ESN Daily Brief – Monday, March 16, 2015

 This is your eSportsNation Daily Brief for Monday, March 16, 2015

The Lead

Three Things You Need to Know

Fnatic Win ESL One Katowice

https://twitter.com/ESNCS/status/577129822826196992

ESL One Counter Strike Stream Hits One Million Viewers

https://twitter.com/ESL/status/577131666289872897

Prophecy Win MLG 5K

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/577293164207161344

MLG Season Two

Standings Coming Into Today

Tonight’s Schedule

7:00 PM EST Set

• OpTic Gaming vs. Team Kaliber
• OpTic Nation vs. TCM Gaming

8:30 PM EST Set

• Team Kaliber vs. OpTic Nation
• TCM Gaming vs. OpTic Gaming

 Results From Friday

7:00 PM Set

• eLevate 3-0 Rise Nation
• JusTus 3-1 Prophecy

8:30 PM Set

•  JusTus 3-0 Rise Nation
• eLevate 3-1 Prophecy

Events & Tournaments

• Season One Playoffs Winner: OpTic Gaming
• CoD Champs EU Regional Winner: Epsilon eSports
• CoD Champs NA Regional Winner: OpTic Gaming
• Call of Duty Championships March 27-29 Los Angeles, CA, USA

On The Site – Call of Duty

TCM Gaming, a professional Call of Duty team based in Europe, has just recently purchased the Season 2 MLG Pro League spot from Aware Gaming and will be moving to the US to play matches.

It was announced today that Drift, a map from the Havoc DLC pack, will be added to the map rotation for the Call of Duty Championships in about two weeks.

Today though, they have announced the details of their first ever open event.

 Call of Duty Championships

Call of Duty Championship North American Regional Placings

We officially know the fourteen teams heading to the championship at the end of March.

Team Spotlights

Halo Championship Series Rundown

Final Placings

Events & Tournaments 

• Gamers for Giving 2015 Platinum LAN Winner: Evil Geniuses
• Halo Championship Series Season One Finals Winner: Evil Geniuses

Events & Tournaments

• ESL One Katowice Winner: Fnatic 

On The Site

In a recent announcement by Major League Gaming, a partnership agreement for exclusive broadcasting rights between MLG.TV and CEVO has been completed.

 Valve announced the release of their newest engine which will be more powerful than the source engine previously released

Valve has released an update for CS:GO which is centred around spectators