Bogdan Shulzhenko    Here are your teams that will be attending ESL Pro League Season Teams going directly to Stage are the top teams in the Valve Regional Standings VRS as of January, . The remaining teams who will be starting their journey in Stage include teams in the VRS ranked th th,

Bogdan Shulzhenko    Here are your teams attending the first ESL Pro Tour Championship event of the year, Intel Extreme Masters Katowice . Each team has been invited based on the Valve Regional Standings VRS Invitation data as of January, . The highest ranked VRS teams will start the tournament...

Bogdan Shulzhenko    Following an update from Valve, the official map pool for Counter Strike will change with Train replacing Vertigo. This change will come in immediate effect within ESL tournaments, meaning the first tournament of the year, IEM Katowice , will be played with the new map pool. The new map pool...

Diogo Dias    The competitive calendar year of is soon closing its final page, Team Spirit got crowned champions of the Perfect World Shanghai Major to round out the year and we soon embark into . Today we’re announcing our event footprint and dates for calendar year , which coupled with our...

Bogdan Shulzhenko    As we get closer to , amateur teams are preparing to take their first steps in the ESEA League, and aspiring players are setting their New Year’s resolutions to become top competitors. Today, we’re sharing an update on how the ESL Challenger League ECL will adapt to meet Valve’s new...

sdeimann    We are excited to share new ESL Pro Tour updates today. This is a follow up to our previous announcement in October, where we revealed the initial details about the ESL Pro Tour in outlining our competitive calendar, announcing the departure from best of s, ESL Pro League updates and its new...

sdeimann    Following our announcement about the first set of details surrounding the ESL Pro Tour in , today we’re going to touch on how tournament seeding will work in relation to the format changes we’ve implemented for the upcoming year. For ESL Pro League we will be shaking things up with the change...

Diogo Dias    Today, we are excited to reveal the first round of details about the ESL Pro Tour in , our Counter Strike ecosystem. This will include changes to the EPT Championship and Masters events invitation process, the announcement of ticket sales for our flagship events IEM Cologne and IEM...

sdeimann    ESL Challenger League ECL Season , hosted by ESL FACEIT Group, is bringing exciting Counter Strike CS action to fans in Asia and beyond. For the first time, the top four CS teams from Asia will compete live in front of an audience on November , , in China. ESL Challenger League ...

Diogo Dias    Ahead of the next ESL Pro Tour in person event for Counter Strike, the upcoming ESL Pro League Season , we’re announcing that the use of Snap Tap, Rappy Snappy, SOCD or similar assistants that produce the same outcome will no longer be allowed. While this relates to the use during our in person...