TLDR: Telluride Bush Gaming's second season of Call of Duty, on Modern Warfare 4, with Aspekt, 5SkiL, Exceed and JohnnyGian, coached by Cheen. So far: Monster Launch Invitational 2027 (9th–12th), $1,000 won. Next: Challengers Cup 1, Nov 14–15.
Telluride Bush Gaming is Barstool Sports’ Call of Duty team. They play Challengers, the open tier under the 12-team Call of Duty League, where any team can enter the weekly Cups and the best earn their way to the bigger events. In their first year Bush won 8 tournaments and $132,000.
This season Challengers also feeds the league itself: Challengers teams play CDL teams in the Kickoff Classic, two Majors and three Minors, and Bush already have one win over a league team. Here is their season so far, and every event still to come, from Bush’s side. The whole pro season, from the league’s side, is the Pro CoD 2027 Guide.
01Aug. 2Last season8 titles · $132,000
03Oct. 20Roster
05Oct. 21Staff
06Oct. 26Roster
07Oct. 26ResultWon
08Nov. 3Result3-0 in pool play
09Nov. 6ResultOut in Group C
Coming up
12Nov. 14–15Challengers
Bush's first Cup of the year, and their first shot at the league: finish in North America's top two and they play the 12 CDL teams in the Kickoff Classic.
Online, North America · $2,500 pool
13Nov. 21–22Challengers
The second way into the Kickoff Classic: if Cup 1 doesn't do it, a top-two North American finish here does.
Online, North America · $2,500 pool
14Dec. 4–13CDL
Bush are in it only if they finish top two in North America at Cup 1 or Cup 2. Four Challengers teams play the 12 league teams online, the same shot Bush took at the Launch Invitational.
Online
15Dec. 5–6Challengers
Another open Cup and more CDC points, played the Kickoff Classic's first weekend.
Online, North America · $2,500 pool
16Dec. 12–13Challengers
The last Cup of 2026, the Kickoff Classic's second weekend.
Online, North America · $2,500 pool
17Feb. 12–14, 2027CDL
League teams only. Bush's former players are in it: four at G2 Minnesota, Owakening at Carolina Royal Ravens and Cammy at Cloud9 New York.
Europe
18April 2–4, 2027CDL
A LAN Pro-Am in Birmingham: the top four Challengers teams play the main event against the league, Bush's biggest stage of the year if they're among them.
Birmingham, United Kingdom
19May 20–23, 2027CDL
League teams only, hosted by Toronto KOI, the team that loaned Bush Abe last season.
Toronto, Canada
20June 18–20, 2027CDL
The season's second LAN Pro-Am, and another way for Bush into a league event.
US West Coast
21July 8–11, 2027CDL
League teams only: Champs crowns the CDL's season, hosted by OpTic Texas.
Hosted by OpTic Texas
No date setCDL
North American Challengers teams play their way into all three, so each is a chance for Bush to play CDL teams again.
No date setChallengers
The end of the Challengers season, $60,000 to the winner, and the event Bush's year builds to.
Bush’s second year is played on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, Infinity Ward’s game, released October 23, 2026. Like every pro team they play it four on four, and every series is a best of 5 across three modes.
Hardpoint is a moving hill: one zone at a time, points for every second a team holds it alone.
Search and Destroy is rounds with no respawns: one side plants a bomb, the other defends or defuses it.
Hijack is new in Modern Warfare 4: one Data Spike in the middle of the map, both teams fighting for it, and points for as long as it sits planted on the other side’s Comm Station.
Bush’s first event of the year, the Monster Launch Invitational, was played on these eight.
LotusHardpoint · Search and Destroy · Hijack
MunitionHardpoint · Search and Destroy · Hijack
LithiumHardpoint · Hijack
Reactor U92Hardpoint · Search and Destroy
RooftopsHardpoint · Search and Destroy
SentryHardpoint
CoalSearch and Destroy
SilkwormSearch and DestroyMore games against the league. The Kickoff Classic takes four North American Challengers teams off Cups 1 and 2, Major II in Birmingham and Major IV on the US West Coast are LAN Pro-Ams, and North American Challengers teams play their way into three online Minors.
A new four. Aspekt, 5SkiL, Exceed and JohnnyGian joined on October 19, with Cheen as coach. Bush beat 
Vancouver Surge at the Launch Invitational, the org’s first win over a league team.
A second team. The org launched Bush B, coached by SweggyCOD, in October.
Challengers Cups are open online events on FACEIT: a single-elimination day down to eight, then a double-elimination top 8. Every finish down to the top 64 earns CDC points, and the points decide who plays the bigger events.
Challengers Elite is the online stage for the top teams, Challengers Opens are the LAN events, and the season ends at the Challengers Finals. That is the ladder Bush climb, alongside the Pro-Ams against the league.
What each Challengers event pays its top two, and the winner’s points. Every place’s money and points are on the CDC standings page.
| Event | 1st | 2nd | Points to win |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cup | $2,000 | $500 | 2,000 |
| Elite | $12,000 | $8,000 | 15,000 |
| Open | $30,000 | $18,000 | 25,000 |
| Finals | $60,000 | $36,000 | – |
The CDC points table starts after Challengers Cup 1. The whole table is on the CDC standings page.
Aspekt
5SkiL
Exceed
JohnnyGianAspekt, 5SkiL, Exceed and JohnnyGian joined on October 19. Cheen (coach), Rayless (head analyst) and Jace (general manager) run the team, and Jersey Jerry, Lil Sas and Mook own it. The org also runs a second team, Bush B, coached by SweggyCOD. Every player, every bracket and every story are on the Telluride Bush Gaming page.
6 former Bush players start this season on Call of Duty League rosters: Abe, Prolute, Spart and TJHaLy at 
G2 Minnesota; Owakening at 
Carolina Royal Ravens; Cammy at 
Cloud9 New York. Abe played for Bush on loan from 
Toronto KOI.
