2018 CWL Pro League

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

2018 CWL Pro League
2018
Tournament information
SportCall of Duty: WWII
LocationColumbus, Ohio, United States
DatesJanuary 23, 2018–July 29, 2018
Administrator(s)Activision
Purse$1,400,000

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[lower-alpha 1] 7–7 28–27
5 UNILAD[lower-alpha 1] 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)[lower-alpha 1][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[lower-alpha 1] 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[lower-alpha 1] 9–5 33–23
3 Echo Fox[lower-alpha 1] 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[lower-alpha 1] 10–4 35–21 Playoffs
2 eUnited[lower-alpha 1] 10–4 38–22
3 UNILAD[lower-alpha 1] 10–4 33–22
4 Rise Nation 9–5 33–23
5 Luminosity Gaming[lower-alpha 2] 6–8 27–29
6 compLexity Gaming[lower-alpha 2] 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     Losers Final     Grand Final
                                                 
  Winner's Bracket
  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
  Loser's Bracket      
  A1 Red Reserve 3        
  A3 Echo Fox 2     A4 FaZe Clan 1        
    A1 Red Reserve 3          
      A1 Red Reserve 3        
  B3 UNILAD 3         B2 eUnited 1     B4 Rise Nation 3    
  B1 OpTic Gaming 0     B2 eUnited 3         A1 Red Reserve 1  
    B3 UNILAD 1  

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

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