Optic Gaming Wins Call of Duty® MLG Orlando Open
August 08 2016 - 6:06PM
Business Wire
The road to the 2016 Call of Duty® World League Championship,
Presented by PlayStation® 4 finished its last live qualifying
competition yesterday with an epic showdown in Orlando as Optic
Gaming won the Call of Duty® MLG Orlando Open.
Yesterday’s finals completed a thrilling weekend of competition,
as eager fans in attendance, online at MLG.tv and other
livestreams, and those tuning-in directly through an in-game (BOIII
PS4) Live Event Viewer, watched 72 hours of compelling action.
Optic Gaming took home the top prize after besting Team Envyus to
be the top of more than 100 teams from around the world.
Yesterday’s exciting tournament also served as the final CWL Pro
Points event of the season, as competition now moves to the North
American online qualifier as the final stop before the highly
anticipated CWL Championship at Call of Duty® XP. At the CWL
Championship, 32 teams will play for their share of the biggest
single event prize pool in Call of Duty® history, $2 million.
With the growth of the Call of Duty World League, Call of Duty
esports viewership has increased by more than five times
year-over-year to 33 million views of the Stage 1 events this year.
The Call of Duty World League Championships at Call of Duty XP is
expected to be our most viewed Call of Duty esports event in
history by a wide margin.
After the dust settled, over 1.4 million cumulative viewers
across distribution platforms, including MLG.tv, generated over 8
million video views during the event, consuming over 2 million
hours of content throughout the weekend, and peaking at 164,000
concurrent viewers during the thrilling finals match.1
Here are the top eight teams from the Call of Duty MLG Orlando
Open:
- Optic Gaming
- Team Envyus
- Team Elevate
- Faze Clan
- Rise Nation
- Luminosity Gaming
- Cloud9
- Complexity Gaming
On August 15, 2016, a live broadcast
on youtube.com/callofduty will determine the grouping for
all the qualified teams. Four teams will face off against each
other in each of the eight groups during the first part of the
tournament. The top two teams from each group will move on to the
bracket stage. Once at that stage, teams will face off in a double
elimination bracket to determine the winner of the most important
Call of Duty competitive event of the year. The winning team will
take home the lion’s share of the $2 million prize pool as part of
the closing festivities at Call of Duty XP, the ultimate
interactive experience and fan celebration, taking place in
Inglewood, California, September 2 – 4, 2016.
Call of Duty World League, Presented by PlayStation®4 is proud
to partner with Major League Gaming, a division of Activision
Blizzard, Inc. Through MLG’s proven live streaming and Enhanced
Viewing Experience (EVE) capabilities, CWL fans can watch all the
action on MLG.tv and in-game (BOIII PS4) through Live Event
Viewer.
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1 Viewership stats from MLG.tv, Facebook Live, Twitch
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