Denial eSports wins Call of Duty Championships
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Denial eSports wins the Call of Duty Championships

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Denial eSports emerged as the victor at the Call of Duty Championships. That means they’re taking home the $400,000 grand prize.

Denial eSports member James “Clayster” Eubanks took home the MVP award. Denial eSports beat team Revenge for the finals. The final tournament in Los Angeles this weekend was the culmination of months of Call of Duty multiplayer combat among 32 finalist teams. The tournament had a total of $1 million in prizes, and it was geared to die-hard fans of Call of Duty, which has sold 191 million games to date.

“You’re the 2015 COD world champions,” said Michael Condrey, cofounder of Sledgehammer Studios, the developer of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

The event drew a crowd of thousands to the Event Deck at LA Live in downtown Los Angeles, and it was livestreamed over the web.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. 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.