2018 CWL Pro League

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2018 CWL Pro League
2018
Tournament information
SportCall of Duty: WWII
LocationColumbus, Ohio, United States
DatesJanuary 23, 2018–July 29, 2018
AdministratorActivision
Purse$1,400,000
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The 2018 CWL Pro League was a Call of Duty: WWII tournament on PlayStation 4 that occurred on January 23-July 29, 2018.[1]

Format

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The 2018 CWL Global Pro League consisted of 2 Stages, with 16 teams from North America, Europe and the APAC region participating. The 16 teams were split into 2 different Divisions with the top 4 teams from each Division advancing to playoffs. The top 6 teams from each pool advanced to Stage 2, while the bottom 2 teams from each Division have to go to the relegation playoffs.[1]

Stage 1

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A total of $700,000 prize money will be given out during Stage 1. All 16 teams will receive $12,500 for participating while the 8 teams which qualified for playoffs will play for another $500,000.[1][2]

Calendar

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Round Dates
Division A 23–25 January 2018
30 January – 1 February 2018
20–22 February 2018
27 February – 1 March 2018
Division B 6–8 February 2018
13–15 February 2018
14–16 March 2018
20–22 March 2018
Playoffs 6–8 April 2018

Division A

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Week 1 of Division A took place from January 23, 2018, until February 1, 2018, with week 2 taking place from February 20, 2018, until March 1, 2018.

Pos Team Series Games Qualification
1 Rise Nation 13–1 40–12 Playoffs and Stage 2
2 OpTic Gaming 10–4 34–20
3 Red Reserve 9–5 34–23
4 Team Kaliber 8–6 30–28
5 Echo Fox 6–8 27–29 Stage 2
6 eRa Eternity 5–9 23–33
7 Mindfreak 4–10 22–34 Relegation playoffs
8 Team Vitality 1–13 10–41

Division B

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Week 1 of Division B took place from February 6, 2018, until February 15, 2018, with week 2 taking place from March 14, 2018, until March 22, 2018.

Pos Team Series Games Qualification
1 FaZe Clan 11–3 38–16 Playoffs and Stage 2
2 Luminosity Gaming 10–4 36–20
3 Team EnVyUs 8–6 27–27
4 eUnited[a] 7–7 28–27
5 UNILAD[a] 7–7 29–30 Stage 2
6 Splyce 6–8 27–28
7 Evil Geniuses 5–9 21–33 Relegation playoffs
8 Epsilon eSports 2–12 14–39
  1. ^ a b eUnited won the tiebreaker against UNILAD based on head-to-head map count, which was 5-4 in their favor.

Playoffs final standings

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Place Team Prize money
1st FaZe Clan $212,500
2nd OpTic Gaming $132,500
3rd Luminosity Gaming $92,500
4th Team Kaliber $52,500
5th-6th Red Reserve $32,500
eUnited
7th-8th Rise Nation $22,500
Team EnVyUs

Relegation

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The 4 bottom teams from Stage 1 participated in the relegation tournament against 4 other teams in a double-elimination bracket for the final 4 spots in Stage 2.[1][3]

Participating teams:

  • Mindfreak (Division A #7)
  • Team Vitality (Division A #8)
  • Evil Geniuses (Division B #7)
  • Epsilon eSports (Division B #8)
  • EZG eSports (North America Qualifier #1) [4]
  • GGEA Orange (North America Qualifier #2) [4]
  • Nordic (Europe Qualifier #1) [5]
  • Tainted Minds (APAC Qualifier winner)[6]

Roster changes

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Teams which placed among the bottom 2 teams in their Division during Stage 1 have until 6pm ET on April 13, 2018, to submit a roster and were allowed to replace 2 players.[7]

Team Player left Player joined
Evil Geniuses Nameless [8] SiLLY [8]
Enable [8] Assault [8]
Epsilon eSports Nathan Reedy [9]
Team Vitality Zayrox [10] MarkyB [11]
RiskiN [11] Moose [11]

Final standings

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The top 4 teams qualified for Stage 2 of the 2018 CWL Pro League.

Place Team
1st/2nd Mindfreak
Evil Geniuses
3rd/4th Epsilon eSports
Tainted Minds
5th-6th GGEA Orange
Team Vitality
7th-8th EZG eSports
Nordic

Stage 2

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AA total of $700,000 prize money will be given out during Stage 2. All 16 teams will receive $12,500 for participating while the 8 teams which qualified for playoffs will play for another $500,000. The top 6 teams from all Stage 1 groups and the 4 teams which qualified via the relegation tournament participated in Stage 2. All 16 teams also qualified for the 2018 Call of Duty Championship.[1][12]

Participating teams:

  1. ^ compLexity Gaming acquired the 2 players left on the eRa Eternity roster and their spot in the league.

Roster changes

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Teams which placed among the top 6 teams in their Division during Stage 1 have until 6pm ET on May 7, 2018, to submit a roster and were allowed to replace 2 players. Teams which placed among the bottom 2 teams in their Division during Stage 1 have until 6pm ET on April 13, 2018, to submit a roster and were allowed to replace 2 players.[7]

Team Player left Player joined
Team EnVyUs SlasheR [14] Chino [15]
Temp [15] Decemate [15]
compLexity Gaming[a] Ferocitys [16] Censor [13]
Decemate [15] Dashy [13]
Rise Nation Methodz [17] SlasheR [18]
Team Kaliber Theory [19] Ferocitys [16]
Chino [16] Enable [20]
eUnited SiLLY [21] FeLo [21]
Echo Fox Assault [22] Temp [22]
Luminosity Gaming Octane [23] Formal [23]
OpTic Gaming Formal [23][24] Methodz [24]
Karma [25][24] Octane [24]
Splyce Tommey [26] Joshh [27]
UNILAD Moose [28] Alexx [29]
Skrapz [25] Zed [30]
Red Reserve Joshh [31] Skrapz [25]
  1. ^ compLexity Gaming acquired the 2 players left on the eRa Eternity roster and their spot in the league.

Calendar

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Round Dates
Division A 15–17 May 2018
22–24 May 2018
26–28 June 2018
3–6 July 2018
Division B 29–31 May 2018
5–7 June 2018
10–12 July 2018
17–19 July 2018
Playoffs 27–29 July 2018

Division A

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Pos Team Series Games Qualification
1 Red Reserve 11–3 38–21 Playoffs
2 Team Kaliber[a] 9–5 33–23
3 Echo Fox[a] 9–5 31–27
4 FaZe Clan 8–6 30–23
5 Evil Geniuses 7–7 29–26
6 Team EnVyUs 6–8 28–28
7 Splyce 5–9 21–33
8 Epsilon eSports 1–13 11–40
  1. ^ a b Team Kaliber holds the tiebreaker against Echo Fox based on overall map win percentage, Team Kaliber's is 59% while Echo Fox's is 53%

Division B

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Pos Team Series Games Qualification
1 OpTic Gaming[a] 10–4 35–21 Playoffs
2 eUnited[a] 10–4 38–22
3 UNILAD[a] 10–4 33–22
4 Rise Nation 9–5 33–23
5 Luminosity Gaming[b] 6–8 27–29
6 compLexity Gaming[b] 6–8 24–27
7 Mindfreak 4–10 22–37
8 Tainted Minds 1–13 13–41
  1. ^ a b c OpTic Gaming holds the tiebreak against eUnited and UNILAD based on head-to-head series record. OpTic has a head-to-head series record of 3–1, eUnited has a head-to-head series record of 2–2 while UNILAD has a head-to-head series record of 1–3
  2. ^ a b Luminosity Gaming holds the tiebreak against compLexity Gaming based on over map win percentage. Luminosity Gaming has a map win percentage of 48% while compLexity Gaming has a map win percentage of 44%

Playoffs qualified teams

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Team Division
Red Reserve Division A #1
Team Kaliber Division A #2
Echo Fox Division A #3
FaZe Clan Division A #4
OpTic Gaming Division B #1
eUnited Division B #2
UNILAD Division B #3
Rise Nation Division B #4

Playoffs Bracket

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Round 1Round 2Round 3Grand Final
A1Red Reserve1
B4Rise Nation3
B4Rise Nation3
B2eUnited1
B2eUnited3
A3Echo Fox1
B4Rise Nation1
A2Team Kaliber3
A2Team Kaliber3
B3UNILAD1
A2Team Kaliber3
A4FaZe Clan0
B1OpTic Gaming2
A4FaZe Clan3A2Team Kaliber23
B4Rise Nation31
Lower round 1Lower round 2Lower round 3Lower final
A4FaZe Clan1
A1Red Reserve3A1Red Reserve3B4Rise Nation3
A3Echo Fox2A1Red Reserve3A1Red Reserve1
B2eUnited1
B2eUnited3
B3UNILAD3B3UNILAD1
B1OpTic Gaming0

Playoffs final standings

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Place Team Prize money
1st Team Kaliber $212,500
2nd Rise Nation $132,500
3rd Red Reserve $92,500
4th eUnited $52,500
5th-6th FaZe Clan $32,500
UNILAD
7th-8th OpTic Gaming $22,500
Echo Fox

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