Call Of Duty Black Ops 4 CWL Esports Will Be 5v5
By Ford James ·
In today's CWL esports reveal stream, it's been confirmed that Black Ops 4's CWL season will be 5v5 and not 4v4.
Ever since the Call of Duty: WWII season ended over a month ago, there’s been one question on everyone’s mind. Will Black Ops 4 be 4v4 or 5v5? There’s pros and cons to both formats and with the CWL esports reveal stream today, it’s been confirmed that the 2019 CWL season will be shifting to a 5v5 system.
Clint “Maven” Evans and Joe “Merk” DeLuca, two CWL casters, were joined by Treyarch co-studio leads David Vonderhaar and Dan Bunting in the Treyarch studio. The change has been made in an effort to make Call of Duty esports more accessible to casual players. Now, both public and competitive game modes will bee 5v5. In the past, competitive esports has always been 4v4 while public games were 6v6.
The topic has been generating discussion for over a month now though with a lot of pro players being vocal about their wishes for it to remain as 4v4. It’s the format that has been in place since console Call of Duty esports began and this is undoubtedly a huge change for players.
5v5 :)
— Seth Abner (@OpTic_Scumper) September 19, 2018
Seth “Scump” Abner, pro player for OpTic Gaming is happy about the change, tweeting a simple “5v5 :)”.
— Jordan Kaplan (@JKap415) September 19, 2018
Jordan “Jkap” Kaplan of Luminosity on the other hand isn’t too keen on the adjustments, tweeting a famous gif from The Office.
I’ve waited on the announcement to decide what’s next for myself, and with it being 5v5 along with everything else, I’m now an F/A.
— Tommey (@Tommey) September 19, 2018
Open to moving anywhere, ready to give it all again for another shot at winning championships.
Veteran UK player, Tom “Tommey” Trewren took the announcement of 5v5 to declare that he’ll be a free agent heading into Black Ops 4.
5v5 Call of Duty esports will be on show for the first time ever at CWL Las Vegas on December 7-9. That’s almost two months after the release of Black Ops 4 on October 12 though, so pro players and fans will have a long time to adjust and get used to the new changes. In other Call of Duty news, check out this fan-made Dr DisRespect skin.