Major League Gaming is re-entering the Call of Duty scene by returning to the spot of one of the most popular events in Call of Duty history: Anaheim, California. The MLG Anaheim Open for Call of Duty®: Black Ops III will take place June 10-12 and features a $100,000 prize pool.
Location
This event will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center. The address is 800 W Katella Ave, Anaheim, California 9280.
Basic Information
The tournament will feature a double elimination open bracket, pool play, and a double elimination championship bracket. Every team in Stage 2 of the North American Call of Duty World League Pro Division received an automatic invite to pool play, while 96 amateur and foreign teams will compete in the open bracket to advance to pool play.
The open bracket matches will be best-of-three, double elimination, with the top four teams qualifying for pool play.
In pool play, each team will play a best-of-five series against the other teams in their group, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for the championship bracket.
The pools are as follows:
Group A
- OpTic Gaming (Scup, Karma, Crimsix, FormaL)
- Cloud9 (Happy, Assault, Llama, Havok)
- Team SoloMid (Whea7s, Pacman, ColeChan, Ivy)
- Open Bracket Qualifier
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Group B
- Rise Nation (Slacked, Loony, Octane, Classic)
- H2k-Gaming (PHiZZURP, FEARS, Lacefield, LegaL)
- Hundred Thieves (ACHES, Royalty, Remy, Nelson)
- Open Bracket Qualifier
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Group C
- FaZe Clan (Clayster, Enable, ZooMaa, Attach)
- Team eLevate (Nagafen, Faccento, AquA, FeLonY)
- Luminosity Gaming (Saints, NAMELESS, StuDyy, SpaceLy)
- Open Bracket Qualifier
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Group D
- Team EnVyUs (JKap, SlasheR, Apathy, John)
- Dream Team (Chino, Sender, Diabolic, KiLLa)
- compLexity Gaming (Parasite, Ricky, MiRx, Goonjar)
- Open Bracket Qualifier
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The championship bracket will be best-of-five, double elimination series until only one team remains.
Prize Pool
The prize pool of $100,000 and 9,000 CWL points will be distributed as follows:
- 1st place: $40,000 and 2,500 CWL pointsÂ
- 2nd place: $24,000 and 1,500 CWL pointsÂ
- 3rd place: $16,000 and 1,100 CWL pointsÂ
- 4th place: $8,000 and 900 CWL pointsÂ
- 5th-6th place: $4,000 and 800 CWL pointsÂ
- 7th-8th place: $2,000 and 700 CWL points
Event Schedule
June 10
- Pregame show kicks off at 5:30 p.m. EDT
- Open bracket begins at 6:00 p.m. EDT
- Group play begins at 6:00 p.m. EDT
June 11
- Pregame show kicks off at 12:45 p.m. EDT
- Open bracket begins at 1:00 p.m. EDT
- Group play begins at 5:15 p.m. EDT
- Championship bracket begins at 9:30 p.m. EDT
June 12
- Pregame kicks off at 12:45 p.m. EDT
- Championship bracket begins at 1:00 p.m. EDT
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