LOS ANGELES - September 4, 2011
West, who was joined several times throughout the show by 20
scantily clad female dancers, kicked off the Saturday spectacle by
ascending more than five stories above the crowd on a platform
inside the cavernous space. Earlier, the hangar stage served as the
final battleground for a "Call of Duty" tournament that awarded
$1 million in prize money.
The four-man group Optic Gaming from the United States toppled
31 other teams from across the globe to win the event's
single-elimination "Modern Warfare 3" tournament. William
"BigTymer" Johnson, Blake "Vengeance2T" Campbell, Joseph "Merc
SD" DeLuca and Matthew "NaDeSHoT" Haag bested the United Kingdom
team Til Infinity to take home the $400,000 grand prize.
"This is definitely the most that we've ever won," said
Johnson, 20, of Marked Tree, Ark.
"Call of Duty" devotees lined up at the extravaganza for a
chance to play the multiplayer mode of "Modern Warfare 3," spar
on paintball fields modeled after "Modern Warfare 2" levels,
glide over the event on a zipline, zoom around an obstacle course
in a Jeep and grab grub from an eatery resembling the game's
fictitious Burger Town fast food chain.
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