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Call of Duty World League’s first WWII esports event begins Friday

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Call of Duty World League kicks off in Dallas this Friday with its first in-person tournament featuring Call of Duty: WWII.

The event will feature more than 832 competitors across 208 teams competing for more than $200,000 in prize money. And Activision executive Kevin Flynn said in an interview that the popularity of WWII — which is outselling last year’s Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare by a big margin — has also made the game more popular among esports players and fans. In that sense, the Dallas event will be a good test as to whether Call of Duty will make a good esport.

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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.