Activision Blizzard has five franchises lined up for its new Call of Duty sports league – TechCrunch

Activision Blizzard has announced the creation of five franchises for the new Call of Duty sports league based in the city.

Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Paris and Toronto will all host franchise teams who will compete in a professional league based on what may be the Activision Blizzard. Most successful title, announced the company after its call the results earlier in the day.

Each city works in partnership with the existing Overwatch league Team members need to build on the existing framework that Activision has been striving for in recent years to lay the groundwork for a global Call of Duty league in the city, the company said.

The first teams are Atlanta Esports Ventures, the joint venture owned by Cox Enterprises and Province Inc .; the Envy Gaming esports team, active in the competitive Call of Duty game since 2007 and with the Dallas Fuel Overwatch league team; Sterling.VC, of ​​New York, is a sports media company backed by Sterling Equities (owners of the New York Mets); c0ntact Gaming, who owns the Overwatch The Paris Eternal League team and the Call of Duty team based in Paris; and Toronto's OverActive Media.

"The upcoming launch of our new Call of Duty sports league reaffirms our leadership role in the development of professional sports. We have already sold Call of Duty teams in Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Paris and Toronto to existing Overwatch League team owners, and we will be announcing other owners and markets later in the year, "he said. Bobby Kotick. General Manager of Activision Blizzard. "Our owners value our global city-based business model, the success we've had with our broadcast partners, sponsors and licensees, and the passion our players have for reacting to our events. "

This announcement followed the announcement of a profit of 1.825 billion USD for the quarter, exceeding its outlook of 1.715 billion USD but slightly lower than the same period last year, when the company had reported almost 2 billion USD.

Esports and its Overwatch league, as well as the recently announced new Call of Duty urban league (including the sale of its top five teams to cities) contributed to the number better than expected.