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ESPN Sources: Call of Duty franchise spots to sell at $25 million per team
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Is call of duty even that big in the e-sports scene. I mean it's weird it's not being the highest selling game but when I hear about tournaments and stuff it's never ever cod.
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In terms of viewership it's pretty small yeah. Matches between the middle of the table teams pull around 20k-30k viewers, maybe more if it's in the late stages of a tournament. Those numbers really jump though if big teams like OpTic reach the late stages of a tournament, according to esc.watch the Grand Finals at Las Vegas reached 196k at its peak https://esc.watch/tournaments/cod/call-duty-world-league-vegas
Then again, those numbers might increase considerably if Activision actually puts some decent marketing behind it, which you would expect if you franchise your league.
I can't fathom why ActiBlizz would scale down their Blizzard eSports operations with all those layoffs and then scale up their Call of Duty eSports operations.
Clearly someone there knows something.
Or they're just making yet another colossal mistake that's going to result in broken hearts.
Clearly someone there knows something.
Or they're just making yet another colossal mistake that's going to result in broken hearts.
That's what I am puzzled over... and why would I jump in as an investor if I've seen them scale down parts of their company for esports and shut down an entire fledgling league? I get that CoD isn't going anywhere overnight... but come on...
I watch the call of duty esports stuff on twitch once in a while (the "CWL") and viewership has plummeted over the past 5 years. It used to draw in 500k+ viewers every time and be hosted in fancy ass places but last time I think it was under 100k viewers. I know a lot of the current APEX top streamers used to be COD BO3 streamers but that was really the last COD that seemed to hold viewers interest. Blackout had a big resurgence but seems to have died down again because of slow updates and of course APEX.
That price tag seems absolutely insane.
That price tag seems absolutely insane.
Round Based FPS's are so bad to watch unless you are an AVID player, even then im not sure...I wish them good luck in this endeavor, but I just do not see it.
Rocket league is the only game I can see breaking of just being watched by gamers - it looks like a sport, its simple, its purely based on skill, there are no crazy ultimates, or effects garbling up the screen. Its as close to 'a sport' as a game can be,
Rocket league is the only game I can see breaking of just being watched by gamers - it looks like a sport, its simple, its purely based on skill, there are no crazy ultimates, or effects garbling up the screen. Its as close to 'a sport' as a game can be,
Wasn't the scaledown getting rid of HOTS people who were still with the company?
I don't think it was scaling down all of Blizzard esports.
From what I understand it was basically the HOTS department, which quite frankly was the correct business decision by Activision.
move to a new game every year I presume. Doubt they would stick to one game and instead just keep moving.
I doubt this gets much bigger than it already is, low bar of entry games like CSGO and Dota 2 are big enough because its 1 game that gets constant updates (well...not for cs :P) and both are free.
That's asking for way too much. I don't see how that's a good investment for the franchise owners at this point.
Probably Blizzard and Call of Duty are separate organizations inside of Activision. One thing to remember is companies are not people but are collections of thousands of people, hundreds of teams and dozens or organizations (each team belongs to an organization). People inside of a company are frequently not going to act in a coordinated fashion and are frequently going to do what is best for their part of the organization. It wouldn't surprise me if the Call of Duty eSports people had no idea there were going to be layoffs at Blizzard and they are just trying to grow Call of Duty's eSport's business. If I had to guess, I bet the money, personnel, etc. all came from the Call of Duty organization. I am also guessing they are funding this because they want to want to make CoD more successful.
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Yep. Also have you seen the community reaction to CS changes? Might be one of the reasons Valve does not even bother XD
I like the idea of franchising in esports as it's worked in Overwatch, but the only it works in CoD is if they stop the annual releases and give it the Overwatch treatment in post-release support. Too bad with Activision that's not going to happen.
Do you have an insight on how sponsored teams gets their money back ? Maybe an overview of their commercial strategy ?
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thats true lmao
you make changes people get mad. You do nothing but add new cases? people get mad lol cant win
PS4.
Probably won't be in 2020 if they plan on franchising it out. Betting tournaments will be played on PC.
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Thought this is worthy of a bump. According to Scott Smith bidding is nearing $40mil a city
Also, with the next Call of Duty's reveal being very close (CoD games are always revealed around this time) we should hopefully get some proper announcements on franchising soon.
Also, with the next Call of Duty's reveal being very close (CoD games are always revealed around this time) we should hopefully get some proper announcements on franchising soon.
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I'm not really familiar with the R6 Pro League but looking at https://escharts.com the peak for the Season 9 Latin American league (the highest out of the various regions) is 48,951 viewers (30 January, Liquid vs NiP). The peak for this season of the CWL Pro League is 61,995 viewers (5 April, OpTic vs 100T).
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R6 Pro League Season 9 Latin America: https://escharts.com/tournaments/rainbow-6/pro-league-season-9-latin-america
CWL Pro League: https://escharts.com/tournaments/cod/cwl-pro-league-2019
40 mill!? Are they out of their goddamn mind? 😂😂 Activision at this point is blatantly trying to screw over competitive cod.. Unless a bunch of orgs have been working on some big funding deals behind the scenes, I don't see how this will work out.
To give an idea of the crowd of the Dallas event, the Dallas game was hype with the crowd(5k), Really cool to see what this type of thing can become.
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First 5 cities confirmed: Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Paris and Toronto, all by companies which are already in the Overwatch League https://investor.activision.com/new...izzard-announces-first-quarter-2019-financial
It will likely move to PC in the following year. NBA 2K League is now played on PC. Since, they don't use consoles anymore for their esports scene.
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Cities #6 and #7 confirmed: Immortals Gaming Club has bought the Los Angeles spot, while WISE Ventures has the Minnesota spot
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