Optic Gaming Wins 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,
With the growth of the Call of
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
Call of
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1 Viewership stats from MLG.tv, Facebook Live, Twitch
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