The Name of Responsibility League has revealed the brand new location and timing of 2023’s Main 4, and it gained’t embody a dwell viewers.
Main IV will now happen on LAN in Columbus, Ohio, from April 20 to 23. The previous three weekends will include the net qualifier portion. The league will return to a dwell viewers for Main V in Toronto.
Main 4 was initially scheduled to be hosted by the New York Subliners, however the crew was compelled to again out from internet hosting the occasion for “a variety of circumstances,” leaving the league scrambling to discover a new host.
A brand new host from the league’s 12 groups was not discovered, and so the occasion will go on from a broadcast studio in Ohio. It is a loss for followers trying to attend the occasion in individual, however there’ll nonetheless be a number of extra spectator LANs all year long.
“Spoke on Main IV choices final Neighborhood Replace and recognize the endurance as we labored by way of our evaluation,” CDL commissioner Daniel Tsay said on Twitter. “We’d like to have a crowd however robust to execute in a brief period of time. Preserving the occasion on LAN was paramount.”
Tsay additionally defined the schedule change, saying the league “beforehand moved up Main 4 every week resulting from NY venue availability” and “this resulted in a two-week bye after Main 4.” With the change, the league “will return to unique schedule of two-week mid-season break and the standard one-week bye between Majors.”
A previous report said the CDL was looking for a brand new host for the Main throughout the league’s franchise organizations, together with making an attempt to have the CDL Championship Weekend hosted in Las Vegas later this 12 months.
CDL’s Main Three is at the moment ongoing, with professional CoD matches resulting from proceed tomorrow when Atlanta FaZe faces off towards the London Royal Ravens.
