ESL Pro European Championship announced with ~$80,000

16-8-2018 16:21

The ESL Pro European Championship which will have online and offline stages has been announced.

The online stage will kick off on August 28 with a two-day online qualifier featuring 12 teams. The ESL National champions from nine different countries will be joined by three runners-up from the strongest national competitions.

The qualifier will start with two round-robin groups featuring six teams. The top three teams from both groups will advance to the final group which will give away three spots at the LAN finals taking place in Poznan, Poland on October 13-14.

AGO recieved an invite for the LAN finals

Those three teams will be joined by AGO who have already been invited to the LAN tournament where €70,000 (~$80,000), as well as two spots at the ESEA MDL Relegation will be on the line.

The ESL Pro European Championship Qualifier teams, who will compete for three LAN spots, can be found below:

Kinguin

EURONICS

Germany runners-up

Spain champions

wow nice im really looking forward to this event!

2018-08-16 16:22

24 replies

k no one cares about this tourney though, sorry

19 replies

I really care about this and if no one would care there wouldnt be 70k in prize money and a HLTV post.

2018-08-16 16:25

16 replies

mhhh like there's HLTV posts about random ass tier 10 teams that no one cares about :>

2018-08-16 16:26

14 replies

Just because you dont care about doesnt mean nobody cares. Typical brexit

2018-08-16 16:37

11 replies

When you think your exit makes EU cry but the only one who is crying is yourself

2018-08-16 16:45

9 replies

brexit in a nutshell they probably wont leave anyways

2018-08-16 16:46

8 replies

Honestly idc that they are out of eu no one needs them

2018-08-16 16:50

7 replies

+1 Inselaffen mit ihren extrawürsten lel

2018-08-16 18:16

Ur high eu needs them more than ever. Crazy coming from a German . Your country is the only thing saving the eu right now basically. The Euro would completely crumble if Germany defaulted or exited. They where the only other country pulling the EU's deadweight. Only one helping pay the debit for failing EU countries.

2018-08-16 22:12

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Nah you forgot france they are the seccond country behind germany But imo eu is not a good thing cuz as you said some countrys put more afford in this and others do less

2018-08-17 06:59

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Well, formation of EU was the only way USA and USSR could be countered...

2018-08-17 10:47

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True But eu does not work like it should do cuz there are too many countrys with different opinions in it Make (Sweden,Norway,Finnland,denmark, Island,germany,netherlands Belgium, Luxemburg Austria France, Spain,Portugal,Italy. Western Europe more or less

2018-08-18 11:40

France GDP sucks but ur right.

2018-08-17 18:38

2018-08-17 01:09

hey man I care about this tourney just as much as you so don't make me get the queen bro.

2018-08-17 01:07

Well I care and u cared enough to comment here

2018-08-16 16:40

nvm

ikr great chance for ok teams to get lan experience and fight other ok teams

2018-08-16 23:15

Yo i care too

2018-08-16 16:47

I also care. iMarbot is full retard. Ive had conversations with this mutt before. IQ of a toaster.

2018-08-16 22:14

Wow

2018-08-16 16:51

80k for these teams..

2018-08-16 17:18

sup semi-pro nolifer who spams hltv 1st post daily

2018-08-20 01:31

much wow

Cool

Nice

thats alot of money

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no ence is shit tournament

2018-08-16 16:23

$70k dollR in 2018 is t1 tournament LUL

2018-08-16 16:53

ez nexus

It is going to be easy for TazmaniaN "TaZ" Monster

"PRO EUROPEAN" oof, ESL racist??????????????

2018-08-16 16:28

lul italian team?????????

2018-08-16 16:24

It seems there is correlation between having weak scene and having national ESL league.

gl nxs

niceeeeeeeee

What ;-; Kinguin and tier 6288348194 teams

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Same thing

2018-08-16 16:29

and Sprout probably

Kinguin is tier 173849389229

2018-08-16 16:48

nope LUL

2018-08-16 16:55

Yup LUL

2018-08-16 18:57

Go Nexus!

Spain champions? Hope it is movistsr riders..if not there is no chance for us here

Nope it's kpi winners of esl masters season 3

2018-08-16 17:58

MY BOIS gonna fuck all of EU shits.

Nice Forge Let's goo

VP will be playing this one soon

2018-08-16 16:27

Tier 999999

Tier 888888

and Kinguin

which is tier 999999

2018-08-16 19:31

LOL AGO will destroy them

Dutch teams! :)

2018-08-16 16:30

first

2018-08-16 16:32

2 british teams and no danish or swede teams lol

2018-08-16 16:33

Despite having the strongest scene, no Nordic country has a ESL organised national championship. Weird.

2018-08-16 16:34

kinda sad lol

2018-08-16 16:43

There was ESL Nordic Nationals in 2015 (?) I believe but no big teams participated and there was only one season, no idea why.

kinda sad still but would be a good league for a team like heroic fragsters as big ones to have a connection to the danish community and so on but also for little teams... like here we have teams like Bluejays, Berzerk and so on can prove themselves against the best in the country and gain great experience with this

2018-08-16 16:56

2018-08-16 17:00

13-14 October, Poznan Hm, during Poznan Games Arena? ESL Polish Championship finals are supposed to be played there to, interesting how they'll do with scheduling.

Saturday - PL chanpionship Sunday - ESL For example

EMP also have LOL finals which most often take place on the same stage, keep in mind Probably they'll have place reserved in 2 halls or something. Cybersport Polish Cup last year was pretty big itself though, so I wonder how they'll manage it.

Ez Forge. Italian CS will prevail xd

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Ez for no quarter cartel

fake flagger alert

Me no fake flagger, I just love kebab

2018-08-16 16:49

EZywOo

2018-08-16 16:39

OMG Poznan. I will be there for Zywoo :o

Go fish123!!!

Wtf is no quarter cartel

2018-08-16 16:52

EZ4POALND

2018-08-16 16:59

defusekids OMEGALUL

2018-08-16 17:04

EZ for Defusekids

2018-08-16 17:05

ez for andrex

WHAT MEAN "RECIEVED"? (:

2018-08-16 17:07

ez zywooo

2018-08-16 17:13

2 british teams and no HAVU or some scandinavian team HAHAHHAHAHHA

2018-08-16 17:16

I really dont know what is the point of calling it a european pro league without all countries being involved. And even if they want it to be a team with only tier 2/4 teams i dont see the point of not having HAVU/ENCE and a single danish team

2018-08-16 19:04

axaxaaxxaaxxaaaxaxax

2018-08-16 17:17

easy for defusekids

Awesome

2018-08-16 17:21

n1ce

2018-08-16 17:23

Not a single dane?😂😂

2018-08-16 17:25

ez $ for AHO

2018-08-16 17:34

AGO xd

Xd no reee

2018-08-16 17:41

If kinguin doesn’t win this Polish CS is dead

but ago will be there aswell

2018-08-16 17:35

free money for AGO once again dayum they will have good time now

2018-08-16 18:07

EASY FOR ITALY

2018-08-16 18:26

easy for ZyWoo

2018-08-16 18:38

EURONICS, aAa, Endpoint, fish123, Nexus, Team Forge, Defusekids, No Quarter Cartel and no Windigo? Really ESL?

2018-08-16 18:43

windigo counts as cis or?

2018-08-16 23:17

Windigo is EU, they played the EU Minor Qualifier.

2018-08-17 09:14

Because Nexus won the esl south east european championship (windigo's region too). As i can see every team from this list won an esl local event

2018-08-19 09:31

yeah i realized, windigo doesn't play any of those

2018-08-19 10:00

Invite mibr and cloud9 ☺

yes

2018-08-16 20:32

ez4nexus

EZ4NEXUS

2018-08-16 19:06

lets go nexus <3

2018-08-16 20:11

2ez4ZYWOO

2018-08-16 20:24

Ez 4 forge

2018-08-16 20:30

Ez FORGE!!!

2018-08-16 20:44

"This was how, Champions League format begun on Counter-Strike". hope i can tell this story in the future, because in my opinion, e-Sports getting the traditional sports format in, it's the big step to the kaboom of e-Sports to a all well structure sport, like football of nowdays. Clubs, Federations, Leagues, Cups, Worlds, Seasons, Awards, Fans, Associate, Transfers, Home and Away in a "stadium" (gaming house, lan house...) and all stuff that move to a completely new level, gaming, like football did it.

2018-08-16 20:49

Europe has so many of these cool leagues and NA has none of them. I wish NA would have some, even if they had much smaller prize pools. NA needs more LAN events. I think it would help a bit with the disparity between EU teams and NA teams

2018-08-16 21:48