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This weekend eUnited were crowned Call of Duty World League Champions, securing their second Black ops 4 title in 2019.
There are a few inevitabilities in life. The sun will rise and fall, seasons will come and go, and even the most dominant champs in eSports will eventually fall at the hands of a fresh-faced challengers.
And the crowning of exciting North American outfit eUnited could represent a power shift in the competitive division of gaming.
If you played Call of Duty throughout the early noughties, you’ll be well aware of pro group OpTic. Every kid who stepped out on ‘Hijacked’ with a DSR sniper rifle hoped to be picked up by a roaming member of the team, and desperately vied to secure the final killcam replay. And every triggered 13-year-old asserted they were part of OpTic after being pwned with a noob tube.
And that’s because they were the mac-daddies of Call of Duty for years, generating an astounding $1.8 million in winnings from over 27 tournament appearances. However, on Saturday a recently formed side confirmed a prevalent hunch in the competitive gaming community: there’s a new sheriff in Nuketown, and he sports an eU on his badge.
More than eight months after OpTic defeated eUnited in the grand finals of CWL Las Vegas, the runners-up exacted their revenge at the 2019 Call of Duty World League Championship. They would eventually go on to secure the grand prize of $800,000 – split between the five of them – after a commanding 3-2 victory in the Search and Destroy final over 100 Thieves.
