OpTic defeat Surge to clinch Call of Duty League championship

OpTic Texas defeated the Vancouver Surge 5-3 in a best-of-nine grand final to take home the 2025 Call of Duty League championship on Sunday in Kitchener, Ontario.

Mason "Mercules" Ramsay won MVP honors for OpTic Texas, which took home an $800,000 first prize out of the $2 million total purse.

Vancouver never led the grand final but tied Texas at 1-1 and 3-3 before OpTic hammered the final nails in the coffin, winning 6-2 on Hacienda Search and Destroy and 250-215 on Rewind Hardpoint to claim the title.

OpTic had won the opener 250-151 on Hacienda Hardpoint before the Surge blanked them 6-0 on Dealership Search and Destroy. Texas took the next two maps (3-2 on Protocol Control, 250-230 on Vault Hardpoint) and Vancouver battled back again (6-5 on Protocol Search and Destroy, 3-2 on Hacienda Control).

OpTic finished the regular season in seventh place but were the best team in the playoffs, knocking out the Atlanta FaZe, Toronto Ultra and Boston Breach in three straight 3-0 decisions to race through the winners bracket.

The Surge were the fourth-place team in the regular season but dropped into the elimination bracket after opening the playoffs with a 3-1 loss to the Miami Heretics. Vancouver played and won three straight matches on Saturday - 3-0 over Toronto, 3-2 in a revenge match against Miami and 3-2 over Boston - to reach the grand final out of the lower bracket.

The top eight teams from the regular season qualified for the double-elimination event that capped the season's Black Ops 6 competition.

Call of Duty League Championship prize pool

1. $800,000 -- OpTic Texas

2. $480,000 -- Vancouver Surge

3. $320,000 -- Boston Breach

4. $160,000 -- Miami Heretics

5-6. $80,000 -- Toronto Ultra, Atlanta FaZe

7-8. $40,000 -- Los Angeles Thieves, Carolina Royal Ravens

--Field Level Media