ESN Daily Brief – Tuesday, March 24, 2015

This is your eSportsNation Daily Brief for Tuesday, March 24, 2015

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The Lead

Three Things You Need to Know

Call of Duty Championships Group Announced 

 

CoD Champs World Start Time

eSportsNation and GFuel at CoD Champs

https://twitter.com/eSportsNation/status/580101254451335168

 

MLG Season Two

Standings

 

The League Is On Break Until After Call of Duty Championships. Games Will Resume on Tuesday, March 31. 

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 

After weeks of anticipation, Activision has announced the groups for pool play at CoD Champs. The following are the official groups for CoD Champs and a list of all players on each team’s roster.

 

Activision and Sledgehammer Games have officially announced Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s next downloadable content pack, known as Ascendance.

 

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.

 

 Call of Duty Championships

After weeks of anticipation, Activision has announced the groups for pool play at CoD Champs. The following are the official groups for CoD Champs and a list of all players on each team’s roster.

 

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
• Gfinity Spring Masters Winner: EnVyUs

On The Site

Here are the final placings for Counter Strike Masters I.

 

After an intense set of matches throughout the first two days of the event, it came down to the thrid day and a four team bracket consisting of Team EnVy, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Virtus.Pro and Cloud 9.

 

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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