ESL Pro League Season 16 team list finalized

19-7-2022 22:46

With HEROIC's partnership coming into effect and three teams receiving invites, all 24 teams taking part in the next season are known.

ESL has revealed that Cloud9, Spirit, and Movistar Riders have been invited to compete in the 16th season of Pro League based on their standing in the ESL World Ranking, completing the 24-team list set to compete in the league starting in late August.

The trio will join the 15 partnered teams, who have now formally inducted HEROIC into their ranks after the Norwegian organization struck a deal to join the partner list late last year alongside BIG and FURIA, as well as the six teams who earned their spots through the Conference stage in Jönkoping last month.

Movistar Riders' final push in the season earned them an invitation

Having been overtaken in the ranking thanks to a great effort from Movistar Riders in the past month, with the Spaniards having won ESL Challenger Valencia before making a surprise run to the semi-finals at IEM Cologne, perhaps the biggest team to miss out on a spot in the league are OG.

ESL Pro League Season 16 kicks off on August 31 and will be the second tier-one tournament to take place following the official summer tournament break, after BLAST Premier Fall Groups. The league will run for four weeks in the familiar round-robin format before concluding with the playoffs in the final week leading up to the grand final on October 2.

ESL has yet to reveal where the tournament will take place, but it is expected to be run on LAN from a studio location.

Below is the full team list:

Partner teams

FURIA

ESL World Ranking

Cloud9

Spirit

EPL Conference

HEROIC

NaVi takes this tbh

2022-07-19 22:47

26 replies

ez for spirit, sorry

2022-07-19 22:50

18 replies

Sorry but NiP got this

2022-07-19 23:04

17 replies

Evil Geniuses are going to crush everyone

2022-07-19 23:07

15 replies

2022-07-19 23:18

4 replies

wrong, movistar riders will 16-0 everyone

2022-07-19 23:27

3 replies

I'm sorry, but C9 will great again

2022-07-20 06:16

2 replies

EZ for CadiaN and the boyz

2022-07-20 10:02

lets hope so. their performance at cologne was shit.

2022-07-20 15:06

+1 it doesn’t matter how bad they are in a 15v5

5 replies

They really did just figure out the best strategy

2022-07-19 23:38

And who says NA meta is outdated??? If you ask me, NA is creating the meta

2022-07-20 00:04

TRUE

2022-07-20 00:58

FLAGS KEKW

2022-07-20 23:03

1 reply

Don’t disrespect junior stg

2022-07-21 00:07

193rd in the world soon to be #1 ready for rush 3.7 to0urna,ent rating!

2022-07-20 00:05

holy shit, thats bad, even for EG.

2022-07-20 17:00

+1 alongside with complexity

2022-07-20 10:21

2022-07-20 12:51

2008 called

2022-07-21 07:56

Faze wins grand slam

2022-07-20 01:37

nope ! after break everything will change not same again i mean the momentum after 1 month , especially faze only win cologne 2 round from navi because last map 16-14

2022-07-20 06:56

Lmao that's not how it works but ok

2022-07-20 11:06

I mean, in all likelihood it will probably still just be FaZe vs NaVi for every tournament, so FaZe still has a really good shot at winning the grand slam

2022-07-21 00:08

Hi im Faze.

2022-07-20 02:16

Baby, don't hurt me(

2022-07-20 11:43

MOVI STAR RIDERS!!!!

2022-07-20 14:40

oops

2022-07-19 22:46

ez for movistar riders

nvm, already fixed

FURIA 2X

Final for Astralis

Ez4EG #LIVEEVIL

2022-07-19 22:48

6 replies

kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

#EGWIN

2022-07-20 00:23

They are going to break world record for most 0-5 group stages, currently held also by them

2022-07-20 01:47

lul

2022-07-20 09:42

true

2022-07-20 11:40

Ooof

iem rio website says that the road to rio is october 3rd to 9th, surely that gets changed considering its 1 day after pro league ends?

Classic Valve moment

ahahahhahaha

2022-07-20 01:07

will be played in the same studio probably

2022-07-20 11:10

Same thing happened last major with the RMRs a day after pro league. The CS:GO schedule is just so packed that it's pretty much impossible to reasonably space out every tournament that's happening.

2022-07-21 06:59

FTW ez win

2022-07-19 22:49

One more season with EG not being kicked hashtag sad

Very ez for FTW

Let's go Vitality and Heet !

Lego Heet Vitality is not anymore french team i Hope they will fail with spinx and disband.

2022-07-20 10:06

Kinda rude,Apex and zywoo still on the team and u want see them fail?

2022-07-20 14:27

Apex gonna be kicked in few Time cause rating and ceo of vitality know nothing about this game. And yes i Hope they gonna fail with this team and back to a full french team.

2022-07-20 15:25

They Will never gonna back in french,Just accept It.

2022-07-20 16:28

Hyped for riders and eternal fire

2022-07-19 22:51

hyped for eg and complexity

2022-07-19 22:53

same

2022-07-19 23:16

Love ESL pro league

2022-07-19 22:52

No OG again? Kick EG and Complexity, they’re dead teams.

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8/8

2022-07-19 22:54

I'm an NA fan, and being so I definitely want EG and COL there... But holy shit how do you not have OG??? They just signed Degster too, shame.

2022-07-19 23:01

check rankings

Are they one off??

2022-07-20 11:02

The problem is 15 partnership teams, not rankings.

2022-07-20 12:54

2022-07-20 18:17

Im neutral for any NA things, but thought partnership system not makes any sense at all...

2022-07-20 06:52

Spirit was one place above them in the ranking I think.

2022-07-20 14:17

sucks to be OG lol, esl pro league longest tournament and all they do is just do nothing

2022-07-21 16:59

How is eg still in Bottom of epl for past 3+ seasons

They made a deal long time ago. I guess ESL can't kick them from the league, untill the contract ends.

2022-07-19 22:57

franchise league lul

2022-07-19 23:17

Teams can decide if they shit the bed for a long time to kick them

2022-07-20 00:52

ez for faze

please remove dead beat team eg

2022-07-19 22:55

MIBR x Furia Grand Final

Furia v Liquid EZ

2022-07-19 22:59

Which EG team will be playing? Based on ESL Rankings, the listed EG team is EG.PA.

2022-07-19 22:56

They are partnered team so they can use any lineup they want.

2022-07-20 11:12

2 Iberian Teams!!! Great job brothers!!!

Riders gigachad for losing to FTW in ESL Masters and leaving the conference spot wide open and then qualifying through the ranking. And gigachad again for winning Dreamhack Valencia leaving 2 free spots for Conference S17 in ESL Masters and Master League Portugal.

2022-07-19 23:05

I really want FTW to leave their mark here. The dark horse of the season!

2022-07-20 00:06

It's gonna be hard with this recent changes. They changed players and arrozdoce switched role so they'll need time

2022-07-20 00:29

I would have had more faith in one or two upsets if there had been no roster changes. Now it's an uphill battle but maybe the boys can rise to the occasion.

2022-07-20 03:59

#81 said the same. It’s been… weird, not gonna lie. But I hope it’s for the best. I also hope my boy Arki knows how to coach well hahaha

2022-07-20 22:37

navi will get deleted by BIG, ez big faze final, faze would sweep germans with a 2-1 score. dropped map by faze prb will be overpass

Noted.

2022-07-20 01:20

If this ends up being true i gift u galil sage spray mw

2022-07-22 21:45

EG xd

2022-07-19 23:00

ez 4 arrozdoce

just give the throphy to EF already, no need to bother.

2022-07-19 23:03

Yes no need to waste time

2022-07-19 23:14

no og, sadgeeee

2022-07-19 23:08

Since when did Heroic become a Norwegian organization????

2022-07-19 23:09

a Norwegian agency bought them last year after Hunden drama.

I didn't know this. Thank you for info

np men)))

2022-07-19 23:19

NAVI - FAZE FINAL AGAIN

2022-07-19 23:11

EZ4ENCE

2022-07-19 23:12

nice

OG keeps playing like 3 tournaments a season lol

Semi-exclusive event, sad some good teams are not there

2022-07-19 23:20

7 replies

like???

2022-07-19 23:29

Tyloo

2022-07-19 23:37

sure

2022-07-19 23:47

Who else other than og?

2022-07-19 23:32

Finest, rare atom, 00nation

2022-07-19 23:36

wow

Agreed, there were qualifiers but definitely still exclusive Im an EG fan and all but an event of this stature shouldn't be continuously inviting their team that goes 0-5 every time just because they're partnered, its a stupid system.

2022-07-19 23:48

EG wins the next season ez.

2022-07-19 23:23

lets goooo EF

Ez for new G2.

No more 0-5 in robbin please :P

2022-07-20 10:20

siiick teams bro

where is HAVU Academy? I want to see aleksib in EPL!

2022-07-19 23:34

rip entripiq

no DIG, fuck off

2022-07-19 23:40

But with HEAP:D

2022-07-19 23:56

Relax, HEAP will save you from any depression

No Entropiq, irrelevant tournament. Skip to the next one, please

2022-07-19 23:44

inb4 EG sends their 3rd worst team :D

#forEF

2022-07-19 23:50

How on earth is not Bad News Eagles in this list, such a shame...

No esl points?

2022-07-20 02:07

Grand slam for faze

2022-07-20 00:15

EG, COL and Liquid will all be in the playoffs.

2022-07-20 00:27

EG going to go 0-5 3 seasons in a row and dead last 4 seasons in a row lmao

2022-07-20 00:36

When will the groups be made?

2022-07-20 00:50

yes this is the comment predicting the BIG dream run, you can reply here after they won

2022-07-20 00:54

I bet that FTW will be better than MIBR in this EPL

2022-07-20 00:57

Eg🤣🤣🤣

2022-07-20 00:59

whole tournament already planned and fixed, fnatic will win.

2022-07-20 01:11

Lets go Vita

2022-07-20 01:44

the thing is, when this partnershit will end, teams like eg lost every match but they still play epl Every team should GAIN their spot

2022-07-20 01:49

It wont end, the teams pay a lot of money to be partner. If you dont like it then don't support the tournament.

2022-07-20 04:46

ofc the pay, but thats something that needs to change, simply because it goes against competitiveness shit teams like eg always playing one of the "supposedly best leagues" just makes pro scene look trivial

2022-07-20 05:35

EZ4FTW

2022-07-20 01:52

I like that the two teams making it through the ranking are both Russian, the 'Earners' kind, good spot to be

2022-07-20 02:17

I can say like at least 25 teams that deserve to be there way more than eg.

2022-07-20 04:24

#VamosRiders. Ty hltv for our place in the middle of nowhere... ???

2022-07-20 04:41

EG wins easy sorry boys but y’all can’t beat 15 players

2022-07-20 05:11

GG Europe

2022-07-20 05:14

didn't 9z have a spot in this epl because of esl challenger? cause furia and complexity already had a spot, and virtus.pro does not exist anymore

2022-07-20 05:18

2022-07-20 15:02

Fellow FaZe fans, would you like them to win Grand slam this event or IEM Rio

2022-07-20 05:22

This is included in the grand slam thing right?

2022-07-20 05:34

Yes

2022-07-20 05:45

2022-07-20 05:54

EG but no OG kekw

2022-07-20 06:26

EG is just there for vacation

2022-07-20 06:40

Lets go FNC #alwaysFnatic

2022-07-20 07:23

Yawn, too ez for them

2022-07-20 09:22

Vitality ez win

2022-07-20 07:57

2022-07-20 14:03

heet ez win

2022-07-20 08:27

Faze will win this again broskys

2022-07-20 08:33

No OG damn sad, but then you have EG in there smh ( I know contract..)

Complexity and EG the last place fillers invited again, so bent.

2022-07-20 09:32

they werent invite, they paid to be in EPL

2022-07-21 00:17

I'm Ok with partner teams, but only if they allow more spots so we can see more teams play on big stages. 50/50 at the very least. Conference is a joke when there are so many qualifying tournaments in random non competative countries.

2022-07-20 09:35

EG being in again after coming last 3 seasons in a row is just a joke - like it puts such a huge shadow over the event for me. They should have been kicked. Likely coming last again. Poor OG

2022-07-20 09:38

HOWS EG STILL HERE

2022-07-20 09:41

Hhhhh No OG , no competition. Degster would have screwed likes of Broky, Simple and Syrson. Nexa would have outplayed Karrigan and Cadian. Ez win for rest of teams as no one invited OG.

hyped for eternal and m.riders lets go boyz

2022-07-20 10:28

Looking at EG, this tournament is a disgrace for the better ranked teams and the detrimental to the future of T1 CS.

2022-07-20 10:41

#FEELTHEHEET

2022-07-20 11:26

VERY fuckin pog to see FTW in pro league

2022-07-20 11:31

They'll get stomped by everyone

2022-07-20 11:37

most likely, but it surely wont be as bad as EG

2022-07-20 11:48

Ikr eg is the worst one out here, if FTW gets into group with some NA teams they should get some wins

2022-07-20 13:59

Nice invites

2022-07-20 11:54

Btw Vitality take this 💛🤍

2022-07-20 12:29

Navi is hungry this time.

2022-07-20 12:35

eg 0-20 incoming.if that happens and eg still stay in Louvre agreement then esl will be a joke org.

Let's go my boyz. Hope you will have a nice holiday and than win this Tournament. .-)

2022-07-20 13:14

Arrozdoce about to smurf in EPL

it is online or lan? "ESL has yet to reveal where the tournament will take place, but it is expected to be run on LAN from a studio location." LUL so i took time to read all that nvm

2022-07-20 13:22

Probably LAN in Malta

2022-07-20 14:32

Fnatic CoL and EG are wasted spots change my mind

Col and eg yes,fnatic not.

2022-07-20 14:29

yeah true at least Fnatic are trying to get back on top

2022-07-20 14:31

+1 long live KRIMZ

2022-07-21 15:11

EZ FOR ZYWOO

2022-07-20 14:26

When will tournament organisators start inviting SA (not incluiding Brazil) teams? Almost all tournaments are the same teams. Maybe 1 or 2 spots for SA to give the opportunity to other teams to show up. I doesn't need to be all tournaments, but seeing EG for example all tournaments starts to be boring

2022-07-20 14:38