ESL ESEA League finals in Cologne

9-5-2015 18:32

ESL has announced that the offline finals of its CS:GO Pro League, held in conjunction with ESEA, will be held at its esports arena, in Cologne.

The first season of the ESL ESEA Pro League will come to a close with the offline finals, which will take place from July 2-5 inside the German company's esports arena, in Cologne.

The top four teams from the European and the North American divisions will duke it out for the title of ESL ESEA Pro League champion and the lion's share of the tournament's whopping $500,000 prize purse. ESL and ESEA have also vowed to cover the participating teams' travel expenses.

ESL's Cologne arena will stage the offline finals of its global CS:GO league

In the coming weeks, ESL will release more information about the tournament format and tickets. You can follow our coverage of the league by going here.

yes!

2015-05-09 18:33

lol wtf is wrong with your life

2015-05-09 18:33

wut

2015-05-09 18:33

finally (sorry for bad english)

2015-05-09 18:34

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2015-05-09 18:42

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thanks (sorry for bad english)

2015-05-09 19:38

Ez NIP <3

2015-05-09 18:34

bad, no crowd, small stage no passion in finals

2015-05-09 18:35

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lol

2015-05-09 18:38

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yes They want to make the best CSGO League and finals in small television studio..

2015-05-09 18:38

Gonna visit 100%

2015-05-09 18:35

still sad it"s not 6 eu and 2 na or even 5 and 3 cus 4 na is just too much

2015-05-09 18:35

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2015-05-09 18:38

+1 With a prize pool this big, EU deserves more teams. Besides, it's just depressing to watch NA teams get stomped by EU

2015-05-09 19:12

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yeaa... :'(

2015-05-09 20:16

wow july esl esea finals and in august esl one cologne major ?

2015-05-09 18:36

TSM's first major?

2015-05-09 18:36

ez moneys for yurop

2015-05-09 18:37

Hehe Germany best :D

2015-05-09 18:39

Biggest league world wide in that little studio? Do I get it right? xDD

2015-05-09 18:41

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#justgermanthings

2015-05-09 18:42

Katowice>Cologne etc

2015-05-09 18:52

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no...

2015-05-09 18:55

katowice sucks dude.

2015-05-09 19:01

10-0

2015-05-09 19:02

Again. AGAIN. FFS there are other options than just Germany and Poland. I have nothing against either of those countries or cities but a little variety would be nice.

2015-05-09 19:03

nice, but if it was Katowice -> Spodek it would be the best tournament made so far in cs.

2015-05-09 19:06

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2015-05-10 00:34

I'm American, and I'm disappointed that there are 4 American teams going... when there's a $500,000 prize pool we do not deserve to have half of the teams there.

2015-05-09 19:07

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2015-05-09 19:11

It's not about skill of the teams. It's about market shares. NA represents a huge portion of the CSGO viewer and player base. A major reason why they are able to host tournaments with such large prize pools is because of the NA brings in so much money for these tournament organizers.

2015-05-09 19:35

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There's no way the American fans care more about American teams.

2015-05-09 23:09

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People are always going to root for homegrown talent. Just because NA teams haven't faired well recently doesn't mean that their fan base will just leave them. They may be disappointed in the performances, but they still hope that teams like C9 will get out of their slump and start winning. Why do you think there is always so much discussion around the NA scene in forums all the damn time? Why do you think people care about the NA shuffle? You underestimate the NA fan base.

2015-05-16 01:35

Which arena? Lanxess? That's actually not esl's arena. Hope they don't play in the little apartement, where they also played the last ESL Pro Series..

2015-05-09 19:08

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Someone said this will be in small tv studio, like Raidcall EMS One 2013.

2015-05-10 00:36

nicee

2015-05-09 19:13

500k league in a apartment studio #BORING

2015-05-09 19:15

lets go hitla

2015-05-09 19:20

Tbh should be 5 EU and 3 NA for the time being

2015-05-09 19:20

this venue is a bit lame for a 500k league

2015-05-09 19:22

What does this mean for ESL One Cologne in August, though?

2015-05-09 19:22

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you tell me

2015-05-09 19:39

there should be top 6 european teams and top 2 na teams, tbh.

2015-05-09 19:24

i think 4 spots to NA is 2 much

2015-05-09 19:27

big cash prize , shit stage, gtfo

2015-05-09 19:31

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lanxess arena is nice IMO

2015-05-09 21:20

8 teams it's just not enough. 4 slots for NA it's just shameless. No hard feelings for you muricans. It's just that so many higher skilled teams from EU deserve a slot more than top 4 NA.

2015-05-09 20:11

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what was this NA again? pretty sure they dont play CS there

2015-05-09 20:14

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CoD basically

2015-05-09 20:15

I think its fair to have 4 NA teams. Esea started in NA like 13 years ago so I don't see them doing changing.It should always be top4 teams from different continent. I hope the other continents (Asia, India, Etc) grows so we see more teams from different continent competing. Also i think this is going to help organizations send their team to Europe before finals to bootcamp.

2015-05-09 20:33

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why is it fair?. the skill cap of NA is so low,look at last Esea finals. Your best teams didnt get a single map off teams like mousesports/Titan

2015-05-10 10:43

low Katowice better

2015-05-09 22:49

wow.. i would rather see 8 EU teams playing for 1million than having 4 NA teams playing for 500k. it's easier to win money for NA in this event.. Since they don't have 4 tier 1 teams..

2015-05-10 00:45

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You can (and will) have 8 EU teams playing for $500k. The reason you can't have it all is that AT LEAST half of the money is coming from NA. ESEA was founded and run by two American's. That so many teams can compete for such a lucrative prize is thanks to that generosity; namely, with the knowledge that the NA teams won't win. No, there's not any Tier 1 NA team, but since we're fronting the money, I think it's reasonable to have representation there too.

2015-05-10 08:30

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yes they deserve 1 or maybe 2 spots.Not 4

2015-05-10 10:44

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"Deserve"? They're fronting half the money. You guys exclude NA from almost all of your tournaments. The ONLY time NA teams even play EU teams are in some of these tournaments. Go look up the history of teams like GPlay and Property and see if they've EVER played any of the current NA teams. It doesn't happen. So, go on with your elitist rants, but if we're going to put up half the money we should have half the representation. Most of your tournaments already are EU-only.

2015-05-13 17:37

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Yes because most of our tournaments are ONLINE. and why is it fair?your best team ibp couldnt even beat a very weak Penta lineup. none of your na teams could take a map off teams from eu in esea finals Not even Mouse/Titan. thats why your teams only deserve 1-2 Spots

2015-05-13 18:53