ESEA S15 with over $90,000 in prizes

13-8-2013 07:53

With ESEA Invite Season 14 Global Finals set to begin on Friday, ESEA has wasted no time in announcing an even larger fifteenth season featuring over $90,000 in prizes.

For the most part ESEA will be continuing as with their old plans as the same divisions will remain for CS:GO with a similar amount of money, although Team Fortress 2 gets two new divisions.

This means ESEA will continue with its global league into a third consecutive season, with the finals expected to take place later in the year when the price of travel will be lower than in the summer season.

ESEA trucking onto its fifteenth season

For Europe that means the continued support for both Open and Intermediate divisions of CS:GO, as well as the global Invite division, despite teams pulling out of season 14's finals.

Registration is also now open here for ESEA Season 15 and will remain so for over a month. Deadline is set for Tuesday, September 17th at 07:00 . The season is scheduled to start on Sunday, September 22nd.

woot! Good News

2013-08-13 07:55

S1Ck

2013-08-13 07:53

today was a good day. Already.

WOW :D

2013-08-13 07:57

news about this? puu.sh/40FgE.jpg

2013-08-13 07:58

5 replies

HAHAHA that fucking sucks balls. *special item*

2013-08-13 15:17

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If that is what it takes to make bigger lans and a bigger community I don't mind. You can probably turn this off in classic competitive aswell.

2013-08-13 15:19

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lol'd

2013-08-13 15:24

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Why?

2013-08-13 15:27

D: Those knives remind me of CSO

2013-08-13 17:13

Let's hope they'll change their mind and let VG, LDLC and the other qualified who couldn't come because of the price participate this one.

2013-08-13 07:59

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They coulndt attend because of the tickets were too expensive ESEA didnt have anything to do with it ?

2013-08-13 08:08

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They hosted the finals at a ridiculous time of year. It wasnt worth anyones time going due to travel expenses.

2013-08-13 08:12

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2013-08-13 08:16

I agree with that but i dont understand what Foumo was saying i think he is saying the prizemoney is low i dont really get it.

2013-08-13 08:25

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They aren't allowed to participate in next season since they didn't go

2013-08-13 10:15

Saying they couldn't go because the price of travel was too high.

2013-08-13 13:31

He didn't say anything about the prizepool.

2013-08-13 16:22

This is not what i meant ;) Because they will not attend current season's final they should be out of the next one ( according to ESEA rules ). I just hope they be smart and forget about this.

2013-08-13 18:20

HMM so 90k for cs:go or what?

2013-08-13 08:05

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Seeing as esea only supports cs i would think so ^-^

2013-08-13 08:19

although Team Fortress 2 gets two new divisions.

2013-08-13 08:50

I dont believe there is a tournament going on for tf2 right now

2013-08-13 09:07

read the post.. it says that

2013-08-13 09:16

ESEA will still run an Open division in NA for 1.6 and CS:S in NA, a main-open division for TF2 and CS:GO in NA and a intermediate-open division and now a TF2 Open division in Europe as well as the Global CS:GO league.

2013-08-13 11:41

ye so its not 90k for cs:go

2013-08-13 11:43

LOL do you really think that they would put 90k only in one game? What drugs are you into?

2013-08-13 11:48

$63k into CS:GO last season.

2013-08-13 12:36

:o Gimme link please (I'm serious and not in the mood to flame or troll. Just curiosity.)

2013-08-13 12:38

play.esea.net/index.php?s=content&d=leag.. scroll down to "prizes"

2013-08-13 13:05

Thanks for the info.

2013-08-13 13:15

dont delete my post

2013-08-13 08:06

*delete*

Is CS:GO dead haters ?

2013-08-13 08:10

Did any 'journalists' follow up on ESEA to make sure they followed through with their promises of a charity donation from the bit coins scandal? It was supposed to be something like $3K...

2013-08-13 08:09

They did :)

2013-08-13 08:21

good to hear

2013-08-13 09:18

$7,427.10

2013-08-13 09:58

Niceeeeeeeeeeeee! CSGO GOES HUUUUGEEEEEEE!

2013-08-13 09:10

esea doin great

2013-08-13 09:13

wow ;o

2013-08-13 09:15

90,000$ w0w

2013-08-13 09:20

Need some competent admins thats for sure before i think most will sign up again :) I wouldn't have a cheating team in my IM semifinals.. or well, maybe its just me!

2013-08-13 09:23

Damn NiP will be rich :D

2013-08-13 09:26

youtube.com/watch?v=w8A4CoKiAsc

2013-08-13 09:34

nice but where csgo intermediate & epen league playoffs coverage?!

2013-08-13 10:00

No one cares about open/im

2013-08-13 18:37

Decent money, pretty cool that only 1 european team this year most likely. Nice!

2013-08-13 10:02

NA > EU

2013-08-13 10:03

oh not again...

2013-08-13 14:58

<3 Team Fortress 2!

2013-08-13 10:14

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2013-08-13 11:56

PISS

2013-08-13 10:43

nice, sadly nearest season will be booring

2013-08-13 10:45

doubt it :-)

NiP in -> boring NiP out -> exciting I thought that you would be able to notice that by now .__.

2013-08-13 12:41

1.6?

2013-08-13 12:11

In North America. We tried running 1.6 in EU in season 13 and got less than 10 teams signed up :/

2013-08-13 12:26

sorry noob question: can SouthEastAsian team participate?

2013-08-13 12:27

Yes, but you would play on monstrously high pings.

2013-08-13 12:33

300/400 with their best net providers at max.

'OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH'

2013-08-13 12:29

esea takin over

2013-08-13 12:39

esea deadedd

NiP is going to be rich :DDD edit: verry rich ^^

2013-08-13 13:10

Getting better

2013-08-13 13:28

even more money for nip in next season

2013-08-13 13:35

Looking good, hopefully more eu teams next year will have the funds to go! I would start saving for this lan all year round, since it's the biggest go tourney at the mo and I think teams or orgs should do the same, we need more eu teams there and south american teams.

2013-08-13 14:08

wadap now 1.6 forever fanboys

2013-08-13 14:41

stfu?

2013-08-13 18:17

2013-08-15 18:17

Still no one really cares except NiP and NA teams 8000$ is too low for the 2nd place

2013-08-13 17:57

$90,000 only for CS:GO or for CS:GO + other games?

2013-08-13 15:58

90,000 total spread across all games and all divisions

2013-08-13 16:45

crazy prizes

2013-08-13 16:23

Sorry for the lengthy post in advance. I don't agree with the prize breakdown of the divisions. In my opinion, last place in Invite should be more than first place in any lower division. Looking at this strictly from a NA perspective, there's only a couple of teams that are sponsored and can even attend international events. So the rest of the teams in Invite (most of which disband over the season) are basically just playing in that division because they're better than the teams in the lower divisions and there's a slight chance to attend the LAN and win some money. I feel like very few teams nowadays play for the pride, satisfaction, and recognition of being a top team like back in the day, but instead focus on the money aspect. That being said, if I'm an invite team that isn't one of the two with decent sponsors, and I'm looking at the prize breakdown, I'm questioning why I should play in Invite and not a lower division. In Invite, I need to finish in the top 4 in NA to attend the LAN, which I have to pay travel etc to attend, to win at least $1,000 (considering European teams attend, you're realistically looking at 5th-8th place). Or I could just play in Main division with less skilled competition, online playoffs so I'm not spending money to attend the LAN, and 1st place is $1,800..2nd place is $1,200. Hell, 1st for Intermediate is $1,200 and 1st for Open is only $100 less than 7th-8th for Invite. If you're good enough to be in the top 4 in invite, then you should easily be able to win the other divisions. And if you don't expect to be a top 4 team in Invite, why bother playing in that division when you're not guaranteed any money and you have a better chance to win some in other divisions. I just don't see the incentive of playing in Invite the way the prize breakdown is currently. Granted, you're playing against more skilled opponents in Invite, but there are so few really good teams it isn't like you won't be able to practice against them because you're a Main team. It seems you risk losing money by playing in Invite than staying in Main. But again, this is just my opinion and looking at the money aspect of it. TL;DR - I think the prize breakdown sucks and last place for Invite should be more than 1st place in the lower divisions, otherwise there's no real incentive to play in the Invite division.

2013-08-13 18:32