C8 launch televised tournament in France

13-9-2017 17:31

The private television channel, C8, owned by Canal+, will be launching a ~$24,000 tournament which will be broadcasted nationally in France.

The Esports European League will feature six teams, five French and one Danish, fighting for the lion's share of a ~$24,000 prize pool. Because of the PEGI 18 rating, the matches will be late at night, but it will be on a channel accessible to the general public, unlike ELEAGUE which was only available on SFR Sport which requires a subscription.

fxy0 & co. will play under the Ionic banner

Five teams from the French "subtop" will be part of the Esports European League, including EnVyUs Academy, the ex-MeMyself&I team now playing under Ionic and the famed aAa organization which is now back after picking up Mathieu "⁠ZywOo⁠" Herbaut & co. Joining the French teams will be North Academy, the only non-French squad in the lineup.

Starting on September 24, the league will run for ten weeks and matches will be aired at night between Sunday and Monday, with matches kicking off at 00:30 . There are about ten seats available for fans wanting to attend the filming, which starts on September 15, in Gennevilliers, France, just North of Paris.

The full list of teams is:

EnVyUs Academy	Ionic
aAa	dizLown
ARES	North Academy

The prize pool distribution is:

1. ~$12,000
2. ~$6,000
3-4. ~$3000

Nice

2017-09-13 17:31

2 replies

It sure is

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Oh boy, when i saw that aAa :D:D:D:D

2017-09-13 18:58

North academy what haha

2017-09-13 17:32

4 replies

they love to beat the shit out of foreigners

2017-09-13 17:42

3 replies

lmao

2017-09-13 18:05

just like the A team did against G2.. multiple times

2017-09-13 19:09

LUL

2017-09-13 19:48

nice

YESSS

#freefxy0

xDD

cloud8

waheeey

I read C9 lul

+1 i though c9 are getting a tv channel, for a sec i was like... wtf? :DD

Cool!

2017-09-13 17:33

C8? Their Peak viewership is probably lower thanks esl_Replay average

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1 million peak for TPMP or SLT i think. Still better to have a csgo tournament than another reality show where inbreds go in vacation.

2017-09-13 17:39

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Totally agree, you don't have to be rude with this news, just see it as an evolution for french CS and more global for eSport. It's just the beginning, in several years you'll see big cs tournaments in primetime

2017-09-13 17:57

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Primetime i don't think so because of the rating but in the second part of the evening definitely

It will never be in primetime. CSA will only allow it to be shown after 22.30

2017-09-13 18:18

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Because of the violent contents ?

2017-09-13 18:19

10 replies

Yep, it's rated 16+ (even if it's a joke because it's just a pixel fight, nothing to do with an action movie with realistic decapitation/gunshots/etc ...)

2017-09-13 18:20

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Shit you're right The violence is just related to the real weapon names, blood and "terrorist" term, nothing to do with "pure" violence

2017-09-13 18:24

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Imagine u are a father. Would u let ur child play csgo or watch "A serbian film"/Irreversible first ?

2017-09-13 18:37

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I would be a father, i'd know that i used to play "violent" games at the age of 13-14 and i'm still peaceful as f*ck. The only essential thing is not to let your children play that kind of game before 13 to my opinion

2017-09-13 21:50

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So according to ur own opinion, CSGO shouldn't be PEGI 18 or 16 but 13. So u contradict ur own sarcastic post.

2017-09-13 22:20

Je me contredis rien du tout hein ahah

2017-09-13 22:23

Capucine Anal amazing GRILL

2017-09-14 19:15

Why lol

2017-09-14 06:52

Just an opinion, i don't find children much mature before being 13

2017-09-14 19:45

I've been playing "violent" games since the age of 6. If anything, they make me very chill in real life, since I can just vent on that rather than on someone who actually annoys me.

2017-09-14 19:31

i only watch for enora malagré

2017-09-17 20:09

Finally taking streams to another level, gz c9

2017-09-13 17:34

10 seats LUL

2017-09-13 17:36

eZ4NA

Why?

2017-09-13 17:41

ez ZywOo

France run out of teams lol?

Its a subtop, national tournament, what you expect ?

2017-09-13 18:13

"Esports European League"

2017-09-13 19:41

why is north (danish) allowed to compete in french televised tournament? hä???? doesn't make no sense

2017-09-13 17:50

why not? are you dumb?

2017-09-13 18:00

doesn't make no sense

No where do they say it's only for French teams.

2017-09-13 18:01

They got invited, why not ?

Esports European League -> for C8, Danish North Academy would represent EUROPE... Don't tell me it's weird, I know... But hey, they are the one who decide ahah

2017-09-14 13:26

>intelligent >slavic Choose one

2017-09-14 00:10

You're obviously too stupid to understand sarcasm.

2017-09-14 02:18

Twitch is an American company and people from all over participate in tournaments streamed on there so whats your point...?

2017-09-13 18:21

He meant that why national tournament has danish team

2017-09-13 19:03

vakarm.net/news/read/C8-lance-son-tourno.. go traduct

2017-09-13 19:29

Sorry, dont understand white flag frog language

2017-09-13 19:50

what is "estonia" ?

2017-09-13 20:07

vakarm.net/news/read/C8-lance-son-tourno.. go tradutct

How did North Acd sneak into that tournament. Makes no sense, but easy victory for them.

2017-09-13 17:52

vakarm.net/news/read/C8-lance-son-tourno.. go traduct , and aAa will win , or envy academy

Vikings will beat out money from frenchs

I are think that

2017-09-13 19:57

i read c9 lel

I wouldn't watch it even if it was on Twitch, so why would I watch it on TV?

2017-09-13 18:06

they should remove a shit team like dizlown and invite another eu subtop team to make it more competitive and international and add some reality show in it

2017-09-13 18:07

wtf ahaha

2017-09-13 18:32

so happy

2017-09-13 18:08

Fucking nice but hopefully it will not be casted by Hanouna

2017-09-13 18:10

hanouna is a nice person

2017-09-13 18:14

hanouna nice person pick one

one

2017-09-13 21:48

Good news, sad that the announcer will be an ex reality tv whore.

2017-09-13 18:12

Who gonna be the host ?

Capucine Anav a reality TV "star"

2017-09-13 18:53

inb4 casted by Nabilla

ez capucine anav

2017-09-13 18:16

>C8 LAUNCH TELEVISED TOURNAMENT IN FRANCE >North Academy Danish team in france tournament?Logic?!!!

2017-09-13 18:17

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not "national tournament" but a tournament in france

2017-09-13 19:30

The show will be named "Esports European League" Maybe more non french teams in the future if the show is a success.

2017-09-13 19:42

The host explained why in vakarm.Net news comment : once contacted by c8, he had one week to create the whole tournament. So he picked team who responded the fastest.

2017-09-14 12:37

Yeah i read his explanation on VaKarM.

2017-09-14 19:26

There has to be a team to hate, why not the big bad EVIIIIIIIIIIIIIL Danes.

2017-09-13 19:58

I'm actually very surprised that C8 do that. Ofc their goal is to bring a young audience to their channel, but french government and TV is very hermetic to E-Sport in general (when there are reports on E-Sport, they just say "it generates a lot of money, you become rich by playing behind your pc...") So it's a great surprise, even if I would prefer to see better teams compete

2017-09-13 18:26

Game One was doing it 10 years ago and some CS competitions have already been broadcasted on TV chanels a long time ago. Nothing new really.

2017-09-13 18:38

Oh ok didn't knew that. i just saw that the caster will be Capucine Anav (a reality-TV girl)

2017-09-13 19:27

Gouvernement isn't hermetic, they did a law for the esports players status

2017-09-13 19:32

The new government is very open to esports actually.

2017-09-14 19:34

no LDLC, no Envy, no G2, failed event.

2017-09-13 18:27

Its a subtop event, like they are many in France every year. Not an event for G2/nV/LDLC

2017-09-13 19:33

aAa is back :D It remember me of 2004. I'll love watching Zywoo kicking asses on TV.

cringe

2017-09-13 18:57

pegi 18 . .. srsly

good news but omg the host. It's probably not gonna be serious and she doesn't know anything about e-sport. It has a very good chance to be bad so will probably have to only watch the matches.

2017-09-13 19:21

Good news but bad tv channel, but it's free so it's 50% fine.

There are cheap flights from Qatar Airways, so this might be the reason I visit Paris. To get my ass on national television. #Legend

Why the random Dane team?

Not enough bad teams in french subtop

2017-09-13 19:35

Well, let's be honest you don't really have a lot of good teams either. Just G2.

2017-09-13 19:36

A lot of good players but not a lot of good teams you're right mate

2017-09-14 09:32

Frenchs >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all

2017-09-13 19:43

very nice. we need more of this caliber in every nation! small tourneys for tier 2 teams and academy teams. this would be healthy for the development and everyone involved!

2017-09-13 19:46