ESEA S18 with $100,000 for CS:GO

5-12-2014 21:45

ESEA has announced that it will give away $100,000 across its CS:GO divisions held all over the world in season 18.

With the ESEA S17 LAN Finals kicking off in just a few hours, the North American organisation has announced the first details about the upcoming season, which will feature a prize pot of over $100,000 - a considerable increase when compared the current season's $78,000 pool.

The Brazilian CS:GO Open division has been resurrected for the new season, though it is still unclear whether there will be any links between it and the LAN Finals of the global division, which has so far featured teams from Europe and North America.

Other changes from season 17 to 18 are a new recruitment section to find teams and players, and the increased number of league servers that run on new hardware, which will facilitate scheduling availability.

More information about the new ESEA season, including the prize pool breakdown, relegations and promotions, and the map rotation will be announced in the coming weeks.

The registration period for ESEA season 18 is already open and will remain so until January 5.

you wot m8?

2014-12-05 21:47

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2014-12-05 23:38

cool

sttt

hype

Mhmm

nice !!! CS:GO IS GROWING

2014-12-05 22:03

BRBRBRBRBR

wow!!!! go esea

you fucking w0t

2014-12-05 21:48

WOW that prizepool doe !

2014-12-05 21:49

sick

nice my frend

did they fucking fix their routing issues so i dont have to play with 80 ping every time

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80 ping is nice

2014-12-05 22:23

not when you're used to 15 it isnt with the lag compensation removed there's a distinct delay between shots and people dying on my screen

2014-12-06 00:05

wasnt it just last year that the prize pool was like 35k :-0

2014-12-05 21:50

$90k in total

2014-12-05 21:51

Go BR :P

7x1

2014-12-06 01:53

It's so good. But... What about mappool? I mean... ESEA has de_train in mappool, nobody else plays on de_train... And I hope they will add de_tuscan!

2014-12-05 21:52

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they already added overpass for the new season afaik, may be instead of train

2014-12-05 21:56

They'll probably do a community vote on what map is able to join the map pool.

2014-12-05 22:07

i play train

2014-12-05 22:22

nice gj

2014-12-05 21:53

WoW ESEA HYPE

amazing!!

2014-12-05 21:54

DAT PRIZEPOOL :D!

Its price pool for entire cs:go right? Whats about 1st place etc?

nice, gj ESEA! more than 8 teams?

No.

nice :D

2014-12-05 22:08

I wouldn't be too stoked about this considering they made a Brazilian division. A lot of that increased prize pot is probably going to that.

like $3,000 for an Open division probably?

2014-12-05 22:11

more team for s18, like a Dreamhack.

2014-12-05 22:09

Gj good for the american scene +1

2014-12-05 22:15

And one more!! nice!!!!

2014-12-05 22:17

To be split between all divisions. Still great though. Gotta support the smaller teams as well and give them some incentive to play and improve.

2014-12-05 22:18

80k for invite? :D

2014-12-05 22:20

100k they got from mining bitcoins these couple of days probably.

fukk volvo

wow, well done :d

2014-12-05 22:25

2014-12-05 22:28

Always good to see that kind of increase, but I'd really like Valve to make a partnership with ESEA to make a fourth major somehow.

2014-12-05 22:50

splur.gy/r/Zzdkh/r/2SXYLjxzg18 ez, gl!

2014-12-05 23:31

Very nice.

2014-12-05 23:47

lol wow sick :O

2014-12-06 00:24

nice :)

2014-12-06 01:48

100 ;OOOO

2014-12-06 18:13

I really hope ESEA will keep de_train instead of those shitty cobblestone and overpass. May be, when de_tuscan is ready, it's good to add tuscan and, lets say, overpass. Btw, there is de_train_ve, why doesn't anybody use it?..

2014-12-07 23:33