ESL UK Premiership Summer to begin

17-6-2015 19:43

The summer season of the ESL UK Premiership is set to kick off with an increased prize-pool and revamped format marking the new season's debut.

Last season's ESL UK Premiership saw Sam "⁠RattlesnK⁠" Gawn's XENEX win the series at the offline finals in London MCM Comic Con on May 22-24, taking home £2,500 (~$3,950) and bragging rights as the UK's best team in the ESL division.

The debut season of the ESL UK Premiership must have impressed viewers and sponsors alike, as ESL have announced a Summer Season with a significantly buffed total prize-pool of £10,000 (~$15,710), £4,000 more than last season.

RattlesnK led XENEX to win the first ESL UK Premiership

The ESL UK Summer Premiership will be broken into four stages: Qualifications, Promotions, Group Stages, and the Offline Playoffs. The final four teams of the previous season (XENEX, fm-eSports, Infused, and EZskins.com) will automatically be placed into the Group Stages for the summer season.

The new structure means that ambitious new teams must first play in one of two qualification tournaments in order to make it into the Promotions tournament stage, where they will be joined by teams that finished 5-8th in the first Premiership season. Teams that place in the grand final of each Qualification tournament advance to the Promotions stage.

The dates of the qualification tournaments are:

Monday, June 22nd (single elimination, best-of-one)
Monday, June 29th (single elimination, best-of-one)

Another innovation for the Summer Season will be the allocation of prize money each week as teams in the Group Stages fight it out in a round robin format. Teams will receive £142.86 (~$225) per match win. This sum is an approximation of £4,000 (~$6,280) allocated for the Group Stages divided by 28 matches.

The entire prize distribution of the ESL UK Premiership Summer Season is split-up and organised as follows (prize figures in British Pounds):

ESL UK Premiership Qualifications - Entry into ESL UK Premiership Promotions
ESL UK Premiership Promotions - £1,000
- £200 per qualified teams
- £200 bonus for Promotions victor
ESL UK Premiership Group Stages - £142.86 per match win (£4,000 total)
ESL UK Premiership Playoffs-£5,000
- 1. - £2,500
- 2. - £1,250
- 3-4. - £625
- 3-4. - £625

The whole season will once again culminate in offline finals at London MCM Comic Con, where half of the season's entire prize purse will be on offer.

that's kinda cool

2015-06-17 19:43

Where Kinguin

2015-06-17 19:44

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lol

2015-06-17 19:50

You're a shameless fanboy aren't ya.

2015-06-17 21:29

nice

2015-06-17 19:45

waste of money,resources and time...

2015-06-17 19:46

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yeah, let's pump all the money into something else all of the UK are shit at games!

2015-06-17 19:48

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i would prefer even a female online league instead of investing it at the UK scene.I dont want to be rude,but your scene is non-existent.All the players have shown that they cant never turn pro/semi-pro ;).

2015-06-17 19:49

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shut up you damn gypsy

2015-06-17 19:52

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not my fault that you are so bad at CSGO.You are the perfect example of what went wrong:All british players are toxic and they cant work properly in a team ;).

2015-06-17 19:53

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nt gplay

2015-06-17 19:54

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i aint associated in any way with gplay so i dont really get it:What did u actually try to express?

2015-06-17 19:57

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nt spyleader

2015-06-17 19:58

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reported for spam/useless stuff.Please try to use arguments next time.

2015-06-17 20:06

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ok tell me when gplay win major

2015-06-17 20:17

made me laugh for no reason :D

2015-06-18 13:21

exactly

Expect in war... But csgo is obviously more important.................

2015-06-17 20:01

lmao, you were a joke in ww2. poles had to save your country from germans

2015-06-18 00:21

Didn't know poles saved Italy

2015-06-18 07:09

that too. stupid poles. should team up with hitler and conquer europe together

2015-06-18 14:11

British players are toxic and your comments about the UK scene isn't, I'm with you that the scene is dead, but hopefully this will start bringing some light back into the UK scene and see so diamond in the rough players emerge

2015-06-17 21:26

there were so many cups and leagues which tryed to 'reveal' the uk scene(not that it was big anyway,but at least they got some average teams with big potencial).As u can see the result - nothing really happened.

2015-06-17 22:18

There were?

2015-06-18 00:26

To be fair most of the top 15 UK teams could probably beat the best female teams

2015-06-19 01:10

+11

2015-06-18 00:19

Haha, you do realise that this UK tournament probably only exists because of the money it makes?

2015-06-18 11:49

lmfao

bunch of uk noobs competing .. no thx and sometimes even estonian noobs.

ESL UK Premiership Group Stages - £142.86 per match win - l0l

2015-06-17 19:47

It's because Esl is a German Organization and 143 pounds are roughly 200 € :D

2015-06-17 20:10

gl guys :)

nice :) gl guys

I think the qualifications are sooner than that? Could have read it wrong play.eslgaming.com/counterstrike/csgo/cs..

yeah you're right, completely different dates in the press release and play pages lol

2015-06-17 19:59

The dates on the press release are the Promotion part of the qualification

2015-06-17 20:03

+1 Promotions is on the dates shown. I'll moan at Peter for not making it clearer.

2015-06-17 20:50

izi win

2015-06-17 20:02

where is bravado?

arses will be shagged m8

2015-06-17 20:31

shitters the lot of them

2015-06-17 20:42

yeah I hope they do a lot more of this to get the UK scene running again, because its been dead for a long time

2015-06-17 21:03

waste of money. nobody should tune in to the stream to make sure UK gets no attention.

2015-06-17 21:10

butthurt retard detected

haha wtf

2015-06-17 21:31

n1 <3

2015-06-17 21:35

ready for more 1 week old mix teams in competition

2015-06-17 21:51

2015-06-17 23:04

mix teams assemble

2015-06-17 21:56

Tea drinking, crumpet eating bad teeth noobs.

2015-06-17 22:30

i like it lets see if the Uk can find some more talented players

2015-06-17 22:40

I really would like to see a UK rise to the heights of former legendary 4kings, that would be awesome . At least this league/tournament will give them a chance. Now its up to the scene

2015-06-17 23:15

2015-06-17 23:21

mouselifters ez

Last finals were really cool to watch! Will keep an eye on this one :)

2015-06-18 03:18

it was pretty entertaining to be fair

2015-06-21 23:52

respect to XENEX for crushing the opposition last time. the other teams were pretty shit in comparison. hope they can keep a stable squad and we can see if they have the skills to do a consecutive title win. UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK UK

2015-06-18 08:26

Nice, on a side note I don't get all the hate towards the UK scene, people calling teams toxic, shit, waste of money. Have we forgotten that the current UK teams are beating decent teams from other countries or losing narrowly. Because you met some toxic British player on matchmaking in your gold nova placement games doesn't mean everyone is like that, I've met alot of toxic cunts from various countries in matchmaking and for you to generalize a scene because of it shows you've not got a brain. And the fact people use their countries teams as their own achievement and have a ego because 5 players from their country are beating another team warrants them personally to have some sort of ego or sense of achievement, that's very fucking odd and funny.

What we really need is some new teams to form, to take part in this. The problem in the UK scene IMO is that the 'top' teams aren't willing to give anyone 'unproven' a chance - leading to the 'top' teams recycling the same toxic players over and over. There are plenty of non-toxic players from the UK, but in the UK there isn't many tournaments or sponsors which could make turning semi-pro into pro viable, that along with the cultural issues of being labelled a geek etc makes it pretty hard to form teams. If I asked everyone in the UK what CS is, I bet 99.98% have never heard of it, 0.019% have heard of it but dont play it and 0.001% play it and of those probably 0.00001% are LEM+.. you get the idea :P

2015-06-18 10:13

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Name some unproven players that are good enough to play at the "top" please :)

2015-06-18 10:25

Ok fine I'll play jeez

2015-06-18 16:59

I beg to differ. The ESL Premiership gives plenty of young, upcoming teams the chance to compete and try to qualify? If you're good enough to compete with those at the top (who have been at the top for so long for a reason), then you'll qualify for at least the groups & prove it. Look at EZSkins/excel/ex-animate. They surprised everyone with both their individual quality and ability to perform as a team and beat favourites like Malik & so on then finished 4th at the finals. The fact that they took Xenex to as many overtimes as they did was a great achievement on its own. There are a sufficient number of LAN & online events in the UK for youngsters to prove themselves as worthy players and try to get noticed, IMO. Does knowing the right people help like with everything else in life? Yeah, of course. But when you're good enough, you'll get noticed. If your team is holding you back, leave and find a team with players worthy of helping you compete with these so called 'top toxic players'.

2015-06-18 13:42

you tell him kyanite!

2015-06-18 13:49

But we don't need teams who can take Xenex to overtime and lose, we need teams who can perform far better than Xenex if we are going to get a team onto the pro scene. To do that we need multiple teams capable of competing with T3/T4 teams then they can shuffle till they can get a good team working and try compete with T2/T3. My point about tournaments and sponsors wasn't that there isn't enough to get noticed, it was more about there not being enough tournament/sponsor money available to make 'going pro' a viable alternative to a 'real' job. I have no doubt some of the teams you mentioned could improve leaps and bounds and maybe achieve something if we had some decent orgs willing to get behind UK players. About the teams holding players back, this is what I meant - I feel we have enough players to form a couple decent teams but if they left those teams, there isn't really anywhere for them to go.

2015-06-18 14:07

I fail to see how your first paragraph is directly relevant to what was initially being spoken about. But I'll give my opinion anyways. You were complaining initially that new talent never got a chance/accepted by the UK 'top' talent, now you're moaning that Excel/EZSkins (the new talent who got their chance) weren't good enough and should've beat Xenex (the 'top' talent). I don't know if I should write more... do you not see how you're self contradicting yourself? From a general perspective, for the UK to get a successful team, yes the standard has to be higher than Xenex but that wasn't what the initial discussion was about. As for not enough money going around, most esport organisations (which a lot of people don't realise for some reason) are still businesses and want to at least break even. It's very difficult for an org to pick up a random UK team who have done nothing to merit it just for the sake of being the mr nice guys and hoping that it all magically works out. BUT there are a sufficient number of smaller tournaments like the ESL UK stuff, the LANs & more upcoming stuff for the UK which gives teams a platform to build their reputation on. That partnered with a lot of the lower tier online stuff like RGN and a high success ratio WILL result in an organisation coming in. But let's be honest... has any UK team been stable enough (be it new talent or the 'old' talent) recently to merit the trust of any org? No, so how can we expect people to randomly invest in them simply because they are British??? The UK scene is gonna get interesting in the next few months, particularly with new events cropping up. Let's just keep the faith. But ultimately, the ball still remains in the court of the players. Both NEW and OLD to dedicate time & effort to the game and become a success.

2015-06-18 15:17

Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining or moaning about these things, just commenting on what I think needs to change for growth. I didn't mean that ezskins should have beaten Xenex, I meant that we need to get to the stage where we have multiple teams that will be above Xenex's current level. I don't expect any org to come and invest in the UK, the point I was making is, with a lack of money around it makes it hard for players to dedicate enough time to train hard enough to be pro. I appreciate the concerns around investing in a UK team, although it's actually something I've been casually considering for a little while, starting a UK org. Still need to figure out if what I could offer would be enough to interest players. I've also been considering hosting small LAN events, but I need to do a lot more research first :P

2015-06-18 16:28

"aren't willing to give anyone 'unproven' a chance - leading to the 'top' teams recycling the same toxic players over and over." why would any team in any country pick up someone who hasn't proved anything online/lan? Its like saying manchester united should pick up billy from down the street people say hes good but no one actually knows. from all these UK cups and UK lans i have taking part in there is no one that deserves anything really. in every uk discussion i see on hltv its the same thing, oh just pick up some young talent as if they would magically be amazing, im sorry but it just doesn't work like that. Also why do you think when kqly was vac'd etc titan chose to get rpk, the guy hadn't played in such a long time, titan had every opportunity to pick up some 'young talent' but instead picked him because experience trumps all im afraid and thats the problem with UK were lacking the experienced veterans that every country has, most of ours quit. and lets be honest no one gives a shit about being called a geek or a nerd.

2015-06-19 04:55

"~$15,710" lol, come on, not much boost to nonexistent uk scene from this

2015-06-18 10:49

Lets be honest a boost the the scene in any country is only good for the game in the long run, sure we don't have world famous players, that doesn't make us all instantly bad lol ^^ YES our scene is largely populated by casual noobs, but there are some decent players, the issue is these players don't go looking to make a team or go pro. Hell i would be happy to see CS:go being pushed in Egypt - even that would be good for the scene, no publicity is bad publicity.

2015-06-18 14:56