Boston Breach Finish Top 4 at Major III, Academy Finishes Top 3 at Challengers
The Boston Breach reached the final day of a Major for the first time in the 2022-23 Call of Duty League season, finishing top 4 at Major III at Esports Stadium in Arlington, Texas.
This comes off the momentum they’d built coming out of the historic Major II they hosted at MGM Music Hall at Fenway. The Breach had a strong showing in qualifiers, earning the No. 2 seed after beating Los Angeles Thieves in the final weekend.
They kicked off the Major with a surprising sweep of OpTic Texas in front of its hometown crowd. In his first match in a Major as a Breach starter, Beans tied a league record with 17 kills in a Search & Destroy round, helping to deliver the 3-0 win.
The team then faced Toronto Ultra in the next round of the Winners Bracket and lost, but bounced back with a 3-0 sweep of Vegas Legion to move to Championship Sunday. The win included handing Legion their first S&D loss at Fortress of the season.
OpTic got its revenge in Round 3 of the Losers Bracket, ousting Boston 3-1 after the Breach tied it with a strong S&D in the second game.
Elsewhere, Boston Breach’s Academy foursome of Censor, Seany, Kremp and Pentagram, had an impressive showing in the 64-team field of the Major’s coinciding Challengers event, finishing top 3.
The Academy’s campaign included a thrilling 3-2 win over Los Angeles Guerrillas Academy to clinch a top-4 finish. The battle was highlighted by a particularly strong showing in Search & Destroy that improved them to 12-1 in that game on the season.