WASHINGTON: The 2015 Call of Duty Championship has been kicked off today and runs through Sunday when a world champion team will be crowned and $1 million in cash prizes will be awarded.
The Call of Duty Championship begins with round-robin style pool play among eight groups of four teams. The top two teams from each group will advance to a 16-team double elimination bracket, where the team that places first will take home $400,000 of the tournament’s $1 million dollar total prize pool.
The remaining seven teams will each take home prizes ranging from $200,000 for second place to $25,000 for eighth place. In addition to the tournament competition, professional football players Golden Tate and Demaryius Thomas will each lead a team made up of a professional eSports player, an internet personality and a fan picked right from the audience, in an exhibition grudge match for the Call of Duty Endowment.
teams will go head-to-head playing new maps from the upcoming Ascendance DLC pack. The winning team will have a $100,000 donation made in their name to the Endowment and its continued effort in helping veterans return to the workforce. Fans tuning into the Call of Duty Championship livestream on Sunday will also see the world premiere of live gameplay from the upcoming Call of Duty:
Advanced Warfare Ascendance DLC pack and a new trailer for Infected, the next episode of Exo Zombies. Ascendance DLC package comes with four new multiplayer maps, the OHM directed energy light machine gun/shotgun hybrid, the OHM Werewolf custom variant, the all-new Exo Grapple ability playlist that introduces the Exo Grapple ability to multiplayer, and Infected, the latest installment of Exo Zombies. Ascendance will be available first on Xbox Live on March 31.
