OpTic Gaming wins the $400,000 prize in the Call of Duty XP Million Dollar tourney
by Mike Schramm 
on Sep 4th 2011 10:30AM
The prizes have been passed out at the Call of Duty XP Million Dollar Tournament in Los Angeles, and the US' OpTic Gaming has taken home first prize, totalling a whopping $400,000. OpTic picked up the lead early in the round of final matches, capturing flags on the Dome map in the first game, and picking up and holding two out of three points in the two Domination maps on Resistance after that. The UK team Infinity caused some trouble in the Kill Confirmed round (after winning a tiebreaker Team Deathmatch to make the finals), but OpTic dug in for the final rounds in Search and Destroy to win the tourney. "No college debt -- that's how I feel, baby!" said one of OpTic's players right after the match.
Infinity is stuck with second prize, which is "only" $200,000. Almost a quarter of a million dollars for playing
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3? Still not a bad weekend. The other big winner at the conference was
Call of Duty fan Brandy Miller, whose picture won a competition on Facebook, and allowed her to take home that brand new
Call of Duty edition Jeep Wrangler.
Everybody else? They won a few bruises from the paintball court outside. And oh yeah -- everybody who paid the $150 for a ticket (the proceeds of which go to the
Call of Duty Endowment) also picks up a Hardened Edition of
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Along, of course, with all the hearing damage of listening to gunfire and explosions all weekend long.
