All former CoD Champs winners to receive unique pendants MLGMajor League Gaming and the Call of Duty World League had decided to honor former winners of the CWL Championship by giving them unique pendants. The tradition of ending every Call of Duty competitive season with a Champs tournament could soon be coming to an end, with the esport transitioning to a franchised league starting next season. This means that the currently ongoing $2 million event could be the last of its kind, with fans not sure what to expect for the future. With many of the world\u2019s best players and teams gathered in Los Angeles, CA for Champs 2019, MLG and the CWL will honor former winners of the tournament in a way that\u2019s never really been done before in the esport\u2019s history. Read More: Gen.G CoD players react to shock Champs exit – \u201cWe made pendants for every Champs winner,\u201d tweeted MLG\u2019s Adam Apicella. \u201cNo pomp or anything for a presentation, just something cool for champions.\u201d The pendants have been designed to feature the player\u2019s in-game name on one side, along with the year that they won Champs and a logo of the iconic trophy. On the other side will be the logo of the game that the championship was won on, including Black Ops 2, Ghosts, Advanced Warfare, Black Ops 3, Infinite Warfare, and WWII. While all of the winning players have received their own championship rings, they\u2019re not something that can be worn during the competition, which is why MLG decided to go with pendants. \u201cOur thinking was, you can\u2019t play with a ring on, but sort of like World Series of Poker, you could play with a pendant on, identifying you as a World Champ,\u201d Apicella said. \u201cAlso, it\u2019s just a cool memento honoring these players when they sat atop the world of their craft.\u201d We made pendants for every champs winner, no pomp or anything for a presentation, just something cool for champions. Player name on one side, game logo on the other pic.twitter.com\/TMNqP43GOO \u2014 Adam Apicella (@MrAdamAp) August 15, 2019 Apicella also revealed that they had been planning on doing a special ceremony for all of the world champions before the Grand Final of Champs 2019, but couldn\u2019t put it together fast enough at the end. \u201cWe were going to potentially honor every champion on the stage before Grand Finals to present these, but we just ran out of time, and you don\u2019t half ass a presentation like that. In any case, I hope that the players like it, that\u2019s what matters.\u201d We were going to potentially honor every champion on the stage before grand finals to present these, but we just ran out of time and you don’t half ass a presentation like that In any case, I hope the players like it, that’s what matters. \u2014 Adam Apicella (@MrAdamAp) August 15, 2019 There are, of course, numerous world champions who are competing at this year\u2019s Champs, including three-time winner Damon \u2018Karma\u2019 Barlow, reigning champ Justin \u2018SiLLY\u2019 Fargo, and 2015 world champions Dillon \u2018Attach\u2019 Price and James \u2018Clayster\u2019 Eubanks, all of whom had fond reactions to the news. Apicella also said, tongue in cheek, that the reason organizations were not represented on the pendants was because MLG did not want to commemorate Denial Esports. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to put Denial on a pendant, so we went with a trophy plus player,\u201d he tweeted. \u201cIt\u2019s always the one org that\u2019s got to ruin it for the rest.\u201d Following their high of winning it all in 2015, Denial has been mired in nothing but controversy since then, twice having to shut down their operations due to financial issues, leaving multitudes of players and staff suddenly looking for a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All former CoD Champs winners to receive unique pendants MLGMajor League Gaming and the Call of Duty World League had decided to honor former winners of the CWL Championship by giving them unique pendants. The tradition of ending every Call of Duty competitive season with a Champs tournament could soon be coming to an end, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}