Team Envyus Wins North American Stage 2 Finals of the Call of Duty World League (CWL), Presented by PlayStation® 4
July 18 2016 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Australian/New Zealand and European Regional
Winners Mindfreak and Millenium Also Earn Stage 2 Pro Division
Titles
The road to the 2016 Call of Duty® Championship, Presented by
PlayStation® 4 is nearly set. Team Envyus, Mindfreak and Millenium
won their respective regional finals in the Call of Duty® World
League, Presented by PlayStation® 4 Stage 2 Pro Division
matches yesterday at the ESL Studios in Burbank, and will move onto
Call of Duty® XP this September to play for the overall winner’s
share of the biggest prize in Call of Duty® history of over $3.5
million.
Yesterday’s regional finals capped an exciting day of
competition as eager fans in attendance, online via livestream, and
tuning-in directly through an in-game (BOIII PS4) Live Event
Viewer, witnessed the thrilling conclusion to months of rigorous
competition of Stage 2. Team Envyus took home the North American
honors after topping surprise finalist, Dream Team four maps to
one.
“All year long, from our qualifying events early in
the year to the Stage 2 Finals, the CWL has been an amazing
showcase to watch the best Call of Duty players in the world
compete at the highest level. We’re thrilled with the season
thus far and are very excited for the future of Call of Duty
eSports,” said Rob Kostich, General Manager and
Executive Vice President of Call of Duty. “Next up is our
grand finale, the CWL Championship at Call of Duty XP September
2nd-4th. It will be the biggest Call of Duty eSport event we have
ever put on, and it will be an epic conclusion to the season
that fans won’t want to miss.”
The top eight North American Call of Duty teams battled it out
over the weekend. After the dust settled, thousands of Call of Duty
fans witnessed Team Envyus emerge victorious as they were crowned
Stage 2 champions and secured their spot in the highly-anticipated
Call of Duty Championship this fall at COD XP in Los Angeles.
“Even though we were coming into Stage 2 finals as the top seed,
we felt like other teams weren’t taking us seriously,” said Bryan
“Apathy” Zhelyazkov of Team Envyus. “This win is great for us, but
we are now fully focused on the CWL Championship in September.”
The ANZ region featured key match ups between Mindfreak and
Orbit with Mindfreak continuing their ANZ dominance taking the top
prize four maps to two. The EU region had multiple top teams vying
for the Stage 2 prize pool. Millenium and Team Infused met in the
finals with Millenium becoming a two time CWL Pro Division Champion
by winning the series four maps to two.
Here are the final rankings for each CWL Stage 2 Pro Division
region:
North America
- Team Envyus – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Dream Team – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Luminosity – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Rise Nation – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Faze Clan – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Optic Gaming – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- H2K Gaming
- Cloud9
Europe
- Millenium – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Team Infused– Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Splyce – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- HyperGames – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Epsilion eSports
- Supremacy
Australia/ New Zealand
- MindFreak – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Orbit – Qualified for CWL
Championship
- Chiefs eSports
- Team Immunity
As part of the action this weekend, the Stage 2 finals held an
exhibition tournament featuring 16 international all-stars, voted
in by the fans. A donation to the Call of Duty™ Endowment was made
on behalf of the winning team: Havok of Cloud9, Pizzurp of H2K
Gaming, Qwiker of Hypergames, and Skrapz of Epsilion eSports. The
donation will support the Call of Duty Endowment’s efforts to
connect veterans with high-quality jobs. In 2015 alone, the
Endowment funded the placement of 10,492 veterans at an average
cost per person of under $600 (one fifth the cost of government
efforts), by finding and supporting the best non-profits that do
this work.
As always, you can re-live the Stage 2 action on the Call of
Duty YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/CALLOFDUTY/videos.
Be sure to check out https://www.callofduty.com/esports and
follow @CODWorldLeague on Twitter , Instagram, and Twitch for the
latest CWL updates.
Call of Duty World League, Presented by PlayStation®4 is proud
to partner with Major League Gaming. Through MLG’s proven live
streaming capabilities and technology, CWL fans can watch all the
Black Ops III eSports action on MLG.TV and in-game (BOIII PS4)
through Live Event Viewer.
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