OpTic Gaming Wins CWL Las Vegas
December 10 2018 - 1:06PM
Business Wire
Competition Heads Toward CWL Pro League
Qualification Event in January
CWL Fort Worth, CWL UK, CWL Anaheim
Announced for 2019 Calendar
The first open event of the 2019 Call of Duty® World League
season, Presented by PlayStation®4, concluded with OpTic Gaming
defeating eUnited to win CWL Las Vegas. Players from around the
world competed through three days in the largest open bracket event
in CWL history, setting a league record of 272 teams. Splyce and
Luminosity rounded-out the remaining top four placing teams at CWL
Las Vegas.
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A sold-out crowd at CWL Las Vegas cheer
OpTic Gaming to victory. (Photo: Business Wire)
OpTic Gaming’s star player Brandon 'Dashy' Otell was named CWL
Las Vegas MVP for his performance at the event, helping drive OpTic
to victory at the first event of the new season.
The top four teams at CWL Las Vegas automatically qualify for
the CWL Pro League, a 12-week regular series tournament which
begins in February 2019. Teams who ranked 5th – 32nd at CWL Las
Vegas will move on to the CWL Pro League Qualifier in January,
where they will compete to determine the remaining spots for the
16-team CWL Pro League.
In addition to the sold-out crowd in attendance at CWL Las
Vegas, the action was streamed live to fans worldwide on
MLG.com/CallofDuty and Twitch.tv/CallofDuty, as well as in the live
event viewer within Call of Duty®: Black Ops 4 exclusively on
PlayStation®4.
With the completion of CWL Las Vegas, the Call of Duty World
League released the calendar of events through June 2019. More
dates will be announced as the competition marches toward the CWL
Championship next year.
- CWL Pro League Qualifier, January
16-20, 2019
- CWL Pro League, Begins February 4,
2019
- CWL Fort Worth, March 15-17, 2019
- CWL UK Event, Details TBA
- CWL Anaheim, June 14-16, 2019
Visit CallofDuty.com/esports and follow the Call of Duty World
League on Twitter and Instagram for more information and the latest
updates related to the CWL. For live broadcasts and Video on
Demand, visit MLG.com/CallofDuty.
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