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Call of Duty World League gains momentum as an official esport

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare wasn’t the most popular in the long-running first-person shooter combat series. But you wouldn’t know that from the growing popularity of the Call of Duty World League, the official esports league for professional Call of Duty players.

Last weekend, thousands of Call of Duty fans converged on Anaheim, Calif., for one of the major stage events in the CWL. 120 teams competed in the CWL Anaheim Open for a $200,000 prize pool. The winners of this competition will head to the Call of Duty World League Championship in Orlando, Fla., from August 9 to August 13, 2017.

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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.