These shots from MLG Gaming from the Call of Duty World League Seattle competition help show what it's like to be on the ground at an esports tournament.
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Alright, so the easy punchline is that esports is the worst thing to happen to esports, but let's not be that flippant, yeah? One of the big conversations heading into this weekend’s Call of Duty World League competition in Seattle was the role social media, particularly Twitter, plays in esports.
Rise Nation won the second series of the Championship Match with a 3:0 victory over Evil Geniuses, meaning they are the CWL Seattle Champs They get to take home the trophy and the $80,000 USD grand prize.
Congratulations to @TheRiseNation, the @CODWorldLeague Seattle Champions! #CODWWII pic.twitter.com/jS05PQzfvD
— Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) April 23, 2018
Rise Nation survived[...]
Coming into this match, both eUnited and EvilGeniuses were pretty confident they could win and go on to the Championship match. Particularly former teammates James “Clayster” Eubanks and Justin “SiLLY” Fargo-Palmer.
Especially because they had such a lead coming into the CWL Seattle round Luminosity have managed to stick it out in the Losers Bracket for an impressive run, and even took out Enigma6 this morning Rise Nation won out over Team EnVyUs, while Red Reserve beat out the Lightning Pandas.
The Losers Round 5 saw Red[...]
The fight between eUnited and Ghost Gaming started out close, but after winning the Hardpoint map with nearly 25 points of lead, eUnited cleaned up in the next two matches, taking the win 3-0. Which means, we will be getting that eUnited, EvilGeniuses showdown for the final round of the winner’s bracket.
After a tense, but slightly less climactic battle than expected for the CWL semi-finals, EvilGeniuses went on to win against Echo Fox. After yesterday, Echo Fox was something of a soft favorite to win the tournament - and yet, they seemed to be off this morning.
Day Two of the Call of Duty World League Seattle tournament held quite a few upsets, much like Day One did. Quite a few of the non-Pro League teams hung onto the competition long enough to take out some of the major pro teams.