Activision and Infinity Ward, in partnership with Xbox, are celebrating the talent, passion, and skill of Call of Duty’s best eSports players with the 2014 Call of Duty Championship, presented by Xbox. Beginning today through Sunday, March 30th in Los Angeles, 31 of the most skilled Call of Duty: Ghosts multiplayer teams from around the world are competing head-to-head on Xbox One for the honor of being named the “Call of Duty World Champions,” and their share of the tournament’s $1 million total prize purse.
Fans can tune-in to every thrilling, action-packed moment through livestreamed coverage of the Call of Duty Championship, on MLG.tv and at Call of Duty.com, and on Xbox.com in Europe. Additionally, the tournament’s final match will take place Sunday, March 30th with the livestream starting at 3:00 p.m. (PDT) on the Xbox Live Dashboard (in participating regions).
These 31 teams from six continents around the world have trained extensively over the past few months, winning their respective fellow regional competitions in qualifying events conducted by the professional competitive gaming organizations of Major League Gaming (MLG), Gfinity, and the Australian Cyber League (ACL). Teams like NSP from South Korea, European Champions TCM Gaming from UK and Brazil 5 Star from Brazil, will compete against such notable teams from North America as CompLexity, EnVyUs, and MLG U.S. Champions Strictly Business.
The Call of Duty Championship begins with round-robin style pool play among eight groups of four teams.  The top two teams from each group will advance to a 16-team double elimination bracket, where the team that places first will take home $400,000 of the tournament’s $1 million dollar total prize pool. The remaining seven teams will each take home prizes ranging from $200,000 for second place to $25,000 for eighth place.