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For years, Call of Duty eSports fans around the world have cast envious glances at the Counter-Strike eSports community, and the relationship it has with the game’s developer, Valve. While Valve has provided huge prize pools, regular tournaments, brilliant in-game integration for teams and tournaments such as special skins for teams and a built-in stream viewer, Call of Duty has found itself limited to one developer-funded tournament a year, with little other developer support for its eSports scene.

But that’s all about to change. Recently, CoD’s developer, Activision, finally announced its intentions to finally bring some much-craved support to the game, including a new eSports competition, the Call of Duty World League. Kicking off in December, Activision will provide a $3 million prize pool spread throughout 2016, culminating at the Call of Duty World Championships next Fall. While this is great news for fans of Call of Duty, companies already invested in the CoD scene are set to take a major hit from this change of plans—and none more so than Major League Gaming.

For close to a decade, MLG has been at the forefront of Call of Duty eSports, providing for online and live competition—it even started up its own league. The company has also provided a substantial prize pool. Since March, it has paid out $600,000 to the top teams. However, the World League seems set to freeze MLG out of major competitions and tournaments for the foreseeable future. Additionally, rival eSports producer ESL is rumoured to be the company hosting these brand-new, Activision-funded tournaments.

This will come as a huge blow to the founders of New York-based MLG, who have focused primarily on Call of Duty in the last few years. This focus is prevalent on its streaming site, MLG.tv, where CoD has been the most prominently-featured game since its inception. Since 2014, any professional Call of Duty player who hoped to compete in MLG’s Pro League was forced to stream their games on MLG.tv. This way, MLG immediately had a built-in audience for their new platform, as fans of players and teams had no other option than to tune into MLG.tv streams to see their favorite players.

MLG even managed to sign other tournament hosts like Gfinity and UMG to the platform, meaning that all major Call of Duty tournaments, whether they were hosted by MLG or not, were being streamed on MLG.tv. With the introduction of the World League, the rumored involvement of ESL, and the lack of viewership growth displayed on MLG.tv, which has seen numbers drop from 170,000 viewers in November for MLG Columbus down to 45,000 for the Gfinity Summer Masters—it appears unlikely that Activision will allow MLG to continue the stranglehold it has had on Call of Duty, and will more than likely reopen the Twitch floodgate.

A return to Twitch would make perfect sense for Activision and the future of Call of Duty. While viewership numbers decline on MLG.tv, Twitch continues to see exponential growth of the platform, and Call of Duty would surely benefit from that extra viewership. While CoD can’t realistically expect to hit a million viewers like Counter-Strike has in the past, at least, not yet, it would be able to draw viewers from the many different games and eSports tournaments hosted on Twitch, which it can’t do while being secluded on MLG.tv.

The World League transition will also leave the players in a difficult situation. Many players signed a contract with MLG when they joined MLG.tv, so a return to Twitch may prove difficult for them. Matt “NaDeSHoT” Haag stated in a Reddit AMA last week that he is under contract with MLG.tv until the end of 2016, and cannot leave the platform until then. While it is unknown who else signed a deal with MLG, any player that did sign with MLG may find themselves stuck on MLG.tv for the remainder of their contract, while the rest of the Call of Duty scene moves back to Twitch. This problem creates a lose-lose situation for MLG: it either enforces its contracts and creates animosity when Twitch CoD streamers get much higher viewership, or it lets the players leave and creates a miniature exodus from MLG.tv—a PR nightmare.

For what it’s worth, MLG have announced that it plans to bring back the MLG Pro Circuit, a series of six live events held throughout the country, in an attempt to stay relevant in the Call of Duty scene. However, it remains to be seen if six weekends a year will be enough to keep MLG.tv viable, especially if the World League is indeed streamed on Twitch. If it can’t, MLG might have to seriously rethink its long-term esports strategy.

The bottom line is that losing any significant Call of Duty content or streamers will be a huge blow to MLG. While the future of CoD on MLG remains in limbo, MLG.tv will continue to host Counter-Strike CEVO matches, and has begun to push Rocket League contentas well. Still, the signs look ominous for a platform that has struggled since its inception, and looks set to face a massive blow from the game it once promoted so readily.