Call of Duty League | GAs, Rosters, Schedule & Results

If you're enjoying MW3, the CDL is your chance to watch the game played at the highest level. In this article you can find everything you need to know about when to watch, what the current team standings are, and what the current rule set is for competitive play.

You can expect matches almost every weekend between early-December and July, so check back in to stay up to date through the highs and lows of the 2024 season.

How Does The Call of Duty League Work In 2024?

The best 48 players in the world, across twelve teams, will compete in four Majors and one Championship final to be named the CDL Champions of the 2024 Season. Teams play each other online in qualifier matches across four weekends prior to each Major. They get points for winning the online qualifier matches, but more for winning matches on LAN during these Majors.

By the end of the year, and once all points have been earned, only the top eight teams in the overall standings qualify for the Championship LAN event at the end of the year. If they win that, then the team get their Champs rings and go down in history, and we move on to the next season and the next title (in this case Black Ops Gulf War).

If this is your first year getting into Call of Duty esports, then you might be surprised at how differently the game is played when compared to normal public matches. In short, you'll be watching teams of four play Hardpoint, Search and Destroy, and Control, across a select few MW3 maps and with a heavily reduced arsenal of weapons and equipment. But we go into the detail on the full competitive settings further down in the article.

Where Can You Watch CDL Matches In 2023?

Every single game is streamed live, directly to the official YouTube channel. It's that simple, thankfully. But, if you prefer more of a streaming vibe, a lot of ex-pros and content creators hold watch parties during LAN events as well. Personally, we would recommend Zoomaa, host of the Flank podcast, as one of the best ex-pros who watches and analyses current competitive CoD.

Current League Standings

The teams have not acquired points yet, at the moment we just have them ordered by last year's final results:

We expect the top four to be a lock all season.

CDL Major 1 Schedule

This is the current schedule for the next matches.

Major 1 Qualifiers: Weekend One (December 8-11)

We kick off with some absolute bangers, with only the first match between FaZe and Breach being somewhat predictable (FaZe look significantly better than every other team right now).

The first weekend was great, with Control being suprisingly entertaining in MW3.

Major 1 Qualifiers: Weekend Two (December 15-18)

Seattle Surge have FaZe and OpTic this week, so we'll see if "the hype is real" or not...

Miami are looking like a T6 right now.

Major 1 Qualifiers: Weekend Three (January 12-15)

We have an unexpectedly long break for Christmas, and then it's back to matches in mid-Jan.

The Heretics vs. Surge match should be very interesting; these teams are probably the best of the non-T4.

Current Rosters For The 2024 CDL Season

Here are the twelve teams and their rosters, based on last year's final league standings:

Atlanta Faze

OpTic Texas

New York Subliners

Toronto Ultra

Los Angeles Thieves

Minnesota RØKKR

Boston Breach

Seattle Surge

Vegas Legion

Miami Heretics

Los Angeles Guerrillas

Carolina Royal Ravens

What's The Current Map Pool?

The current map pool is questionable without smokes, given how open and AR-favored these maps are:

Yes, we get it, comp fans would rather watch Raid than Karachi every series, but at least we have a 5/5/3 map pool and not a 4/4/2 (RIP Vangoated).

What Are The Current Competitive Rules?

We now have the competitive settings for 2024, and so we can confirm that the following items have been officially banned:

In addition to these officially banned items, the pros also agree to certain truces called "Gentlemen's Agreements". These "GAs" are basically unofficial bans on certain items that are considered over-powered, even if they are technically allowed by the CDL. If a pro team breaks this GA agreement then they are blacklisted from scrims, and other teams will not practice with them.

Here are the items unofficially banned by GA:

It might sound awfully restrictive, but it makes Call of Duty a fundamentally more competitive game to remove the one-shot weapons and anything that can give free info or easy kills. There are also a few smaller changes to the modes, for instance the defuse time in SnD is 7.5 seconds and not 5, but otherwise the modes are much the same as they are usually played.

What Weapons & Equipment ARE Allowed In The CDL?

So much has been banned and GA'd that it might be easier for you just to see what things are still allowed:

What Viewer Rewards Do You Get For Tuning In?

To promote viewership of the CDL, you actually get rewards in-game for tuning into the different events. We don't know what these will be yet for the 2024 Season.

How To Get Viewership Rewards

1. Link your YouTube and Activision accounts via this link.
2. Watch the CDL on your YouTube account and the rewards will be automatically redeemed to your account.

It's really that simple, so tune in and enjoy.

And that, finally, is it. Absolutely everything you need to know about the CDL.