Throughout Scump’s Watch Social gathering 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 following 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 event on to see who actually performs that tough.”
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The CoD Champs 2024 event 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 came about 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 entire 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 event that has lengthy been the staple and pivotal CoD esports event for a few years. That is simply purely a proposal from the OpTic CEO.
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With this in thoughts, he additionally mentioned, “I’ve spoken to a number of group homeowners about all committing to having champs in Vegas for the remainder of time.”
Whereas the 2025 CDL Championship is ready for Toronto, final yr’s occasion was in Texas, and earlier than that, 2023’s CoD champs event was held in Las Vegas.
The Esports World Cup 2025 is ready to return for an additional yr with actual dates for all of the esports concerned but to be introduced, however is scheduled to happen all through summer season and embrace 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 convey their main esports titles of Valorant and League of Legends to the roster for this yr’s occasion.
