ESL Pro League Season 14 to take place online

20-7-2021 16:02

The tournament organizer will continue to evaluate the situation and work towards a return to LAN at IEM Fall in late September.

ESL Pro League Season 14, which was meant to take place in Malta, will be run entirely online due to COVID-related travel restrictions, it has been announced. All 24 participating teams, seven of whom are yet to be revealed, will play the tournament remotely from within Europe.

The organizers have cited "different conditions compared to IEM Cologne" stemming from the rise of the delta variant of COVID-19 across Europe and the lack of local governing support as the reasons for the return to an online setting following a successful and in large part problem-free running of the German event.

ESL has noted that it will continue to work towards bringing their last two Masters-level competitions of the year back to a LAN environment: IEM Fall, planned to run from September 28-October 10, and IEM Winter, which is currently scheduled to take place on December 2-12 at an undisclosed location in Asia.

The 14th season of ESL Pro League is set to kick off shortly after the summer tournament break ends, on August 16, and run until mid-September. The participants consist of the twelve partnered organizations as part of the 'Louvre Agreement', five teams qualified via ESEA Premier in Europe, North America, and Oceania, and seven coming from the ESL World Ranking (as of July 19).

The following teams have been confirmed so far:

Partner teams

Qualified teams

ESL World Ranking

GL fnatic!

2021-07-20 16:02

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"wwww"

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congrats heroic on winning ESL pro league season 14

2021-07-20 16:06

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Gambit back to top1 ???

2021-07-20 17:06

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No furia???

2021-07-20 17:25

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2021-07-22 00:45

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more like ESL World Joke

2021-07-22 09:16

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. The participants consist of the twelve partnered organizations as part of the 'Louvre Agreement', five teams qualified via ESEA Premier in Europe, North America, and Oceania, and seven coming from the ESL World Ranking (as of July 19).

2021-07-22 13:01

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is this the first relevant tournament after player break?

2021-07-23 12:46

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2021-07-24 00:10

Deve ser loiro

2021-07-24 00:12

MY BOIS ARE BACK :D

2021-07-21 12:09

Faze top 1!

2021-07-20 16:04

FaZe is real shit online

2021-07-20 16:24

ahh fak this online 'era' Gambit be like LETS GOOOOOO

2021-07-21 03:51

lmao, we'll see the era of Gambit and heroic again

2021-07-21 09:17

Faze online so bad , they better playing at LAN. all of them LAN player , i pretty sure they just beat all onliners looks like easy.

2021-07-20 16:28

Im a FaZe fan but fuck theyre bad at online

2021-07-20 16:37

+1 back to a 12-24th place wipeout

2021-07-21 02:17

+1 D:

2021-07-21 09:18

2021-07-20 17:01

sad!

2021-07-20 16:09

FAZE LAN BUFF NERFED KEKW

2021-07-20 17:43

Another gambot fluke win i guess

2021-07-23 18:03

Sad

congrats to gambit for winning epl 14!!!!!!

2021-07-20 16:05

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Or Heroic lol

2021-07-20 16:12

Those times again... please noooo

2021-07-20 23:01

ofc i hate onliner team

2021-07-22 06:08

Lmao ez for online gods

2021-07-20 20:01

Aah shit! Here we go again.

2021-07-21 06:05

HAHAHAH Now Gambot has a chance again.... these fucking horrid looking creatures, Team Goblins or Gremlins they should be called

2021-07-22 15:03

Noooooo

#24

2021-07-20 16:52

nah gambit are not winning it sure navi are not top online but they were the 2nd best team online and they did beat gambit for dh masters to win the title so no navi will bring more pace in this epl cus surely they want to be the 3rd team with IGS in 5 years

2021-07-21 09:26

2021-07-21 14:21

so sad for the best LAN team((

Yes mens

2021-07-20 17:45

2021-07-20 17:49

2021-07-20 18:17

thats very sad :-(

2021-07-20 16:03

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

MALTA????

EZ 4 ENDPOINT

Endpoint Isn't playing in this one.

2021-07-20 17:00

Fuck this

saaaaaaaaad

wtf :(((((((((((

Gambit back with top 1 ranking

RIP FAZE

wtf

Gambit top 1 again xaxaxa

RIP NaVi era :(((((((((((((((((((((((((( fuck you corona

They've played pretty good online.

2021-07-20 16:49

Gambit has been better online, overall.

2021-07-20 17:20

-rep

1. gambit 2. Navi 3. G2 same result everytime we go to ONLINE era kekw

FUUUCK BRO WHYYY

nooooooooooooooooooo wtf This makes the whole event trash

NOOOOOOOO

damn that sucks lol gonna be boycotting this event 100%

they just made a super good event and now you are talking shit? lol, your just fcking dumb. They want to make this happend too, but they cant. Its not like they rather have it online. Your such a moron

2021-07-20 16:16

stfu dumb fk

2021-07-20 16:17

what a comeback. better hope ESL is not watching your comment because then there will be no event. They will for sure care about your boycott and cancel the event. Just make them see your comment bro. You are just so important to them

2021-07-20 16:21

as long as they have gullible idiots like you, they will take advantage of every situation they can to save money.

2021-07-20 16:23

Unlikey you they are not a charity project

2021-07-20 16:27

Error 404: intelligence not found

2021-07-20 17:24

im telling you, as long as ESL will have low iq, fragile, gullible fan boys like you guys they will take advantage of you. See, you guys even get upset when someone goes against ESL. 😂

2021-07-20 17:26

You are the dumb one here

Gambit paid esl

do u expect all 24 teams to be in the same place at lan with covid going on?

2021-07-20 16:31

Yes please

2021-07-20 17:03

yes? Iem cologne had 16 teams + 8 teams in play-in that didnt qualify to the main event

2021-07-20 17:57

cologne 1 week tournament pro league 1 month any more takes?

2021-07-20 19:06

At the same time football has championships with all players and 40k+ viewers on stadium. Corona cant damage football fans? Or it hunts only for esports fans?

2021-07-20 19:20

idk, im not fifa

2021-07-20 19:48

???????? Fucking bullshit

Ugh, this sucks. Already there are tier 1 matches going on due to the player break. Now what, wait for a month only to view an online event :(

Not surprised the bill for IEM Cologne at that hotel was prob too high D: Online costs = lower

+1. A tournament that lasts one month is is gonna be expensive af.

2021-07-20 16:10

Oh actually, Maybe thats why EPL system should change, have one group of teams on Malta, then The next, make it minimum amount of bills paid ig, but yeah A 30 Day tournament with Break between Playoffs and groups Will take too fucking long, Might be hard to manage in normal circumstances nevermind Covid, Most obvious solution might be Have groups online but playoffs on Lan but it would be Unfair if a team that destroys their group gets destroyed in playoffs because their best player has travel ban or sth, unfortunate stuff

2021-07-20 16:29

Team Liquid TOP 1 IS COMING

+1 real and true

2021-07-20 16:11

2021-07-20 16:25

-1 fantasy and false

2021-07-20 18:07

source: trust me bro

2021-07-20 18:24

2021-07-20 20:03

Navi era over kekw

XDDDDDDDDDa

cringe

EZ FOR GAMBIT. TRASH ORG OF ESL AFRAID TO HOLD ON LAN PATHETIC ORG. That is why eSports will always be considered as the nerd sport, which will never be taken seriously. ESL SO FUCKING STUPID. GO TO UK with your tournament you dumb dogs. UK has lifted all these bs covid restrictions. Fucking idiots are not able to change the location? Lowkey IQ. Vaccines and people are afraid of the more harmless delta bs. Idiotic humanity

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It is sponsored by Malta gaming if i am correct so they may be obligated to do it in Malta if it is a lan I may be trippin tho

It is sponsored by Malta gaming and it was going to be held at the facility built by ESL in Malta but the Malta government has too many COVID travel restrictions so it would be nearly impossible to have every team at the LAN event

2021-07-20 16:19

Alright that makes sense ty

Then don't partner with someone who establish shit conditions, just move the event somewhere else, simple as that

2021-07-20 16:39

yeah JUST lost a sponsor ESL simple

take an IQ test, if its over 85 ill be shocked

2021-07-20 16:18

If you are talking about yourself and ESL you are prolly right, but I will quote a certain high IQ scientist: „ Stephen Hawking IQ: Physicist Called People Who Boast About Score Losers“ But I have to defend the narrative so I‘ll ignore his statement

2021-07-20 16:59

you where the one reffering to IQ in your post you dumbass

2021-07-20 17:15

totally agree

2021-07-20 20:29

Faze top 39 again

No way :((((((((

No one wants this bullshit

Booo to covid

2021-07-20 16:07

ez4gambit

good for heroic fans

boring... Cologne has PROVEN that every tournament can and should be LAN.

special for radarhackers from gamshit

ResidentSleeper

2021-07-20 16:08

How are people surprised lol? That was quite obvious that they are not gonna organize LAN for 24 teams in a month.

Possibly, I think people are bummed about the fact that Cologne was a LAN, or studio LAN at least which should have been the start of things where LANs return. Everything went well and people were excited for LANs to return just for Pro League to be continued online. Took one step forward and 2 steps back.

nobody gets too far like that

Wdym

2021-07-20 16:20

gta sa reference

Way to let down the people

2021-07-20 20:30

Spirit? RIP

why?

Rip faze

sadge

gambit can win one last trophy and heroic can place higher than 13-16th one last time

Why not have online group stage and LAN playoffs?

2021-07-20 16:13

Rip FaZe and NaVi

EZ4GAMIT lol

that sucks

Heroic back to relevancy then

wtf is these partnership teams? at least half of them is washed up nowadays yikes

they paid esl money so esl dont car

2021-07-20 16:35

WePlay can organize an Academy League playoffs LAN but ESL can't do the same with EPL, what a joke

gambit top1

2021-07-20 16:14

Faze last place gg

rip faze

Gambit is back in action.

Next LAN is gonna end up being in China even though they’re the bastards who started this ffs

2021-07-20 18:09

The Americans bastards started the spanish flu there should be no future lans in the American states

2021-07-21 10:21

Was this made online because of the Spanish flu or the Wuhan flu? Dumb blyat

2021-07-21 13:27

Bad News Bears EZ FOR Gambit, VP, NIP RIP FaZe Astralis

this is sad with all of this bs going on with Covid and stuff....We all wanted to be on LAN!

Rip csgo

Fuckin idiots

ez4fnatic 3v5 no problem

i guess i wont be seeing siners on lan :(

nafany +124 rating

2021-07-20 16:22

Thats so fucking sad, it will be boring heroic vs gambit final all over again :(

Fuck this shit

ez4Gambit xdd

gratz gambit navi fans back to depression

We are not bad on online . Infact we have won 3 online trophies this year but still Navi on LAN >>>> Navi on online

2021-07-20 16:36

2021-07-20 16:26

FUCK OFFFFF

NA'VI should bootcamp for this , hunt the IGS pleas .

Ez for Gamb0ts

2021-07-20 16:30

ESL = debil cyka ebanyi

Ti durak?

thats DCE

2021-07-20 16:32

RIP GrandSlam for NaVi :(

hope my boyz gets their spot. A pro league without BIG i won't watch !

ahahaha Gambit haters, rise!

Gambit fans will rise now

online just boring

zaebala corona ebanaya

xaxaxaxaaxaxa

aaaw man. Hopefully we'll see another LAN soon!

congrats gambit

2021-07-20 16:33

well that sucks.....we just had a taste of LAN too

2021-07-20 16:34

Gambit wins easily

anluko :(

2021-07-20 16:38

RIP navi

gamb0t win EPL

RIP Faze

ffs....not online again...

2021-07-20 16:42

Cologne was fun

2021-07-20 16:43

another fucking time NaVis chance to start era is ruined ...

2021-07-20 16:44

But still Navi has been playing well on online but yeah navi on LAN >>> navi on online. Time for papatronic to go off haha

2021-07-20 16:47

rip

2021-07-20 16:45

Last 7 invites are: Gambit, Heroic, VP, BIG, FURIA, Spirit and OG, right?

2021-07-20 16:46

4O% is back

rip navi and faze gambit is back (((((

2021-07-20 16:50

Congrats Gambit on aonther tournament win!

Happiest day from gambit onliners

2021-07-20 16:51

BIG F

2021-07-20 16:56

not going to watch this trash.

2021-07-20 16:57

Tournament for every month kinda meaningless to tier 1 teams even we are tired of this shit

2021-07-20 16:58

Tournament Organizer! Please stop this bullshit. We want LAN.

Gambit and heroic are back, they will reach the final easily. F for Astralis, Navi and Faze.

gl to faze and rng

2021-07-20 17:02

ez for heroic and gambit

Final: Gambot vs Onliners Heroic

Take care about cOVERRATEDronavirus in 2021... Imagine turning S-tier event to a B-tier lmao

2021-07-20 17:07

Online? Boooo

2021-07-20 17:04

CSGO fanboys malding

ez for GAMBIT

2021-07-20 17:05

Will BIG participate or eliminated already?

2021-07-20 17:09

fuc

2021-07-20 17:10

Gambit or heroic winning Let’s get a tournament to America. Florida wouldn’t care about having one they havent cared about covid since it started

Broooooooo nooooooooo!!!

2021-07-20 17:11

Just have tournament in USA (Florida/Texas) or in some of Eastern European countries.

2021-07-20 17:12

ez for gambot, sad

Disappointed but ok.. GL to all teams 🔥 Again same mistake, they giving 750.000 $ for online event.. Just give them 150.000 $ nothing else.. We saw the power of online gamers in Cologne how much they are capable of

2021-07-20 17:23

+1 and remove the grand slam from online events again (yes, flair checks out :D)

2021-07-20 17:56

nooo

Thats so sad...

Can EPL playoffs still be played on lan? They still have that studio no matter if they will play group stage there or not.

2021-07-20 17:29

Says that travel restrictions are more strict, so even if they had the studio in Malta, teams couldnt even make it there. Sad :((

2021-07-20 19:54

Such a fucking disapointment.........

Horrible

2021-07-20 17:34

Just move this shit to another place you dumb motherfuckers, this cologne just proved that Online CS its a joke. Gambit and Heroic liked this btw

2021-07-20 17:37

Congrats to gambit for winning EPL s14!

2021-07-20 17:38

+1 lmao

Booo

unfortunately Sinners will have to wait a few more months for their first won t1 LAN but the 175K dollars is still gonna be nice

2021-07-20 17:44

Gambit vs Heroic finals incoming... :))

2021-07-20 17:46

you mean: gamb0ts versus WHOroic -> but the real question is who cares?

2021-07-20 17:48

Inb4 50k viewers on main channel

2021-07-20 17:53

BIG is allowed to play MDL but they're probably getting invited anyway,makes 0 sense.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-07-20 17:59

Pff

2021-07-20 18:02

BnB are about to be the best team in all of Serbia!

2021-07-20 18:10

Congrats GAMBIT for winning ESLPLS 14

2021-07-20 18:11

and i was soo hyped to see SHOCK on lan 😔

2021-07-20 18:14

Gambit vs NaVi final again??? ResidentSleeper

2021-07-20 18:15

Flair?

2021-07-20 19:56

I want NAVI vs any EU team or liquid, but not Gambit again :(

2021-07-20 21:48

Ahh understandable, NaVi vs Heroic would be cool for me, but Heroic are underperforming right now, even at IEM summer before lan. Either way, I would like to see Navi win EPL 14 and the grand slam:))

2021-07-20 23:08

Personally I want something like NAVI - Liquid (Because I want NA scene finally to achieve something) or NAVI - Astralis in a good form, would like to see FaZe in finals too, but I don't think they are good enough for it (especially online) yep, I also hope NAVI will take that Grand Slam, they have the best chance someone could possibly imagine, but going back to online again is the massive disadvantage for them. I'm afraid they can drop off in online and teams like Gambit will be back again. Maybe NAVI will play from bootcamp at least, wasting such an opportunity to write history would be a real crime

2021-07-20 23:25

It seems like it will be Navi - Gambit again, but who knows, maybe some team will go big and face Navi in finals ))

2021-07-20 23:31

at least I hope NAVI will get to that finals and Kato2020 story won't repeat again lol

2021-07-20 23:33

I dont think it will; it looks like Navi are overcoming the inconsistency problem slowly, so I think they will make the finals again :D

2021-07-20 23:48

+111111

2021-07-20 23:17

fnatic is so cursed they are LAN players like faze clan this will be again SADGE

2021-07-20 18:16

fnatic are bot players

2021-07-20 22:46

unlucky for Lantus.Pro but still VP will take this 😎

2021-07-20 18:19

So sad im not interested in online matches

2021-07-20 18:36

Bruh, again boost for onliners

2021-07-20 18:38

Just organize it as Lan event one of The northern european countries, were CoVid is actually under control ? - These online tournaments does nothing good for The scene as a whole …

2021-07-20 19:04

2021-07-20 23:46

online ez gambit.

2021-07-20 19:09

CONGRATS TO GAMBIT/HEROIC FOR WINNING EPL S14!!!

2021-07-20 19:16

such bullshit

2021-07-20 19:33

bullshit

I thought the league was always played offline with just the playoffs being a LAN. I guess I was wrong, has never happened before.

2021-07-20 19:59

Bruh

2021-07-20 20:04

twitter.com/caspercadiaN/status/14175367.. lol

2021-07-20 20:31

"IEM Fall to take place online due to the new "Alpha Bravo Gamma variant" "Major to be cancelled due to 5 new covid cases around the world" another dissapointing year :/

2021-07-20 20:34

I would be finally done if they cancelled major again after NAVI had won a big event and looked unbeatable :( Different year but again the same story

2021-07-20 21:45

so absolutely true

2021-07-20 23:45

ESL don't wanna expose anti-vax pros KEK

2021-07-20 20:50

gambot have a chance 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

2021-07-20 20:52

sigma male variant next

2021-07-20 20:56

thought this online bullshit was over

2021-07-20 21:11

Online 2k21 omegalul

2021-07-20 21:14

Bruh for the fuck sake what is this such a luck for bots like Gamb0t or Lulroic

2021-07-20 21:16

:( sad af

2021-07-20 21:27

sad

2021-07-20 21:31

This is just sad at this point, nothing to add here... :(

2021-07-20 21:41

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

2021-07-20 21:47

Why.......

2021-07-20 22:04

F in the chat, was hoping for more LAN but i suppose it cant be avoided

2021-07-20 22:06

F Faze

2021-07-20 23:03

Congratz Gambit and Heroic :D

2021-07-20 23:07

Gambots era continied

2021-07-20 23:11

just make groups online and playoffs on LAN

2021-07-20 23:13

Not getting a venue is the problem and COVID restrictions so doesn’t matter how long, a week or a month

2021-07-20 23:44

That is very unfortunate, but before that a month break so still some hype

2021-07-20 23:43

Gambit is back then!

2021-07-21 00:19

fuck online fucking footbal tournaments are placed in huge stadiums with large ass crowd, give us back real lans with crowd

2021-07-21 00:24

PLEASE stop announcing things you cannot do for 100%, you are just getting people's hopes up ffs, can't wait for IEM Fall 2021 being cancelled cause "travel restrictions", fuck off with this stupid shit

2021-07-21 00:26