Major League Gaming

I don't think that is too big of a, an ask.

But we have seen that the, what Activision or the CDL or the CWL or MLG, what they do is that they take that first week or the first two weeks, and then they come up with a rule set.

And I think, like, that's really stupid, because that just wastes so much time.

Like, those are the most valuable week or two weeks of the entire year for Call of Duty, and they just kinda waste that.

Like, there's a reason that people tune into the tournaments.

You know? People wanna see tournament action, and that is the basis of Call of Duty, not necessarily league matches.

Like, I think really, like, MLG was kinda like the first league match thing where it was, like, extensive, and I remember, like, not giving a fuck about, like, the MLG Pro League.

Like, I don't remember caring about that at all.

Initially competing as Ambush, the team was quickly signed by Team EnVyUs.

And EnVyUs made history at MLG Orlando by becoming both the first team to defeat Optic Gaming before the winners finals, and the first team to sweep Optic in their three to zero victory in the winners semifinals.

They were defeated by Splyce in the winners finals however, and Optic took advantage of the rematch opportunity in the elimination finals, defeating EnVyUs four to two and sending them home with a third place.

At MLG Columbus, EnVyUs started off similarly strong, sweeping their pool and qualifying for the Halo World Championship 2018.

But again, there's another week of matches, so we'll see what happens.

What if MLG comes back next year? Tetsuo, they're not.

Like, no. They're not, no.

They don't have a new game, dude.

I will say from what I, my point was gonna be, as like a European COD fan, what the CDL has done well, and to Don's point about the matches taking forever and double best of sevens lasting forever, like if you're living in the rest of the world and like especially Europe and you're trying to watch Halo even today, good luck.

Because the games, they go so late because the games start late, which used to be how it was in like the MLG era.

I will give credit to the CDL for this because I remember watching Black Ops 4 league matches, whatever was going on in BF 4-

Yeah

That was a massive complaint that people had specifically with 4 and 5, that they went in that Call of Duty-esque multiplayer, what is it? I was going to say MVP.

MLG.

MLG direction.

Yeah.

But who knows? And I'm also curious, I wonder how much cross-pollinization there is because, you know, it's quite common for people to jump from studio to studio, whether it's opening up their own studios or whether it's like, hey, this is, you know, this new senior kind of position or opportunity in this other, you know, under the stewardship of some other place.

There are a couple of things that people don't remember, don't watch or haven't ever watched.

Major League Gaming.

activision owns the rights to major league major league gaming and they also own the rights to um well microsoft owns the rights to activision and when you own the rights to major league gaming you also own the rights to a lot of those old franchises i don't know for certain like who owns final boss or who owns instinct but those were copyrighted trademark names within that league um And it's really, really cool to see.

So there could be a reality, especially with the most recent release of Gears.

Although I've seen a Gears pro coach lose his mind over this.

My buddies from school were the ones who told me like, "Listen, you can make some, like you can make some side money playing some CoD." Like they host like tournaments and stuff.

My, my, my friend from school, he told me about like MLG tournaments and like all this stuff.

I started watching like Scump videos, Nadeshot videos, like stuff like that.

Um, and then I kinda like that competitive energy that I had, I kinda brought that into the, uh, to the CoD world.

Like I said, I just feel for the folks that were impacted.

Chuck says, my optimism is since Activision owns MLG, COD, and Halo under one roof again, but I'm hopeful.

What's up, Collect? Welcome back.

Good to see you.

say what you will about call of duty uh you know i certainly have at times the modern warfare games for me pretty much always hit especially their single-player campaigns and i i would argue that activision especially infinity ward is right up there with blizzard with some of their cinematics and things like that and these scenes that they showed with mads uh in the cinematics just they look so good um i played the beta the the closed beta i believe Modern Warfare 4, I was pretty surprised by how heavy it feels in comparison to even like Battlefield, which always was kind of the clunkier game, I think, where Call of Duty has evolved into this like kind of twitchy shooter.

They seem to be pushing against that a little bit in Modern Warfare 4, even though obviously the MLG pros are always going to find a way to still play that more arcade-y style of game.

And that heavier feeling in the multiplayer makes me feel like that will translate as well, especially to single player, to the campaign.

And that should lead to some pretty fun single player antics.