ESN Daily Brief – Tuesday, March 17, 2015

This is your eSportsNation Daily Brief for Tuesday, March 17, 2015

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The Lead

Three Things You Need to Know

Winner of Steel Series Giveaway

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/577547907219480576

Less Than 11 Days From the Call of Duty Championships

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/577492713660108800

ESN Question of the Day

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/577665218198769664

 

MLG Season Two

Standings Coming Into Today

 

Tonight’s Schedule

A 1-5 Team EnVyUs looks to rebound against a 3-3 OpTic Nation team coming off a loss to Team Kaliber. While bubble team Rise Nation looks to crack the top eight with games against OpTic Nation and second place Team JusTus.

7:00 PM EST Set

• OpTic Nation vs. Team EnVyUs
• Rise Nation vs. Team JusTus

8:30 PM EST Set

• Team JusTus vs. OpTic Nation
• Team EnVyUs vs. Rise Nation

 

 Results From Monday

OpTic Gaming Sweep While TCM Falls Short in a 3-0 Filled Night. 

7:00 PM Set

• OpTic Gaming 3-0 Team Kaliber
• OpTic Nation 3-0 TCM Gaming

8:30 PM Set

• OpTic Gaming 3-0 TCM Gaming
• Team Kaliber 3-1 OpTic Nation

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

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