Pro League Finals with $500k+ pool

9-2-2016 18:49

ESL has announced the prize distribution for the third edition of its Pro League.

Kicking off today, ESL Pro League Season 3 will feature 24 of the world's finest teams, who will duke it out over the next nine weeks for a piece of the $750,000 prize pool and the chance to attend the offline finals, to be held at an as-yet venue in London in May.

With an additional $250,000 on offer per season in the Pro League, ESL has announced that $512,000 alone will be paid out to the eight teams attending the finals. The rest of the money will be distributed proportionately among the teams who did not make the cut, having finished 5th-12th in their respective divisions.

fnatic won the first two editions of the Pro League

The winning side will take home a whopping $200,000, which is a significant increase from the maximum figure of $118,000 that a team could get if they topped their division and won the offline finals during the first two seasons.

Below you can find the prize distribution for the online and offline portions of the ESL Pro League:

Regular season (Europe and North America)

5. $27,000
6. $23,500
7. $20,000
8. $16,500
9. $13,000
10. $9,500
11. $6,000
12. $3,500

Season finals

1. $200,000
2. $90,000
3-4. $44,000
5-6. $36,000
7-8. $31,000

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Rest In Peace Cevo

2016-02-09 19:23

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Ez double major price purse [*] Volvo

2016-02-09 18:54

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not rip volvo au contraire, ESL is doing the big events making csgo known and volvo earns the money behind the scenes :D

2016-02-09 19:05

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I think he is saying [*] Major

2016-02-09 19:39

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well not rip major neither major has prestige money can't buy

2016-02-09 23:25

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Money can buy everything and everyone

2016-02-09 23:27

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That's what is sad in this world. Qatar getting the world cup is the most disgusting exemple of this but seriously tho, major will always have this prestige leagues can't really. You can't have the same hype since leagues are played for months

2016-02-09 23:34

Unrelated question but is the distinction between prize* and price tricky? I see that mistake a lot.

2016-02-09 19:06

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no it is not tricky at all.

2016-02-09 19:18

ok nice

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wow

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sweet

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1s1st

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nice

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very nice, some nice $$$ for 1st

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nice

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fuck

2016-02-09 18:49

insane amount of money... glad that the cs:go is growing money wise, allowing new teams and new players to try their luck in competitive side of the game :)

2016-02-09 18:51

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insane? maybe in csgo, but 200k for first place is shit. dota has 3 majors a year each 3million first place and then a international with 7mill first place.

2016-02-09 18:53

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low bait

2016-02-09 18:57

shit bait

2016-02-09 19:00

may be because there is no reason of giving money to cheaters... cant get it? pro scene is full of them now, at least it was , prob now there are a lot of cheaters in tier2/3 teams, some in tier1..

2016-02-09 19:14

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Very few in teams that would actually get good placings in tournaments. Unless all T1 pros cheat /\ / \ / oo \ ------

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woOowww n1

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/del

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another shit tournament

2016-02-09 18:49

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How come? Best league in cs go imo

2016-02-09 18:52

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because online, all those cheeky ddos'es , bo1 every time

2016-02-09 18:54

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Ddos doesn't have to happen if the players are careful, which most tier 1-tier 2 players are already, bo1 is heaven for betting + at least for me I don't have time to spend 2 hours every second day watching bo3 during working days, whereas bo1 are perfect for me to follow the league and watch a few fast matches a week

2016-02-09 19:04

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i dont enjoy bo1, its like watching trailer for movie, game starts, bla bla, and game ends, too short

2016-02-09 19:08

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Hard to do best of three series for league play, at least when there are so many events. There would be even more forfeits, ddosing, etc.

2016-02-09 19:23

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i agree with this, in fact bo1 gives more chances for upset, while in bo3 you can fuck around a bit

2016-02-09 19:24

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You can't do bo1 in league play. Especially since multiple maps are played, and no veto'ing

2016-02-09 19:45

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There is a veto....

2016-02-10 02:41

and to be fair, the fact that it's a bo1 really doesn't have as big of an impact when there are 20 matches in a season, and not 2 matches and you're out of a tournament in group stage.

2016-02-10 02:40

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sure, choke like astralis vs navi, then get rekt by few tier1 teams, and ez non qualified

2016-02-10 07:18

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/facepalm

2016-02-12 04:20

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vp already lose 4 games, they are on bottom of league and already no chance to get to top3

2016-02-12 09:08

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They need to get top4, not top3. There will be really great teams who just don't make it just based on mathematics. 20 games is easily enough for a team to make up for an upset loss. If they can't make up for an upset loss then maybe they really weren't a top 4 team in that league this season. Your argument implies that a t1 team can just get super unlucky and not qualify because they lost to na'vi (a team who is actually better than Astralis nowadays and always pulled upsets before they were this good) and other t1 teams didn't make it in because of the system. Why didn't they beat any of the t1 teams online? If they never pulled an upset and lost to teams who are roughly equivalent to their level of play, then maybe they didn't deserve to go to playoffs that season? It's no secret VP have been playing like dog shit lately.

2016-02-12 17:18

noice

2016-02-09 18:49

not bad

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naize

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noice

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Insane!

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lame

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noiiiiiceeeee

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wow

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not bad

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nice pool

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FIRST PLACE $200,000 Just take that in for a second

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highest ever?

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major 250k$, but again, its 200k $ for season, which is probably more than month or even two, while major is ~4days

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major winner = 100k$ - not 250k$

2016-02-09 18:53

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whole major i mean, i wrote it wrong, but again, on major you can earn money in few days, while here you have to struggle for few months, major was like ?? 80k euros i think

2016-02-09 18:55

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Then 500k+ $ for season, if you mean whole tournament :D

2016-02-09 18:55

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well, yes, you are right :D i just wanted to compare numbers overall, that first place on paper gives you almost same amount of money that gets split between teams on major, but on major you can earn that money way faster, so that number isnt that big

2016-02-09 18:57

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Yeah and don't forget stickers, qualifications for major and 3 or 4 x minor tournaments with 50k$ prizepool by Valve... Major tournament is still the biggest ;)

2016-02-09 19:03

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Stickers are also one of those things where not every team is lucky, for example TSM stickers were awful compared to any tier1-2 team, but LGB had amazing stickers, alongside 3DMAX, Flipsid3, Titan.

2016-02-09 19:07

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They still bought TSM for Pick'em = more $$$ :P You can check quantity of team stickers in the steam market.. I'm sure that tier 1-2 teams got a lot quantity stickers to compare the rest teams like Flipsid3, Vexed etc.. LGB stickers are expensive than TSM stickers in the market, but when you buy a LGB sticker = money fee from steam market is going to Valve/Steam - not LGB. Only when you buy example TSM from CSGO ingame during active or 1-2 weeks before major tournament = 50% to teams, 50% to Valve, if I remember right...

2016-02-09 19:18

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thats bad then, otherwise titan would be able to get their team back to normal state since their stickers are very expensive compare to any other now

2016-02-09 19:20

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2016-02-09 22:42

Even if they would get money out of Steam market 'Titan' wouldn't get a Cent cuz The Company Titan doesn't exist anymore and if Titan still would exist Sticker price wouldn't be that High ( see : TSM)

2016-02-10 15:54

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tsm are worst stickers on market, titan at least look decent

2016-02-10 16:23

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Its about as everybody is sure the org won't pick up a Team again which could make it in the Major the Sticker price rises -> Titan, IBP Orgs like G2, TSM everybody knows they pick up again a Team

2016-02-10 16:46

100k 1st place in major, 200k 1st place here -_-

2016-02-09 18:53

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wrote it wrong, i wanted to say that whole major is around 250k euros, but here you get 200k$ for first place

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hi mom

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nice!

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omfg this has gone too far with the #1 wannabes

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$750k w0w

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NIIICE

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Holy shit! Fnatic, EnvyUs, or ex-TSM (forget name), are going to add a lot to their bank.

2016-02-09 18:51

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hhaha ex-tsm rofl

2016-02-09 20:03

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I'm not a fan of them, but just because they've been shaky lately is not a good reason to assume they will continue to be.

2016-02-10 01:29

first! just kidding, but i see a flaw in the notification system :) nice pool btw !

2016-02-09 18:51

ESL is a beast.

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gj ESL !

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now this is how you distribute ur prizes

2016-02-09 18:54

nice a 200k tournament which doesnt suck

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512k learn to read

2016-02-09 21:47

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Winner gets 200k

2016-02-10 00:41

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guy said "200k tournament" not "200k first place"

2016-02-10 00:54

sick

2016-02-09 18:55

lol

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@valve

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW ESL ON FIRE :O

2016-02-09 18:59

@valve step up ur game bitch

2016-02-09 19:00

Let's see which team has the best Coders! (we'll probably see the most cheating, ever, in this league)

2016-02-09 19:01

ez s1mple

2016-02-09 19:01

ESL Pro League needs open new regions, Asia & South America.

2016-02-09 19:02

Meh. Hate the ESL format.

2016-02-09 19:02

EASY 200K $ FOR FNATIC !

2016-02-09 19:05

CS:GO getting bigger by the day. This, ELEAGUE, the different Majors, DreamHack's, Gfinity, Game Show, etc will make the year's total prize money at least $6mil.

2016-02-09 19:06

izi 3,500$ for Virus Pro

2016-02-09 19:09

<3 faceit

2016-02-09 19:11

PogChamp

2016-02-09 19:15

Still not a major. Kappa.

2016-02-09 19:15

Easy 71.000 dollars for Astralis, 100% 1st place in regular season and 3-4th at the finals..

2016-02-09 19:19

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chokeralis? i doubt it

2016-02-09 19:20

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they will choke at the LAN final at semi lol as always

2016-02-09 19:25

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That's what i said :)

2016-02-09 23:19

Ofc, the choke starts in the semis :)

2016-02-09 23:18

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choke started on day 1 even without being in semis yet

2016-02-09 23:19

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Never ever my friend, but as soon as they reach the semis, they fall apart for sure ;)

2016-02-09 23:22

"Online" money is only to be split between the teams that don't manage to qualify for offline finals. 27k$ is for the 5th.

2016-02-09 19:25

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Seems like it, good change imo. In season 2 the first 4 got money for the online league as well wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/ESL_ES..

2016-02-09 19:31

they just used to pay out money for the placings in the online part aswell? or maybe that was another tournament, atleast astralis always used to top thouse qualifier groups and get like 25k dollars.

2016-02-09 23:23

DOLLA$ DOLLA$ DOLLA$

2016-02-09 19:20

$cr1LL4

2016-02-09 19:33

nice money

2016-02-09 19:36

Free money for Liquid ezpz for s1mple

2016-02-09 19:36

Hahaha more than major lmao

2016-02-09 19:47

200k.

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best !

2016-02-09 19:51

500k+? Why not just type 512k? :)

2016-02-09 19:53

still gonna be shitty format + huge delays + shit casters

2016-02-09 19:54

this is very nice

2016-02-09 20:01

Yeah, finally. Gaben hasn't collected enough money yet to do such tournament.

2016-02-09 20:17

Where is the prize money for the regular season for 1st to 4th place? Is their prize just making it to the LAN finals? I thought the top 4 regular season teams got prize money in the previous 2 seasons.

2016-02-09 20:50