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The mid-tier Florida Mutineers have defeated the top-ranked Atlanta FaZe in the last game of Finals Sunday in the Call of Duty League two weeks in a row. 

In the standings and by the eye test, FaZe has been the best team in the league all season. Florida, meanwhile, has been an inconsistent roster forced to pick up unheralded free agents for their starting lineup twice in the past few months. 

Last week, Florida's rookie, Owakening, debuted and led the team to a Finals win that brought them to fourth in the CDL's standings. This week, Owakening and their March pickup, fero, helped fuel the team‘s second consecutive Home Series championship—this time pushing the Mutineers up to second in the CDL standings.

Florida dropped the biggest Domination blowout in CDL history and became the first team to win three Home Series Finals, here's how the weekend shook out.

Group Play

Friday, June 19

Florida Mutineers 3 – 0 Paris Legion

Dallas Empire 3 – 2 London Royal Ravens

OpTic Gaming Los Angeles 1 – 3 New York Subliners

Toronto Ultra 2 – 3 Atlanta FaZe

Saturday, June 20

Atlanta FaZe 3 – 2 New York Subliners

Dallas Empire 1 – 3 Florida Mutineers

Toronto Ultra 3 – 0 OpTic Gaming Los Angeles

London Royal Ravens 3 – 1 Paris Legion

Toronto Ultra 1 – 3 New York Subliners

London Royal Ravens 0 – 3 Dallas Empire

Finals Bracket

Sunday, June 21 

New York Subliners 2 – 3 Florida Mutineers

Dallas Empire 2 – 3 Atlanta FaZe

Atlanta FaZe 0 – 3 Florida Mutineers

Full schedule and standings available here.

Group Play: Pummeling Paris, Dominating Dallas

In Group Play, Florida drubbed the bottom-feeding Legion 3-0 and proved that was no fluke with an easy 3-1 over one of the league's most impressive teams, the Empire. While Dallas is best known for its SMG players, iLLeY and Shotzzy, Owakening clinical aggression on his own MP5 absolutely broke them apart with four of the six kills needed for a Search and Destroy win.

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Dismantled: @Mutineers keep the ball rolling with the 6-1 S&D victory over the @DallasEmpire

Florida 2-0 up into Domination: https://t.co/9QPotUIiOa

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Not to be outdone, fero dropped a highlight play of his own on Hardpoint—snagging a four-piece with his MP5 while maneuvering around the map like a spider on its web.

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Finals Sunday: Surviving the Subliners, Finishing FaZe

New York has been one of the league's most improved teams over the past month or so and proved it by going up 2-0 against Florida. But the Mutineers held on, extended the series with smart, cohesive play in Domination and then pulled off the reverse sweep.

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Down to the wire: Florida @Mutineers extend the series with the 153-146 Domination win.

New York @Subliners still up 2-1 going into the second Hardpoint: https://t.co/yZsmfZjEUg

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As devastating as that must have been for the Subliners, they at least put up a fight. The same can't be said for FaZe, who succumbed to Florida in three quick maps—the third being an unprecedented 235-70 victory on Domination. This time, fero's absurd 2.6 K/D was complemented by season-long starter Skyz, who put up a blistering 2.4 himself (for context, FaZe's top K/D was 0.9). 

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@Mutineers dominate @ATLFaZe 3-0 and are your #CDL2020 Paris Home Series Champions!

Congrats to @CesarSkyz, @FrostyBB, @ColtHavok, @f3rocitys, @Owakening, and coach @RickyAtura!

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The broadcast team didn't even show the final seconds of the match, opting to look at one of the map's drifting boats instead. Now, Florida sails toward higher seeding for August's $4.2 million CDL Championship tournament while Atlanta determines if they need to take a cue from the winners and adjust their crew.

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The Florida Mutineers came into the Minnesota Rokkr Home Series with a free agent replacing one of their starters for the second time in just a few months. The Atlanta FaZe came into the weekend running the same lineup that has widely reigned as the Call of Duty League's best, with 15 wins to just two losses. 

The FaZe head into next week with a third loss and the Mutineers with a new starting spot cemented, as Owakening helped his team beat the CDL's three top-ranked teams, Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas, in his CDL debut.

Both teams faced adversity in their road to Championship Sunday. The Mutineers needed to outduel the Chicago Huntsmen 3-2 and an upsurging Los Angeles Guerrillas 3-1, while the FaZe had to pull off two reverse-sweeps, against the Seattle Surge and Dallas Empire, to secure their place in the finals bracket. 

Group Play

Friday, June 12

Toronto Ultra 2 – 3 Los Angeles Guerrillas

Atlanta FaZe 3 – 2 Seattle Surge

Florida Mutineers 3 – 2 Chicago Huntsmen

Dallas Empire 3 – 1 Minnesota Rokkr

Saturday, June 13

Florida Mutineers 3 – 1 Los Angeles Guerrillas

Dallas Empire 2 – 3 Atlanta FaZe

Chicago Huntsmen 3 – 0 Toronto Ultra

Minnesota Rokkr 2 – 3 Seattle Surge

Chicago Huntsmen 2 – 3 Los Angeles Guerrillas

Seattle Surge 0 – 3 Dallas Empire

Finals Bracket

Sunday, June 14 

Los Angeles Guerrillas 2 – 3 Atlanta FaZe

Florida Mutineers 3 – 2 Dallas Empire

Florida Mutineers 3 – 1 Atlanta FaZe

Full schedule and standings available here.

Florida's team character inherently changed when fero replaced Prestinni, who left the team for personal reasons, in March. Following disappointing performances from Maux, the team shifted once again—this time with Owakening joining the fold.

And the midseason rookie made his mark, taking his MP5 out on a nice dinner date and chowing down with a quick four-piece against the Empire in the weekend's semifinals.

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But it was longtime starter Skyz who had the performance of the day—rattling off 13 straight kills while earning a near-100-point lead over the Empire on Hardpoint. Swapping between his M4A1 and MP5, Skyz obliterated the formerly 15-7 Empire, helping set his team up for a championship match against the league's most intimidating roster.

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13-0!

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All season, the FaZe have dictated the Call of Duty's meta by playing quickly, aggressively and relentlessly—forcing players to settle on Gentleman's Agreements not to run mobility techs like the Auto Tac Sprint and hipfire-enabling attachments like the Merc Foregrip. Even with those banned by players (and Merc Foregrip now being officialized by the CDL), Atlanta's fast-paced MP5 usage (along with Simp's sniping prowess on Search and Destroy) has set the tone in win after win.

But Florida shut that down in dominant fashion, playing a consistent team-based game with its players comfortably switching between the M4A1 and MP5 while keeping pressure without overextending. It is only fitting that there was no clear individual highlight from their obliteration of Atlanta, but instead one spree in which the kill feed was all Mutineers.

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A 🔥 is ignited on the Florida @Mutineers with a commanding 45-point Domination win.

@ATLFaZe trailing 1-2 in the finals going into second Hardpoint: https://t.co/6Qg7vxuOH8

#FearTheDeep | #CDL2020 https://t.co/L7MNfZAdpr

Now, Florida sits at fourth in the league's standings with 13 wins, eight losses and 150 CDL Points (50 behind Atlanta, 40 behind Chicago and 20 behind Dallas). If they can continue to build on this weekend's chemistry, then they have a strong shot to come away with a large chunk of the CDL Championship, an August double-elimination playoffs that will award $4.2 million in total, with a fat $2 million going to the first-place squad.

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