ESEA presents Global Challenge LAN

21-4-2016 14:36

ESEA have announced the creation of a LAN which will include 50,000 dollars in prize money for qualifying teams from six different regions.

With the lack of a direct qualifier for Season 22 of the ESL Pro League, a new tournament has been created which will give international LAN experience to teams that might otherwise not have the chance to gain it.

ESEA Global Challenge will provide an opportunity for new teams to make it into the big leagues

With the global expansion of Counter Strike as their backdrop, and with teams such as TyLoo and Tempo Storm rising from peripheral regions and garnering upset potential, ESEA have focused on creating a tournament which "will be the first step for getting new faces invited into larger international events," according to Brett Sheffiled, Product Manager at ESEA.

The ESEA Global Challenge LAN will feature eight teams from six regions with a $50,000 prize pool.

Qualifying Regions:

North America — 2 teams (Top 2 Premier teams)
Europe — 2 teams (Top 2 Premier teams)
Brazil — 1 team (Regional champion)
Australia — 1 team (Regional champion)
Asia — 1 team (Regional champion)
TBA — 1 team

Prize Breakdown:

1. - $18,000
2. - $10,000
3. - $5,000
4. - $5,000
5-8. - $3,000

Sounds great! Good for the scene

2016-04-21 14:37

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you are so evil

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Difficult for ENCE.

2016-04-21 14:39

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ez for mts gamegod wolf

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xD Tough luck though ... 6 comments within the space of first second ?! Unreal

2016-04-21 14:44

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i shouldn thave typed yes, i should have just send it after the y ._.

2016-04-21 14:46

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You learned something incredibly important & cardinal today. Deploy it for the betterment of humanity. With great power, comes great responsibility.

2016-04-21 14:53

inb4 sadee says ez ence EZ ENCE

2016-04-21 14:55

Totally Easy For Finnish ENCE eSports CS:GO Main Roster From Finland

2016-04-21 15:52

en for ence

2016-04-21 22:57

yes

2016-04-21 14:36

gr8 stuff

2016-04-21 15:26

n12

Nice :)

2016-04-21 14:45

GREAT

low prizemoney :D

even lower teams

2016-04-21 14:42

yuhuuu

wow

18k xd

FIRST ! oh no :(

for sale to ads.

EZ FOR ENCE

Nt allu

2016-04-21 15:38

EU wins <3

VP WIN LAN NEXT SEASON

so you're telling me the regional champoin of brazil ( probably LG) is gonna play against some premier scrubs?

I guess the tournament is intended for teams outside of the ESL pro league roster. Premier teams probably.

ok. then this is a great chance for teams that arent that known yet :)

Yes, it is a good thing for low tier 2 teams. Makes no sense for teams like LG to play on this. They are already on ESL pro league.

EZ FOR PASHALALALALLALAAAAL TEAM

Progress

Brazil — 1 team (Regional champion) finally a chance for keyd

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What about Tempo Storm?

2016-04-21 14:52

its for premier teams, i don't think that tempo storm will play, but top3 br keyD yes, i expect so much from them.

2016-04-21 14:58

jew faggot

2016-04-21 19:02

I think this Event isnt made for a Team like TS

2016-04-21 15:01

TS won last season of premier league, so next season they will play pro league with LG

2016-04-21 16:19

Ah, kk thx

2016-04-21 17:32

keyd is about to move to NA, so i guess they will compete for a NA spot

2016-04-21 16:20

Nice

Really nice. Looking foward to see another brazillian team in the international CS.

I'm don't care! I'm waiting news about Simple or Bondik

2016-04-21 14:40

Ez eXplosive. W8........

why can't someone organize a CPL type tournament where even open teams can play if they can get there....a lot of star players got experience playing in smaller teams at CPL in 1.6 it was good for the scene.

2016-04-21 14:41

2016-04-21 16:02

ez hellraisers

EZ for VP.

ez for ENCE

2016-04-21 14:43

Good thing for low tier 2 teams.

ez 4 ence

not much money but a great chance for lower teams (like ence ofc)

ENCE WORLD, GREAT FOR ENVY

Nice but should be 16 teams

EZ ENCE

EZ FOR SUBTOP GOGOGO !

2016-04-21 14:47

nice

2016-04-21 14:48

Nice, will be fun watching

could've atleast made it 25k for first place u greedy cunts

2016-04-21 14:49

Me gusta!

2016-04-21 14:51

six different regions. (no africa) wtf

r8? Africa has best Computers thanks Mr. Gates

2016-04-21 15:33

brazil regional means brazilians servers? because chileans and argentinians play the brazilian esea league

Good point

By regional champion I think it means whoever wins the BR esea league and if argentinians and chileans are allowed to play the BR esea league I see no problem with a arg or chil team winning the BR esea league and going to the global challenge lan.

2016-04-21 14:57

keyd

2016-04-21 18:29

Servers I think they should rename it South America

2016-04-21 15:34

yeah, but chile and arg never won or get closer to won esea league in brazil.

2016-04-21 16:38

Hmm TS wont attend, they dont play the ESEA main league. LG might get a spot being #1 or #2 on NA ESEA League. It will be probably LG and Keyd Stars then.

Are you dumb or what?

I was editing my post the moment you replied me. No reason to be a scumbag. Typical favelado monkey.

2016-04-21 14:59

Still dumb. "ESEA have focused on creating a tournament which "will be the first step for getting new faces invited into larger international events". It's for NEW faces. LG is pretty known. Obviously this is not a tournament they would get into in any way. You obviously don't understand what you read.

2016-04-21 15:03

I didn't read this part moron. Just read now this is for premier division. wow you're so intelligent, you can even read. Pls give me port of your IQ favela senpai.

2016-04-21 15:32

EZ For ENCE.

2016-04-21 14:54

ez for ence, mark my words that this is ez for ence

May I mark it in yellow plz?

yes, to your monitor with waterproof marker

2016-04-21 15:04

Ez LAN for VP

2016-04-21 15:00

Not this Season but next when they are in Premier and not Pro League :D

Ez for Mineski xP

regional championship is the open league s22??

So it's like the special Olympics for CS?

2016-04-21 15:10

progress

2016-04-21 15:12

So virtus.Premier will win it next season!

Ahh

2016-04-21 15:17

Good news.

2016-04-21 15:27

This is really cool. Sometimes top level teams can't find good players to fill in because no one has enough experience to show they can step up. More events and tournaments like this can help all that. Kind of like a minor league system in baseball without the lower orgs being tied to the upper orgs.

More like 2 Asia team and 1 NA team. NA < Asia

2016-04-21 15:29

Kkona op

finally they get more regions involved watching the same few teams from EU and NA are boring

2016-04-21 15:31

Invite XPC Gaming

2016-04-21 15:36

i really really wish to have INDIAN SPOT , bcoz of the ping issues thy can never compter chinese / korean teams in any way

2016-04-21 15:42

Ez for ENCE and Tyloo. :)

2016-04-21 15:46

4Head

North America — 2 teams (Top 2 Premier teams) Europe — 2 teams (Top 2 Premier teams) Brazil — 1 team (Regional champion) Australia — 1 team (Regional champion) Asia — 1 team (Regional champion) TBA — 1 team and no north africa ?? GJ ESEA

2016-04-21 15:48

África...? What is África....?

2016-04-21 15:54

nt messi

2016-04-21 15:59

ASIA QUALIFIER 10 KOREAN 1 SEA AND 1 OCEANIC TEAM AMIRITE GUUUUUUUUUUYS

2016-04-21 15:50

ez for ence

ES EA

2016-04-21 15:53

ez bronzil

2016-04-21 15:56

first

2016-04-21 15:57

cool

TBA 2stronk

2016-04-21 16:00

wooow *_* i will win . thx esl

African Qualifier when?

2016-04-21 16:16

Are they going to pay for travel expenses? because if they dont all I see is like the 1st few seasons of esea invite Euro/NA lan that was half of euro teams not showing because they wouldn't make any money even if they won.