This article is about the history of Call of Duty multiplayer esports with controllers. This page doesn't include mouse and keyboard PC Call of Duty games nor does it include Warzone/Blackout or Mobile games. It is currently a work in progress, and you are more than welcome to contribute information.
Overview
Unlike most other esports, Call of Duty esports takes place on a different game every year. The platform on which it is played also changes from year to year. Major League Gaming ran national championships in the United States from 2008-2011, although these were the biggest events at the time in Call of Duty, these were not 'World Championships'. Activision first supported the scene with a million dollar tournament in 2011 with Call of Duty XP. Due to it taking place on the unreleased Modern Warfare 3 with questionable rules and qualifiers being held on another game (Black Ops), it is not considered to be a 'World Championship'. The first Call of Duty Championship took place in 2013. The first three years of the event took place in the middle of the competitive season, late March or early April, and were run as promotional events for the newest title. Starting with the Call of Duty World League Championship in 2016, Activision created a full global circuit to determine the champions and moved the event to the end of the season. It continued for four years and was then replaced by the franchised Call of Duty League Championship in 2020.
Competitive Seasons
| Season | Platform | Title | World Championship | Winner | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PC/Crossplay | Black Ops 7 | Call of Duty League Championship 2026 |  TBD |
TBD - Las Vegas, United States |
| 2025 | PC/Crossplay | Black Ops 6 | Call of Duty League Championship 2025 |  OpTic Texas |
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium - Kitchener, Canada |
| 2024 | PC/Crossplay | Modern Warfare III | Call of Duty League Championship 2024 | OpTic Texas |
Credit Union of Texas Events Center - Allen, United States |
| 2023 | PC/Crossplay | Modern Warfare II | Call of Duty League Championship 2023 |  New York Subliners |
Thomas & Mack Center - Las Vegas, United States |
| 2022 | PC/Crossplay | Vanguard | Call of Duty League Championship 2022 |  Los Angeles Thieves |
Galen Center - Los Angeles, United States |
| 2021 | PC/Crossplay | Black Ops Cold War | Call of Duty League Championship 2021 |  Atlanta FaZe |
Galen Center - Los Angeles, United States |
| 2020 | PlayStation 4 | Modern Warfare | Call of Duty League Championship 2020 |  Dallas Empire |
online (Due to COVID-19) |
| 2019 | PlayStation 4 | Black Ops 4 | Call of Duty World League Championship 2019 |  eUnited |
Pauley Pavilion - Los Angeles, United States |
| 2018 | PlayStation 4 | World War II | Call of Duty World League Championship 2018 |  Evil Geniuses |
MLG Arena/Nationwide Arena - Columbus, United States |
| 2017 | PlayStation 4 | Infinite Warfare | Call of Duty World League Championship 2017 |  OpTic Gaming |
Amway Center - Orlando, United States |
| 2016 | PlayStation 4 | Black Ops 3 | Call of Duty World League Championship 2016 |  Envy |
The Forum - Inglewood, United States |
| 2015 | Xbox One | Advanced Warfare | Call of Duty Championship 2015 |  Denial Esports |
LA Convention Center - Los Angeles, United States |
| 2014 | Xbox One/360 | Ghosts | Call of Duty Championship 2014 |  compLexity Gaming |
LA Convention Center - Los Angeles, United States |
| 2013 | Xbox 360 | Black Ops 2 | Call of Duty Championship 2013 |  Fariko Impact |
Hollywood Palladium - Hollywood, United States |
| 2012 | Xbox 360 | Modern Warfare 3 | Call of Duty XP 2011 | OpTic Gaming |
Playa Vista Hanger - Los Angeles, United States |
| 2011 | PlayStation 3 | Black Ops | MLG National Championship 2011 |  Quantic Nex-TT-hreat |
Rhode Island Convention Center - Providence, United States |
| 2010 | PlayStation 3 | Modern Warfare 2 | MLG National Championship 2010 |  Influence |
Hilton Anatole - Dallas, United States |
| 2009 | Xbox 360 | Call of Duty 4 | MLG National Championship 2009 |  Xtravagant |
Anaheim Convention Center - Anaheim, United States |
| 2008 | Xbox 360 | Call of Duty 4 | MLG National Championship 2008 |  Team FeaR |
Hard Rock Hotel - Las Vegas, United States |
Major League Gaming Era
Call of Duty 4 (2007-2009)
Call of Duty esports has its roots in the competitive Halo scene and has had many teams and players swap between the games throughout the years. It acted as Halo's younger sibling, waiting for its time to shine alongside the biggest esport in North America at the time. Call of Duty esports replicated many concepts and features like tournament formats, pro points, and even the series structure of multiple game modes - all through their shared main tournament organizer Major League Gaming. In 2008, MLG added a Pro Circuit Ladder to Call of Duty 4 and would host the first Call of Duty National Championship in Las Vegas alongside Halo.
MLG's old logo
The top six teams from the three ladders qualified for the event. Team EnVyUs and Team FeaR were the two big names of the era and they faced off in the finals. Team FeaR took the title with the roster of Moho, ASSASS1N, Pacman, and Choppy and became the first Call of Duty National Champions. With $8,000 going to first place, it was hardly seen as a viable career path like it would be a decade later. But that didn't matter as the passion of the game and determination to be the best was all the drive that players needed.
Xtravagant at MLG Nationals 2009 - LtR: eGo, Sharp, BigTymeR, DodgeRs, Rambo
In 2009, World at War wasn't viewed as a good competitive title. Major League Gaming decided to run another season of Pro Circuit Ladders on Call of Duty 4, so that's where a majority of competitive players spent that year. The season comprised as the same format as 2008 - three Pro Circuit Ladders that fed into an offline National Championship in Anaheim. This time, eight teams qualified - including the debut for Xtravagant. Their roster of BigTymeR, Rambo, Sharp, and DodgeRs would claim the second National Championship with Call of Duty getting played on the MLG main stage for the first time.[1]
Modern Warfare 2 (2010)
Influence at MLG Nationals 2010 - LtR: Censor, Terror, MuTaTioN, PLuTo, BRiM
Modern Warfare 2 was a massive success and became a sensation in mainstream culture beyond the hardcore gaming community. Live streaming matches became much more relevant and accessible thanks to casters like Fwiz and Hastr0 commentating over MLG GameBattles events.[2] One of those big streamed events was Machinima's Frag Cup. Machinima was approaching the peak of its influence on YouTube at this point and it was the goal for any Call of Duty related content creators to get their videos featured by the channel so it gave a lot of publicity to viewers who were otherwise already interested in the game. Machinima Respawn hosts Hutch, SeaNanners, and Mr Sark commentated over the matches and many videos showcasing it. The tournament was won by a Tva team led by LyaR.
The same pro circuit ladder format would once again be used but would take place on PlayStation. MLG's online national championship was a chance for Xbox players to win some prizes. Most of the top teams were teams also competing on the PlayStation side and the event was eventually won by Team EnVyUs with StaiNViLLe, VeXeL, ProoFy, and Ryu.
Three different teams won the three pro circuit ladder playoffs tournaments and the competition was close. The top eight teams traveled to Dallas for the finals event. Xtravagant were the favorites to go back to back, but they lost to ACHES's VwS LeveraGe in both winners round two and the losers final. It was Influence that ended up taking down VwS LeveraGe in the grand finals. PLuTo, BRiM, and Terror would win their only Major of their career, with MuTaTioN having more success in the following year.
Black Ops (2011)
Quantic LeveraGe at MLG Dallas 2011 - LtR: TeePee, Bobby, ACHES, Scump
The 2011 season would be the first time that Call of Duty was added to the full MLG Pro Circuit. Five regular season offline events would lead into a 32 team National Championship for Black Ops. No longer would online play determine a significant portion of the season, and teams could plan their year knowing they had a Major event to compete at every month or two.
But before the Major League Gaming season would start, GameStop hosted their own championships - one on Xbox and one on PlayStation. A combined OpTic/Envy won the Xbox championship (BigTymeR, MerK, Hastr0, StaiNViLLe) and VWS Leverage made up for their loss in last year's National Championship with a win on the PlayStation side (TeePee, ProoFy, VeXeL, and Dizz).
Next up was MLG Dallas. As the opening event of the year, no group stage was held and all the teams fought it out in a double elimination bracket. OpTic Gaming, Team EnVyUs, Team FeaR, and Influence all returned for the season, but it was Quantic LeveraGe who would take the win against NAMELESS's Resistance. LeveraGe was lead by ACHES and TeePee, and were joined by Bobby and the number one rookie on the circuit - Scump.
For the next four events, the championship bracket would be seeded by pool play consisting of four groups of four teams plus one team from the open bracket. Only the winners of the groups would qualify for the winners bracket, so just one loss in the group could be massive. MLG Columbus's winners bracket was won by Force with a roster of Phobia, Pikachu, DoMo, and MPaaC. OpTic Gaming won six straight matches in the losers bracket to make it to the finals. MerK, BigTymeR, JKap, and Rambo took six unanswered maps across two series against Force to claim OpTic's first MLG title.
In Anahiem, Quantic LeveraGe would win their second MLG Championship of the season, but not easily. After going 4-0 in their group, they beat Influence 3-0, and then fell to Team FeaR 0-3 in the winners finals. A 3-1 win against OpTic Gaming set them up for a rematch against FeaR in the grand finals. As a continuation series, Quantic LeveraGe would have to win six maps before FeaR could win three - and that's exactly what they did. After losing the first map in the finals and going down 0-4, LeveraGe tied up the series 4-4 through eight maps. FeaR won map nine to move onto event point, but LeveraGe then won the final two maps to take the MLG Anahiem championship with a 6-5 grand finals win.
Quantic Nex-TT-hreat at MLG Nationals 2011 - LtR: Censor, Vengeance, Virus, MuTaTioN
Team FeaR took their same roster of ASSASS1N, TwiZz, PHiZZURP, and John to Raleigh and made up for their previous choke with a strong showing. Their only loss of the event was to IcoNs Black in the group stage. They won their three bracket matches against OpTic Gaming Team EnVyUs, and apeX.Collapse with a map count of 9-2. This win was Team FeaR's first Major championship in almost three years.
For the final regular season event, MLG Orlando gave one last surprise. Coming out of the open bracket, Vendetta, made up of Rizma, Dos, Legit, and Waff, went undefeated in their group (beating Quantic LeveraGe 3-0), and then beat Team EnVyUs in winners round one before dropping to OpTic Gaming in winners finals. In losers finals, they beat Team EnVyUs again 6-5 in a continuation series, but then lost again 4-6 to OpTic Gaming in the grand finals. With ProoFy joining OpTic in place of Rambo, he now won his third Major of the season.
Providence would be the host of the 2011 MLG National Championship. The $140,000 prize pool was the largest by Major League Gaming yet. The top 20 teams were seeded in the winners bracket with 12 more starting in losers. First seed OpTic Gaming and seventh seed Quantic Nex-TT-hreat met up in the winners finals. OpTic Gaming went up 2-0, but Nex-TT-hreat pulled off the reverse sweep and booked their ticket to the finals. Team EnVyUs would be waiting to avenge last year's eClássico loss at the National Championship - and they would. A 3-0 put Team EnVyUs in their third national championship finals - having lost the previous two. Unfortunately for owner and coach Hastr0, they would fall short again. StaiNViLLe, Dedo, Saints, and LyaR made it to a game five, but it was Censor's Quantic Nex-TT-hreat that would seal the map, series, event, and seasonal victory. MuTaTioN won his second national championship and Virus and Vengeance won their first.
Modern Warfare 3 (2011-2012)
OpTic Gaming at Call of Duty XP - LtR: Vengeance, NaDeSHoT , BigTymeR, MerK
Esports' first ever million dollar tournament was announced in June 2011.[?][3] Call of Duty XP would bring the best teams from around the world to Los Angeles to battle for the biggest prize pool in esports history on the unreleased Modern Warfare 3.[4] The event took place in the middle of the 2011 Season for Black Ops. The paths to qualification would viewed as bizarre even a year or two later as the esports established itself more. Half of the field earned their place by winning in-game challenges in Black Ops that included getting the most kills or objective stats in various game modes.[5] The other half qualified through various tournaments in Europe and Australia. This event would be the first tournament that introduced the requirement to be 18 years old to compete. With that rule in place, some of the top players from the MLG Pro Circuit were unable to participate like Scump, Slacked, John, ACHES, and Censor. OpTic Gaming won the 32 team single elimination bracket and took home the $400,000 grand prize. This event win would help cement OpTic as one of the many iconic esports brands that started in Call of Duty.
Ironically, Modern Warfare 3 was not actually played on the 2012 MLG Pro Circuit due to a lack of LAN support and only two modes deemed good enough to play (CTF and S&D). Many players took a break during this year, and a lot of players did not return to pro play after. UMadGear hosted multiple events in the United States but the biggest events were held by EGL in Europe. Some American teams traveled to Europe to compete in these events. Call of Duty would not return with official support for a year after XP. Activision would see the potential of the esport through the event's success and implement some much needed changes in their next title.
Call of Duty Championship Era
Black Ops 2 (2013)
The beginning of what would be considered the "modern era" of Call of Duty esports would begin on August 7, 2012, with the release of the Black Ops 2 multiplayer reveal trailer[6]. In the final section of the video, a teaser played that hinted at the official support of esports from Activision and Treyarch with Hastr0[7] commentating over a hypothetical match on the map Turbine. Black Ops 2 introduced the "Codcaster" feature that allowed for a more in-depth experience of watching matches compared to the traditional spectator mode. Hardpoint appeared in Call of Duty and competitive play for the first time and quickly became the second standard mode alongside Search and Destroy.
Black Ops 2 was reintroduced to the MLG Pro Circuit and they would host its first event in March, but UMG Chicago would be the first major event of the year in December. The $10,000 prize pool would pale in comparison to Activision events, but would set the stage for a year of intense competition. OpTic Gaming continued with their dominance from Modern Warfare 3 and won the event with a roster of MerK, BigTymeR, Scump, and NaDeSHoT. They defeated compLexity 1-3/3-2 in two best of five series in the finals.
Fariko Impact at COD Champs 2013 - LtR: KiLLa, Parasite, MiRx, Karma
On February 1, 2013, Activision announced a partnership with Xbox to host the first official "World Championship" in April on the Xbox 360.[8] This second million tournament would have much more competitively complete qualification paths and include a group stage and double elimination bracket for the main event. Some teams qualified through in-game "League Play", which used competitive rules in a ladder format. Half of the teams qualified through regional major events in the United States and Europe, with others qualifying from regional online tournaments. The finals would take place at the beginning of April and would be a big marketing push halfway through the cycle of the game to keep player interest.
At the North American qualifier at MLG Dallas, over 150 teams fought over eight spots for Champs. Fariko Impact (Karma, Parasite, KiLLa, and MiRx) took the finals 6-2 over UNiTE Gaming and solidified themselves as the favorites. Despite placing second, UNiTE and Clayster had to make three changes going into Champs because Huhdle, Slacked, and SpaceLy were all under 18 years old.
The main event was a massive success with an announced viewership of over 100,000[9] and even had a video player featured on the Xbox 360 dashboard to watch the stream. Introduced at this event was the ever-sought-after "rings" that are awarded to the winners of the World Championship. compLexity, Fariko Impact, Team EnVyUs, and OpTic Gaming were the last four teams standings heading into Championship Sunday. Team EnVyUs defeated Fariko Impact in the winners final 3-2 to take their place in the grand finals. A 3-1 win for Fariko Impact over OpTic Gaming set them up with a rematch in a best of 11 continuation series against Team EnVyUs. After 11 maps and an iconic 1v1 between Fariko's KiLLa and Envy's ProoFy, it was Fariko Impact (KiLLa, Karma, Parasite, and MiRx) who were crowned the first official "World Champions" of Call of Duty. This win also marked the third of four Major victories in a row for the team (MLG Dallas, EGL 9, and UMG St Louis).
The next big event of the season was MLG Anaheim. With Fariko Impact now competing under IcoNs Impact, they were the favorites for another title. In their way was compLexity, with ACHES, TeePee, and Crimsix upgrading TuQuick to Clayster. The teams met up for the first time in the winners finals. compLexity did what no one thought possible at the time and won the series 3-1. Impact breezed past OpTic 6-1 and the grand finals were set up for another rematch. Following Parasite's iconic "Who's compLexity" comment[10] from his pre-match interview, it was compLexity's turn for triumph and they took the grand finals 6-2. This would be the last time they were fan favorites before their reign of absolute domination began for the next 13 months. For the remainder of this season, they would win six out of the remaining seven events of the year - finishing second in the other one - with such supremacy that it was no question who would take home the trophy every time. compLexity would go on to win as many events (12) as total series lost from June 2013 to August 2014.[11]
In July, Gfinity London brought all of the top North American teams across the Atlantic for the first time. The format was two groups of five teams each fighting for the eight single elimination bracket spots. compLexity and TCM-Gaming topped their groups with 4-0 series counts. compLexity defeated Impact again in the semifinals and TCM beat OpTic in the other. The Americans took down Europe's best with a 3-1 victory for compLexity.
compLexity Gaming at ESWC 2013 - LtR: ACHES, Clayster, TeePee, Crimsix, Mr X
It was business as usual again back in the states for compLexity at UMG Atlanta with a 6-4 win against Team Kaliber. More notably, this was the event that ended the Impact (now competing as Epsilon eSports) roster that won the world championship just a few months before. Karma had left for Team EnVyUs prior to the event and was replaced by John. They did defeat Team EnVyUs early in the losers bracket, and then placed third. But following their controversial trash talking (especially against Team EnVyUs[12]), Epsilon dropped them following the event and Parasite left the squad.[13]
The Pax Prime Invitational would be one of very few blips for compLexity. MLG invited eight teams to compete in a mini-league that took place over a long weekend at the PAX Gaming Expo. compLexity dropped three out of seven series in the group stage and only advance due to total map count being the primary sorting for the standings. They beat FaZe Clan in the semi-finals of the playoffs, but lost 4-1 to MBoZe, Ricky, NAMELESS, and Parasite of UNiTE Gaming in the Grand Finals.
Back in London for Gfinity 2, compLexity won their group with a 3-0 record, dropping two maps. UNiTE Gaming, with KiLLa replacing MBoZe, lost 2-3 to Team EnVyUs in the quarterfinals. Envy then lost 0-3 to compLexity in the semifinals. Epsilon finished second in compLexity's group and then won their two bracket matches to rematch in the finals. Epsilon nearly won the event by winning the first two maps of the series, but compLexity won three straight maps to reverse sweep them in the best of five.
Up next was the MLG Fall Invitational. Just four teams were invited this time based on pro points: compLexity, FaZe Clan, OpTic Gaming, and UNiTE Gaming. It would be best of three until a best of seven grand finals. compLexity and OpTic won their first round matches and met in the winners finals. compLexity won 2-0 and moved into the grand finals. OpTic would meet them there after a 2-0 win in the losers finals against UNiTE Gaming. A 4-1 win in the grand finals for compLexity would hardly be a shock heading into the event, but it would be the way they did it. In the final map of the series, OpTic went up 5-0 before losing six straight rounds. This collapse coined the term "getting full-sailed" after the the location of the event - Full Sail University in Winter Park (Orlando), Florida.[14]
The final event of the season was ESWC 2013 in Paris, France. Teams from around the world were invited to compete against the winners of big tournaments of the past few months. In a surprise to no one, compLexity won the event with relative ease. With no other North American teams in attendance, their only real competition was Epsilon Esports and Millenium - and they beat them both with a 6-1 combined scoreline in the semifinals and finals.
Black Ops 2 is remembered as one of the best Call of Duty esports games of all time and would set the gold standard for every game that followed to try and live up to it.
Ghosts (2014)
compLexity Gaming at MLG Columbus 2013 - LtR: Crimsix, Mr X, Clayster, TeePee, ACHES
With compLexity sticking together heading into Ghosts, every other team was tasked with squad that could compete with them. However, three of the big players - OpTic Gaming, Team EnVyUs, Team Kaliber - all decided to stick with their same four and go again. Following Crimsix's successful switch (and OGRE2's not so successful switch) from Halo during Black Ops 2, and Halo getting dropped from the MLG Pro Circuit, the first major exodus of Halo players to Call of Duty occurred. SnakeBite, Flamesword, FormaL, Ace, Enable, Snip3down, Goofy, Heinz, MaNiaC. Ninja, and Mikwen all tried to swap over. Most of them saw little to no success. But a few would turn into Call of Duty legends.
The MLG Fall Championship was the first major of the year just three weeks after launch. The best teams from around the world traveled to Columbus for in hopes that a big bracket run could start off their season with good results. OpTic and FaZe bombed out early with 2-3 losses to eLevate.VeXeD and JusTus, and EnVyuS fell later in the losers bracket. It was compLexity and Team Kaliber (Sharp,Theory,Neslo,Goonjar) that made it out of the winners bracket to join the reseeded semifinals against two teams from losers. After the final fours teams were decided, the losers bracket was removed and those teams played in a straight up single elimination bracket. compLexity and Team Kaliber each won 3-1 against their opponents JusTus (who had won five matches in the losers bracket after starting in the open bracket) and UNiTE, respectively, and matched up in the grand final. The team went back in forth in the best of seven final but it was a 6-1 win on the final map for compLexity that sealed another title for the team.
Following their fourth straight win, and seven of eight, compLexity shocked everyone when they announced that Clayster would be replaced by Karma.[15] Crimsix and ACHES later stated that they didn't think Clayster was taking the game as serious as the rest of them.[16] Also by picking up Karma, they immediately made a rival team much worse by taking one of the best players so far in the early season. Clayster was then picked up by Team Kaliber and replaced Goonjar.
Strictly Business at the COD Champs 2014 US Regionals - LtR: Saints, Apathy, Dedo, Censor
UMG Philadelphia was the next major heading into the new year. compLexity won all four of their series to advance to another grand finals. Down in losers, OpTic Gaming failed to place top eight for the second straight event. The newly formed Team Kaliber did not get off to a good start. They lost to Revan's EGirl Slayers 1-3 in winners round one. The team bounced back quickly and found good form with wins against Fuse, EnVyUs, FaZe, revenge against EGirl Slayers, Strictly Business, and finally Curse LV to reach the grand finals. The trash talk between former teammates was immense and included compLexity coach Mr X's iconic "That's why you got dropped" line to Clayster.[17]. tK did win map one, but the final three maps were hardly close and compLexity continued their dominance with the new squad. Following poor results to start the season, the OpTic Gaming roster dissolved with BigTymeR retiring (the player with the most major wins and earnings of any player at the time), and Scump leaving for two weeks before returning after a short run with EnVyUs.[18]
After Philly, Major League Gaming announced the first ever full MLG pro league competition for Call of Duty. The invited eight of the top North American teams to compete in a month long double round robin tournament with a four team online playoff. This Winter Invitational would be used as a test league for the future of the esport. The league was plagued by various problems like DDOS attacks, a small prize pool, roster locks, and players being forced to broadcast all matches on Major League Gaming's new streaming service - MLG.tv. This final issue was enough to cause compLexity to drop out all together since they were sponsored by Twitch.[19] The tournament was ultimately won by Parasite, MiRx, KiLLa, and Ricky of Curse LV, and would be an important learning experience for the Major League Gaming events team since they then announced the formation of the MLG CoD League that would be starting in just a few weeks time.
Qualifying for the second annual Call of Duty Championship was well underway by mid-February. The format and qualifying teams by region would be very similar to last year's event. The biggest difference on the American side of qualifying, would be a dedicated 16 team tournament to decide the eight teams to represent the region. The biggest upset at the event was the Curse LV roster of the defending world champions KiLLa, Parasite, and MiRx getting double first rounded and failing to qualify for the championship. Strictly Business (Apathy, Censor, Saints, Dedo) shocked everyone by beating compLexity 3-0 in round two of the winners bracket. compLexity stormed back through the losers bracket with wins against Denial East, OpTic Gaming, and three other teams to rematch with Strictly Business in the grand finals. In the continuation series, Strictly Business won three maps before ACHES and company could win six, and Censor's squad took the championship and the top qualifying seed.
compLexity Gaming at COD Champs 2014 - LtR: Karma, Crimsix, TeePee, ACHES
At the main event, both Strictly Business and compLexity strolled through their groups with relative ease, but Strictly Business ran into issues early in the winners bracket. After beating Team EnVyUs in round one, OpTic Gaming, featuring NaDeSHoT, Clayster, MBoZe, and Scump, took them down in a game five. Two rounds later in the winners finals, compLexity nearly met the same fate, but clutched up on Octane Domination to push the series to a final map they would win 6-0. Strictly Business began a recovery run in losers, but met a red-hot Team EnVyUs (MerK, Rambo, NAMELESS, StuDyy) who was on their fifth of six losers bracket wins in a row to reach the organizations' fifth National Championship/Call of Duty Championship grand finals. The finals were a swift and certain 3-0 from compLexity - securing the back to back world championship wins for Karma, the first for ACHES, TeePee, and Crimsix, and one of the most dominant championship performances of all time by any team.
MLG invited ten teams to the first season of the MLG CoD League[20][21]. With most of the teams in the league already qualified for the Call of Duty Championship, it served as great practice leading into that event. The teams played quadruple round robin for a total of 36 matches each. The playoffs for it took place with the top six teams in the week following Champs. compLexity and Strictly Business battled it out again for the first MLG Pro League title - compLexity won 3-0 in the winners finals and 3-2 in the grand finals for yet another major win.
Advanced Warfare (2015)
Call of Duty World League Era
Black Ops 3 (2016)
Infinite Warfare (2017)
World War II (2018)
Black Ops 4 (2019)
Call of Duty League Era
Modern Warfare (2020)
Cold War (2021)
Vanguard (2022)
Modern Warfare II (2023)
Modern Warfare III (2024)
Black Ops 6 (2025)
Black Ops 7 (2026)
In the biggest roster shakeup since the inception of the Call of Duty League, every roster except for OpTic Texas made at least one change - mostly due to the dissolving of the Atlanta FaZe roster core of the previous six seasons. There were also multiple franchises that moved geographic locations or branding. FaZe moved to Las Vegas, Minnesota RØKKR renamed to G2 Minnesota, Toronto Ultra renamed to Toronto KOI, and the Vegas Falcons and Los Angeles Guerrillas M8 finally completed their delayed move to Riyadh and Paris (awaiting official update for Paris).
References
- ↑ The Original Call of Duty Champions (2008-2011) - youtube.com
- ↑ The Original Call of Duty Champions (2008-2011) - youtube.com
- ↑ Valve Announces Dota 2 Tournament - "THE INTERNATIONAL" - steampowered.com
- ↑ Call of Duty XP 2011 will have MW3 multiplayer, MW2 paintball arena and Burger Town - pcgamer.com
- ↑ $1 Million Tournamenet Qualifiers - callofduty.com via web.archive.org
- ↑ Multiplayer Reveal Trailer - Official Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Video - youtube.com
- ↑ Mike Rufail's Tweet - twitter.com
- ↑ Call of Duty Championship (Announcement) - xbox.com
- ↑ Best moments of the Call of Duty Championship 2013 - redbull.com
- ↑ Complexity vs Impact - Game 1 - Grand Final - Anaheim 2013 - youtube.com
- ↑ The coL Dynasty: Then and Now - dotesports.com
- ↑ Killa The Choo Choo Train-- and Epsilon going off on nV and Crowd - youtube.com
- ↑ Epsilon eSports drops Team Impact after trash talking - gamesindustry.biz
- ↑ Fall Invitational Grand Finals -- Optic Vs. Complexity -- Game 5 - Award Ceremony - youtube.com
- ↑ compLexity Welcomes Karma; Releases Clayster - complexity.gg
- ↑ Why we dropped Clayster from the Complexity roster - youtube.com
- ↑ coL vs tK UMG Philly 2014 - youtube.com
- ↑ EsportsNation's Tweet - twitter.com
- ↑ ACHES' Tweet - twitter.com
- ↑ MLG Expands Pro Circuit with Call of Duty Ghosts Competition - majorleaguegaming.com
- ↑ 2014 Pro Circuit - Call of Duty Ghosts - Season 1 Format - majorleaguegaming.com