Pro League relegation rules changed

3-11-2015 22:45

ESEA has announced changes to the relegation system that is in place in the ESL ESEA Pro League.

The second edition of the ESL ESEA Pro League will come to an end on December 13 with the season finals, which will be held inside ESL's studios in Burbank, Los Angeles.

Last season, the bottom placed side from the Pro League automatically moved down to ESEA Premier, whose champion secured a spot in the $250,000 competition.

This season, however, the relegation system comes with a twist: while the team who finishes last in the Pro League is still relegated, their spot will not necessarily be taken by the winner of the Premier division. Instead, ESEA and ESL may choose a wildcard team to replace the relegated side.

ESL and ESEA make changes to the Pro League relegation system

The relegation stage continues, this time seeing the teams ranked tenth and eleventh in the Pro League face the first and the second non-moved up finishers from the Premier division.

The following steps will comprise the ESL ESEA Pro League relegation system from now on:

A team is added to the Pro League to replace the auto-relegated side. Either it is manually invited by the league administration or it is promoted from the Premier division due to winning the competition.
10th ranked Pro League team relegation match vs. Premier Division second non-moved up place
11th ranked Pro League team relegation match vs. Premier Division first non-moved up place

cba to read esea prolly has added some dumb rule again

2015-11-03 22:45

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Great news for G2 and Renegades!

2015-11-03 22:46

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Why u respond to my comment attention pleb

2015-11-03 22:50

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exactly

2015-11-03 22:51

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This dude is clueless about the real factor behind this move. It's definitely meant for these teams.

2015-11-03 23:00

i heard attention? nice

2015-11-03 22:55

G2 is good though..

2015-11-03 23:40

Well when it's about ESL you can expect nothing BUT stupidity.

ESL is not stupid. ESEA is.

2015-11-03 22:52

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You're right. ESL is just the devil.

2015-11-03 22:53

Nope, that's thorin.

2015-11-04 00:39

nice

expected

exactly what was expected and why was it expected?

2015-11-04 17:33

Nice

6th

RNG inc

+1 rng to become top 1 na

2015-11-03 23:07

G2 will be the wildcard probably

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g2 not even top 25

2015-11-03 22:47

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likely top 50

nt Nip fangay

2015-11-03 22:59

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nt liQuid FanDog

2015-11-03 23:02

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<3 freakazoid

2015-11-03 23:11

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<3 Happy

2015-11-03 23:35

yes lol

2015-11-04 11:53

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most arrogant baiter and eco fraghunter

2015-11-04 13:11

better than freakazoid lol

2015-11-04 13:12

who?

2015-11-04 13:13

xdxd ok cya faggot

2015-11-04 13:15

yes pea head. C9 is. kappa

2015-11-04 11:05

i dont care about that

2015-11-04 13:10

Renegades to get NA invite. Expected.

G2 to ESL ESEA pls better than fucking SK etc

bullocks

seems like renegades' constant crying finally paid off. i'm sad to see this. they might as well just make the entire league system invite only and choose all the teams...

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not only for renegades but also for g2 i think

it'll no doubt be used to add G2 yeah, but did they publically cry about how unfair it was for them to not get directly invited?

2015-11-03 23:04

dunno never really checked their social media :D

Where did renegades cry? They just asked if they could be invited you deluded mong.

twitter.com/RNGMonteCristo/status/636928.. sure I'm deluded

2015-11-03 23:09

Yes that's crying clearly... Maybe you need to head back to the dictionary. There's a massive difference between crying and saying you're disappointed to not be invited. Get a grip

2015-11-03 23:10

here's more for you reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/3i..

2015-11-03 23:12

Yet again proving that you're utterly clueless and have no idea what the definition of crying is.

2015-11-03 23:14

i'm not convinced you actually clicked the links

2015-11-03 23:15

I clicked them and have seen them before you'd even posted them, I think you should just give up now... Either way you're in the wrong.

2015-11-03 23:16

lmao rng didnt fucking cry. The fact there was no way into the proleague unless you won premier was stupid. everyone knew that

2015-11-03 23:08

crying and asking is two different things

2015-11-03 23:13

That's what it used to be then when ESL combined with ESEA they "professionalized" the league by adding relegation and stuff

2015-11-03 23:25

i mean the league didn't used to be called invite or anything

2015-11-04 12:03

G2 to ESL ESEA Pro League 3 pls.

g2 to eu division, renegades to na inc.

How it should be: Premier 1 moves up automatically RELEGATION: Round 1 Match A: Premier 2 vs Invite 2 Match B: Premier 3 vs Invite 1 Round 2 Match C: Pro 10 vs Winner of A Match D: Pro 11 vs Winner of B Winners of C and D go to the next season of EEPL

Something like that would make too much sense.

no we cant just copy the logical relegation that is being used in sports all over the world. we have to come up with our won rules, because we are "special"

2015-11-04 15:05

2015-11-04 18:55

Why give a wildcard team entrance to the Pro League, when the first place of Premier deserves to be in the Pro League, but still isn't certain about their spot?

2015-11-03 22:48

This changing of rules was completely expected and this new ruling will be called... "The Renegade Rule". Still dislike the fact they get instantly put into invite and don't play a Bo3 against either a relegated team or a top-placing premier team. Fucking shame for the Premier teams who get screwed over by this. Edit: Other than their Katowice 2015 qualifier and GFinity, I don't think Renegades have built up enough of a resume (i.e., wins) to justify bypassing the tried and true process.

b-but SPUNJ's hair! Havoc's beard! Crazy Aussies with their blow up kangaroo doll! They need to get invited!

2015-11-03 23:05

I actually think Games Academy would be a better choice for "invite" at this moment. They were committed to NACS long before this announcement, never complained, and have been cleaning up in ESEA-M/CEVO-M, and when they do play invite teams they look quite impressive.

lmao games academy are a better choice than Renegades? are you serious? Yes, renegades may not have had the greatest results recently but seriously. what the fuck have GA done. ever? RNG aren't bad either. There most result result is a tight bo3 loss to VP 16-14 on the last map. Could GA do that? nahh

2015-11-03 23:20

Keyd/LG got the same treatment and people didn't really care although that was when ESEA was changing from an invite league to a professional (relegation and moveup/downs) league I think there should be a qualification tournament with the bottom 3 invite teams, top 3 premier teams, and two invited teams competing for three spots... that way international teams moving in could be invited, or if there aren't any more invite/premier teams

2015-11-03 23:36

People didn't care for a reason... when they expanded the league there weren't enough good teams in Premier to move up to invite (which is why Method was moved up). And SKDC, who were relegated, were effectively dead at the time. I do agree that the format isn't ideal though.

2015-11-03 23:33

EleGiggle CHANGEING THE RULES FOR RENEGADES EleGiggle

2015-11-03 22:49

I know it's not like they will get in the top 4

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LG C9 CLG Liquid who is renegades beating? CLG?

No one. Renagades can't even beat AU teams and NA too stronk

2015-11-03 23:22

Kappa 3 weeks without practice and twitter.com/coL_SEMPHIS/status/662490882..

2015-11-07 05:51

Yeah and at ESWC That Asian team (forgot name to lazy to search for it) took NiP to OT. Then got raped by every team there. TD;LR scrims don't mean shit.

2015-11-07 14:41

hltv.org/match/2296930-nip-qeeyou-eswc-2.. You seeing something im not? It's a fucking 16-0, that means something haha

2015-11-07 15:13

In scrims retard. You just proved my point they took them to OT and then got raped in the real match. Either way Col isn't even a top NA team

2015-11-07 15:35

Never said they were a top team, yes it was a scrim, but the chance of a random overtime (piter v titan, kinguin (when brand new) v vp) is a whole lot more fucking likely than 16-0ing a team

2015-11-07 15:44

bump

2015-11-19 10:55

2015-11-19 11:04

good for rng & g2 xD

They changed the rule justfor g2 & renegades... Sucks for premier tho.

LOL THIS SELLOUT easily replacing a well deserved team with a hype team im not saying g2 dont deserve the spot the most ...but going into the future this system will be very bad

Get SK the fuck out lol they cant even win against finish t7 teams put G2

whining by renegades paying off I see... a bit sad tbh

Why are all you NA guys mad that RNG are coming to play in your division? fuck. go have a cry somewhere else please.

2015-11-03 23:21

I'm just irritated they get a free pass.

2015-11-03 23:41

They've put up good results and are disadvantaged because they come from Australia. Imagine moving to america and playing a season in main and premier. thats like an entire year of being in a shit league with no publicity. It wouldnt happen. sorry if that made no sense i didnt know how to word it.

2015-11-03 23:47

this is obviously for renegades

Nobody needs a relegation change if the tournament format is garbage. lmao

IBUYPOWER COMEBACK

GA to pro confirmed

Noice for Renegades, wp.

2015-11-03 22:54

GA or RNG incoming.

So what does this mean for bot teams?

2015-11-03 23:06

sucks for up and coming premier teams...

This is so hypocritical. They wouldn't even put GA in Premier and told them they had to work their way up from main like everyone else. Then Renegades comes along and they change the rules for them. It will take at least 2 seasons total for GA to work their way up and Renegades has to do absolutely nothing at all.

Garbage. If you can't play your way in then you don't belong in the division. That's how it should be and for a decade and a half prior in NA leagues, how it has been.

G2 paid them because they can't qualify :(

2015-11-04 00:03

wow aussies mad

2015-11-04 00:12

G2 inc

I feel like this is also getting them setup for if/when ibp get unbanned in NA. Having those 4 play in premier would be like cutting the legs off a bunch of hens then throwing in a couple foxes and wondering why it was a bloodbath.

2015-11-04 00:50

I would like to know what criteria will be used in case this rule is applied here in NA next season. I know everyone says Renegades are a shoe in... but really would like it if my team (GA or Games Academy) was at least considered for this as when we moved over we were told we'd have to move through the ranks and were put in Main. Not trying to bitch about it, just actually asking a question to see if we could be considered for this depending on the criteria.

2015-11-04 02:48

yo zelao how ya doing bra

2015-11-04 04:51

So even tho you gonna finish first in Premier Division you can't be sure that you gonna get a place in Pro League because ESL and ESEA want to choose different team for more publicity or something? If so this is retarded

2015-11-04 09:02

how pissed would you be if you were top of premier

2015-11-04 10:02

same thing happened in the premier league of womens football in the UK when manchester city decided they wanted a womens team. they just got to go straight in at top level and one of the other teams (either bristol or bournemouth) were relegated just to make space for man city. its not fair that the bigger teams can just do things like that, they should have to grind the way up like every fucker else :/

2015-11-04 11:22

12 teams should be: CLG , Liquid , C9 , LG - Tier 1 Conquest , Complexity , Renegads , GamesAcademy - Tier 2 Winterfox , FolloweSports , Enemy , 3sup - Tier3 Method, Coast, Coastless, SKDC should play in premier league

2015-11-04 13:57

Kkk

2015-11-04 17:24

"which will be held inside ESL's studios in Burbank, Los Angeles." Pretty sure Burbank is in California

2015-11-04 18:53

Dumb rule IMO. The premier divison winner is not guaranteed to make it through the pro league, but instead ESEA can choose another and they don't even have to put up results for this ? Lel

2015-11-04 19:00