ESL Pro League Season 7 set to start

12-2-2018 23:30

The seventh season of ESL Pro League will kick off on Tuesday, featuring 26 teams across two divisions.

The EPL action will continue where it left off last season, which came to an end at the Sparekassen Fyn Arena in Odense, Denmark, where SK beat FaZe in a thrilling final to be crowned champions. A change from the sixth season will be the official streaming platform as Facebook will be the new go-to place to watch all matches.

Fourteen teams in Europe and 12 in North America will compete in a round-robin league using a home-and-away match system as they try to qualify for the Season 7 Finals, which will take place from May 14-20 at the Verizon Theatre in Dallas, Texas.

It is not yet known how the season finals spots will be distributed between the two regions after the North American division was reduced by two teams, with ESL expected to make an announcement on this matter in the upcoming weeks.

ESL Pro League is back

The European division will kick off on Tuesday with 12 sides in action, including AGO, one of the two teams making their first appearance at this level (the other being Space Soldiers). Astralis will be playing their first match since signing Emil "⁠Magisk⁠" Reif, with teams such as North and Envy also out to prove their worth after undergoing roster changes.

The full team list for EPL Season 7 Europe can be found below:

AGO	Astralis
Envy	FaZe
fnatic	G2
HellRaisers	HEROIC
LDLC	MOUZ
Natus Vincere	Ninjas in Pyjamas
North	Space Soldiers

Below is the full schedule for Tuesday's European matches (teams will play each other twice):

17:00	Astralis	vs. LDLC
17:00	G2	vs. FaZe
19:15	Natus Vincere	vs. HellRaisers
19:15	MOUZ	vs. fnatic
21:30	FaZe	vs. Astralis
21:30	LDLC	vs. AGO

Across the Atlantic, only 12 squads will partake in the league after Misfits and CLG didn't renew their licenses. OpTic's new roster, which includes three Danish players, will be one of the teams competing in the league.

EPL Season 7 North America will have the following teams:

Cloud9	Complexity
Dignitas	Ghost
Liquid	Luminosity
NRG	OpTic
Renegades	Rogue
SK	Splyce

SK and Cloud9 will kick things off with two games, starting at 00:10 . The full schedule for the first day is:

00:10	Cloud9	vs. SK
02:25	Luminosity	vs. Renegades
04:40	Complexity	vs. Splyce

woo! This gonna be great! :)

2018-02-12 23:35

28 replies

excited for Space Soldiers - XANTARES

2018-02-12 23:38

2 replies

FaZe UP!

2018-02-13 00:05

1 reply

eZ for FaZe

2018-02-13 14:20

Optic EU team

2018-02-12 23:41

24 replies

you can compete in NA since that is where Optic spot is.

2018-02-12 23:44

8 replies

Yeah but it's unfair to the rest of NA

2018-02-12 23:45

7 replies

no, c9 could get bought by hellraisers or something and c9 could play there.

2018-02-12 23:49

3 replies

You're not getting my point sir

NA won the major, still unfair lul

2018-02-12 23:53

it would be more unfair to kick a different team out of EU, since the optic guys didn't make another team, no body but optic deserve their spot.

2018-02-13 01:07

The gap between NA and EU CS is getting smaller, slowly but surely. Also, if you owned a huge ass org, you wouldn't want to relocate it to another region and be forced to play through 4 damn divisions to get to EPL again. That'd take around 2 years if I'm correct, and there's no guarantee that the team would stay together for the sake of "fairness".

2018-02-13 02:38

Optic is still EU tho

2018-02-13 02:39

Aye. But given what I said before, I can't see them relocating anytime soon.

2018-02-13 02:42

Not worst than SK playing in NA or SS in EU

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Turkey is not in Europe? ...

2018-02-13 00:23

4 replies

Yeah it's technically in Asia. The continental border is pretty much right on the border across whatever seas are to the north/northwest. I think it's usually considered part of the middle East but I could be wrong on that part.

2018-02-13 00:33

2018-02-13 01:34

Turkey is Asia

2018-02-13 00:35

Nope, it's part of the middle east, although Istanbul, where SS are based, is in the Balkan Peninsula. Thinking of it, I think that SS had plans to go to Germany or something.

2018-02-13 02:41

Istanbul which is in europe, is bigger than most eu countries itself baugette, and there are more turkish cities in europe continent, not just istanbul. Do the math

2018-02-13 05:43

Bigger than MOST eu countries? Do you know what MOST means?

2018-02-13 09:44

there is 17-18 million people living in the eu part of Turkey, that is more than "most" of european countries.

2018-02-13 14:36

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He said Istanbul, not every part of Turkey in EU. PS : you are mean to say Germany is part of Turkey.

2018-02-13 17:36

rofl

2018-02-13 17:53

dude half of istanbul's population is still more than most small countries in eu, I don't know what you couldn't understand :D check out wikipedia and germany of course belongs to turkey

2018-02-13 20:05

Oh now it is his population and not his size? Clear your mind before arguing with someone plz

2018-02-13 23:06

size doesn't matter :) you even got rekt by a canadian man

2018-02-13 23:50

yes baguetteman

2018-02-13 16:05

eZ for SS

can't wait

Ez Faze

2018-02-12 23:36

Cool ez SK

ez 4 vp

HYPE

Excited

nice

go faze and mous

lets get lots of good cs

Ez for AGO

2018-02-12 23:37

Let's go BRAZIL, we can do it! We smart, we loyal, we friendly, we are from BRAZIL! Kreygasm

Can't wait to watch it on facebook!

Not

Did u not feel my sarcasm?

Sure did. Just felt the urge to comment

2018-02-12 23:46

Incoming 4000 complaints that Optic is competing in the NA league.

I mean, do you not think it's cheap that EU players can just go to NA and compete in their leagues because it's easier?

2018-02-13 00:31

No. Because they won't be top 1 in the league for obvious reasons.

2018-02-13 00:34

FACEBOOK LUL

WTH Facebook??!?!

2018-02-12 23:40

Watching on Facebook will sure be great Kappa

SS 28-0 EZ

14 teams means 13 enemies for every teams -> 13 home and 13 away games, max. amount of wins are 26. If Space Soldiers are able to get 28 wins out of 26 games i'll admit they are gods.

2018-02-13 08:03

Xddddd

2018-02-13 11:38

But why on Facebook tho ?

2018-02-12 23:47

Go fnatic!!!! and Down with ESL & facebook!

Facebook in 2018 lul

2018-02-12 23:50

Waiting for pro matches

2018-02-12 23:55

Facebook? Da fakk.

2018-02-12 23:57

Facebook ruins all

2018-02-13 00:00

SK - C9 again lul

2018-02-13 00:01

Let's go astralis

2018-02-13 00:03

optic smurfing in na

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Tier 3 100%

2018-02-13 00:21

NA will body those EU bots

2018-02-13 02:59

LMAO OpTic with this lineup would probably lose only to TL, C9 and SK

2018-02-13 04:24

I just hope they can get more than 3 rounds vs the NA dignitas. Easy for NA Thanks for free wins

2018-02-13 14:19

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LMAO NA dignitas is Soar Gaming =LUL

2018-02-13 14:43

Yup. FNS is the best IGL. And right behind him is Matthew "mCe" Elmore. Easy for Team dignitas. They really did make a good move. I'd be sad if they started wasting their money on more garbage EU bots

2018-02-13 14:44

FNS best IGL youtube.com/watch?v=m0t-fhdLWro

2018-02-13 14:48

You show a video where koosta fucks up instead of FNS lol

2018-02-13 14:54

Yeah, you're right, but FNS is fore sure not best IGL even in NA Steel (Canadian) is better than FNS Sean is better than FNS Nitr0 is better than FNS Stan is better than FNS While in other parts of the world... Fallen is better than FNS Golden is better than FNS Gla1ve is better than FNS Shox is better than FNS ChrisJ is better than FNS Even MSL is better than FNS

2018-02-13 14:59

I don't see why you say "even" MSL is better than FNS as if chrisJ and shox are better IGLs than MSL lol

2018-02-13 15:36

woho, waiting for the match, just like primier league, liga in soccer

2018-02-13 00:08

Why optic didn't lose their spot?

2018-02-13 00:09

The spot belongs to the organization.

2018-02-13 22:18

Thankssss

2018-02-13 22:26

At this point the last hope for ldlc is to give theie all in this tournament so they make it to the lan or just disband

They will relegate, this is their last season in EPL. They are shit without ex6

2018-02-13 06:39

they are shit with x6 aswell

2018-02-13 19:19

Atleast they survived 2 seasons in EPL

2018-02-13 20:38

broadcasting on Facebook WTF ESL PLEASE

2018-02-13 00:25

Watch on ESL's website. Will definitely be better than the facebook stream.

2018-02-13 00:41

It's facebook integration, same shit.

2018-02-13 00:55

Pretty sure it's not. It's a separate stream of it's own.

2018-02-13 01:15

Does facebook at least have audio only mobile streaming? That's the biggest reason I don't pay attention to either eepl or ecs

I wish

2018-02-13 02:46

Yet ANOTHER C9 vs SK match up. Better love story than Twilight.

fb lmao wtf is this shit

2018-02-13 00:42

C9 vs Sk every single time lmao

2018-02-13 00:48

Lul Facebook streams WHAT A MEME

2018-02-13 00:50

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konfig feasting on na lol

LETS GOOO C9

2018-02-13 00:58

Facebook is dogshit but at least it isn't Hitbox or fucking Azubu

2018-02-13 01:08

Damn it no OpTic till March 6th :/

2018-02-13 01:40

Gonna have to wait to see my boy Shahzam :(

2018-02-13 04:06

And K0nfig smurfing :)

2018-02-13 17:23

Wont watch cuz of Facebook

2018-02-13 02:40

Facebook in 2k18 HYPEROMEGALUL

2018-02-13 02:50

EZ for C9

2018-02-13 04:56

Holy Shit, this is gonna be an epic day! Maybee its even a pizza day? :D :D

2018-02-13 07:56

Thank God polish stream stays on Twitch

2018-02-13 08:04

Ez 4 Fnatic

2018-02-13 08:32

Why facebook? I hope they will stream on twitch too

2018-02-13 08:39

facebook stream.... that is the worst decision ever. esl can see the drop of viewers than the last leagues. hope they will change it to youtube or twitch.

2018-02-13 09:00