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Eight Teams Selected To Compete In Call of Duty Championship

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by Matt Helgeson on March 11, 2013 at 04:23 PM
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Activision just announced that eight teams from Call of Duty's in-game Champions Series League have been chosen to attend the upcoming worldwide Call of Duty Championship in Hollywood. The teams will compete in Treyarch's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.

Below is a list of the teams from the Champions Series that have been given a berth to the Call of Duty Championship.

  • Rage
  • TVA
  • Vintage
  • Phoenix
  • Curse
  • Quantic
  • comPlexity
  • Awe Sports

The Call of Duty Championship is sponsored by Xbox and will take place on April 5 through April 7, 2013 at the Hollywood Palladium Theatre. In addition to the eight already announced, 24 more teams will be invited to the tournament based on the results of qualifying events held around the world by Major League Gaming, The Australian Cyber League, and the Electronic Sports League. The teams will be competing for a share of $1,000,000.

Two upcoming qualifying events are the Major League Gaming 2013 Pro Circuit Winter Championship in Dallas on March 15-17 and the Electronic Sports League World Championship in Cologne, Germany on March 16-17.

For more, go to the official site of the Call of Duty Championship.

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  • by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 04:37 PM
    Best of luck to the teams.

    Edit: Wow, seriously? The one article I'm first to comment on is about CoD? This feels way too ironic.
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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 04:38 PM

    Aw man! I luv contests that involve games and MONEY!!! I wished more companies did this more often.

  • by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 04:38 PM

    I'm in the wrong profession..

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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 04:42 PM
    For the love God, they better have the videos of these games on a relevant Youtube account. It's so hard to find good MLG videos.
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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 04:44 PM
    They came up with very stupid names. "comPlexity" Seriously?
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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 04:45 PM
    Wish I could participate, but I'm not all that good.
  • by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 04:57 PM

    That's great for them

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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 05:13 PM
    Meanwhile in Africa ...
  • by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 05:21 PM
    OpTic is gonna win. They may be in open bracket but on LAN they are undefeated this season!
  • by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 05:21 PM

    Interesting I guess.

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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 05:29 PM

    Must be pretty gutsy dudes to be thrown into a competition like this. Good luck guys!

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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 05:45 PM

    What game type do they have to play?

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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 05:54 PM
    You misspelled compLexity(correct spelling).
  • by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 06:15 PM
    No one cares... except the people who care.
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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 06:37 PM
    It's awesome they just pulled 8 teams without warning to compete like this, different for activision.
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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 08:00 PM

    Quick scoping

    Quick scoping everywhere

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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 08:10 PM

    Thats awesome, I was rutting for OpTic but they got bumped... Who care's good job everyone.

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    by Monday, March 11, 2013 at 09:01 PM

    good luck to them and i hope they have videos of this competition...

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