ESL update Pro League relegation system

19-4-2019 12:37

ESL have announced updates to the relegation system for ESL Pro League.

The new adjustments come as part of ESL's new tournament format, varying dependent on the region of play. In Europe, teams that place last in the first group stage will be put into a best-of-three, double-elimination bracket.

The team to come out on top will remain in the Pro League, while teams to place second and third will go into relegation, facing second and third-placed teams from MDL Season 31. Top two from relegation secure a placement in the next season of Pro League. The winner of MDL Season 31 will conclude the Pro League line-up.

NiP will have to traverse the new relegation system for a chance at Season 10

In North America, the three squads to finish last in the first group stage will be pitted against the runner-up of MDL Season 31 in a double-elimination group. The team to emerge victorious gets to keep their spot in the Pro League. Contrary to Europe, the three teams that fail to surpass the opposition in the double-elimination bracket will join the third-placed MDL Season 31 team in continuing to fight for the last Pro League spot via online relegation.

Latin America representatives who place fourth in their group will face the winner of the LA League season in a best-of-three setting, with the victor of the affair copping a spot in the Pro League.

cool

2019-04-19 12:37

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wtf

2019-04-19 12:39

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O N L I N E L U L

2019-04-19 12:41

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rip nip

2019-04-19 12:52

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No this means NIP suddenly has a chance to stay in the pro league. Without these changes, they'd been out already.

2019-04-19 15:57

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EPL realized that their format was trash with the number of point ties that they HAD to fix it lmao

2019-04-19 18:07

They weren't relegated

2019-04-20 06:52

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okay but they would have to go through a relegation stage i presume?

2019-04-20 14:38

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Yes

2019-04-20 14:51

It's actually on LAN in Leicester.

2019-04-20 11:10

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When?

Now. Check hltv.org/events/4337/esl-pro-league-seas..

2019-04-20 15:13

Relegation is online, but reading is hard for you :)

2019-04-21 02:46

Cool F5

2019-04-19 12:49

omegalul

2019-04-19 15:12

wow

2019-04-19 12:38

EZ for dv1

2019-04-19 13:06

o.O

Nice

NiP to MDL AHAHA

hahaaha F

2019-04-19 12:40

kms

2019-04-19 12:47

RIP NIP

OUCHIE NIPPIE

Why would you do different systems for EU and NA...

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different amount of teams

2019-04-19 12:43

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No, they're equal, I realized that they've done different systems because of the LatAm group

2019-04-19 12:44

LatAM is not NA so they're not equal? Why reply 'no' when the guy was correct?

2019-04-19 13:43

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For NA I mean the Americas division

2019-04-19 13:44

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But na is Canada, greenland, mexico and the U.😰S.😩AAAAAA💦💦💦

2019-04-19 14:19

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yeah, I know i get used to the old acronym

2019-04-19 14:21

Bro what old acronym? Literally always been the "Americas" region. Anyone who calls anything south of mexico na must be a heroic fan lmao. Its like me calling italy "basically scandanavia"

2019-04-19 14:23

For EPL Season 8 and before, it was called "NA" division, not "Americas" division. They did this change because from this season there are south american teams so the division cannot be called "NA" anymore, but I get used to call it "NA" so it will take me some time to use the word "Americas" correctly when referring to that. So simple to understand.

2019-04-19 14:28

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Not really lmao. Calling na na makes sense, but they change it to americas after its not only na. I thought europeans were smart 😂

2019-04-19 14:31

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You repeated exactly the same thing I said, are you dumb or something?

2019-04-19 14:33

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2019-04-19 16:09

+1 pointless arguing with people who got strangled through the whole birth

2019-04-19 16:17

>na flag thats your answer

Lots people from the us think they are always right so whatever they say in an argument no matter how stupid they always win.

2019-04-19 18:55

+1 At least you guys don't have to live next to them.

2019-04-26 16:16

Yeah that's a bit of an ooff for you guys. Buy at least you guys have the nice weed laws

2019-04-26 20:16

Really isn't

Only 3 NA groups

Yeah, realized that now

because of nip

2019-04-19 16:53

Still don’t understand why Nip is last place in the group, when they have the same points and better round differential

The round difference only matters from the matches between the teams in the three way tie, so all the bad round difference given to teams by FaZe does not count at all, between the games NiP-devilsone devilsone-Heroic and Nip-Heroic NiP has the worst round difference and therefor they are last

Oh I get it now ty

2019-04-19 12:45

Its about Map difference not round difference Retarded if you ask me

2019-04-19 13:10

Should of been round difference, but, whatever

But when You would count rounds only between those 3 teams Nip sholudn't be last. Would be: NiP 95:85 Heroic 92:96 devils.one 92:98 ESL came out with weird rule that first they count points andmap difference between all matches and then tiebreaker, not like all would expect - first points and then if it's tie, map difference only between tied teams

2019-04-19 13:25

who cares the rules were set in stone far before pro league started its not like they made up the rules to screw nip

2019-04-19 21:16

I didn't say that rules were made for screwing NiP. I'm not even fan of them and I'm happy about devils.one going through. I just cleared the rules, and wrote why NiP is last (#20 said NiP went out because of round difference between 3 teams which is not true) and gave my opinion about what is better way to solve tiebreakers.

2019-04-19 22:12

thats not the tb

MAP DIFFERENCE NOT ROUND DIFFERENCE

Heroic, devils.one and NiP all beat each other= equal or tie. That Heroic took one more map from the other two comes into play, so they finish second. devils.one beat NiP, which determines 3rd place and sends NiP back to the drawing board! ;O) They will for sure come back. I'm not worried.

H2H lose, heroic got a map against faze and placed second, so it comes down to devils.one and NiP, and as you already know, NiP lose to devils.one #cmiiw

Because they count map difference. Faze ofc 1st because of points and then 3 teams with 3 points. Map diffrence as follow: Heroic 4-5 devils.one 3-5 NiP 3-5 So Heroic is second, and for the third place deciding factor is result of match between two tied teams. devils won against Nip, so they are third. I know it's weird, because it should be tiebreaker between three teams like in football. And then they should count maps difference. Would be Nip 3-3 Heroic 3-3 devils.one 3-3 Still tie, so round diffrence should decides. Then devils.one would fall from tournament.

2019-04-19 12:54

Good, and I say that as NIP fan. Finally might force them to make some needed changes.

except they probably won't and they'll just blame it on switching back to dennis

2019-04-20 06:45

Should probably rename myself to kick_pita_ffs

2019-04-19 13:11

Tbh, it would’ve been better if they were eliminated. This gives them another chance, and they will probably make it thru these Otherwise we might would’ve seen some well needed changes on the roster. Feels line they made these format changes just to keep nip in the highest division, which is a bit disgusting.

2019-04-19 14:37

NiP is still top #8. Not in their best form, but they will be back.

Nip to MDL? Are you serious my eyes bro ..

2019-04-19 12:42

Read again

2019-04-19 18:58

so this matches will be played on LAN or online ? NiP to MDL lul

Online i think

2019-04-19 13:16

If you read on the official site, there's a relegation system for the asia region (Australia/new Zealand, china, etc) and they don't use MDL to fill spots in relegation like they do with EU and NA. The question is: WHAT'S THE POINT OF MDL AUSTRALIA?

ESL Australia/New Zealand championships? All that I know of is that those championships contributed to iem Sydney, but maybe they might see pro league?

2019-04-19 14:30

Yeah it contributed to iem sydney, but with this new system i can't understand the point of doing mdl australia if it's not connected to epl relegation like EU and NA

2019-04-19 14:32

Yea that is weird

NIP to MDL lul

2019-04-19 12:48

Rest in Pyjamas

2019-04-19 12:51

NiP: hey ESL it's NIP, we suck and need a new relegation system ESL: ok gief moneh NiP: confirmerino

2019-04-19 12:55

The bare truth is a beautiful thing.

2019-04-19 15:58

While the second and third in EU will go to relegation WTF?

2019-04-19 12:58

? Teams that place 4th in groups will be put in a separate group. Winner of that group stays in EPL. The 4th place of that group goes out, 2nd and 3rd (who were already 4th in their respective groups before) play MDL 2nd and 3rd.

2019-04-19 13:09