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Black Ops Cold War Game Cover — The game cover for *Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War*.

Overview[]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is a first person shooter video game developed by Treyarch and published by Activision. Released in 2020, it is the seventeenth game in the Call of Duty series.

Esports[]

The title was the featured game of the 2021 Season and Call of Duty League. This was the first title to return to 4v4 player count. Matches were contested in best of 5 series with Hardpoint, Control, and Search and Destroy being the three game modes. The series layout was HP/S&D/CON/HP/S&D. In the grand final Best of 9's, the series layout was HP/S&D/CON/HP/S&D/CON/S&D/HP/S&D.

New Features[]

On August 31, 2020, Activision announced that competitive would be switching back to 4v4 after two years of 5v5. The season featured Apocalypse, Express, Raid, and Standoff getting added into the competitive map pool throughout the year to replace many of the initially included maps. The 1-0 advantage in grand final Best of 9 series for the Winners Bracket team was removed. Although the Winners Bracket team still had the veto advantage.

Call of Duty League[]

Team Changes[]

⁠⁠Chicago Huntsmen rebranded to ⁠⁠OpTic Chicago
⁠⁠OpTic Gaming Los Angeles sold their slot to 100 Thieves and became ⁠⁠Los Angeles Thieves

Regular Season[]

The season started on January 23, 2021, with the Kickoff Classic. The twelve teams faced off in showcase matches to celebrate the one year anniversary of the league. With a full season of online matches ahead, the league's format changed to have five stages - each with three group play home series and one major. The first three majors of the season took place online, with Atlanta FaZe winning the first and third with Toronto Ultra taking them down in the second major. Atlanta FaZe took the first major back on LAN and Minnesota RØKKR performed a Best of 9 reverse sweep against Toronto Ultra to win Major 5. Atlanta won the regular season for the second year in a row with 525 CDL Points.

Most Valuable Player[]

Winner is bolded

Team of the Year[]

Rookies[]

Only players who made an appearance are listed

Championship[]

Atlanta FaZe entered the Grand Finals against Toronto with a 6-0 map count after starting in WR2. After 8 maps, Atlanta took the series 5-3 to win the second Call of Duty League Championship. The Champs MVP went to aBeZy.

Call of Duty Challengers[]

The entirety of the 2021 Challengers season took place online. Tournaments took place almost every weekend from December to August in the three regions. Additionally, North America and Europe hosted "Elite" leagues for the Top 8 teams in each region for more prize money. The regional finals were won by We Are Trying Now (NA), The Atlas Lions (EU), and Renegades (AP)