Forum thread: What Happened to StarLadder?

2023-01-29 11:18

Hopefully not. Berlin was a disaster

2023-01-29 11:19

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The major wasn't very good, but their Starseries events were enjoyable to watch and I don't want to only watch ESL and BLAST events every year

2023-01-29 11:21

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PGL XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

2023-01-29 12:27

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PGL Clowns :D:D!

2023-01-29 12:42

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PGL audio guy 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

2023-01-29 12:43

Actually while on this topic where did Dreamhack go? I know they're still around and they're holding a festival or something in my city of San Diego soon but the last time I remember them holding an event in CSGO was over 2 years ago. Did these organizers just pull out of CSGO?

2023-01-29 11:27

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didnt ESL eat them up?

2023-01-29 11:26

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Oh I totally forgot about that, ya I think they merged.

2023-01-29 11:29

ESL bought them.ESL Challengers are actually Dreamhack. They got bought out.

2023-01-29 11:29

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shame, i loved the brand dreamhack very nostalgic

2023-01-29 11:56

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2023-01-29 14:01

what about dreamhack masters ? esl challengers are dh open

2023-01-29 14:26

the festivals still happen dreamhack.com/2023-world-tour but like others said the tournaments are now under esl name

2023-01-29 12:43

Its called ESL Challenger now

2023-01-29 12:54

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It's very confusing name, because we also have ESL Challenger League. I wish it was called ESL Drehack or just any name different than Challenger

2023-01-29 13:11

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Interesting that Jame in his videos still calls them Dreamhack

2023-01-29 14:14

Forget StarLadder, we still need ELEAGUE

2023-01-29 11:26

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I think ELEAGUE is gone, at least for CSGO. Its been years now and no words from them, even their twitter is inactive

2023-01-29 11:30

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I'll give to NA, ELEAGUE had some of the best production out there.

2023-01-29 12:19

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2023-01-29 12:44

Wasn't it around this time, 5 years ago that C9 won the major? It was their 3rd last event I think, what a shame

2023-01-29 13:14

2023-01-29 14:02

I dont know about starladder(wouldnt mind them coming back tho,tired of this duopoly) but I would surely want back dududududuududududduud.

2023-01-29 11:27

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Its not even a duopoly, its at a point where ESL just keeps BLAST around to innovate new features for them to steal or bring up talents so they can take them for their events. The fans don't even value BLAST events, all of them are seen as lesser tier 2 LANS and the only real events are ESL held ones.

2023-01-29 11:32

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2023-01-29 13:42

ESL/BLAST carrying the whole scene by themselves, sad

2023-01-29 11:31

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It seems ESL just established a monopoly after the saudi money started flowing in and BLAST is the only one to hang on..

2023-01-29 11:34

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BLAST is also saudi i think, the two were bought at the same time IIRC

2023-01-29 11:35

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I thought BLAST was run by the Danes Edit: Just double checked its ran by RFRSH Entertainment which is Danish :)

2023-01-29 11:37

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There are also ties to Saudi Arabia

2023-01-29 11:41

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Please elaborate

2023-01-29 12:02

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My bad it looks like the Saudi deal got cancelled but UAE is still ongoing esports.net/news/blasts-abu-dhabi-ties-c..

2023-01-29 12:05

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Thanks!

2023-01-29 12:09

yeah you're right, there were only rumors

2023-01-29 11:44

there isn't really enough time in the calendar anymore with ESLs and Blasts schedule.

2023-01-29 11:31

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March actually has no events whatsoever

2023-01-29 11:52

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Pro league goes on till end of March. also back when StarLadder etc did run tournaments , there where much less and shorter breaks between tournaments and teams don't really want this anymore

2023-01-29 12:00

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Yeah you are right I didn’t notice that

2023-01-29 13:29

esl pro league taking up so much time and its so boring smh

2023-01-29 11:57

Esl would have to remove some events like 1 pro league (idk why there has to be 2 every year, 1 is more than enough cuz it takes too much time) and one of the little iem tournaments. You could fit 3 or even 4 new tournaments if that happened

2023-01-29 12:53

Used to be fun when there were more different kind of tournaments ran by different TO's with somewhat unique productions. ELEAGUE, Starladder, even ESL had Dreamhack and ESL One tournaments in addition to IEM which have ceased to exist post covid.

2023-01-29 12:27

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Malta vibes had some pretty good production from what I recall

2023-01-29 12:31

WESG

2023-01-29 12:36

Yep, lately everything feels the same. Honestly miss when Dreamhack, starladder, cph games and some other smaller LANs were sprinkled around the year.

2023-01-29 13:03

2023-01-29 20:39

We need starladder and eleague back. I'd also say EPICENTER, but we don't vibe with ESForce anymore

2023-01-29 12:28

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epicenter based bo5 finals

2023-01-29 12:47

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Have been bo3 in 2018 and 2019. Besides they have the same owners as VP, and apparently it's government sponsored. Literally no chance they return, maybe only with Epic ZV Cup 2023

2023-01-29 12:52

cs_summit :(

2023-01-29 14:24

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That was actually always my favorite event, I loved the whole set up. Last time they held a real cs_summit was in 2019, although as far as I know they still exist. Hopefully 2023 is the year they return

2023-01-29 20:42