Invites for ECS Dev. League revealed

20-8-2016 17:28

The organisers of the Esports Championship Series have revealed the eight teams that have been invited to compete in its Development League.

With ECS Season 2 due to start only in October, the league's organisers will be hosting in September a qualifying tournament to give teams the chance to earn spots in the $1.75 million competition.

The ECS Development League will consist of two divisions, each one with eight teams - four invites and four determined by open online qualifiers.

SK will need to requalify for ECS

In North America, the top two teams from the Development League division will take on the bottom two teams of Season 1 in promotion matches to determine the final teams entering ECS Season 2.

In Europe, the first-placed team of the qualifiers will move directly into ECS due to the region having an additional spot up for grabs following Na`Vi's withdrawal, which means that it will be the runner-up and the third-placed side going to the promotion stage against the bottom teams from the inaugural season.

Below you can find the participants' list for the Development Leagues:

Europe	North America
GODSENT	SK
Natus Vincere	Renegades
Gambit	Immortals
FlipSid3	Selfless
AGG (Open qualifier #1)	RONIN (Open qualifier #1)
X (Open qualifier #2)	Prospects (Open qualifier #1)
Open qualifier #3	Open qualifier #3
Open qualifier #4	Open qualifier #4

SK Gaming will need to requalify for ECS through the Development League after losing their spot in the league following the signing of Luminosity Gaming's squad.

ez for Na`Vi, with new s1mple

2016-08-20 17:28

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Ence n1!

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Luminosity got the spot ?

2016-08-20 18:36

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SK: a team that needs so much development... This is more like Na'Vi v Godsent and SK v Immortals and 12 other teams there for fun.

2016-08-20 19:06

ezforPronax

GODSENT vs SK grand finals the only 2 team who have firepower & also igl

2016-08-20 18:11

ez S1mple

2016-08-20 17:31

Simple 4 s1mple

2016-08-23 02:25

ez for sk

ez for s1mple

2016-08-20 17:29

more like simple for s1mple.

easy for ence

Simple for s1mple

2016-08-21 20:01

cool!

asd

never #1

1nd

Ez for the Renegades

not 1st

1st

aaa

ddddd

hello

nice

EZ NAVE

selfless?

nicenice

again Tsm left out... Edit: nvm i thought this was normal ECS

2016-08-20 17:30

they're already in the league

Yes i know i edited right away xd

not first

s1mpleg0d

EZ for Selfless

renegades ez

DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE TRYING TO SOUND PROFESSIONAL k den

SK and Navi bottom 2 lel

First

LMAO whata joke

3 non NA teams in NA spots Lmao, NA you can do ut better

Gambit invite lol...

sk NA

>north america >2 brazilians teams and 1 from OCE NA scene Elegiggle

lol... imagine ECS without godsent, sk and navi.

But godsent and SK will make it easily?

2016-08-20 18:30

Five major legends teams in a qualifier... n1

SK in Development League LMAO Stop organizing events NA if you put the best team in the world into an inferior division.

2016-08-20 17:32

This is an EU league

2016-08-21 03:26

SK LOL. Damn spots are owned by the orgs

2016-08-20 17:33

EZ 4 GODSENT

In NA, EchoFox placed 9th and Kaliber 10th. While in EU Dignitas placed 9th. Kind of sucks that Splyce hasn't been able to participate in any of the qualifiers yet though.

2016-08-20 17:37

NA scene EleGiggle

rip olofsister and miester

2016-08-20 17:38

ez for GODSENT and SK

Nice to see that the org now dominate the scene and players now are now only hostages of them. Some day we will see champions playing qualifiers because their contracts expired and things like that

2016-08-20 17:39

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so if for example the top players of barcelona leave barcelona and sign to lets say as monaco, monaco should be directly qualified for champions leauge or whatever, cuz they have star players? lmao

2016-08-20 17:58

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its not football dumbass

2016-08-20 18:06

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thank you sherlock, but i think you missed the point

2016-08-20 18:07

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I understood your point bro. But in 15 years of CS champs this rules exist. Football teams have a 30 players plantel, CS are five and if you change one team is not the same. Put your brain to work, So Bit1, Nak, Destiny, Yel and PKL now are qualified cause LG now?

2016-08-20 18:27

apparently yes, nothing we could do, that's how it works, i dont agree with it though

2016-08-20 18:51

It works now. Never happened before E-league and now ECS. Terrible future to CS if this be a general rule. Good teams losing spots and not good teams winning without any effort

2016-08-20 18:53

#gogodsent

f3 and gambit a bit weird ones but ez4dosia

rip fnatic

Ez for godsent

2016-08-20 18:22

"Developmental" league with 3 (arguably 4) top 10 teams. Sick.

2016-08-20 18:28

sweet

Europe: 1. GODSENT 2. Flipsid3 3. Na`Vi 4. Gambit

DEVELOPMENTAL league with 3(!) top-5 teams, LMAO. Ez for GODSENT, Na'Vi, and Brazil!

2016-08-20 18:40

Renegades have Australian flag and they are listed like a NA team. WTF?

2016-08-20 18:49

Foreign teams living in NA in NA leagues/qualifiers? mind = BLOWN.

2016-08-20 20:30

SK was second and will play qualifier ...wtf?

org switch it's fucking stupid, i agree pretty sure new LG gets a free spot because of it...fucking dumb

2016-08-20 18:55

These new league are doing away with rules ... Ridiculous... Rating for Sk is not a problem, izi Pizi We are already used to being passed back and turn around at the end to win is more enjoyable. #RUNSK

2016-08-20 19:02

You should be very happy actually. Because, based on the rules LG will most likely have a spot in the league. So now you will get to see another brazilian team that would most likely have a hard time qualifying AND SK who will definetely qualify. Just a win for the Brazilian fans imo.

2016-08-20 21:03

Giving spots to orgs instead of players is really a shitty way to do stuff on CS. I wonder how Valve that's is always so silent, gets so talkative about coaches and ask tournaments to use their rules but say shit about this. Even when it goes against the rules Valve enforces on the majors, handling spots to a 3 players core instead of orgs.