas on December 7-9! - twitter.com
 * September 19, Announcing the Call of Duty World League 2019 Season - callofduty.com
 * November 21, Presenting the pools for CWL Vegas! - twitter.com

Additional Links

 * Call of Duty World League 2019 Official Handbook - callofduty.com
 * 2019 CWL Las Vegas Open – Rules - callofduty.com
 * Vegas Qualification Pro Points