Call of Duty League Championship 2025 team preview: Carolina Royal Ravens

The 2024/25 Name of Obligation League (CDL) season is getting ready for its season-ending Championship Weekend occasion that can decide the champion of the Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 cycle.

Following a turbulent season, the Carolina Royal Ravens head into the occasion seeking to rekindle a number of the magic that noticed the franchise start the season contending on the prime of the league desk.

Earlier than the primary shot is fired on the digital battlefield, Esports Insider checks out the Carolina Royal Ravens because it goals to finish a turbulent season on a excessive word.

The gamers representing the Carolina Royal Ravens at Championship Weekend are as follows:

After the Royal Ravens relocated to Carolina from London in 2023, Gwinn joined the staff in November and has grow to be the longest-standing member of the franchise. Gwinn caught the eye of the CDL in June 2023, profitable the Challengers Finals beneath the OMiT banner earlier than becoming a member of the Royal Ravens for the Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare 3 season.

SlasheR is likely one of the most skilled Name of Obligation esports gamers competing within the CDL. The 2016 world champion has continued to compete on the highest stage and possesses a wealth of information that the youthful members of the staff can profit from. 

Extra expertise comes within the type of TJHaLy, a participant who has represented the likes of OpTic Gaming, Boston Breach and Las Vegas Legion over the previous eight years. 2025 marks the primary time TJHaLy has appeared at Champs since 2022, which is the proper alternative to guide the Royal Ravens to a robust finish to the season. 

The latest arrival to the Royal Ravens beginning lineup is Wrecks, one other gifted participant who has made his approach via Challengers to achieve the head of Name of Obligation esports. With expertise in scoring victories within the extremely aggressive North American area, the long run is brilliant for this sizzling prospect.

Because the relocation, Carolina has struggled to compete in opposition to the likes of OpTic Texas and Atlanta FaZe regardless of exhibiting glimpses of brilliance over the previous two years. On the opening Main of Black Ops 6, the Royal Ravens turned a nook, securing fourth seed and scoring a top-four end, the franchise’s highest placement for the reason that 2020 CDL Championship.

Momentum continued heading into Main 2, scoring the fourth seed in on-line qualification as soon as extra. Trying to construct on its fourth-place end from the earlier Main, the Royal Ravens had been swept apart by Vancouver Surge and the Los Angeles Thieves, dumping the franchise out of the event with a disappointing top-eight end. 

The early indicators of Carolina Royal Ravens cementing its place within the extremely aggressive midfield battle had been shortly diminished within the third and fourth Majors, scoring back-to-back top-12 placements to spherical off a season that started with loads of promise. Regardless of the poor finish to the common season, the Royal Ravens had managed to do sufficient to lock within the sixth seed forward of Champs. 

The opening two Majors of the season had been a style of what the Carolina Royal Ravens can obtain. Heading into Championship Weekend with a roster packed filled with potential and expertise, the franchise can spring a number of surprises in Kitchener, Canada. 

Carolina begins its Champs marketing campaign with a difficult round-one conflict in opposition to Toronto Extremely. If it might overcome the primary hurdle, a second-round match in opposition to both Atlanta or OpTic awaits. Regardless of being drawn on the tougher facet of the double-elimination bracket, the Royal Ravens may fly excessive as soon as once more with a robust exhibiting earlier than consideration turns to the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.

For a more in-depth take a look at the opposite Name of Obligation League franchises competing on the large occasion, take a look at Esports Insider’s different previews:

The Carolina Royal Ravens is owned by North American esports infrastructure firm ReKTGlobal. In 2022, the corporate was acquired by a Metaverse-focused agency, Infinite Actuality, for $470 million.

Carolina Royal Ravens solely competes within the Name of Obligation League. It’s unclear if the franchise will broaden into different esports titles sooner or later.

Carolina Royal Ravens is but to win a championship within the Name of Obligation League. The very best consequence for the franchise got here on the 2020 CDL Championship, the place the London Royal Ravens completed fourth.