FaZe Vegas top G2 Minnesota 3-1 at Call of Duty championship

FaZe Vegas beat G2 Minnesota 3-1 in the Call of Duty League Championship 2026 playoffs, and the result carried extra weight because the championship stage was set in Las Vegas. The league marked the series FINAL on Thursday, July 16, 2026, at 3:00 PM PST, and the match page also posted a VOD for anyone who wants to run it back.

FaZe Vegas set the tone right away on Hardpoint at Den, winning the opener 250-187. That early control mattered in a best-of-five built for pressure, and it gave the host-city side the kind of start that can feed a live crowd and settle a roster into the series before the bracket gets messy.

The detail page for the matchup showed the series running across multiple championship modes and maps, with Hardpoint on Blackheart, Search & Destroy on Scar, Overload on Den and Hardpoint on Colossus also listed in the match record. That kind of spread is exactly what makes Championship Weekend different from a normal league date, because every respawn and every search round can swing the mood in the building.

G2 Minnesota came into the final with a 27-29 series record and a 110-108 map record, so taking one map was not going to be enough to survive a stage this tight. FaZe Vegas had already shown they could cleanly close out a set earlier in the season, when they beat Carolina Royal Ravens 3-0 on June 21 during Major 4 qualifiers. The two sides had also met in Major II qualifiers on Feb. 23, giving this championship meeting a bit of season-long history behind it.

The 3-1 finish says FaZe Vegas handled the key moments better once the series got underway. G2 Minnesota found a way to steal a map, but FaZe Vegas never let the match drift into a fifth-map scramble, which is often where championship runs get decided. In Las Vegas, with the home-crowd energy baked into every map win, FaZe Vegas delivered the kind of result that keeps a bracket run alive and gives the local crowd something real to rally around.