Qualifiers for the Major I tournament of the Call of Duty League 2023 season.
Qualifiers for the Major I tournament of the Call of Duty League 2023 season.
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Kicking off the Call of Duty League’s Modern Warfare II season

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Daniel Tsay spent a number of years learning the ropes at the NBA. Now he is general manager in charge of esports for Call of Duty. And he’s the man behind the latest season of the Call of Duty League, which kicks off in a big way with its first major tournament on December 15 to December 16 in Raleigh, N.C.

Activision hopes to draw thousands of in-person fans to the Call of Duty League’s Major 1 tournament, and it hopes to garner a big digital audience as well. This is the established hybrid structure of modern esports, and Tsay is hoping the players and fans will have a lot of pent-up demand to meet in person.

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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.