ESL Pro League with $2m in 2017

7-11-2016 16:52

ESL has announced that it will pay out a total of $2 million across two Pro League seasons in 2017.

With the the dust now settling on the fourth season of the Pro League, which came to an end with an event in São Paulo, ESL has unveiled the first details about the prestigious competition in 2017.

The total prize pool has been increased by $500,000 to a whopping $2 million, with $1 million up for grabs in each season.

A total of $2 million will be on offer in the Pro League in 2017

Season 5 of the ESL Pro League will kick off on February 7 and will come to a close on the first weekend of June, where the Verizon Theatre, in Dallas, will host the offline finals. No details have been announced about the finals of Season 6, which will run from August to December.

Cloud9 succeeded SK Gaming as Pro League champions after defeating the Brazilians in the title decider of the Season 4 finals, which took place from October 26-30.

nice :DDD

2016-11-07 16:52

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Renegades better be in this, they missed the BR finals :( Even if they would have been favored to be on the bottom you never know if they could fluke an upset on lan lol...

2016-11-07 17:18

they'd better use that money to upgrade their production. a shitshow with 2 mil prize is still a shitshow

2016-11-07 19:14

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i like ur username

2016-11-08 02:26

2016-11-07 16:52

WHY NEVER FIRST

2016-11-07 16:52

1 reply

someday :)

2016-11-07 16:59

asd

2016-11-07 16:52

wtf

2016-11-07 16:52

2mil PogChamp

2016-11-07 16:53

2016-11-07 16:52

2m o.o

2016-11-07 16:52

gr8

2016-11-07 16:52

Nice

2016-11-07 16:52

Thats pretty cool

2016-11-07 16:52

sick

2016-11-07 16:52

cool

2016-11-07 16:52

nice

2016-11-07 16:52

OMG

2016-11-07 16:52

wow¨

2016-11-07 16:52

WAT

2016-11-07 16:52

HYPE

2016-11-07 16:52

ESL IN 2017 LUL

2016-11-07 16:52

2 mill? holy fuck

2016-11-07 16:52

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For 2 seasons yes..

2016-11-07 16:56

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Ye most people aren't reading the thing and think that it's just 2mil for s5

2016-11-08 02:13

2016-11-07 16:52

csgo growing too fast

2016-11-07 16:52

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Yeah i think there will be this big downfall soon, i hope not, but for some reason i think it might happen

2016-11-07 17:24

HNNGGGGGGGGGGG 2 MILLION AND SHARKS WITH LASERS ON THEIR HEADS

2016-11-07 16:53

ez money

2016-11-07 16:53

oh my god

2016-11-07 16:53

INSANE

2016-11-07 16:53

opanaa isaarikaa movtkan sheveci nice news

2016-11-07 16:53

y dont just pay me? i need money more than them ffs

2016-11-07 16:53

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Then start working no one will give you something for free

2016-11-07 17:10

holy cow

2016-11-07 16:53

ill start grinding

2016-11-07 16:53

maybe make a major with $2m prize pool?

2016-11-07 16:53

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It's Valve who decides prize pools for majors, not ESL.

2016-11-07 17:02

prize pool is still ok, it takes 4 months + 2 playoffs to distribute the $2m while it takes 5-6 days to play for the $1m major share.

2016-11-08 03:20

nice

2016-11-07 16:53

They should better invest in a good production. XAAXAXXAXAX

2016-11-07 16:53

nice

2016-11-07 16:53

PogChamp

2016-11-07 16:53

pls no online quali!!!

2016-11-07 16:53

1 reply

2016-11-07 22:18

Holy shit

2016-11-07 16:53

HOLY *** OMG. THATS INSANE

2016-11-07 16:54

nicela

2016-11-07 16:54

Honestly it doesn't matter about the money I'll rather see the best teams playing.

2016-11-07 16:54

This ain't good. This is another step into ESL having full control of the pro scene. Most others can't afford to raise prize pools. FaceIt is most likely allready in trouble with ECS. Look at the view count. Everyone talks that omg esl is bad and esl this, yet they only watch ESL matches. ESC has about half the views than Pro League games, even though the prize pool used to be bigger.

2016-11-07 16:55

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ESL has much better casters, but I still don't get why there are not more people watching ECS but agree with you

2016-11-07 16:58

6 replies

I actually rank Black DDK and White James as the best duo, but yes, in general FACEIT sucks @ "casting cast"

2016-11-07 17:07

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they suck!!! specially white guy, he so dumb.... black guy he is ok but white guy too much mouth no brainz

2016-11-07 17:19

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lol if you find DDK stupid I'd say you are the one who is the idiot around here

2016-11-07 18:10

1 reply

2016-11-07 18:49

Black DDK and White James are amazing, I agree

2016-11-07 17:22

the timing of ECS is the main reason, EPL just finished and people are fed up of the daily matches b/w top teams. Too much online shit to care about

2016-11-07 17:22

The advertised ECS "prize pool" includes all spending on accommodation for the players, and I think plane tickets for them so it's quite alot less than that

2016-11-08 02:15

now ESL should figure out how to organize qualification to main event to avoid onliners who are doing shit on LAN

2016-11-07 16:56

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or maybe VP and NaVi should improve their online performance it is hardly possible to play an additional as an offline event. there are just too many events and eLeague etc. The player have to travel a lot even with the online leagues

2016-11-07 17:03

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ELEAGUE have no problems with LAN qualifications and we always watch the best teams

2016-11-07 17:09

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yes which is great (even though FaZe and mouz still qualified *cough* onliners *cough*), but there can not be more leagues like that, it would be to much traveling for the players so, either there would have to be less leagues/events or we will have to live with the online qualifiers

2016-11-07 17:20

maybe dogshit like Faze what secure 1st place in EU division abusing online format and liek always get rape in group stage on LAN stop blockign slots

2016-11-07 17:10

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Xddddddd

2016-11-07 17:19

mad cause bad

2016-11-07 17:21

Why not in Dubai?

2016-11-07 16:57

Just pls not host finals in brazil, never ever again

2016-11-07 16:57

2016-11-07 17:01

Does this mean we have a Raise in Major Prize Pools?

2016-11-07 17:03

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not necessarily, eleague 2.4 million across season 1 and 2

2016-11-07 17:07

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*2.5 million

2016-11-07 17:08

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you said 2.8 million below nerd its like 4 million

2016-11-07 17:09

Fairs

2016-11-07 17:09

Inb4 playing in toilet xddddddd

2016-11-07 17:03

when the prize pool goes up all the good teams start sucking...and all the poor bad players are suddenly star players.

2016-11-07 17:07

Everyone hyped as fuck from 2milions $ while dota major is just laughing with 21 000 000$ prizepool^^^

2016-11-07 17:07

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The point is that CSGO players don't make this prize pools on their own, if we want to support team or player we can buy their stickers, some money from this goes to them.

2016-11-07 17:10

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there was an eSport case in 2014 no idea why they dont start making them again

2016-11-07 17:14

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There were esports cases in 2013 and 2014, valve should create more of those

2016-11-07 17:46

$10 compendium. That's how they reached that $10mil. personally I wouldn't buy that again, just waste of money imo

2016-11-07 18:38

Not really a big deal... eLeague had like 2.5 million

2016-11-07 17:12

New major??

2016-11-07 17:08

1 reply

What?

2016-11-08 00:50

Nice to see this!

2016-11-07 17:09

ez 4 navi

2016-11-07 17:11

ezmoney

2016-11-07 17:14

Absolutely sick!

2016-11-07 17:15

This makes me happy to hear. All this time invested in CS:GO and I was worried the game was too far in decline after the major betting websites went down. Good to see that CS is alive and strong, still going since the 1990's.

2016-11-07 17:16

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Am i the one who thinks that increasing prize pool won't do game better XD

2016-11-07 23:51

nothing much when ESL was bought by 80 mil by swedes

2016-11-07 17:17

2kk$ and 20k$ production

2016-11-07 17:18

Nice prize pool jesus!!! :oo

2016-11-07 17:18

ez for fnatic.

2016-11-07 17:23

Amazing news! ! !

2016-11-07 17:25

holy... so cool to see cs pro scene grow so fast

2016-11-07 17:27

maybe VP will try to qualify this time

2016-11-07 17:27

wake up NA'VI!!!

2016-11-07 17:30

WTF 1$ million for the first place?

2016-11-07 17:32

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Learn to read...

2016-11-08 00:51

6 replies

Cocky?

2016-11-08 01:07

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mad? because you can't read axaxax

2016-11-08 01:38

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You did not even understood the sentence. It was not a question, it was like 'really?' But ofc dont reply if it bothers you. Have a goos night

2016-11-08 01:45

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the first place dont get 1 million... learn to read

2016-11-08 01:49

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What is the subject in your sentence, I cannot understand your english sorry

2016-11-08 03:11

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cry more

2016-11-08 03:34

This is huge

2016-11-07 17:33

MORE MONEY FOR EU ONLINERS!

2016-11-07 17:33

5 replies

who won last esl pro league?

2016-11-07 17:37

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Did you read what i wrote ? Teams make money by just participating and qualifying for LAN SO yes,MORE money for EU onliners,who otherwise wont win anything if this even was held directly on LAN.

2016-11-07 18:14

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Nice, but now he still doesn't know who won last pro league

2016-11-08 00:53

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Cloud9 won it,and im happy for them,but still,more money for EU onliners faze.

2016-11-08 19:53

more money for NA shitty teams like Echo Fox, Complexity and others aswell

2016-11-08 00:13

NICEEEE3

2016-11-07 17:34

MOM GET THE CAMERA

2016-11-07 17:35

meanwhile VP in december gonna win 2x more moneys hahaha 400k for 1st place in this ESL shit wiki.teamliquid.net/counterstrike/World_.. izi 800.000USD for VP time to write another chapter in CS history and update world earning money rank esportsearnings.com/games/245-counter-st..

2016-11-07 17:41

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inb4 lost in groupstage against .russia

2016-11-07 17:55

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losing to cloud9 tch tch

2016-11-07 18:15

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hltv.org/ranking/teams/2016/november/1/ i dont see penta

2016-11-07 18:16

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on lan. rofl come back for more,if you feel like it

2016-11-07 18:16

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dont see .russia there neither

2016-11-07 18:17

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not a team. but losing to c9 on lan tch tch

2016-11-07 18:17

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go make your homework 5th grader, stop browsing hltv, no one takes you serious

2016-11-07 18:17

1 reply

ahahaha mad swede triggered , goes straight off topic make more threads and posts about your banana team

2016-11-07 18:18

2016-11-07 17:43

H PogChamp Y PogChamp P PogChamp E PogChamp

2016-11-07 17:47

CS will soon be part of official Olympic games! Lez go!

2016-11-07 17:49

I just want sticker and drops haha

2016-11-07 17:50

HOLY SHIT

2016-11-07 17:51

Virtu.Pro like this

2016-11-07 17:52

AMAZING!

2016-11-07 17:53

niiiice :)

2016-11-07 17:53

PogChamp

2016-11-07 17:53

CS:GO ! We are bigger and bigger !

2016-11-07 17:57

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just like us :)

2016-11-07 17:58

wew

2016-11-07 17:58

Ez for XANTARES

2016-11-07 18:05

Looks like more and more .exe files will be used ;)

2016-11-07 18:05

use the fucking money to improve your shitty tournament ESL stop increasing the prize pool

2016-11-07 18:09

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lul, there is no way to make you guys happy

2016-11-07 18:34

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they could've fixed quality of official stream atleast

2016-11-08 05:05

valve better stop support top teams with their own aimlock system just to keep game hyped! ITS TOO OBVIOUS ALREADY. first it was flusha and fnatic, then device and astralis, shortly after that fallen and lg-sk, now every team uses it even C9 lul. valve wants to make this worldwide by spreading hack programm... sad story...all started because of NIP's 87-0 because noone could beat them atm. and valve decided that they killing the game making it boring...

2016-11-07 18:17

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you tried

2016-11-07 23:56

youtube.com/watch?v=a-BgREkkjcg

2016-11-07 18:20

So you want to make olofm and co richer? i like that

2016-11-07 18:26

growin-up

2016-11-07 18:28

vovvvvvvvv

2016-11-07 18:35

Ez for best tournament ESL PRO LEAGUE

2016-11-07 18:35

2016-11-07 18:47

noice esl gj good money for VP !

2016-11-07 18:51

omfg

2016-11-07 18:55

rekt valve

2016-11-07 18:55

2017 will be the downfall of CS, no one's gonna play it, few is gonna watch it

2016-11-07 18:58

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i aren't think that

2016-11-07 22:25

Nice!

2016-11-07 19:03

2016-11-07 19:08

nice!

2016-11-07 19:20

awesome, too bad the online part is boring af :(

2016-11-07 19:33

Change your stupid bo1-based group stage format, stop making a joke out of your tournaments.

2016-11-07 19:43

More money for EU, less for NA please. NA teams are already making banks from their salary alone, and EU teams deserve it more as they are better overall (and Tier 2 EU teams have smaller salaries than Tier 2 NA teams, so something has to make up for it, so most deserving teams = EU (only C9 and SK are really good in NA, and then once in a while Liquid/Optic and Immortals are doing OK) should get more money as they are overall more competitive than NA as a whole.

2016-11-07 19:45

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where are source for salary cause i wasn't know this information

2016-11-07 22:26

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I don't have a source to provide (so i have to admit i may be wrong) but a team like Echo Fox (which got rekt at ELeague)'s level in EU wouldn't get nowhere near the same money than that team in NA. I know that the cost of living is not the same everywhere obviously (small salaries aren't as painful in Eastern Europe than in Scandinavia for example), but if i had to guess i would say a team like EF pays at least 5000$/month (if not even more) + you compete against NA field (which is weaker than EU field) which means an EU team with EF level could get (because that team wouldn't be strong enough to play on stronger tourneys) access to Tier 3/4 tourneys and prizes whereas in NA that team could get access to Tier 2 tourneys (and the money that goes with it. EF scored 6 rounds in 3 maps vs VP and G2, a team like this would clearly get paid less than 1500€ in EU (if you're from Poland, Ukraine and such, it's fine, if you're from France, it's not amazing - below median income, and if you're Sweden/Norway/Finland it sucks.) I don't have numbers to prove my claims, but it's clear that weaker players are able to live from the game in NA , the weaker players from NA that live from the game wouldn't have a good enough level to live it vs EU competition (of course you can improve your income with Twitch, but i'm talking about living from salary paid by a team + prize money from CS tourneys). In ESL finals, NaVi did not qualify for example for the LAN event in Sao Paulo, a team like NaVi playing in the NA league would qualify 95+% of the time to the LAN event. I don't want NA players to win less (obviously, i'm not hating on people living their dream lol), but those companies like ESL have to invest to make sure more EU and Asia (+ other regions where almost no one is a pro) people can be pros of that game. In NA, some "not amazing at all" players are already pros, and in EU some players who might be slightly better than those "not amazing at all" NA pros aren't living from the game, so yeah the game isn't as global as it may look. (sorry for the awful - i guess - english, but it's not my native language). TL;DR : you need to be significatively better in the game to live from the game alone (get a salary + the money you win in tourneys) in EU than in NA (that's why some players like Skytten, Devilwalk in the past and such try their luck in NA.)

2016-11-07 22:42

How is this good news, just goes to show what is wrong with this freaking world man... A freaking gamer (and you do have to be the best) makes a ton more cash than a firefighter, a teacher, a doctor. Don't get me wrong, I love cs and I love games and I think people should be able to pursue their dreams, but it is a fucking game... The same with football and other sports (eletronic or not).

2016-11-07 20:02

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please fucking kys.

2016-11-07 20:09

1 reply

the bait is real

2016-11-07 20:28

People pay stupid amounts of money for entertainment, it's always been like that, and it will always be, deal with it.

2016-11-07 20:10

get out of this site and kys

2016-11-08 03:19

Esl with the mil increased by 250k thats p good

2016-11-07 20:22

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learn to read

2016-11-07 20:21

U are crazy

2016-11-07 20:16

Maybe then appear Fnatic :Kappa:

2016-11-07 20:34

wast of time, call me when first place 1 mill $ #RiggedRankings

2016-11-07 20:54

holy

2016-11-07 20:57

crazy money bro what the fuck LOL

2016-11-07 21:14

Maybe with the upped prize pool, they'll also up their production quality. The last pro league finals was very sub par to say the least. Excited for the future!

2016-11-07 21:21

WOWW

2016-11-07 22:04

aimlocks will go CRAYZZAAAY

2016-11-07 22:57

Cloud9 succeeded SK Gaming as Pro League champions after defeating the Brazilians

2016-11-07 23:09

2mil, yet the game has as good directional sound as pokemon gold.

2016-11-07 23:10

SK take this easy with Fallen and coldzera aimlocks in flames sorry EU no chance for u boys

2016-11-07 23:18

lol many, many a1ml0cks inc ))

2016-11-07 23:36

More money = more expensive cheats.. Damn i should be a coder..

2016-11-07 23:59

Can't wait to see what team has the best cheats this tourney!

2016-11-08 00:43

People are overreacting. Wasn't it 1,5 million this year?

2016-11-08 00:46

So shit teams in group get more money...

2016-11-08 01:53

Big $ big $!

2016-11-08 02:21

Don't understand who is in charge of ESL, but they are idiots for continuing to invest even more money in CSGO when the view rates are skyrocketing downwards

2016-11-08 03:48