ESL returns to the UK

19-8-2013 20:27

The Electronic Sports League has returned to the United Kingdom with a CS:GO tournament that will hand out SteelSeries hardware.

After a period in which the UK section was largely overlooked, the ESL has decided to bet strongly on this region, and until the end of the year there will be several tournaments being held on multiple platforms with a view to boosting the UK's competitive scene.

It is still unclear whether an EPS season is on the horizon, but HLTV.org knows that the ESL has big plans for the UK when it comes to CS:GO.

To celebrate the ESL's return to the UK, there will be an open online CS:GO tournament, called the A-Series Challenge, kicking off on August 26th, with SteelSeries prizes up for grabs.

The prize distribution for this tournament is the following:

1. 5x SteelSeries Kana
2. SteelSeries Headset Bundle
3. SteelSeries QCK Bundle

To sign up for the Open A-Series Challenge, head over to the ESL's website.

nice

2013-08-19 20:28

ESEA > ESL

2013-08-19 20:28

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Lol. Never in a million years.

2013-08-19 20:46

Haha, look the prize for ESL ^^

2013-08-19 20:54

nice.

2013-08-19 20:29

UK has a lot of good players, hope this helps getting them together in some decent teams...

2013-08-19 20:30

2 replies

You're proppa havin' a wee giggle like, brits a shit.

2013-08-19 22:27

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true story :D

2013-08-21 05:03

prize lol

2013-08-19 20:30

HUGE!

2013-08-19 20:31

Come back for this RattlesnK!

2013-08-19 20:31

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ROFL :D

2013-08-19 23:52

ESL.....some1 behind ESL who putted money

2013-08-19 20:32

why does UK get this league from ESL when there is about 10 different countries with better teams and players?

2013-08-19 20:33

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afaik ESL is a sort of franchise for each country. Other countries just lack the people with interest and initiative.

2013-08-19 20:41

Which 10 countries? The current skill level in the UK is easily around the same as the German scene, and absolutely miles ahead of the Polish and Spanish ones. I can only think of three countries who have better scenes that the ESL doesn't really do much with (Denmark, Sweden, America) and for various reasons these countries will never get anything anyways.

2013-08-19 23:45

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France? :) Finland? :)

2013-08-20 01:28

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France you have a point. I'm really surprised that ESl actually doesn't have anything with France. But finland isn't. While it's scene is OK, the number of teams and overall skill level isn't as high as the UK scene (The Finish have the same 'too cool for school' issue we have but even worse). They have 1 team that might be able to do some damage internationally. And even then that's still yet to be seen. There seems to be about 10 odd permanent serious teams. Not really enough to make a league around.

2013-08-20 01:34

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hltv.org/news/10865-eps-france-with-1000.. They have something in france.

2013-08-20 07:33

other country have better player but also other country can't even afford 1 dollar a month so cba

2013-08-20 01:40

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What?

2013-08-20 07:20

If you mean Australia, ESL Australia don't give a stuff about anything but League of Legends and even then they don't really do much for it.

2013-08-20 07:28

nice, although most UK teams will be at iseries/coming back from LAN?

2013-08-19 20:34

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Actually looking at that, the date is both perfect and terrible. Postpone it till the 27th is for the better.

2013-08-20 01:35

nice nice

2013-08-19 20:34

Amazing news, hoping the UK teams come out in numbers.

2013-08-19 20:34

gogogo snake kana great mouse for top sniper

2013-08-19 20:36

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:'D

2013-08-19 23:53

n11111111

2013-08-19 20:38

ESL for America pls

2013-08-19 20:48

NICE!

2013-08-19 20:51

All that's needed now is for Valve to patch the old and new bugs they keep introducing to the game to meet the growing level of commercial interest...

2013-08-19 21:01

Dear Sam, If you are reading this - this is your chance to prove you are number one, win dat mouse bro.

2013-08-19 21:05

by the way, this is how valve supports tournaments with money from keys and etc. it works, thx gabe.

2013-08-19 21:05

n11

2013-08-19 21:07

<3 prize

2013-08-19 21:44

low prices but thats normal from the ESL.

2013-08-19 21:47

we need help in south america to grow :c

2013-08-19 21:56

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Those prizes would be HUGE over here :(

2013-08-19 23:55

play in ESEA's league in South America :)

2013-08-21 04:55

n33d t34m

2013-08-19 22:01

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Awkward..

2013-08-19 22:17

800 for Brazil. Kana for UK :D BIG PLANZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!

2013-08-19 22:09

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That's because the general layout of UK CS is a bit shit currently. There is a really good plan in place where we can look to help the long term and not just the short term and develop and nurture UK CS back to where it should be.

2013-08-19 22:16

uk actually have a really big player pool and team pool tbh after source came out cs 1.6 uk died off but now with them combined together in csgo , it's probably bigger than the german seen and several others its about time esl stepped back into uk after so long without it... although every country does deserve there chance

2013-08-19 22:27

n111

2013-08-19 22:43

Signing up :D

2013-08-19 23:05

no Arch1EB no fun

2013-08-19 23:25

why are all the "n1111" comments being removed. I think they are a good competition of sorts and people come read articles early that way.

2013-08-19 23:35

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n1111111

2013-08-20 01:55

Hmmmm ZED THINKS he's going to win this doesn't he. Will be returning for this I like money....

2013-08-19 23:44

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Taking time off work to see the_M return.

2013-08-20 01:04

Hey Everyone! We're really exciting to start working alongside the CS:GO community, and the launch of this A-Series is just the first step on a long journey. We recognise that the prizes won't be overly attractive to most, but the league offers teams a casual environment in which to participate, and is targeted, as the name suggests, at those who normally don't get the chance to win a prized competition. Although I am not in the position to unveil further plans, the A-Series is going to be a key part of our future plans, and this first edition will act as a test season to gauge activity, interest and how user friendly the current system is. If any of you have any questions feel free to send me an email over to pm [at] esl [dot] eu. Thanks all, and enjoy the competition!

2013-08-20 01:47

Let's hope TheRogue isn't anything to do with this Utter Dickhead.

2013-08-20 08:07

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What exactly did he do to harm you?

2013-08-20 11:05

I will play ESL If they buy at last 1x organner and try to make them dedected on wire.... Till this day ESL Is death for me.

2013-08-20 09:13

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esl.eu/eu/wire/news/227133/ It does detect organner.

2013-08-20 11:05

would be really cool if we had some kind of semi pro series (like the eps but without the top1-3 of the country) in every country and the top 2 of those amateur series go head to head for the european amateur throne? i know we had smth like the amateur series already so why not get a championsleague aswell

2013-08-21 08:08