2018 CWL Pro League

2018 CWL Pro League

2018
Tournament information
Sport	Call of Duty: WWII
Location	Columbus, Ohio, United States
Dates	January 23, 2018–July 29, 2018
Administrator	Activision
Purse	$1,400,000

The 2018 CWL Pro League was a Call of Duty: WWII tournament on PlayStation 4 that occurred on January 23-July 29, 2018.^[1]

Format

The 2018 CWL Global Pro League consisted of 2 Stages, with 16 teams from North America, Europe and the APAC region participating. The 16 teams were split into 2 different Divisions with the top 4 teams from each Division advancing to playoffs. The top 6 teams from each pool advanced to Stage 2, while the bottom 2 teams from each Division have to go to the relegation playoffs.^[1]

Stage 1

A total of $700,000 prize money will be given out during Stage 1. All 16 teams will receive $12,500 for participating while the 8 teams which qualified for playoffs will play for another $500,000.^[1][2]

Calendar

Round	Dates
Division A	23–25 January 2018
	30 January – 1 February 2018
	20–22 February 2018
	27 February – 1 March 2018
Division B	6–8 February 2018
	13–15 February 2018
	14–16 March 2018
	20–22 March 2018
Playoffs	6–8 April 2018

Division A

Week 1 of Division A took place from January 23, 2018, until February 1, 2018, with week 2 taking place from February 20, 2018, until March 1, 2018.

Pos	Team	Series	Games	Qualification
1	Rise Nation	13–1	40–12	Playoffs and Stage 2
2	OpTic Gaming	10–4	34–20
3	Red Reserve	9–5	34–23
4	Team Kaliber	8–6	30–28
5	Echo Fox	6–8	27–29	Stage 2
6	eRa Eternity	5–9	23–33
7	Mindfreak	4–10	22–34	Relegation playoffs
8	Team Vitality	1–13	10–41

Division B

Week 1 of Division B took place from February 6, 2018, until February 15, 2018, with week 2 taking place from March 14, 2018, until March 22, 2018.

Pos	Team	Series	Games	Qualification
1	FaZe Clan	11–3	38–16	Playoffs and Stage 2
2	Luminosity Gaming	10–4	36–20
3	Team EnVyUs	8–6	27–27
4	eUnited[a]	7–7	28–27
5	UNILAD[a]	7–7	29–30	Stage 2
6	Splyce	6–8	27–28
7	Evil Geniuses	5–9	21–33	Relegation playoffs
8	Epsilon eSports	2–12	14–39

1. eUnited won the tiebreaker against UNILAD based on head-to-head map count, which was 5-4 in their favor.

Playoffs final standings

Place	Team	Prize money
1st	FaZe Clan	$212,500
2nd	OpTic Gaming	$132,500
3rd	Luminosity Gaming	$92,500
4th	Team Kaliber	$52,500
5th-6th	Red Reserve	$32,500
	eUnited
7th-8th	Rise Nation	$22,500
	Team EnVyUs

Relegation

The 4 bottom teams from Stage 1 participated in the relegation tournament against 4 other teams in a double-elimination bracket for the final 4 spots in Stage 2.^[1][3]

Participating teams:

• Mindfreak (Division A #7)
• Team Vitality (Division A #8)
• Evil Geniuses (Division B #7)
• Epsilon eSports (Division B #8)
• EZG eSports (North America Qualifier #1) ^[4]
• GGEA Orange (North America Qualifier #2) ^[4]
• Nordic (Europe Qualifier #1) ^[5]
• Tainted Minds (APAC Qualifier winner)^[6]

Roster Changes

Teams which placed among the bottom 2 teams in their Division during Stage 1 have until 6pm ET on April 13, 2018, to submit a roster and were allowed to replace 2 players.^[7]

Team	Player left	Player joined
Evil Geniuses	Nameless [8]	SiLLY [8]
	Enable [8]	Assault [8]
Epsilon eSports	Nathan	Reedy [9]
Team Vitality	Zayrox [10]	MarkyB [11]
	RiskiN [11]	Moose [11]

Final standings

The top 4 teams qualified for Stage 2 of the 2018 CWL Pro League.

Place	Team
1st/2nd	Mindfreak
	Evil Geniuses
3rd/4th	Epsilon eSports
	Tainted Minds
5th-6th	GGEA Orange
	Team Vitality
7th-8th	EZG eSports
	Nordic

Stage 2

AA total of $700,000 prize money will be given out during Stage 2. All 16 teams will receive $12,500 for participating while the 8 teams which qualified for playoffs will play for another $500,000. The top 6 teams from all Stage 1 groups and the 4 teams which qualified via the relegation tournament participated in Stage 2. All 16 teams also qualified for the 2018 Call of Duty Championship.^[1][12]

Participating teams:

• Rise Nation (Division A #1)
• OpTic Gaming (Division A #2)
• Red Reserve (Division A #3)
• Team Kaliber (Division A #4)
• Echo Fox (Division A #5)
• compLexity Gaming (Division A #6)^[a][13]
• FaZe Clan (Division B #1)
• Luminosity Gaming (Division B #2)
• Team EnVyUs (Division B #3)
• eUnited (Division B #4)
• UNILAD (Division B #5)
• Splyce (Division B #6)
• Mindfreak (Relegation 1st)
• Evil Geniuses (Relegation 2nd)
• Epsilon eSports (Relegation 3rd)
• Tainted Minds (Relegation 4th)

1. compLexity Gaming acquired the 2 players left on the eRa Eternity roster and their spot in the league.

Roster Changes

Teams which placed among the top 6 teams in their Division during Stage 1 have until 6pm ET on May 7, 2018, to submit a roster and were allowed to replace 2 players. Teams which placed among the bottom 2 teams in their Division during Stage 1 have until 6pm ET on April 13, 2018, to submit a roster and were allowed to replace 2 players.^[7]

Team	Player left	Player joined
Team EnVyUs	SlasheR [14]	Chino [15]
	Temp [15]	Decemate [15]
compLexity Gaming[a]	Ferocitys [16]	Censor [13]
	Decemate [15]	Dashy [13]
Rise Nation	Methodz [17]	SlasheR [18]
Team Kaliber	Theory [19]	Ferocitys [16]
	Chino [16]	Enable [20]
eUnited	SiLLY [21]	FeLo [21]
Echo Fox	Assault [22]	Temp [22]
Luminosity Gaming	Octane [23]	Formal [23]
OpTic Gaming	Formal [23][24]	Methodz [24]
	Karma [25][24]	Octane [24]
Splyce	Tommey [26]	Joshh [27]
UNILAD	Moose [28]	Alexx [29]
	Skrapz [25]	Zed [30]
Red Reserve	Joshh [31]	Skrapz [25]

1. compLexity Gaming acquired the 2 players left on the eRa Eternity roster and their spot in the league.

Calendar

Round	Dates
Division A	15–17 May 2018
	22–24 May 2018
	26–28 June 2018
	3–6 July 2018
Division B	29–31 May 2018
	5–7 June 2018
	10–12 July 2018
	17–19 July 2018
Playoffs	27–29 July 2018

Division A

Pos	Team	Series	Games	Qualification
1	Red Reserve	11–3	38–21	Playoffs
2	Team Kaliber[a]	9–5	33–23
3	Echo Fox[a]	9–5	31–27
4	FaZe Clan	8–6	30–23
5	Evil Geniuses	7–7	29–26
6	Team EnVyUs	6–8	28–28
7	Splyce	5–9	21–33
8	Epsilon eSports	1–13	11–40

1. Team Kaliber holds the tiebreaker against Echo Fox based on overall map win percentage, Team Kaliber's is 59% while Echo Fox's is 53%

Division B

Pos	Team	Series	Games	Qualification
1	OpTic Gaming[a]	10–4	35–21	Playoffs
2	eUnited[a]	10–4	38–22
3	UNILAD[a]	10–4	33–22
4	Rise Nation	9–5	33–23
5	Luminosity Gaming[b]	6–8	27–29
6	compLexity Gaming[b]	6–8	24–27
7	Mindfreak	4–10	22–37
8	Tainted Minds	1–13	13–41

1. OpTic Gaming holds the tiebreak against eUnited and UNILAD based on head-to-head series record. OpTic has a head-to-head series record of 3–1, eUnited has a head-to-head series record of 2–2 while UNILAD has a head-to-head series record of 1–3
2. Luminosity Gaming holds the tiebreak against compLexity Gaming based on over map win percentage. Luminosity Gaming has a map win percentage of 48% while compLexity Gaming has a map win percentage of 44%

Playoffs qualified teams

Team	Division
Red Reserve	Division A #1
Team Kaliber	Division A #2
Echo Fox	Division A #3
FaZe Clan	Division A #4
OpTic Gaming	Division B #1
eUnited	Division B #2
UNILAD	Division B #3
Rise Nation	Division B #4

Playoffs Bracket

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Grand Final

A1

Red Reserve

1

B4

Rise Nation

3

B4

Rise Nation

3

B2

eUnited

1

B2

eUnited

3

A3

Echo Fox

1

B4

Rise Nation

1

A2

Team Kaliber

3

A2

Team Kaliber

3

B3

UNILAD

1

A2

Team Kaliber

3

A4

FaZe Clan

0

B1

OpTic Gaming

2

A4

FaZe Clan

3

A2

Team Kaliber

2

3

B4

Rise Nation

3

1

Lower round 1

Lower round 2

Lower round 3

Lower final

A4

FaZe Clan

1

A1

Red Reserve

3

A1

Red Reserve

3

B4

Rise Nation

3

A3

Echo Fox

2

A1

Red Reserve

3

A1

Red Reserve

1

B2

eUnited

1

B2

eUnited

3

B3

UNILAD

3

B3

UNILAD

1

B1

OpTic Gaming

0

Playoffs final standings

Place	Team	Prize money
1st	Team Kaliber	$212,500
2nd	Rise Nation	$132,500
3rd	Red Reserve	$92,500
4th	eUnited	$52,500
5th-6th	FaZe Clan	$32,500
	UNILAD
7th-8th	OpTic Gaming	$22,500
	Echo Fox

References

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