The playoff bracket for Modern Warfare 3’s category at the Esports World Cup is now fully assembled and is stacked top to bottom with CDL teams. Every lower-tier competitor has been eliminated, but nobody has gone home empty-handed.
From tomorrow, we’ll see the top eight teams at the event, including Cloud9, Atlanta FaZe, and OpTic Gaming, fight for the massive $600,000 grand prize and 1,000 Club Championship Points. It has been an intense couple of days across the tournament and some surprises have surfaced, suggesting that we’re going into a phenomenal weekend of COD esports.
CDL Through and Through
When the MW3 tournament kicked off at the Esports World Cup, a handful of Challengers-grade teams took to the stage. From the circuit below the CDL, we saw Gentle Mates, OMiT Brooklyn, Stallions, Lore Gaming, and then there was also Team Falcons, who qualified through a MENA circuit.
Today, the last of those teams were eliminated from the tournament as 100 Thieves swept Lore Gaming, which just weeks ago won the Challengers Champs tournament and secured a $60,000 prize.
Here are the fixtures that will kick off the single-elimination playoffs bracket tomorrow:
- Optic Gaming vs. Cloud9
- Atlanta FaZe vs. Boston Breach
- Toronto Ultra vs. 100 Thieves
- Vancouver Surge vs. Royal Ravens
OpTic, Toronto, Surge, and FaZe all made it this far without dropping a series, but Cloud9 had a rough spot with Vancouver, securing a loss that led to a recovery against Gentle Mates. The fixture against Vancouver Surge was a hard slog that at times seemed bizarre. In the first round of Search on Invasion, HyDra went huge, securing a record of 21 – 9 – but it wasn’t enough to land the map win.
On the evening of August 18, our EWC champion will be crowned. The esports odds are looking good for FaZe, OpTic, and Toronto, but that’s nothing new. Will OpTic secure back-to-back world championship titles?
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