ESN Daily Brief – Tuesday, April 7, 2015

This is your eSportsNation Daily Brief for Tuesday, April 7, 2015

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The Lead – Things You Need to Know

Four Way Team Trade

https://twitter.com/Banks/status/585283889456926721

 

Theory Leaves Team Kaliber

https://twitter.com/Theory_tK/status/585257468118204416

 

Merk Announces Free Agency

https://twitter.com/MerK_nV/status/585278137593962496

 

MLG Season Two

Standings Coming Into Today

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/585266701580767233

 

Tonight’s Schedule

7:00 PM EST Set

• Automatic Reload vs. OpTic Nation
• OpTic Gaming vs. FaZe
• TCM Gaming vs. Rise Nation
• Denial eSports vs. Team eLevate

8:30 PM EST Set

•  FaZe vs. Automatic Reload
• OpTic Nation vs. TCM Gaming
• Team eLevate vs. OpTic Gaming
• Rise Nation vs. Denial eSports

 

Results From Monday

7:00 PM Set

• OpTic Gaming 3-0 Prophecy
• Automatic Reload 3-0 Rise
• Denial eSports 3-2 JusTus
• Team Kaliber 3-2 TCM Gaming

8:30 PM Set

• OpTic Gaming 3-0 Team Kaliber
• TCM Gaming 3-1 Automatic Reload
• Denial eSports 3-0 Rise
• JusTus 3-2 Prophecy

 

On The Site

 

…so here’s a helpful summary for all of the major team changes so far.

 

Matthew ‘NaDeSHoT’ Haag has officially announced that he will be taking a “leave of absence” from competitive Call of Duty.

 

OpTic Gaming has officially announced their newest addition to the team, Damon “Karma” Barlow.

 

This past weekend we saw the first ever Call of Duty event hosted at Gfinity’s very own arena, the Gfinity Open.

 

Right when you think you’ve seen it all something just a little more crazy happenings.

 

Photos taken by Todd Gutierrez

 

There have been many upsets throughout the past Call of Duty World Championships…

 

To get a different perspective on what the World Championship is like for people that aren’t in the eSports industry, we interviewed two prominent YouTubers that have based their channels off Call of Duty.

 

As the 2015 Call of Duty Championship has come to an end, a new team has been crowned the best in the world.

 

…Team Revenge, found themselves in the Grand Finals for the chance at $400,000 and the World Championship title.

 

 …but people expected more competition from European teams at the World Championship

UPDATED: Major League Gaming announced earlier today that they will be returning to Austin, Texas from June 4-7 to host the playoffs for the Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Pro League and the joinDota Pro League.

 

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
• Gfinity Spring Masters Winner: EnVyUs

On The Site

After two successful events in a row for Counter Strike:Global Offensive, OXENT and Mondial des Jeux Loto Québec have announced…

 

Here are the final placings for Counter Strike Masters I.

 

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