ESL opens Iberian League

28-3-2011 18:02

The Electronic Sports League has announced the creation of a league for Portuguese and Spanish teams only.

The Iberian League will consist of 12 teams, six from Portugal and Spain, who will play in the same league format which the EPS leagues have been using for the past years.

Each country will organise an online qualifier, which will reward the teams who finish from first to third with places in the final league.

The top three teams from Portugal and Spain will receive a direct invite for the main competition and will thus not require to participate in the qualifiers.

The first season of the Iberian League will not feature any prize money, but the ESL has told HLTV.org that the competition will be treated very seriously, just like any EPS.

Should the first season, which will serve as a test to the stability of the teams and players, prove successful, then the other seasons are expected to start giving away prizes to the top contenders.

Registration for the Spanish and Portuguese online qualifiers will begin tomorrow, 29 March.

Stay tuned to HLTV.org for full coverage of the Iberian League.

Good for k1ck

2011-03-28 18:02

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and x6

2011-03-28 18:11

AWESOME :D

why not add france ?

2011-03-28 18:03

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Kinda ruins the whole "Iberian" about it...

2011-03-28 18:04

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It could be 'Iberian and Frenchs (read as Friends)' xD

2011-03-28 18:22

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ahaha

2011-03-28 18:33

LOOOL xD n1

2011-03-28 19:14

HAAHHAAH nice one :P

2011-03-29 22:01

It doesn't really answer his question, and it's not really hard to change one word... On a side note, a very small part of Iberian Peninsula is french.

2011-03-28 19:49

go play with germans

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frenchies gonna loose then :(

2011-03-28 18:06

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english will help 'em)

2011-03-28 18:07

I get the feeling the French community got a more stable approch compered to the communities in Spain and Portugal! I might be wrong though, but France at least got a few teams that could prob call em self top 50/100 in the world MILLENIUM, eShara and so on... =)

2011-03-28 18:12

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I agree.

2011-03-28 18:21

top 50/100 wtf?:D

2011-03-28 18:32

more like top 10/15

2011-03-28 19:32

I mean A LOT OF top 50/100

2011-03-28 19:46

doesnt france have a EPS or it got cancelled?

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hltv.org/news/6239-official-eps-france-r..

2011-03-28 19:00

thanks a lot.

2011-03-28 19:04

too much lag from Portugal to France and i assume vice versa

2011-03-28 20:26

aye caramba :D

2011-03-28 18:05

nice :)

really nice

2011-03-28 18:10

gr8 news!

baltic league pls xP

yea would be really awesome! :/

2011-03-28 19:20

great news indeed

amazing games betwen kick x6 paranoids, wizards ... good news 4 cs in iberia. cs died? when?

cs will die when we say so :) :D

2011-03-29 00:34

Great News! i wish there would be something like that with Israel and more countries who actully need those tournaments. :D

2011-03-28 18:14

It would take some heavy diplomatic skills in the case of a geographically destined league.

2011-03-28 18:38

I thought France would be in it but good for them anyways now France + UK

2011-03-28 18:24

and maybe + Benelux ?

2011-03-28 18:28

go for Estonia

yeh I would have basically put France & UK in the same league as Benelux but already have their own EPS that's working well I believe

2011-03-28 18:42

Benelux EPS kinda works yes, but I still think there are teams in the competition which don't deserve the spot. It would be nice for the competition to see the top teams from the benelux, UK and France together, wouldn't it ?

2011-03-29 00:04

definetly! right now I can see at least 5 french teams worth watching (Millenium, eSahara, QWERTY, nSydia, LDLC.com). I don't know much about Benelux' scene though, ppl on french speaking websites say it wouldn't work cuz there's quite a big gap between these countries' teams' level but I still think it would make it more entertaining to have several countries in the same league

2011-03-29 18:28

Really good. Iberian competitions are something that will certainly help improve spanish and portuguese team's levels to compete against central european teams. Looking forward to it!

thats pretty cool, can be a huge boost for the pt scene.. gl guys.

2011-03-28 18:35

finally someying k1ck accually could win. its gonna be fun to see all the fanboys!

2011-03-28 18:40

Awesome!

2011-03-28 18:43

great news.CS is expanding

2011-03-28 18:44

no prize money, GG. esl in financial trouble?? :)

2011-03-28 18:47

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"Should the first season, which will serve as a test to the stability of the teams and players, prove successful, then the other seasons are expected to starting giving away prizes to the top contenders."

2011-03-28 18:56

are u going to apply body?

2011-03-28 19:08

yep ;)

2011-03-28 19:23

gl my man :)

2011-03-28 19:27

thanks ;p

2011-03-28 22:36

i read that before making my comment. who launches a league without prize money these days??

More like some teams, especially Spanish ones I don't know much about Portuguese ones, in stability trouble...

still though..

You know, better save...

2011-03-28 19:26

well, i dont think that's the real reason.

2011-03-28 21:55

As said, I can only speak about the Spanish scene which is pretty much unstable in terms of teams. Therefore I find it plausible for ESL to save their money at first and see how this new league goes in order to throw in some real money...

2011-03-28 21:59

i guess we'll never find out :)

2011-03-29 01:55

finally :)

2011-03-28 18:48

europe.EPS please 32 teams happa :P

2011-03-28 18:49

Wtf they could made ESL with more famous countrys instead..

2011-03-28 18:51

what countrys are u talking about? france - cancelled germany - got it uk - who cares about cs in uk? scandinavia - got it baltics and russia? i suppose

Definitely russia.

2011-03-28 19:48

america? asia?

2011-03-29 01:54

Poland got it too, but Poland is only Fx...

2011-03-29 21:35

ESL need make EPS conferences like NBA or cs will dead in ESL Conference 1: Spain, Portugal, Italy. Conference 2: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark. Cenference 3: UK, France, Iceland, Ireland, Belgium, Netherland, Luxemburgo. Conference 4: Germany, Austria, Swizerland, Czech R, Slovakia. Conference 5: Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Biolorusia,Letonia, Lituania, Estonia, Kazajistan, Georgia, Azerbayan. Conference 6: Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Greece, Bosnia, Hungary, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Turkey, Moldova, Israel. ping problems ? 100 ping? I remember in year 2000 play with 250 ping was perfect to play.

that would be nice. and in the end, playoffs till the final :) LAN ofc the playoffs

2011-03-28 19:06

+1 for the idea, but that is too serious project so I dont think that all those countries have proper people to do that, otherwise it would be perfectly good :D

2011-03-28 21:53

2011-03-28 22:05

pretty good idea mate :o Conference 7: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela hahaha *dream*

2011-03-28 22:28

Come to South East Asia please?

It'd be superb to have something quite like it in South America... I'm pretty sure that the community would be on fire!

2011-03-28 19:13

I saw brasil has lot of teams like romania has. hope for a league in South America. we have PGL(Professional Gamers League)-170 teams

2011-03-28 19:16

good thing for cs

i want something like this on balcan ppl from serbia are trying to do something like this but itw not esl and dont want any team to play that...

but it is Balkan League

+1 :D

2011-03-29 01:52

really nice news!!

gl everyone ..

Great opportunity to revive the Portuguese Quake Live scene.

perhaps hypno will dedicate more time to quake :D

2011-03-28 23:50

do something for UK/BNLX/FR :<

2011-03-28 19:28

ROFL

2011-03-28 20:00

Once again, they make a good move (I hope).

2011-03-28 20:30

Nice one, i just hope the teams can take it seriosly so prizes can be added in the future...

2011-03-28 20:39

nice news

2011-03-28 20:56

fu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! where are our EPS ???

2011-03-28 20:57

#42

2011-03-28 21:56

mb BALTIC league ? ESL PLS i believe

2011-03-28 20:59

niceeee

2011-03-28 22:17

My team will try. gllll

2011-03-28 22:59

His team will try.

2011-03-28 23:41

can i say aleluia?

2011-03-28 23:49

hallelujah!

2011-03-29 03:44

it needs eps balcan for sure balcan cs scene is growing , here in serbia we have like small lan tournaments every week and big lan tournaments with prize purses of 2600e :/ we have so many good teams that are underrated because they dont appear here in hot matches that much and people cant see their teamwork as well as aim :/ last time bgdonline vs teg im not making excuses but you cant judge them bgdonline have played a lan tournament at the same day which they won and they couldnt play in top shape :/

2011-03-29 02:03