ESEA Season 28 announced with increased prize pool; no Global Challenge LAN

7-5-2018 21:49

ESEA has announced its upcoming MDL season in Europe, North America, and Australia, which will have a $30,000 boost to the prize pool to make up for the lack of a Global Challenge LAN at the end of the season.

Due to a crammed schedule, the qualifying process for the upcoming FACEIT Major 2018, and the August player break, ESEA has decided to call off the Global Challenge LAN for the upcoming season of MDL, instead adding $30,000 to the $50,000 and distributing it among the four Global Challenge LAN qualifying regions, Europe, North America, Australia, and Brazil.

BIG will face Windigo in the S27 Europe Finals for a spot in Pro League

Another factor in ESEA's decision to not have the LAN this season is that it is unconnected to ESL Pro League, and thus there will be no regional relegation matches to be played offline. The full team list for Europe, North America, and Australia is the following:

Europe	North America

Kinguin	ex-Atmosphere
Asterion	Squirtle Squad
Virtus.pro	BlackOut
EnVyUs Academy	The Entourage
Singularity	Gorilla Gang
Sprout	Mythic
DIVIZON	Normal People and Rustun
Movistar Riders	ex-eRa
PRIDE	F1-racecar-PEEK
Unity	The Pioneers
GODSENT	subtLe
Gambit	Grizzlys
Fragsters	CheckSix
SJ	Freedom 35
Red Reserve	AZIO
ALTERNATE aTTaX	Bravado (Main 1st)
Wind and Rain	Fam143 (Main 2nd)
Valiance (Main 1st)	Vikings (Main 3rd/4th)
HAVU (Main 3rd/4th)	FeelsUnderAgeMan (main 3rd/4th)
Epsilon (Main 3rd/4th)	Prospects (Intermediate 1st)
dizLown (Next highest ranking Main)*	Forty Six and 2 (Open 1st)
Vexed UK (ESL Premiership)	TBD - ESL Pro League Relegation
EURONICS (ESL Meisterschaft)	TBD - ESL Pro League Relegation
TBD - ESL Mistrzostwa Polski	TBD - ESL Pro League Relegation
TBD - ESL Pro League Relegation
TBD - ESL Pro League Relegation
TBD - ESL Pro league Relegation

Australia

Chiefs	Tainted Minds
Control	Corvidae
Dark Sided	Grayhound
Legacy OCE	Lucky7
ORDER	STREAMLINE (Main 1st)
seadoggs	Conspiracy (Open 3rd/4th)
ex-Athletico	Surge (Open 5th/6th)
baldkrew (Open 2nd)	Go-Go Power Rangers (Open 5th/6th)
OutLaws (Open 3rd/4th)

*dizLown qualified due to EURONICS secured a spot in MDL through the ESL National Championship structure as well as through ESEA Main. The spot was passed on to the next highest ESEA Main team after a tiebreaker was played in order to determine the final slot.

With an increased prize pool of $30,000 on top of the original $50,000, which will be split amongst four regions, including the Brazilian Open Division which qualifies for the Global Challenge LAN, the distribution will be the following:

European MDL Division:

1. $16,650
2. $9,250
3. $5,550
4. $5,550

North American MDL Division:

1. $16,650
2. $9,250
3. $5,550
4. $5,550

Australian MDL Division:

1. $3,600
2. $2,400
3. $1,800
4. $1,800
5. $600
6. $600
7. $600
8. $600

Brazilian Open Division:

1. $2,250
2. $1,500
3. $1,125
4. $1,125
5. $375
6. $375
7. $375
8. $375

Nice

2018-05-07 21:50

8 replies

I don't get it but it's cool

2018-05-07 21:51

4 replies

They cut a completely irrelevant lan and hadle the money from it to the teams

2018-05-07 21:52

1 reply

Yep

Expected as well.

Where is ENCE? :E

2018-05-08 14:52

yes

2 replies

anyone know why it doesn't show Spain masters

2018-05-07 22:40

Spain master only qualifed for esea mdl s27( Movistar Riders) there is no slot for s28 as far as i remember

2018-05-08 02:26

Y no lan?

Did you read the article? Can you read?

2018-05-07 22:30

Due to a crammed schedule, the qualifying process for the upcoming FACEIT Major 2018, and the August player break, ESEA has decided to call off the Global Challenge LAN

2018-05-08 08:04

That's not looking great :(

lolo

Hype

hehe

this is fucking stupid lol, no reason for top teams to try AT ALL

If you are a top team in this league (most notably Gambit vp godsent) the reason to try is so they get into epl where the real money is.

2018-05-07 22:01

7 replies

didn't you read? there won't be any relegation at the end of the next season. they CAN'T get into epl anymore. that's why #12 wrote that.

2018-05-07 22:13

6 replies

Ok NVM that makes no sense at all wtf

2018-05-07 22:15

esea do that sometimes , like in the season 25 hltv.org/events/2879/esea-mdl-season-25-..

2018-05-07 23:26

“There will be no regional relegation matches to be played offline.” Relegation matches will be played online then just like SS did last season to qualify for season 7. NICE READING SKILLS FAM.

"this season is unconnected to ESL Pro League" Pretty sure there isn't any relegation matches. I don't blame you, I don't think it's poor reading skills, but a badly written article that isn't very clear.

2018-05-07 23:46

Fuck you might be right man I can barely see cuz little eyes haHAA

2018-05-08 08:02

well, it is like that always, 1 season goes to EPL the season next to it doesnt, nothing to cry about it NOW because it already existed

2018-05-08 06:51

LUL

Virtus.premier forever

go-go power rangers

2018-05-07 21:53

pretty nice to see that some tournament organizers care about other tournaments existence

Its not about careing about others but knowing noone is gonna watch a irrelevant while there is a fucking major going on

2018-05-07 21:56

Rip ESEA

2018-05-07 21:54

na mdl xD

ez vp

Wait, so if you get first place in Open you get promoted straight to MDL?

13 replies

Yea and if you get first in mdl you get promoted to epl.

2018-05-07 22:03

Alright time for my team to get first. Cya in MDL season 29

Gl man!

2018-05-07 22:05

Thanks :D

2018-05-07 22:09

read again ;) there won't be any relegation/promotion next season

But from Open to MDL there is :)

2018-05-07 22:22

I stand corrected. My bad however there is still a chance to go from open to mdl if you get first.

2018-05-07 23:50

They will probably change it so open 1st place goes to advanced now.

2018-05-07 22:18

1st place from Open gets promoted to Main, but if the team proves to be too good for that division, or if it's formed by pro players who came from another region they can be invited by ESL to play MDL instead

2018-05-07 23:22

Forty Six and 2 got first place in Open and got promoted straight to MDL.

2018-05-08 13:40

3 replies

they probably got invited, just like tempo storm, gx and flamingos were invited in the past

2018-05-08 19:27

Except they won ESEA Open. Also their players aren't very well known pros/semi pros/former pros.

2018-05-09 01:21

so did the teams I mentioned

2018-05-09 02:18

How is feelsunderageman going to play at all? Their name is literally feelsunderageman

2018-05-07 21:59

lmao

2018-05-07 22:54

Yea the age restriction sucks hopefully they make an exception.

2018-05-08 00:44

playing a whole season for a 5-way split of $16k? :/

And the chance to get into epl. First place is guaranteed a spot in epl.

fair

Nvm it looks like there isn't epl relegation matches? Yea this league is pretty pointless lol

2018-05-07 22:21

Coach too haha

GO NOrWAY!!!! oh wait..

2018-05-07 22:04

4 Polish teams, nice!

2018-05-07 22:11

without relegation epl is effectively a franchised league. let's wait and see which (maybe wesa member) teams are going to get invited :>

2018-05-07 22:17

Good for onliners, ez for AAttax and other German teams.

2018-05-07 22:33

Lets go Movistar Riders!

2018-05-07 22:43

Actually I don't think havu will be playing this league so this would be mistake in team list, it would seem spot has gone to xarte, khrn, reflex & co with their team "minttu" instead. For those interested havu should play esea advanced however instead considering saw and slowi seem to have LGR's spot for this one step lower league xd

2018-05-07 22:56

hahaha no imperial

Yea they choked against bad teams and then were forced to play with their coach.

2018-05-08 00:41

Will hltv cover advanced league?

2018-05-07 23:02

Ez for Go-Go Power Rangers

2018-05-07 23:14

EZ 4 Forty Six and 2, Tool best band ever

2018-05-07 23:23

Where's extatu

2018-05-07 23:29

extatus*

They relegated to lower division

2018-05-08 00:05

dafuq ? :D they couldve been in fckin epl this season, only if they didnt fuck it up :D and now they are in esea main ? :D dafuq

2018-05-10 18:55

thats why vp stayed

2018-05-07 23:33

Confusing, can someone please explain the different leagues and how they work?

2018-05-07 23:39

RIP NTC

2018-05-07 23:45

extatus??

2018-05-08 00:06

wtf...last season almost ESL Pro League, now relegated to some shit... rip ext...ago shines, ext died

2018-05-08 00:07

Well what u have to remember frozen wasn't able to play due new rule regarding players age in MDL so they had to use stand in through whole season xD...

2018-05-08 00:09

yes but still, they suck in this season so hard, online and LAN...i think its too late for them, they had much better times and MDL age restriction destroy them as team which can shine and fill potential....comeback now will be hard, im expecting frozen's transfer to better EU team tbh

2018-05-08 00:11