CDL Commissioner confirms Warzone is part of the league\u2019s competitive plans ActivisionThe Call of Duty League\u2019s commissioner, Johanna Faries, has confirmed that Warzone is part of the league\u2019s competitive plans and will be featured in a more \u201cstructured\u201d integration moving forward. Activision\u2019s unprecedented success in 2020 could not have been achieved without Warzone. While Infinity Ward\u2019s Modern Warfare, the Activision-Blizzard franchised CDL, and Treyarch\u2019s Black Ops Cold War have all been their own successes \u2014 Warzone is more than a cherry on top. Regularly near the heights of Twitch\u2019s viewership, the CoD battle royale has amassed both a huge casual community and more dedicated fans committed to watching tournament play. As such, it\u2019s unsurprising that the CDL wants to do more than the casual Warzone content it created in the inaugural season. That content typically spanned getting pro players, coaches, and analysts involved in custom matches on Verdansk. While entertaining, Faries has revealed that the league has much more competitive plans in store for the battle royale. In an interview with ScreenRant, Faries, who heads both the CDL and Overwatch League, expressed that Warzone will be getting more properly integrated into the CDL\u2019s plans: \u201cThere are [plans to bring Warzone to Call of Duty League], and we\u2019re excited to announce those plans in the coming weeks and months.\u201d The Head of Leagues continued, contrasting these new plans with the casual content of the inaugural season and confirming that future integration will be much more esports-focused: \u201cWe did bring in Warzone related content with our pros last season, but we\u2019ve taken the off-season to think bigger about what a more structured investment could look like. There are really exciting things to come as early as this season.\u201d As mentioned earlier, the CDL\u2019s Warzone content in 2020 was primarily casual. Weekend custom lobbies created some fun clips and moments, but overall didn\u2019t have quite the drawing power of Warzone\u2019s more legitimate esport events. We\u2019ve seen former CDL bench players grow into massive Warzone careers, such as the London Royal Ravens\u2019 Rhys \u2018Rated\u2019 Price as well as Charlie \u2018MuTeX\u2019 Saouma and Thomas \u2018Tommey\u2019 Trewren formerly of the Dallas Empire. The league obviously has the talent for appealing Warzone competition, so fans will be antsy to find out exactly what kind of \u201cstructured\u201d integration may be coming in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CDL Commissioner confirms Warzone is part of the league\u2019s competitive plans ActivisionThe Call of Duty League\u2019s commissioner, Johanna Faries, has confirmed that Warzone is part of the league\u2019s competitive plans and will be featured in a more \u201cstructured\u201d integration moving forward. Activision\u2019s unprecedented success in 2020 could not have been achieved without Warzone. While Infinity […]<\/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-24387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24387","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=24387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}