ESN Daily Brief – Wednesday, March 18, 2015

This is your eSportsNation Daily Brief for Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The Lead

Three Things You Need to Know

Nine Days Until Call of Duty Championships

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/578024092479127552

Fnatic ESL One Katowice Trophy

https://twitter.com/FNATIC/status/577806876114550784

Halo 2 Classic Showdown

https://twitter.com/Halo/status/577927533561171968

MLG Season Two

Tonight’s Schedule

7:00 PM EST Set

• TCM Gaming vs. Prophecy
• Team eLevate vs. OpTic Gaming

8:30 PM EST Set

• Prophecy vs. Team eLevate
• OpTic Gaming vs. TCM Gaming

Results From Tuesday 

7:00 PM Set

Rise Nation win two game fives as EnVyUs falls in a close Tuesday night.

• OpTic Nation 3-0 Team EnVyUs
• Rise Nation 3-2 Team JusTus

8:30 PM Set

• JusTus 3-0 OpTic Nation
• Rise Nation 3-2 Team EnVyUs

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

With the end of ESL One Katowice last weekend, the community is being treated to another huge CS:GO tournament.

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