Today, compLexity Call of Duty will compete in their first matches of the MLG CoD League Season 2 as they take on JustUs and Strictly Business. The first match against JustUs is scheduled to begin at 8PM EST while coL vs Strictly Business will begin at 9:30PM EST.

The second season of the MLG Call of Duty: Ghosts League kicks off April 19 and culminates with the live playoffs at the MLG Championship in Anaheim, CA from June 20-22. In Anaheim, the top eight teams from MLG’s Season Two and the top two teams from Gfinity’s Call of Duty league will compete for $70,000 in prizes.

Game Types

Complexity vs. JusTus

• Game 1 – Domination – Sovereign
• Game 2 – Search & Destroy – Warhawk
• Game 3 – Blitz – Freight
• Game 4 – Domination – Octane
• Game 5 – Search & Destroy – Octane

Strictly Business vs. Complexity

• Game 1 – Domination – Strikezone
• Game 2 – Search & Destroy – Sovereign
• Game 3 – Blitz – Freight
• Game 4 – Domination – Freight
• Game 5 – Search & Destroy – Octane

Results

coL.COD	0	VS	0	JustUs
MLG COD League Season 2

coL.COD	0	VS	0	Strictly Business
MLG COD League Season 2

Update: After losing to Cloud9 Tempest 1-2 in some very close matches, coL.Black will now take on Curse Academy to determine who will advance to the Promotional Tournament. The match is scheduled to begin at 3PM EST and will be streamed below.

coL.Black	3	VS	2	Curse Academy
Relegation Finals

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Today, coL.Black heads to the Riot Games studio to take on Cloud9 Tempest in the NORTH AMERICA CHALLENGER SERIES. The 6 team bracket is currently in the semi-finals after compLexity.Black defeated their teammates, compLexity.Red in the previous round. Cloud9 Tempest came into the playoffs as the number two seed, securing a BYE in the first round while compLexity.Black came in as the number three seed and had to compete.

The 2014 NA Challenger Series is a Challenger league that runs alongside the LCS for the entire 2014 season and acts as a direct bridge into the LCS. Top six teams with the highest points across both series are seeded into a playoff bracket. The playoffs hold a similar structure to the LCS playoffs. The winner is crowned the series champion and additionally, the top three teams advance into the Promotion Tournament.

Format

• Single Elimination
• Top six teams with the most Series Points (Shown Below) seeded in a playoff bracket.
• Quarterfinals and Semifinals matches are Best of Three; Finals and 3rd place matches are Best of Five.
• Top three teams advance to the 2014 NA Summer Promotion.

 

Results

coL.Black	1	VS	2	Cloud9 Tempest
Semi-Finals

Stream

Beginning today, both coL.IC and #coLofDuty are in Boston, Massachusetts for PAX East.

For Infinite Crisis, the team will be taking part in the $25,000 Pro Tournament where five of the world’s top teams will battle it out to be crowned the best team in the game.

In Call of Duty, fresh off their first place win at the Call of Duty Championship, #coLofDuty will join teams EnVy, Strictly Business, FaZe, Team Kaliber, and Curse LV to compete in the MLG playoffs after a six-week long season featuring 10 of the best Call of Duty teams. After 180 matches and hours of intense play, these top six teams will meet in person to battle for $15,000 in prizes. The MLG Call of Duty League Playoffs will kick off on Friday, April 11 at 10am EDT with an All-Star Game featuring two teams coached by Clayster/Nadeshot and Puckett/Revan and comprised of 12 players each (two players from each playoff team). Fans voted to determine the line-ups for the starting game that will feature Team Clayster & Nadeshot with players Karma, Aches, Nameless and Merk vs. Team Puckett & Revan with players Crimsix, Teepee, Study and Rambo.

Prizes

Call of Duty

• 1st – $7,000
• 2nd – $4,000
• 3rd – $2,500
• 4th – $1,500

Infinite Crisis

• $25,000 prize pool

Results

Infinite Crisis

coL.IC	0	VS	2	KGO
Grand Finals

coL.IC	1	VS	0	VexX
Semi-Finals

coL.IC	1	VS	0	Dignitas
Round Robin

coL.IC	0	VS	1	KGO
Round Robin

coL.IC	1	VS	0	VexX
Round Robin

coL.IC	1	VS	0	KGB
Round Robin

Call of Duty

coL.COD	3	VS	2	Strictly Business
Upper Bracket Finals

coL.COD	0	VS	0	Strictly Business
Grand Finals

coL.COD	3	VS	0	Team Kaliber
Upper Bracket Round 2

Stream

All action will take place on MLG.tv

Beginning today, compLexity Call of Duty, fresh off their win at the Call of Duty Championships in Los Angeles, will be in the IGN studios for the pre-release of Devastation, the second downloadable expansion to Call of Duty: Ghosts. The team will be on-hand to discuss their big win, pro tips, and more

Hosts Scott Lowe (@ScottLowe) and Alfredo Diaz (@AlfredoIGN) will be joined by staff from Infinity Ward and Neversoft, including community managers Tina Palacios (@Teanah) and Candice Capen (@Candyslexia), Extinction game designer Brian Bright, multiplayer designer Joe Cecot, and more. They’ll be discussing the development of Devastation, best strategy, and how the team brought the Predator to life in Call of Duty: Ghosts.

Viewers will have a chance to win prizes and have their questions answered by the developers live on-air by Tweeting to @IGN or @CallofDuty with the hashtag #DevastationDay.

After 3 long days in Los Angeles, California, the Call of Duty Championships presented by Xbox has come to an end, with our very own #coLofDuty coming out the victors! With the win, they will be taking home $400,000 and the Call of Duty Championship Rings, as well as the official title of the best Call of Duty team in the world.

Going into Day 3, coL remained undefeated overall, only dropping two maps the entire event. In the Winners Bracket Finals they took on rivals Optic Gaming in what proved to be an intense gridlock of back and forth action. The match went to a game six where compLexity proved why they are the best team in the world, sweeping the map 6-0 and advancing to the Grand Finals.

The Grand Finals began and ended in what seemed to be a blur, with compLexity quickly taking all 3 maps in the best of 5 series against EnvyUs, who had previously been on a 12-map run through the lower bracket. After the match, both teams shared a moment of congratulations before compLexity was joined by coach Matt “MrX” Morello and Founder & CEO Jason “1” Lake for a celebratory group embrace.

The full list of finalists for the 2014 Call of Duty Championship is as follows:

• 1st: compLexity – $400,000
• 2nd: EnVyUs – $200,000
• 3rd: OpTic Gaming – $120,000
• 4th: Strictly Business – $100,000
• 5th: Trident T1dotters – $70,000
• 6th: FaZe – $50,000
• 7th: Rise Nation – $35,000
• 8th: VexX Revenge – $25,000

 

We’d like to take the opportunity to congratulate our gamers on their victory, as well as a special congratulations to all of the teams that participated in the event. You can watch the World Champion replays and highlights on the Major League Gaming website.

Today, compLexity Gaming is proud to announce the official signing of Counter-Strike player Todd “Anger” Williams, formerly of iBUYPOWER. Todd will be filling the void left by the departure of Braxton “Swag” Pierce earlier this week. In his new role, Anger will be the aggressive rifler for the team.

Anger has been competing in FPS games for well over 10 years. During his career, he has attended over eight international lans and approximately twenty-seven national lans for Counter-Strike.

Todd had this to say about joining his new team:

As a professional Counter-Strike player it’s an honor to represent the compLexity Gaming brand. If you play Counter-Strike, you know who they are in the North American scene. I have personally competed against my new teammates since the release of Global Offensive and I feel we can achieve great things if we work hard enough. My departure from my previous team was unfortunate as I thought we just started having success. I look to continue what I’ve started in this game and I look forward to my future with compLexity.

Please join us in welcoming Todd “Anger” Williams to the compLexity Gaming family!

compLexity Gaming would like to announce that we have completed the transfer of Greyson ‘Goldenglue’ Gilmer from compLexity Red to Team Dignitas. Goldenglue, still in high school, will become one of the youngest players in the LCS.

Goldenglue had this to say about the transfer:

First of all I would like to thank all of my teammates for supporting my decision to accept the opportunity I have been given. Jezie, Nk Inc, Impactful, Evaniskus, and Jera have all been more supportive than I would have ever hoped for and I will miss playing with them immensely. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with the compLexity organization and my affiliation with them will always be a large cornerstone of my life.

Finally I would like to thank my loyal fans for supporting me through all these transitions recently and hope you continue to do so.

In the meantime, the compLexity Red team will actively search for a replacement for Goldenglue as they continue to compete in any LCS qualifier events.

Please join us in wishing Greyson the best of luck as he joins his new team and competes in the LCS.

Letter to the community

Upfront, I want to personally apologize for how our organization handled the Swag announcement. Sometimes we have an overzealous approach to getting ahead of the news. This is a scenario where that has happened and for that, I again, apologize.

To set the record straight, Braxton “Swag” Pierce was never released from his contract. He chose to no longer play with the players on his team. Due to this, we had to make a substitution for Brax in the other night’s matches, which forced us to remove Brax from the league’s roster. Some of our staff misconstrued that to mean we were removing Brax all together, which was a mistake and never the case. It is very important to note that when a player commits to a contract that commitment needs to be met. The player always has the right to decide to stop playing but they don’t have the right to just freely switch teams. There are mechanisms for player transfers in this business and those mechanisms need to be followed.

I was in the process of speaking with iBUYPOWER when all of this “news” broke the other night. Fortunately, we have come to an agreement in which compLexity will transfer Braxton “Swag” Pierce to iBUYPOWER.

I want to once again stress that I am personally ashamed as to how this was all handled and we will strive to put better checks and balances in place in order to make sure that it never happens again. On a brighter note, the end result was the same and fortunately our bumbling of the situation that night did not change the outcome of this scenario.

Sincerely,

Jason Bass
COO compLexity Gaming

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Today, we would like to announce the transfer of Braxton “Swag” Pierce’s contract to iBUYPOWER. Braxton first joined compLexity back in the summer of last year and has played a valuable role in the success of the team over that time.

Swag had this to say about the transfer:

 

In regards to my departure from complexity, I would like to give Jason Lake special thanks for the opportunity I received to represent such a big name in esports. I also would like to thank my former teammates who contributed to the experience and skills I gained during this time, and wish them the very best of luck.

After careful consideration I have decided to join iBUYPOWER. I believe this is the right opportunity for me and I look forward to playing with these guys as I see great potential in this lineup. Thanks for all the support!

 

We would like to wish Braxton the best of luck moving forward. Stay tuned as we will be announcing our new 5th within the next few days!

Today, we are announcing a change to our Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster.

The squad has agreed to part ways with Braxton “Swag” Pierce. Swag was instrumental in the recent success of the team during the EMS One event in Katowice and will be missed. We’d like to thank Braxton for his hard work, dedication and contributions to the team and wish him the very best in the future.

Thanks as always for your support and stay tuned as we will be announcing his replacement within the coming days.