Throughout Scump’s Watch Celebration stream for the CDL matches on February 14, OpTic CEO and CoD legend HECZ proposed changing the normal annual CoD Championships with a joint occasion in collaboration with the Esports World Cup.
He said, “I imply too late now, however I hope the subsequent yr if we’re going to proceed to do the EWC stuff that they don’t have a champs. After which simply put like a $4 million f**king match on to see who actually performs that onerous.”
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The CoD Champs 2024 match kicked off on July 17, that includes a $2 million prize pool. OpTic Texas secured the world championship title, claiming the $800,000 grand prize.
A month later, EWC 2024 occurred from August 15-18, providing a $1.8 million prize pool, with Atlanta FaZe taking residence $600,000.
Combining each occasions’ prize swimming pools brings the whole to $3.8 million—near the quantity HECZ referenced in his proposal.
What’s the probability of OpTic HECZ’s proposal?
Regardless of HECZ’s feedback, Activision has not introduced any plans to not have the annual match that has lengthy been the staple and pivotal CoD esports match for a few years. That is simply purely a proposal from the OpTic CEO.
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With this in thoughts, he additionally stated, “I’ve spoken to a number of workforce homeowners about all committing to having champs in Vegas for the remainder of time.”
Whereas the 2025 CDL Championship is about for Toronto, final yr’s occasion was in Texas and hosted by OpTic Gaming. Nevertheless, 2023’s CoD champs match was held in Las Vegas.
The Esports World Cup 2025 is about to return for one more yr with actual dates for all of the esports concerned but to be introduced, however is scheduled to happen all through summer time and embody over 20 competitions for an array of various video games.
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EWC additionally introduced that they’d be partnering up with Riot Video games to carry their main esports titles of Valorant and League of Legends to the roster for this yr’s occasion.
