COD Champs is back, and here’s how and when you can watch the biggest event of the season.
The entire Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 season in the Call of Duty League has led up to COD Champs 2025. Starting this week, the eight best teams in the league will go head-to-head in the biggest event of the season to see who has what it takes to be etched in history. And, winning $1.2 million is another small prize for the team that comes out on top. If you want to see how everything goes down at COD Champs, you need to know the schedule for the entire event and how to start watching when it begins.
You can see everything you need to know about COD Champs 2025 in the guide below.
COD Champs 2025 schedule
COD Champs officially starts on Thursday, June 26, with the first winner's bracket match between Vancouver Surge and Miami Heretics kicking off the event. The entirety of Thursday will feature all four of the first winner's bracket matches. Then, over the next two days, both winners' and elimination bracket matches will take place. Finally, on Sunday, the Grand Finals will be the only match played.
You can see the full schedule for COD Champs below:
Thursday, June 26 (Day One)
- Winner's Bracket Round 1 - Miami Heretics vs Vancouver Surge @ 3 pm ET/12 pm PT
- Winner's Bracket Round 1 - Boston Breach vs LA Thieves @ 4:30 pm ET/ 1:30 pm PT
- Winner's Bracket Round 1 - Carolina Royal Ravens vs Toronto Ultra @ 6:00 pm ET/3 pm PT
- Winner's Bracket Round 1 - OpTic Texas vs Atlanta FaZe @ 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT
Friday, June 27 (Day Two)
- Elimination Bracket Round 1 @ 3 pm ET/12 pm PT
- Elimination Bracket Round 1 @ 4:30 pm ET/ 1:30 pm PT
- Winner's Bracket Round 2 @ 6:00 pm ET/3 pm PT
- Winner's Bracket Round 2 @ 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT
Saturday, June 28 (Day Three)
- Elimination Bracket Round 2 @ 3 pm ET/12 pm PT
- Elimination Bracket Round 2 @ 4:30 pm ET/ 1:30 pm PT
- Winner's Bracket Finals @ 6:00 pm ET/3 pm PT
- Elimination Bracket Round 3 @ 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT
- Elimination Bracket Finals @ 9 pm ET/7:30 pm PT
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Sunday, June 29 (Day Four)
- Grand Finals @ 3 pm ET/12 pm PT
While this schedule is official, you don't want to go by the exact times that we have listed. Depending on how long matches go, technical difficulties, and other possible delays, some matches could start far later or earlier than their listed times.
How to watch COD Champs 2025
Now that we've covered the schedule, how do you tune into the event when it begins on June 26? The main way to watch COD Champs 2025 is by going to the official COD League YouTube channel, which will begin broadcasting around 30 minutes before the first match on each day.
The COD League channel will also showcase some matches from COD Challengers, which has a simultaneous Champs event going on as well. If you want to solely watch COD Challengers Champs, then you can go to the official Challengers YouTube channel.
For fans who want some extra personality on their chosen broadcast, you can opt to tune into several different watch parties for Champs. The OpTic Watch Party (via Scump, Methodz, and BoZe), The Flank (via ZooMaa, Octane, Parasite, BenJNissim), and GGBreakingPoint will all do watch parties live from the event and offer deeper insight from former players and COD personalities. All of those watch parties can be found at the respective YouTube channels for the watch party members.
EsportsGG will be recapping each day of Champs and releasing other guides that go over betting odds, so stay tuned for all of that coverage as it happens throughout the week.
