OpTic finally lifts the Call of Duty World Championship trophy and becomes the richest team in the consoles world

It seems that the curse has finally been broken for the Green Wall team. After many years of struggling at the biggest Call of Duty annual tournament despite amazing performances at other major competitions, OpTic Gaming has finally won the 2017 Call of Duty World League Championship.

OpTic’s Seth “Scump” Abner, Matthew “FormaL” Piper, Damon “Karma” Barlow, and Ian “Crimsix” Porter lost to Team EnVyUs initially in the winners bracket finals, but it wasn’t long until they executed their revenge. OpTic kicked off the grand finals with a 250-135 win on Retaliation Hardpoint, but EnVyUs answered back with a 6-2 victory on Throwback Search and Destroy. Earlier in the day, EnVyUs handed OpTic their first Hardpoint loss of the tournament. But in the grand finals, the blue team suffered their first Uplink loss at CoD Champs 2017, as OpTic took Throwback Uplink 9-2.

With a 2-1 series advantage, OpTic finished what it started with a strong 250-204 win on Scorch Hardpoint. The win in the first best-of-five series gave them all of the needed momentum, as the second best-of-five series was pure domination by the Green Wall. OpTic took Throwback Hardpoint 250-176, Crusher Search and Destroy 6-3, and Precinct Uplink 7-2 to sweep EnVyUs and win CoD Champs 2017.

This was OpTic’s first time taking home a CWL Championship, and the biggest first-place prize of $600,000, while Team EnVyUs earned $200,000 for their second-place finish. Thanks to the grand win, OpTic is now the richest team in the world of consoles tournaments as all five of its players are now the top earning players of all time. Karma, with $638,597.25, is the top player in console esports history. This world title is the third of his career, after he won in both 2013 and 2014 with Fariko Impact and compLexity Gaming, respectively. Crimsix is almost $17,000 behind him in second after winning his second CoD Champs, with his first alongside Karma in 2014.

Two-time world champion JKap fell one spot on the list and takes third with over $548,000 earned. He is followed up by his former teammate Scump at over $523,000. FormaL rounds out the top five with about $515,000 after winning his first world title.

With the big tournament ending the Infinite Warfare season will now start fading, as Call of Duty fans are already starting to turn their attention toward WWII, which is set to be released on Nov. 3.