All players & teams that won a Call of Duty World Championship

The 2025 Call of Duty League Championship Weekend is over, and OpTic Texas have made history on CoD’s biggest stage.

Champs, the end-of-year spectacle that crowns the greatest Call of Duty team in the world, has undergone several different formats and iterations over the years, but one thing has remained the same: every player in the CDL wants to get their hands on that trophy and their championship rings.

There have now been 12 crowning world championship events in Call of Duty, dating back to 2013’s Black Ops 2 when Karma, KiLLa, Parasite, and Mirx dominated the competition and became all-time CoD greats.

Fast forward to 2024, and while those players have long since retired, a new batch of players are joining the elite club following OpTic Texas’ dominant 5-1 grand finals victory over New York Subliners.

2025 was then dominated by the LA Thieves, Nadeshot’s super team custom-built for greatness. This made it all the more sweet for OpTic fans when they came back from the worst season start in the org’s history and won it all over again, cementing themselves as the only back-to-back CoD Champs winners.

All players to win a Call of Duty World Championship

30 competitors have earned a Call of Duty world championship ring, and nine legends have multiple championships to their name. Karma, Crimsix, and Clayster lead all challengers, winning three world championships each.

This list of players has already cemented their Call of Duty legacy:

1. Karma (3)
2. Crimsix (3)
3. Clayster (3)
4. Shotzzy (3)
5. ACHES (2)
6. JKap (2)
7. Apathy (2)
8. Simp (2)
9. aBeZy (2)
10. Arcitys (2)
11. Kenny (2)
12. Huke (2)
13. Dashy (2)
14. KiLLa
15. MiRx
16. TeePee
17. Crowder
18. John
19. Scump
20. FormaL
21. SiLLY
22. Prestinni
23. iLLeY
24. Cellium
25. Octane
26. Envoy
27. Drazah
28. Assault
29. SlasheR
30. Attach
31. Parasite
32. HyDra
33. Priestahh
34. KiSMET
35. Skyz
36. Pred
37. Mercules

All teams to win a Call of Duty World Championship

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There have been two dynasties in COD history, but no organization had ever won back-to-back World Championships. Until OpTic Texas did the impossible at CoD Champs 2025, that is.

ACHES, TeePee, Crimsix, alongside Clayster, and eventually Karma, formed the first dynasty in Call of Duty esports under the CompLexity and Evil Geniuses banners.

The decorated group won 13 offline tournaments in two years and recorded 16 top-four finishes. And then over a two-year time frame, OpTic Gaming, with the key figures of Scump, FormaL, and Crimsix, alongside Nadeshot (briefly) and Karma, won 18 offline tournaments and placed top four 28 times.

Despite going on dominant runs, both dynasties only won one World Championship.

This is where the Green Wall, one of the most passionate fandoms in esports, got to see OpTic Texas build a new dynasty in 2025. Despite one of the worst season starts in CoD history and a 0-18 record earlier in 2025, OpTic came back to defend their title and become the very first back-to-back winners in Call of Duty history.

Here is a year-by-year recap of every World Championship winner.

Year/Title	Team	Roster
2013 / Black Ops 2	Fariko Impact	KiLLa, MirX, Parasite, Karma
2014 / Ghosts	Complexity	Aches, TeePee, Crimsix, Karma
2015 / Advanced Warfare	Denial	Clayster, JKap, Attach, Crowder
2016 / Black Ops 3	EnVy	JKap, SlasheR, John, Apathy
2017 / Infinite Warfare	OpTic Gaming	Scump, FormaL, Crimsix, Karma
2018 / World War 2	Evil Geniuses	Aches, Apathy, SiLLy, Assault
2019 / Black Ops 4	eUnited	Clayster, Arcitys, Prestinni, Simp, aBeZy
2020 / Modern Warfare	Dallas Empire	Crimsix, Clayster, Shotzzy, Huke, iLLeY
2021 / Cold War	Atlanta FaZe	Simp, aBeZy, Arcitys, Cellium
2022 / Vanguard	LA Thieves	Envoy, Octane, Kenny, Drazah
2023 / Modern Warfare II	New York Subliners	HyDra, KiSMET, Skyz, Priestahh
2024 / Modern Warfare III	OpTic Texas	Shotzzy, Pred, Kenny, Dashy
2025 / Black Ops 6	OpTic Texas	Shotzzy, Dashy, Huke, Mercules

Who misses out?

There are not that many noticeable absences from this list, given the fact that the overwhelming majority of big names have, at some point, won a championship.

There are several top players who failed to win CoD Champs, both retired and active. The likes of Nadeshot, ZooMaa, and Gunless are all names that arguably had all the makings of world champions — be it insane individual ability, dominant teams, or even a mix of both.

There are also players like Ben ‘Bance’ Bance, Tobias ‘CleanX’ Jønsson, and Ian ‘Enable’ Wyatt who have reached the grand finals of Champs twice each without winning the big one.

Dashy was one of the most popular names that would have featured in this section, commonly regarded as one of the straightest shots in COD history, but he finally overcame that hurdle at the 2024 Championships and did it all over again in 2025.

The question now is who can write their name in the Call of Duty history books in 2026.