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Call of Duty League returns to in-person LAN tournaments — with online-only audiences

The Call of Duty League plans to return to a major tournament where the participants can play in person on a fast network in June. But the audience for that event will have to be online, as the league isn’t yet ready to welcome back live audiences at physical events.

The CDL has had a rocky time lately, postponing a tournament in February because of snowstorms and subsequent power outages in Texas. But then it doubled down on the lost time with a full seven days of play dubbed the Super Week. And now it’s bringing back LAN play, or a tournament on a local area network in one place.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.