Call of Duty esports guide

Call of Duty is the most popular annual multiplayer first-person shooter video game franchise in the world. Regularly selling over 20 million copies globally each year, it’s no surprise that a passionate competitive gaming scene formed around the series. The hundreds of thousands of dollars in tournament prize-pools up-for-grabs aren’t a bad thing, either.

Today you can expect to find dozens of organized CoD pro gaming leagues and tournaments held in multiple countries, which you can bet on at esports betting sites. This page will cover all things Call of Duty and esports and keep you in the loop of the latest game updates, tournament schedules, betting predictions, jargon and terminology, prize-pools and more.

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Betting on Call of Duty esports

Many of the world’s top-ranked esports betting sites offer betting markets on Call of Duty esports tournaments.

Call of Duty Bookmakers

Unfortunately, unlike some more popular esports titles like Counter-Strike 2 and Overwatch, many other sportsbooks are often slow on the draw when it comes to opening markets on Call of Duty events, and often only the biggest tournaments like the Call of Duty League get the proper attention CoD betting enthusiasts crave.

This is because most of the large-scale CoD tournaments are organized and held in Europe and North America, and it does not have the same world-wide esports pull as other titles.

Still, several sites recognise is a popular game to bet on – so these top recommended sportsbooks above are the ones you should sign up to for CoD esports betting.

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A brief introduction to Call of Duty esports

Call of Duty offers both single-player and multiplayer game modes, but only the latter is naturally involved in the esports side of CoD.

What makes the franchise interesting (and complicated) compared to other esports is it is an annual series, meaning a new Call of Duty game is released every single year. This means the game that everyone plays at CoD esports tournaments each year is aesthetically different, and sometimes fundamentally in the form of new gameplay mechanics and other changes.

Fortunately for the competitive community, the core Call of Duty gameplay formula remains intact every year.

This year’s Call of Duty is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6. It is a fast-paced first-person shooter played across a variety of different game modes, most of which have two teams of six players battle it out for victory.

CoD: Black Ops 6 returns to the old Black Ops gameplay, which was loved by many players over a decade ago. There are no longer any double-jumping or wall-running mechanics for the players to use to their advantage – instead there is a slide movement mechanic which lets players slide to the ground or leap forward to land on the ground and crawl to cover and safety.

CoD distinguishes itself from other shooters for being class-based, meaning players can customize the type of soldier they play as through their abilities and weapons to gain a tactical edge in a certain element, at the cost of other disadvantages of gameplay balance.

There are a number of multiplayer game types, not all of which are played in the esports scene.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 esports multiplayer game modes

• Search and Destroy: Detonate or defuse the bomb in one of two locations; or eliminate the enemy team.
• Control: Capture or defend two marked zones on the map within a time limit or eliminate all respawns of the opposing team .
• Hardpoint: First team to 250 points wins, or the team with the most points when the game timer reaches zero.

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What is the 2024 schedule for Call of Duty esports?

The following events are planned for Call of Duty’s competitive scene, predominately hosted in North America.

Start date	End date	Tournament	Country	Prize Money $USD
December 8, 2023	July 14, 2024	Call of Duty – 2023 Regular Season	World-wide	Top qualifiers make the Major
January 25, 2024	January 28, 2024	Call of Duty 2024 – Stage 1 Major	Boston	$350,000
March 21, 2024	March 24, 2024	Call of Duty 2024 – Stage 2 Major	Miami	$350,000
May 16, 2024	May 19, 2024	Call of Duty 2024 – Stage 3 Major	Toronto	$350,000
June 20, 2024	June 23, 2024	Call of Duty 2024 – Stage 4 Major	Charlotte	$350,000
August 15, 2024	August 18, 2024	Esports World Cup	Riyadh, Saudi Arabia	$1,800,000
July 18, 2024	July 21, 2024	Call of Duty 2024 – Season 4 Playoffs	Allen, USA	$2,000,000

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How popular is Call of Duty esports?

Call of Duty esports began in 2007 with the release of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, wildly regarded to be the most popular entry in the franchise to-date.

Since then, the competitive scene surrounding the game has gotten better organized and a lot more lucrative, with million dollar prize pools being thrown around for the best CoD players since the establishment of the Call of Duty World League in 2016, itself a series of regional qualifier events for the annual Call of Duty Championship series, which began in 2013.

Call of Duty publisher Activision has had a partnership with Sony for seven years and as a result, all Call of Duty esports events are sponsored by Sony’s PlayStation, and each competition uses the PlayStation hardware for participants to use.

The Call of Duty World League 2017 – 2018 competitive season saw over US $4.2 million of prize money awarded to the best Call of Duty pro players from each region, while the Call of Duty Championships handed out around US$1.5 million to the best players in the world.

According to NewZoo, Call of Duty: WWII’s competitive scene has seen the highest climb in popularity and viewership on esports live-streaming websites like Twitch. The Call of Duty World League Open for CoD: WWII came in at #5 on the top most watched esports events on Twitch, recording over 1.6 million hours watched, a 24% share of total hours watched on the popular live-streaming platform.

Whether this means Call of Duty’s professional gaming scene will finally get the attention it deserves this year in-line with other recent titans like the Overwatch League, time will tell.

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Where can I watch Call of Duty esports?

The best place to watch organized Call of Duty esports events is Twitch. The main channel over there that we recommend casual and hardcore fans visit is the official Call of Duty channel: https://www.twitch.tv/callofduty/.

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