OpTic are finally in the win column for the season.

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New York fall to 0-3 on the season.

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Here’s our first Power Rankings following the initial week of matches The Call of Duty League got underway this week.…

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Each month, ESI compiles the period’s most significant esports movers and shakers. January’s round-up features personnel changes from the likes of Tencent, BIG, Evil Geniuses and BLAST, among others.  Here are the key esports movers and shakers from January 2022. To read more about a story below, click the link in the corresponding title. Spotlighted […]

Global esports and media company OverActive Media has agreed a partnership with Canadian apparel brand Nobis ahead of the upcoming Call of Duty League season. The partnership will see Nobis become the Official Outerwear Partner for Toronto Ultra and Toronto Defiant. Nobis and OverActive media will work on content with players, product integration and digital-first […]

The Call of Duty League hosted a preseason CDL Kickoff Classic event for Vanguard this past weekend, but professional player James "Clayster" Eubanks of the New York Subliners tweeted criticism of the event's lack of safety precautions.

The weekend-long Kickoff Classic event featured a return to the LAN environment for the first pro event for Call of Duty: Vanguard's 2022 season. The Toronto Ultra took down the Seattle Surge 3-1 in the grand finals of the preseason tournament, and while it was great to see the return of pro league matches, the event now seems to be overshadowed by safety concerns from pro players as the pandemic continues.

Clayster tweeted a picture of a positive COVID test and said, "Really happy I had to attend a meaningless kickoff single elim event without proper testing and regulations. F***ing pathetic."

Clayster elaborates in another tweet to say that the Call of Duty League only required one negative test on the first day of the event. Apparently, there weren't any rules in place for spectators at the event, even though Clayster says, "We pushed for no fans, daily testing for players/staff, and of course there's a ton of positive tests coming from this weekend."

Another pro player, Dylan "Envoy" Hannon of the Los Angeles Thieves replied to Clayster's tweet with his concerns by saying, "I’m watching staff have masks on their chins, talent taking pics with fans and seeing them backstage minutes after."

The Kickoff Classic was a preseason event that did not award any CDL points to pro teams, and hopefully the Call of Duty League can take better precautions for the safety of everyone moving forward with in-person events. Vanguard's regular season officially starts on February 4 with online qualifiers, and the first major LAN tournament is scheduled for March 3-6 with fans in attendance.

Call of Duty: Vanguard is scheduled for a Season 2 update on February 14. Activision is currently being acquired by Microsoft, pending regulatory approval, but the deal isn't expect to go through until later this year.

Toronto Ultra continue their form from 2021 as they win the first event of the 2022 season Last night, Toronto…

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Toronto dominated the series' final map to claim the championship.

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Envoy got revenge against his former teammates as Los Angeles roll through OpTic.

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The CDL kicked off on Friday night with four great matchups.

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OverActive Media, the parent company of Toronto Ultra, Toronto Defiant and MAD Lions, has appointed Matt McGlynn as its new Vice President of Marketing and Brand.  McGlynn joins the company following more than a decade with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), where he served as its Vice President of Brand Marketing.  RELATED: OverActive Media’s […]

Toronto-Dominion Bank has expanded its partnership with OverActive Media to now cover both of the organization’s Activision Blizzard franchise league teams. TD will now serve as the official bank of both the Toronto Defiant and Toronto Ultra. This expansion adds a second team to the deal which began with TD’s sponsorship of Toronto Defiant last […]

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