ESL ESEA League prize distribution

29-5-2015 18:03

The Electronic Sports League has revealed how the prize distribution for the first season of the ESL ESEA Pro League will be done.

Until the end of the year, ESL and ESEA will give away a whopping $1 million in cash prizes across two Pro League seasons, each one featuring the best teams in Europe and North America.

The first season will come to a close with the offline finals, held inside ESL's esports arena in Cologne from July 2-5, where eight teams - the top four from the European and the North American divisions - will square off.

NiP are currently leading the European division

ESL has now revealed that this season's $500,000 prize purse will surprisingly be distributed equally between the online and the offline portions of the league. A minimum of $2,500 is guaranteed to all 24 participating teams (12 per division), with the distribution being the following:

1. $18,000

2. $16,500

3. $15,000

4. $13,500

5. $13,000

6. $11,500

7. $10,000

8. $8,500

9. $7,000

10. $5,500

11. $4,000

12. $2,500

1. $18,000
2. $16,500
3. $15,000
4. $13,500
5. $13,000
6. $11,500
7. $10,000
8. $8,500
9. $7,000
10. $5,500
11. $4,000
12. $2,500

The eight teams in attendance at the offline finals will get full travel support from ESL and ESEA and will fight for the following prizes:

1. $100,000
2. $60,000
3-4. $25,000
5-6. $12,500
7-8. $7,500

2015-05-29 18:03

cpl 2003

2015-05-29 18:04

rip

"NiP are currently leading the European dvision" division*

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they are

2015-05-29 18:05

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Yeah, atm only on paper maybe. They will not even qualify probably.

2015-05-29 18:07

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+1 sadly

2015-05-30 09:42

i am talking about the grammar, not about the NiP placement now it was corrected, so : /close

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grammar? you mean the guy made a typo and forgot to press i lol

2015-05-29 18:23

sry dude its not grammar. its called orthograph

2015-05-29 18:25

nope, its not An orthography is the methodology of writing a language. It includes rules of spelling, hyphenation, capitalization, word breaks, emphasis, and punctuation. [wiki] its typographic mistake, like tyler said

2015-05-29 19:33

H Y P E

This seems pretty stupid, the 4th seed from Americas which will be the most likely to go out in 7/8th place will walk home with 20k prize money, while some top tier teams from Europe aren't even in the playoffs.

exactly my thoughts. That's disappointing. should be 2/3 for the lan finals.

2015-05-29 18:06

while 5th-8th place of european online league probably wouldnt even drop a map in the playoffs against us teams... yay

yeah and the stupid online crap gets half the money, like what the fuck is that?

2015-05-29 22:46

So the league should change its structure every year based on the perceived strength of the teams? Because that's even more stupid. In every pro sports league you have to win x amount of games to make the playoffs.

2015-05-30 08:06

A shit team shouldn't earn 21k by simply being the 4th least shittiest team in the region.

2015-05-30 08:31

2015-05-30 18:24

didnt like it. Need more cash to the 1st and last to the others IMO.

LOL

weirdly distributed but nice regardless

Worst dist. ever. So esl.

f0restBiceps

2015-05-29 18:09

nah too much "free money" for low tier na teams like mouspaz and method.

2015-05-29 18:10

The world needs more paid travel + winner take all events.

2015-05-29 18:12

In my calculation there is 374 500$.

2015-05-29 18:13

It's 500k, there are 2 divisions.

2015-05-29 18:16

sorry i did not expect any amount of money for murica online...(undeserved money)

2015-05-29 18:18

Ha we get free money how does that feel!!! LoL we like totally dont deserve it. Bet that makes you angry huh???

2015-05-30 00:01

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European countries are used to paying shitloads of country to third world countries. You're the third world country in terms of CS. (yes fake japan flag, come at me)

2015-05-30 11:44

Sorry we dont have the country to be paying other countries countries fake flagger.

2015-05-30 17:21

Then the rest is travel support. kappa.

2015-05-29 18:19

I still don't understand why NA has 4 spots

only 18k for a winner wow

2015-05-29 18:17

idiot german spotted.

2015-05-29 18:20

A minimum of $2,500 is guaranteed to all 24 participating teams (12 per division), with the distribution being the following: 1. $18,000 2. $16,5003. $15,0004. $13,5005. $13,0006. $11,5007. $10,0008. $8,5009. $7,00010. $5,50011. $4,00012. $2,500 1. $18,000 2. $16,500 3. $15,000 4. $13,500 5. $13,000 6. $11,500 7. $10,000 8. $8,500 9. $7,000 10. $5,500 11. $4,000 12. $2,500 The eight teams in attendance at the offline finals will get full travel support from ESL and ESEA and will fight for the following prizes: 1. $100,000 2. $60,000 3-4. $25,000 5-6. $12,500 7-8. $7,500

2015-05-29 18:33

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thx for explaining to dumb people like me

2015-05-29 20:02

i copied those lines from article above ._.

2015-05-29 20:29

yeah im a dumb fucker :D

2015-05-29 22:52

Just cut your balls off right now and dont ever have children.

2015-05-30 00:02

"NiP in the lead" LOL they've simply played way way more matches than anyone else but their win ratio is GARBAGE.

yep they most likey wont be in top4 at the end, but still top1 now, technically

ez money for f3

So they finally came up with half a million dollars but its still not more for the winner than at majors. Fuck off, now I don't give a shit about your league anymore. Such stupid organizers.

Ye, so stupid organizers. They are giving more money to the smaller Teams so they can approve and support their Players in a better way. THEY ARE SO BRAINDAMGED... Ps You are a Retard

2015-05-29 18:30

Well it is if you actually looked at the prize distribution properly...

ehm winners also get the money from online stage and travel support too. Btw who the fuck cares if they dont distribute more than valve majors? 100k$ for first place is still a lot of fucking money.

well you dont get any money. why so mad kiddo?

2015-05-29 18:35

1 0 0 K B O Y Z

Good move by esl/ & esea. Giving money to teams outside of tier1 is a good thing and make people care from start to end of league games.

so worst case scenario for a qualified team is to go home with 21k . not bad

hahahaha same shit, nothing new 1. make some hype with 500k prizepool announcement 2. distribute it like its 250k tournament. Why do i think it was ESEA's idea?

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Everyone needs to be making money for the community to be sustainable. 12th place \ $2,500 is peanuts, but it's a good start.

2015-05-29 18:38

using some basic math skills i can see that it actually adds up to more than 500K since they give travel support to all teams

2015-05-29 18:39

i think the basic idea is good because teams wont care about the online matches anymore if they know they cant qualify anymore

2015-05-29 18:41

i will copy pasta cuz u seem to be as retarded as this other guy... "Ye, so stupid organizers. They are giving more money to the smaller Teams so they can approve and support their Players in a better way. THEY ARE SO BRAINDAMGED... Ps You are a Retard"

2015-05-29 18:44

yes i think its pretty dumb that if a team finishes a season 0-12 for example and still gets money for it. Ps You are a Retard

2015-05-29 21:42

"NiP are currently leading the European division where they failed hard and probably wont be albe to go to cologne xD. Propaganda much

2015-05-29 18:37

this should have been revealed BEFORE the league has started so all participants are equally motivated. some teams could have thought that theres no difference between rank 9 or 12 and so if theres no hope to reach playoffs could lack performance in some matches. with this distribution, all teams should be now extra motivated even if u cant reach the finals, therefore i really like this.

Pretty sure they should be motivated anyway as this is a professional league with a big prize pool for LAN playoffs...

2015-05-29 18:49

ya but some teams got 6 games played, others got twice as much already, mouz even got already 15 (!) games played. some with standins to get it done. not sure they would have done that if they knew that every spot is way more important than it used to be. in other leagues and before, it was pretty much who cares if u place 7 or 10 f.e. if both wont be enough for playoffs.

2015-05-29 20:01

NiP's leading ? WTF?

2015-05-29 18:42

wats the problm?

2015-05-29 19:04

The same major, but w/o Valve support... Not bad, but I expected a bit more...

2015-05-29 18:50

actually online gets money aswell which is more honestly....

2015-05-29 19:09

sick ! now thats awsome !

2015-05-29 19:07

These aren't $90,000 LANs in Texas anymore, this is on a much larger scale, and so the status and money should go to those who deserve it most.

WOW NICE $$$ DISTRIBUATIN

2015-05-29 19:10

2015-05-29 19:16

Should be a bigger downside to coming in second place.

2015-05-29 19:39

2nd comment because can't edit: I'm really happy for the participation money.

2015-05-29 19:40

a sum of all those prizes is 362k, not 500k tho

2015-05-29 21:29

no it's not. And you have to multiply the online prizes by two (European and NA division)

2015-05-29 21:59

Nice math m8

2015-05-29 23:19

so basically just like any other Major but without valve support and 8 teams less. fuck volvo sometimes, really. so fucking greedy.

2015-05-29 22:21

Fuck the ESEA, released a tournament with prizes 500k for each division, that marketing ploy, there now moved the tournament to award this bad, they're even comedies, on the official ESEA own facebook was written that was 500k US and 500k NA, waste organization ESEA in Brazil is off is 20 days and they do not do anything or return the money lost

2015-05-29 23:20