ESL reveal APAC league with $100k

5-11-2016 11:37

ESL Australia and ZEN ESPORTS NETWORK announce a new league for the Asia-Pacific region in 2017 with $100,000 up for grabs.

With ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 2 Finals in action this weekend, ESL Australia and ZEN revealed on stream that the league will feature 8 teams split between the Oceanic region and the Asian region. There will be two seasons per year, which will involve a two to three week online season and LAN finals.

The first Asia-Pacific league in CS:GO

The online qualifiers will begin next month, in December 2016. Two spots have been secured by Athletico and Chiefs after defeating Immunity and Parallax respectively in the semi-finals of ESL ANZ Season 2 Finals.

You can find the updated list of participants below:

Athletico	Chiefs	Australia #3	Australia #4
Asia #1	Asia #2	Asia #3	Asia #4

Here are the details given so far for the Oceanic region:

Online Qualifiers - beginning from December 4th 2016

Offline Qualifier - Melbourne: Crown Invitational - January 14th 2017

Season One League - February 4th to April 13th 2017

More information will be revealed from ESL Australia in the coming future.

ez for tyloo / cyber

2016-11-05 11:37

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+1 This will be so good. Especially visa wise, should be no problem for Asian teams getting into Australia unless they have criminal record lol

2016-11-05 12:04

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ok now go prepare me kangaroo and koala meat

2016-11-05 14:22

SELLING MY 3rd spot 4 advertisemnet

Rapport

2016-11-05 13:45

fak

2016-11-05 14:01

nice

lol nice

First

Lets Go Australia!

2016-11-05 11:38

ALPACA league

best aussie tournament

APAC = CAPA reversed = Kappa League LUL

2016-11-05 11:41

LOL I like that logic xD

2016-11-05 11:40

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2016-11-05 11:42

ESL reveal BOT league with $100k 4Head

2016-11-05 11:45

... Tyloo upset SK before, what has Space Soldiers done that is comparable to that? DansGame (although Xantares and the team is slightly rising)

2016-11-05 14:52

Please for fcuk sake, don't waste a slot with INDIAN team. Give it to someone else from pakistan, bhutan, srilanka or rest of the asia, but no to India.

2016-11-05 11:51

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as long as the qualifiers are fair (suitable pings for both teams), i don't see a reason why any indian team shouldn't make it as long as they deserve.

2016-11-05 12:10

That's weird mate. I would rather prefer to see a new team from the scene attending this event for experience than a team from india for free sponsored tour to Australia.

2016-11-05 12:13

yes, we always 0-16

2016-11-05 12:14

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Correction 0-16 since last 3 yrs straight.

2016-11-05 12:15

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i cri everytime :'(

2016-11-05 15:39

Indian CS in a Nutshell ; Beat Pakistan in every game & Be Happy with it. Fcukers can't play against other asian teams.

2016-11-06 07:30

2016-11-06 14:28

tell me how the fuck ASIA can play with OCEAN

LAN...

2016-11-05 12:05

No he means how can Asia play with Papa Odeag, they wouldn't stand a chance. But to be fair, only HUNDEN can rival OCEAN.

2016-11-05 13:02

aussie cs scene is garbage anyway, who tf cares tier 5 eu teams are more skilled than these shitty au teams LUL

2016-11-05 12:08

Yeah just trash talk ya own country... Good on ya

2016-11-05 17:06

im not biased, idgaf what the country is, if it's shit i will rekt it bbbb

2016-11-06 03:02

Hope the online qualifiers are not as shitty as they've been before for asia with teams playing on 300 pings.

if karath is casting for this someone give me a rope and stool to kick

deadly serious I will video the whole thing

i would do the same, if bleh casts the game. Over Hype & shady analogy at best.

I would rather have Asia involved in ESL Pro League

2016-11-05 13:14

Exactly

2016-11-05 15:04

good

2016-11-05 13:29

tyloo again?

2016-11-05 13:51

why only australian and asian teams? its like host 250k event in USA with only NA teams and basically give away money to trash teams

2016-11-05 13:56

... Tyloo upset SK before and it helps CS to gain exposure.

2016-11-05 14:53

i am not talking only about top1-10teams, could have invited hr/epsilon/homesent etc

2016-11-05 15:01

i think there trying to actually get some money into the AU scene, like most lans here have max 10k prize money.

2016-11-05 16:32

easy money for renegades if they are going to play there

2016-11-05 16:33

Yes ! Good prospects for Aussie Scene!

2016-11-05 13:58

tyloo, cyberzen, MVP project, TheMongolz

2016-11-05 15:11

GLHF AliStair

2016-11-05 15:22

Go 4 Asian csgo

2016-11-05 15:32

Is RNG coming to AU to play the qualis?

2016-11-05 17:05

esl elegiggle no thank you

2016-11-05 19:46

Nice expension for the csgo pro scene

2016-11-05 20:08

wat?

2016-11-05 23:02

4 Aussie teams? Like they have any other team apart from renegades that stands a change against the Chinese overlords?(TyLoo and VG)

2016-11-06 11:18

Updates?

2016-11-27 21:56

ESL reveal APAC league with $100k

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