ESL Pro League Season 16 Conference set to start Thursday

14-6-2022 13:15

Get up to date with the teams, format and talent at the four-day event held in Jönköping, Sweden.

ESL Pro League Season 16 Conference, running from June 16-20, is set to kick off on Thursday and will be played in a LAN setting over in Jönköping, Sweden during the DreamHack Summer festival.

The tournament features 16 teams from different regional qualifiers who will hope to secure one of the six available spots at ESL Pro League Season 16. The event will be played in a double elimination, BO3 format, to determine those six teams and hand out some extra prizemoney to those who don't make it.

Jame's new Outsiders roster will make their debut at the tournament

The team list for the tournament is:

Some of the more interesting storylines coming into the tournament are certainly the debut of the new Outsiders roster, who have recently added David "⁠n0rb3r7⁠" Danielyan and Petr "⁠fame⁠" Bolyshev to their roster in place of the outgoing duo of Mareks "⁠YEKINDAR⁠" Gaļinskis and Timur "⁠buster⁠" Tulepov.

Another debutant at the tournament is Markus "⁠Kjaerbye⁠" Kjærbye, who recently came out of retirement and will play his first game for Endpoint in their opener against HEET.

The recently transferred ORDER roster, who made to switch from Renegades will also be debuting for their new organization, while the newly assembled cowana squad, built around veteran IGL Kevin "⁠kRYSTAL⁠" Amend, will also play for the first time.

The schedule for the tournament is as follows:

Thursday, June 16
12:30 - MIBR vs. cowana | Bo3
12:30 - TYLOO vs. Strife | Bo3
12:30 - Encore vs. ORDER | Bo3
16:00 - Endpoint vs. HEET | Bo3
16:00 - Eternal Fire vs. FTW | Bo3
16:00 - Sprout vs. HUMMER | Bo3
19:30 - VERTEX vs. Falcons | Bo3
19:30 - Outsiders vs. Illuminar | Bo3

Friday, June 17
12:30 - Lower Bracket Round 1 #1 | Bo3
12:30 - Lower Bracket Round 1 #2 | Bo3
16:00 - Lower Bracket Round 1 #3 | Bo3
16:00 - Lower Bracket Round 1 #4 | Bo3
19:30 - Upper Bracket Quarter Final #1 | Bo3
19:30 - Upper Bracket Quarter Final #2 | Bo3

Saturday, June 18
12:30 - Upper Bracket Quarter Final #3 | Bo3
16:00 - Upper Bracket Quarter Final #4 | Bo3
19:30 - Lower Bracket Round 2 #4 | Bo3

Sunday, June 19
12:30 - Lower Bracket Round 2 #1 | Bo3
16:00 - Lower Bracket Round 2 #2 | Bo3
19:30 - Lower Bracket Round 2 #3 | Bo3

Monday, June 20
16:00 - Lower Bracket Round 3 #1 | Bo3
19:30 - Lower Bracket Round 3 #2 | Bo3

Below is the talent lineup for the event:

Jasmine "Veracity" Kanuga - Desk host
Mike "⁠DarfMike⁠" Winnick - Desk host
Anastasija "⁠Heccu⁠" Tolmačeva - Stage/Sideline host

Allan "⁠Allan⁠" Hender - Analyst
Anirudh "Paladin" Ajay - Analyst
Michael "YouM3" Cassidy - Analyst
Neo "Ne0kai" Caine - Analyst

Jamie "⁠EternalJay⁠" Martin - Caster
Joshua "⁠Dweg⁠" Nathan - Caster
Lucy "LucyLuce" Eastwood - Caster
Brandon "BDog" Rawlings - Caster

A $27,000 prize pool will be split among the teams that will be unable to qualify for the ESL Pro League Season 16, with the qualification to one of the hallmarks of the calendar no doubt a reward worth fighting for.

1-6. - Spot in ESL Pro League Season 16
7-8. - $4,500
9.12. - $3,000
13-16. - $1,500

Nice Finally first comment, really hyped for this series ngl

2022-06-14 13:17

2 replies

6 spots for these teams? Wow

2022-06-14 13:27

1 reply

what tier?

2022-06-14 14:00

I wonder how Outsiders will perform

Honestly? I feel like on the same level as with Yekindar Because even though Yeki >> Norbert Fame is also >> Buster

2022-06-14 14:05

good

AU pride holy moly

awesome!

2022-06-14 13:18

Goodluck hummer

Interested to see how endpoint go

this is pretty cool lots of new teams from different regions getting a chance to play

2022-06-14 13:19

3 AU teams and one NA team ?

2022-06-14 13:20

7 replies

There were two NA spots available (ESEA S39 and S40), Extra Salt won S39 and the spot went to paiN then Strife, MIBR won S40

2022-06-14 13:28

5 replies

and why does AU have 3 spots

2022-06-14 14:02

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due to how poorly timed anz champs/ the old esea premier in australia is, its less frequent then the eu/na versions so renegades (now order) won season 39 so they qualified Encore won season 40 (renegades missed out as they were playing in the major at the same time. awful scheduling) and then the most recent anz champs: Renegades won but theyd already qualified so the spot went down to Vertex who were runners up (LFO/Encore had to miss this as they were playing in pro league) sums up the awful scheduling which is now AUCS

2022-06-14 14:08

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2022-06-14 14:12

AU CS is a shambles lmao but i guess it worked out good 3 teams getting internationals at once

2022-06-14 15:03

in shambles indeed haha qualifier and tournaments are always a mess in OCE and Asia. hopefully at least one of them can do some damage, maybe even qualify if theyre lucky

2022-06-14 15:17

This is a qualifying session, NA has enough slots in the main event already.

2022-06-14 17:02

Ez4vp

2022-06-14 13:22

Good luck EF 🙂

2022-06-14 13:37

Lets go HEET!

2022-06-14 13:45

Let's go HEET please, make us proud again!

2022-06-14 13:51

good luck Eternal Fire

2022-06-14 13:53

KOM NU

2022-06-14 13:59

How tf are there so many spots when there are 2-3 teams that deserve to play in the EPL

Yeah

To offer a chance to T3-4 teams.

EZFOREF

Fanatsy?

2022-06-14 14:16

2022-06-14 16:08

LAN GOD WOXIC WILL DESTROY

2022-06-14 14:07

LETS GO ORDER LETS GO VERTEX LETS GO ENCORE

2022-06-14 14:09

Conquerors Of Sweden... #ForEF

heccu pog

2022-06-14 14:15

2-0 MIBR ENDPOINT EF OUTSIDERS 3-1 SPROUT HEET just cheer..

2022-06-14 14:17

Imo HEET > Endpoint Endpoint should no be prepared enough yet to win against a team such as HEET which has been constantly top 20-30 since 7-8 month. They can surprise them but it's more linely HEET who should take the W.

2022-06-14 14:50

When match results decided by world ranking.

2022-06-14 17:04

Joke tournament. One slot only for EU ESEA Premier/ESL Challenger, but also one slot for 3rd best German team, spot in play-in for this tournament for best Swiss team or best Benelux team. And Australia have more spots than teams without ESL National leagues... Such a joke.

2022-06-14 14:22

2022-06-14 14:41

Heccu is back, let's go! Excited to see Outsiders and Kjearbye in action, hope Heet do well! Disappointing that no Rare Atom :(

2022-06-14 14:52

whoooo?=??

2022-06-14 14:59

Let's go HEET !

2022-06-14 15:06

Ez Esl pro league for arrozdoce

2022-06-14 15:15

STRIFE will run their pockets 😤

2022-06-14 16:09

Current Challenger League looks more stacked than this tournament due to how awful scheduling is with those lower tier ESL tourneys. Most spots were passed down the line due to roster changes/disbands. or a team winning more than one qualifier tournament. The fact that some teams qualified over a half a year ago says a lot. But it's a transitional season between the old and a new format of former DH Open/ESEA Premier and now the Challenger circuit so we'll see.

2022-06-14 17:28

Ah good old Jönköping, been to that arena so many times.

2022-06-14 17:37

LAN GOD WOXIC FOR EZ

2022-06-15 09:21

the scene need more gorgeous & emotional casters like veracity! ;) none of the casters/analysts give insightful reviews about pre/post matches anyway idk why TOs always casting same boring people for so damn long.

2022-06-15 09:44