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The biggest event of the Call of Duty competitive season, Call of Duty XP, is nearly upon us. Starting September 1, 32 teams from across the globe will compete for a chunk of the record-breaking $2 million prize pool, as well as the right to be named Call of Duty World Champions.In order to win the coveted prizes, teams must first survive a best-of-five, round-robin gauntlet against their respective group opponents, with the top two teams from each group advancing to the double-elimination knockout portion of the bracket.After going over who will advance out of Groups A-D, lets break down who will make it out of Groups E-H.Group ETeams: FaZe Clan, Team eLevate, Most Wanted, Giants GamingAdvancing: FaZe Clan and Team eLevateFor all the success FaZe Clan had in last years Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, it certainly hasnt translated to the newest iteration of the game. The unit led by James Clayster Eubanks hasnt been able to crack the upper echelon of the North American scene, despite playing together all year. Fourth-place finishes at both MLG Anaheim and MLG Orlando have helped ease unrest among fans, but its fair to wonder whether another disappointing finish, this time at Call of Duty XP, could destabilize the team entirely. FaZe Clan should easily advance to the knockout portion of the event, and likely should be playing deep into the weekend, considering the level of talent on the roster. But unlike last year, FaZe Clan enters the big event in a muddled situation, and could be one poor performance away from roster upheaval.While Team eLevate failed to make the Stage 2 playoffs, their second-place finish during MLG Anaheim and top-three finish at MLG Orlando has seemingly elevated them into North Americas elite. Considering eLevate sports three players who competed in the Call of Duty World Championship finals last year, namely Ulysses Aqua Silva, Brice Faccento Faccento and Jared Nagafen Harrell, another run at the finals wouldnt come as a surprise to anyone. Considering the teams success in recent LAN tournaments, eLevate, who earned its spot through online qualifiers, could be a dark horse candidate at CoD XP.Group FTeams: Team Infused, Team Kaliber, Lethal Gaming, Tainted MindsAdvancing: Team Infused and Team KaliberAs one of the top teams in the European region, Infused should be handle its opposition in Group F fairly easily. Despite a ninth-12th place finish at MLG Orlando, Infused have seemingly always fared well during the group stage portion of events, posting a combined 6-0 record during the aforementioned MLG Orlando and MLG Anaheim group stage. Its been the lackluster play during elimination rounds that has doomed Infused, a problem that has reared its ugly head on many occasions this season. While a team like Tainted Minds or Team Kaliber could give Infused all they can handle, it would be shock to see one of the top European teams in the world fail to advance to the knockout portion of Call of Duty XP.Speaking of Team Kaliber, the group led by Dylan Theory McGee suffered through a rather pedestrian second half of the season, as the team was relegated from the CWL after Stage 1. Team Kaliber brought onboard Coleman ColeChan Chancey and Nicholas Happy Suda to bolster the roster at MLG Orlando, to mixed results. Placed in arguably one of the most difficult groups of the tournament, Kaliber didnt take a game off either Luminosity Gaming or OpTic Gaming, but performed admirably during both series. If Kaliber can put together that same type of play during CoD XP, they might be able to stave off Tainted Minds, one of the top-tier teams from the Australia/New Zealand region.Group GTeams: Team EnVyUs, Team Orbit ANZ, Cloud9, Team VitalityAdvancing: Team EnVyUs and Cloud9As one of the best teams in all of Call of Duty, Team EnVyUs should need no introduction. Some may have questioned the teams first place finish in the Stage 2 playoffs because they didnt have to face off against some of North Americas top teams; however, they also proved themselves at MLG Orlando with another deep run. While EnVyUs lost to OpTic Gaming in the finals, they did reset the bracket before falling to them in the second and final series of the tournament. Led by 2015 World Champion Jordan Jkap Kaplan, EnVyUs will look for a shot at redemption and likely should be considered a contender to win the entire event.Cloud9, on the other hand, will need to fight in order to make it out of Group G. Led by former Team EnVyUs slayer Patrick ACHES Price, the new-look Cloud9 roster advanced into CoD XP on the heels of a solid run through the North American online qualifiers. While the team is jam-packed with capable CWL pros, like Adam Assault Garcia and Andres Lacefield Lacefield, the rag-tag group of players hasnt had much time to practice with one another, leaving them vulnerable to an upset. If the team can gel, they should be able to surpass a talented Team Orbit ANZ en route to the knockout stages.Group HTeams: OpTic Gaming, compLexity Gaming, PNDA Gaming, Team LDLCAdvancing: OpTic Gaming and compLexity GamingOpTic Gaming enter Call of Duty XP as the prohibitive favorites to win the entire event, as the teams reign throughout Call of Duty: Black Ops III has been nothing short of dominant. An opening round loss to Luminosity Gaming in the Stage 2 playoffs only seemed to reenergize the squad, as OpTic Gaming went on to win MLG Orlando, losing just one series the entire tournament. However, any talk about winning CoD XP must first be prefaced with the fact that OpTic Gaming have never won the World Championship before, finishing in third-place in 2013 and 2014, and a disappointing seventh place finish in 2015. While the Green Wall should be contenders heading into the weekend, history has shown us that anything can happen when it comes to OpTic Gaming at the World Championship.As another team to reconfigure its roster prior to the North American online qualifiers, compLexity Gaming enter CoD XP with an interesting roster comprised of Colt Havok McLendon, Devin Llama Tran, Mike Swarley and the mercurial Christopher Parasite Duarte. While the focus will be, deservedly so, on Parasite, who announced his retirement late in July only to come back to play one week later at MLG Orlando, the real player to watch out for may very well be Havok. The versatile Havok posted a 1.12 KD during Stage 2 with Cloud9, tying for fifth overall in the North American region, and provides option value for compLexity because he is capable of slaying or sniping. If the team can gel and fight through the inevitable stress and frustrations that come with participating in the biggest Call of Duty event of the year, compLexity Gaming should find themselves competing in the knockout stages of the event.Cheap Adidas NHL Jerseys . Kiriasis and brakeman Franziska Fritz finished two runs in one minute 55.41 seconds -- a mere 0.01 seconds ahead of Meyers and Lolo Jones, who likely bolstered her Olympic hopes by helping give USA-1 a huge push in the second heat. Discount NHL Jerseys . 9. 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Will Power won three of them, the last being 500 miles at Pocono on Monday after a one-day rain delay.Since the Texas race was red-flagged on June 12 -- and technically still is -- the NHLs Pittsburgh Penguins won their fourth Stanley Cup, and LeBron James led the Cavaliers to an NBA title that ended Clevelands 52-year major title drought.Among other sports headlines in that span, Andy Murray and Serena Williams added Grand Slam titles by winning at Wimbledon, three major champions were crowned in golf, and Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Michael Phelps won more gold medals at the Olympics in Rio this month.Its unique in that James Hinchcliffe has been leading for 2 1/2 months, and surely hes got to go to the bathroom before we get started here, speedway President Eddie Gossage said with a smile.Its been fun. Theres been a lot of interesting chatter on Twitter, and certainly Eddie reminding people every other day that Im still leading, Hinchliffe said. Hopefully, he can be telling people every other day that we won the race.Hinchcliffe, the Indianapolis 500 polesitter who led 27 laps before finishing seventh there in May, hasnt led another lap since leaving Texas.The last time an IndyCar race started and resumed another day was at Brazil in 2011, but that was only 24 hours. After the first 14 laps and a 2 1/2-hour rain delay there, the final 41 laps were completed the nexxt day with polesitter Power winning.dddddddddddd.Its unlike anything weve done before as far as rainouts go, Power said about going back to Texas, where he will resume running fourth.Unlike the quick resumption in Brazil five years ago, IndyCar drivers are returning to Texas 11 weeks later and will have only a 10-minute practice session before starting to race again.Only 71 of the scheduled 248 laps were completed in June , when the Firestone 600 was initially postponed from Saturday night without the cars ever making it to the starting grid. After the race started 40 minutes late Sunday and then the rain returned, the decision for an unprecedented months-long delay was made since there was more wet weather in the immediate forecast.Heavy rain fell for several hours after the cars came off the track 54 laps shy of what was needed to make it an official race. There were indeed more downpours the following day.Since IndyCar rules dont allow for starting over a race that has already taken the green flag, the only choice was to resume the race from where it was stopped.Hinchcliffe took the lead for the first time on lap 41, the last green-flag lap counted before a hard crash involving Josef Newgarden and Conor Daly, who wont be allowed to resume this weekend. Newgarden sustained a broken collarbone and small fracture in his hand, but won a month later at Iowa.There were 30 laps run under caution while track officials worked to repair the damaged safety barrier, and that work was still being done along the frontstretch when the rain started falling again.Ill be perfect honestly, I tried to convince IndyCar to restart the race, as did several drivers, but their rulebook says what it says and I cant fault them for that, Gossage said. Its just one of those unfortunate things ... who would think its going to rain, and rain for days and we knew we couldnt do it. ' ' '