The 2018 Call of Duty World League Championships have come to a close following an exciting weekend of top-tier esports play. Evil Geniuses took home the top spot after a surprising upset early on in the competition, knocking fan-favorite (and last year’s champions) OpTic Gaming out of the running. $1.5 million in prize money was available across all placements, so all 32 teams that competed got a piece of the pie, even if some of those pieces were much bigger than the others.
Are you curious where your favorite team ended up? You can get a look at the full standings and how much their prize was in the chart below, courtesy Dexerto.
| Place | Team | Roster | Cash Prize |
| 1 | Evil Geniuses | Aches, Apathy, Assault, SiLLY | $600,000 |
| 2 | Team Kaliber | Accuracy, Kenny, Enable, Fero | $200,000 |
| 3 | FaZe Clan | Replays, ZooMaa, Attach, Priestahh | $100,000 |
| 4 | eUnited | Felo, Arcitys, Prestinni, Clayster | $80,000 |
| 5/6 | Team Envy | Huke, Classic, Chino, Decemate | $55,000 |
| 5/6 | Luminosity | JKap, John, FormaL, Slacked | $55,000 |
| 7/8 | Elevate | SpaceLy, MajorManiak, Maux, Proto | $35,000 |
| 7/8 | Red Reserve | Rated, Skrapz, Zer0, Joee | $35,000 |
| 9/12 | Team Vitality | Tommey, Chain, Maple, Denza | $25,000 |
| 9/12 | UNILAD | Zed, Wuskin, Seany, Alexx | $25,000 |
| 9/12 | Lightning Pandas | Goonjar, Royalty, Xotic, Theory | $25,000 |
| 9/12 | Ghost Gaming | Lacefield, GodRx, Pandur, Parasite | $25,000 |
| 13/16 | compLexity | Censor, Dash, Ricky, Blazt | $15,000 |
| 13/16 | Lethal Gaming | TeddyRecks, Ramby, Super, Zaptius | $15,000 |
| 13/16 | Team Sween | Peatie, Moose, Qwiker, Weeman | $15,000 |
| 13/16 | Rise Nation | Loony, TJHaLy, Gunless, SlasheR | $15,000 |
| 17/24 | Heretics KFC | JurNii, Lucky, MethodZ, Sukry | $12,500 |
| 17/24 | Brash eSports | Benji, DREAL, Nevo, Dylan | $12,500 |
| 17/24 | Mindfreak | BuZZO, Shockz, Fighta, Denz | $12,500 |
| 17/24 | Splyce | Bance, Jurd, MadCat, Joshh | $12,500 |
| 17/24 | Enigma6 Group | General, Sender, Diabolic, aBeZy | $12,500 |
| 17/24 | Mentality Esports | Demise, Hate, Tisch, GRVTY | $12,500 |
| 17/24 | Echo Fox | Faccento, Saints, Aqua, Temp | $12,500 |
| 17/24 | OpTic Gaming | Scump, Crimsix, Octane, Methodz | $12,500 |
| 25/32 | Epsilon eSports | Dqvee, Vortex, Hawqeh, Reedy | $10,000 |
| 25/23 | Tainted Minds | Nimble, Damage, Swifty, Swiftaz0r | $10,000 |
| 25/32 | Zone | Bidz, Cammy, Defrag, endurAAA | $10,000 |
| 25/32 | EZG eSports | Parzelion, Atura, Apox, RobbieB3319 | $10,000 |
| 25/32 | Morituri eSports | Nova, Mayhem, Phantomz, Spoof | $10,000 |
| 25/32 | Team Prismatic | Malls, TonyJs, Wailers, Zayrox | $10,000 |
| 25/32 | HavoK eSports | FA5TBALLA, Beehzy, Remy, MRuiz | $10,000 |
| 25/32 | Supremacy | Eazy, Natshay, Breszy, ATLAS | $10,000 |
This year’s Call of Duty World League Championships took place from August 15-19, 2018 in Columbus, Ohio at the Nationwide Arena. This ends the Call of Duty: WWII season of play, with Black Ops 4 starting up in December. Professional Call of Duty players are excited for the speed that Treyarch’s particular brand of Black Ops will bring back to competitive play, saying that it will be more exiting for fans to watch in the coming 2019 Call of Duty World League season.
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Are you excited for Call of Duty: WWII?
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Blake Grundman
I think it was only a matter of time before the inevitable return to WWII, and this seems like as good a time as any to make the move. I am curious to see if the campaign shares the gravitas of the original WWII installments, because I always found those to be amazing immersive experiences. Soaking that in with the newest generation of hardware has some extremely promising potential.
As for the multiplayer, I know it will be the most-played game of the next year, but I can’t help but feel like I’m over the COD style of run-and-gun insanity. Give me my more deliberately paced Destiny multiplayer any day of the week. -
Cameron Teague
I really prefer the Battlefield series myself, and the time I spent in the beta for this didn't do enough to win me over.
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Chandler Wood
Heading back to WWII feels like the right move to me. Call of Duty feels like it's been getting faster and more arcadey with jump packs and future tech, so the decision to slow things down a bit and go back to the classics (where Call of Duty started out) is a welcome change of pace. Call of Duty is always about three products--Campaign with epic stories, Multiplayer with insane competitive action, and Zombies for a really fun horde mode full of secrets--so I'm eager to see what Sledgehammer can uniquely do with everything, adding their own unique touch to each and rooting them in one of the biggest and most memorable wars of all time. Plus, it's killing Nazis, and as Wolfenstein 2 proved, you can't go wrong with popping some Nazi top in 2017.
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Keri Honea
The game looks absolutely amazing, and I love that it's going back to its WWII roots. But CoD has never been my cup of Darjeeling, so I'll hang back once again from the CoD scene.
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Louis Edwards
I was on the fence as far as whether or not I wanted to play Battlefield 1 since it covered a war from years ago, but that turned out to be a decent game with some great storytelling. I know CoD isn't Battlefield, but if they can create intriguing storylines that haven't already been hashed out in other titles, it could be a great game. After being pleasantly surprised with BF1, I am looking forward to CoD:WWII.
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Michael Briers
Yeah, absolutely. I likely won't pick it up on day one simply because I have too many other games vying for my attention at the moment, but I'm super interested in WWII and its history. So yeah, intrigued to see how Sledgehammer handle it, especially considering that I quite enjoyed Advanced Warfare and the whole Frank Underwood 2.0. -
Paulmichael Contreras
From what I could tell in a meeting with Activision during this year's E3, Sledgehammer Games is attempting to take the setting seriously in single player. So hopefully the campaign will be as impressive of an effort as that war requires to do properly. I don't really play too much of multiplayer unless it's co-op, so the multiplayer might be something I look at every now and then.
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Tyler Treese
I'm at a weird position with Call of Duty: WWII. What I played of the multiplayer was extremely off-putting to me. It's not that I disliked how it played (it seems totally fine), but senseless violence in a World War II skin seems simply gross to me now. That said, I'm very interested in seeing what goes on in the single-player. I'm hopeful I can at least enjoy the campaign, where it (hopefully) won't feel like it's minimizing one of history's greatest tragedies by using it as a playground.
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Zarmena Khan
I'm excited to see what Sledgehammer have done with the campaign. 1. I really liked their last outing. 2. I really wanted the game to return to its roots. I thoroughly enjoyed Battlefield 1's campaign so if CoD WWII is just as good, I'll pick it up. I look forward to it.
