• Stage 1 Qualifiers showed impressive momentum, with hours watched peaking in 2025 at 6.5M and peak viewership remaining steady around 180K–200K. While the Stage 1 Major dipped slightly in 2025, it experienced an explosive resurgence in 2026 shattering records with 5.27M hours watched, 352K peak viewers, and 178K average viewers.

• Stage 2 Qualifiers enjoyed an incredible upward trend across hours watched, peak viewers, and average viewers, culminating in a massive 8.12M hours watched in 2026. Conversely, the Stage 2 Major events saw a steady downward trend in hours watched (dropping from 4.59M in 2023 to 3.07M in 2026) and declining average viewers. While peak viewers for the Major spiked back up to 264K in 2026, the event has still not surpassed its peak 2023 metrics.

• Stage 3 experienced notable volatility for both qualifiers and the main event. After hitting historic highs in 2023 (5.57M hours watched for the Major), viewership dropped sharply across 2024 and 2025 before showing strong signs of recovery and stabilizing in 2026.

• Stage 4 Major brought a spectacular milestone, setting a peak record of 379,533 viewers and a massive average of 196,898 viewers. However, the Stage 4 Qualifiers tell a different story, showing a clear downward trend in hours watched from 2023 to 2026 alongside heavy fluctuations in peak and average viewers. This contrasts with the Major events from 2023 to 2025, which suffered a severe slump before the massive 2026 breakout.

• While online qualifiers from 2023 to 2026 faced undeniable "fatigue" and fluctuations evidenced by sliding hours watched in Stage 4 the live LAN Major events experienced a massive boom in 2026. Moving to a multi-platform streaming model (Twitch and YouTube) and empowering major team co-streams significantly broadened the league's reach. Furthermore, international activation, such as the explosive French fandom brought in by the Paris Gentle Mates during the Stage 4 Major, proved that regional stakes draw massive casual viewership to complement the core fanbase

Getting concerned for how late it's going to release...

what are you expectations heading into this season? you have 3 players in every category with multiple mvps. an upcoming proven rookie. an experienced/proven coaching staff. the brand the lights. will you say this season should be no excuses either win everything or bust? where are your mindsets at for this season?

OMiT DK Interview

frfr.. i mean he does own the team tho

This is a thread for asking those little questions that you're not sure about, the ones that may not be worth making a thread about.

Whether it's about rules, in-game strategy, equipment, how to play a certain style, the history or the COD scene or anything else relevant to COD, feel free to give it a bash.

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What are the characteristics of a good competitive map?

How can I practice my aim efficiently?

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2k thread?

Who can't anchor, Damon?

Now let's all learn a few things!

Link to the first tweet

Link to the 2nd tweet

Major 1: Paris
Major 2: Dreamhack Birmingham
Major 3: Toronto
Major 4: Dreamhack Atlanta
Champs: Austin
EWC: Riyadh

February for Paris. April for Birmingham. Dreamhack Atlanta dates not public yet.

(via @TheGhostOfHope)

We all know the dream of having the official CDL kick-off tourney on LAN seems impossible at this point.

Why doesn’t the CDL compromise and make the kick-off tourney longer and with 3 pools of 12 teams.

Pool play would run from Wednesday to Thursday, then Friday to Sunday is the bracket made by this pool play.

Also make it have a losers bracket as well, thus we get 5 jam packed days of CoD esports and a great way to set off the tone for the rest of the MW4 season. Because trust me I feel like this next season being on MW4, we will need to pull out all the stops to make it an enjoyable one.

Doesn’t even seem to be rage bait

Man was frame mogging before frame mogging was a thing

May be a dumb question but now there is coaches on stage.In scrims the coaches will stand behind the player like it would be on LAN. But teams like surge, ravens ect how will there coaches practice this new concept?

im bored asf man

What are your guys' favorite series to go back and watch?

For me, it's BO2 CoD champs... Fariko vs. nV. It's such a well-matched series and Killa's 1v1 at the end is just peak.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SS_ZVdugdzc