{"id":107820,"date":"2026-03-30T12:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/faze-vegas-bounces-back-from-loss-to-capture-cdl-stage-2-major\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:53:38","slug":"faze-vegas-bounces-back-from-loss-to-capture-cdl-stage-2-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/30\/faze-vegas-bounces-back-from-loss-to-capture-cdl-stage-2-major\/","title":{"rendered":"FaZe Vegas bounces back from loss to capture CDL Stage 2 Major"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"section-0\">\n<p>FaZe Vegas rebounded from a loss to OpTic Texas earlier in the day to win the rematch in the grand final 4-1 on Sunday of the Call of Duty League&#8217;s Stage 2 Major.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>OpTic Texas took a 3-1 victory in the best-of-five upper-bracket final in Marston Green, England. That sent FaZe Vegas to the lower-bracket final, where they beat Toronto KOI 3-1 to earn a spot opposite OpTic Texas in the best-of-seven grand final.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Toronto KOI had eliminated the Los Angeles Thieves 3-0 in the lower-bracket semifinal on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>The Stage 2 Major, part of the DreamHack Birmingham event, awarded $150,000 and 100 Call of Duty League points to champion FaZe Vegas. OpTic Texas, as the first runner-up collected $90,000 and 75 CDL points.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>Vegas&#8217; Jovan &#8220;04&#8221; Rodriguez of the United States was selected the match MVP. He had a kill-death differential of 118-84 to lead all players. American teammate Chris &#8220;Simp&#8221; Lehr had 109 kills and a plus-20 differential.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>Their team opened the grand final with a 250-184 win on Colossus Hardpoint. Texas drew even with a 6-2 victory on Raid Search and Destroy. But FaZe Vegas then reeled off wins on Scar Overload (4-3), Exposure Hardpoint (250-207) and Exposure Search and Destroy (6-5).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>No OpTic Texas players had positive numbers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>The teams met in the upper-bracket final, which OpTic opened with a 250-192 win on Exposure Hardpoint. FaZe Vegas came back with a 6-4 win on Raid Search and Destroy, then Texas took it with wins on Den Overload (6-3) and Scar Hardpoint (250-112).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">\n<p>Cuyler &#8220;Huke&#8221; Garland of the United States was the match MVP with 101 kills and a plus-26 differential for Texas. All players for Vegas had negative differentials.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">\n<p>FaZe Vegas recovered in the double-elimination playoff format by defeating Toronto KOI 3-1 in the lower-bracket final. Vegas won on Den Hardpoint (250-240), then Toronto triumphed on Exposure Search and Destroy (6-3) before FaZe won on Exposure Overload (5-3) and Exposure Hardpoint (250-225).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">\n<p>Jordan &#8220;Abuzah&#8221; Francois of Belgium was match MVP with 89 kills and a plus-18 differential for FaZe Vegas.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-11\">\n<p>In the lower-bracket semifinal, Toronto KOI swept the Los Angeles Thieves, winning 250-188 on Den Hardpoint, 6-3 on Colossus Search and Destroy and 4-3 on Exposure Overload.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-12\">\n<p>Jamie &#8220;Insight&#8221; Craven of England was the match MVP for Toronto with 61 kills and a plus-12 differential.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-13\">\n<p>Call of Duty League&#8217;s Stage 2 Major prize pool, with money winnings and CDL points<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-14\">\n<p>1. $150,000, 100 &#8212; FaZe Vegas<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-15\">\n<p>2. $90,000, 75 &#8212; OpTic Texas<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-16\">\n<p>3. $50,000, 60 &#8212; Toronto KOI<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-17\">\n<p>4. $30,000, 45 &#8212; Los Angeles Thieves<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-18\">\n<p>5-6. $15,000, 30 &#8212; Paris Gentle Mates, G2 Minnesota<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-19\">\n<p>7-8. $7,500, 15 &#8212; Riyadh Falcons, Miami Heretics<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-20\">\n<p>9-10. no money, no points &#8212; Vancouver Surge, Carolina Royal Ravens<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-21\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/faze-vegas-bounces-back-from-loss-to-capture-cdl-stage-2-major\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FaZe Vegas rebounded from a loss to OpTic Texas earlier in the day to win the rematch in the grand final 4-1 on Sunday of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}