ECS S2 to launch in October

12-7-2016 19:19

The organisers of the Esports Championship Series (ECS) have announced that season two of the league will kick off in October.

Running from October 7 to December 11, Season 2 of the ECS, hosted by FACEIT and Twitch, will continue to consist of 20 teams, 10 from North America and 10 from Europe, with $1.75 million up for grabs - a figure that includes financial support.

The biggest change from Season 1 is the creation of a Development League, which will act as a qualifying platform for ECS. In both regions, four teams determined by open qualifiers will join four invited sides in the Development League, scheduled for September.

G2 won the first season of the ECS

The top two teams from these tournaments will then take on the bottom two teams of Season 1 in promotion matches to determine the final two teams in both ECS divisions. In Europe, dignitas and Na`Vi are the teams facing the threat of leaving the league, while in North America it will be Echo Fox and Team Kaliber fighting for survival.

"The open qualifiers will provide new teams the opportunity to showcase their talent to the world and join our top CS:GO esports league," said Michele Attisani, CBO of FACEIT.

"It’s our goal to provide new teams a chance to be recognized in the community and become stars, while providing current ECS teams a fresh pool of talent to test their skills against."

Teams can sign up for the open qualifiers by clicking on the following links:

Europe:

North America:

All 20 teams competing in ECS are offered co-ownership, which means that they get seats on the league's governing committee and a share of the revenue generated by the tournament.

G2 won the first season of ECS after beating out Luminosity at the season finals, which took place at the SSE Arena, in London.

nice, looking forward

2016-07-12 19:20

Second, as always.

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2016-07-12 19:21

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2016-07-12 19:22

ez for ence

wow, cool, amazing, interestink

okay

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8th close enought Kappa

de_molished noobs :D

rly nice

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SK will win this time froggies, no win 4 u We are smart We are loyal We are friendly! We are from Brazil!

Why so late

4 spots for NA again, this is getting ridiculous.

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yeah, should be 6, Europe can't even make finals

2016-07-12 19:30

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LUL

2016-07-12 19:32

For the first time in CS:GO history, when NA team made finals for the first time, nice try though.

2016-07-12 19:40

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Eu hasn't made finals past 2 majors nt though

2016-07-12 19:44

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CiS basically = EU, and finals is not the only criterion here. just take a look at how many NA teams made it out of groups in any CS:GO major for comparison, nice try though.

2016-07-12 19:51

5 teams in past 2, so 1/3 of teams are na, 1/5 Cis and the rest Eu, but compared to how many Eu teams were at the majors, 1/3 is a lot of teams

2016-07-12 19:56

For some reason you considering SA teams as NA, but CIS teams are not as EU, probably because of how major qualifier works, but it's not the same for this event.

2016-07-12 20:33

SK,Liquid,TSM are cool teams to watch.. maybe c9?

2016-07-12 19:31

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G2 and SK are the only interesting match-up atm, seems like everyone else is struggling one way or another..

fnatic,sk,g2,navi,vp imo

2016-07-12 19:34

naah fnatic is pretty bad these days

2016-07-16 15:56

No, fnatic is still gods

2016-07-16 15:58

No not really. They havent beat a top6 team in a bo3 for over 3 months. They are pretty terrible.

2016-07-16 15:59

SK, Liquid, Immortals and TSM

2016-07-12 19:33

imo Optic have a better change at qualifying than TSM, I would even put C9 before TSM since they seem to be improving

3 NA/SA teams are in top 10 world though? Liquid SK Immortals (I guess c9 will take the last spot)

TSM?????

2016-07-12 19:38

I doubt Immortals will make it, probs gonna be SK, Liquid, Cloud9, TSM/EchoFox/Immortals

SK yes, Liquid or Immortals yes, but teams like C9, TSM, Optic or Splyce instead of, for example, EU teams like Navi, Virtus.premier, Astralis, NiP or even Tyloo from asia region? Tournaments don't need that many NA teams.

2016-07-12 19:46

TSM is getting a lot better :> close matches against fnatic/SK and they beat astralis too...

2016-07-12 19:57

Just a fluke, TSM had one lucky run, Splyce had one last major, and it wasn't close against SK, it was on Flipside level, when they badly lost first map, and then made it look close on the second, but Flipside will never have a chance to qualify for this type of event, when TSM actually has one.

2016-07-12 20:15

ez for sk

and still, no south american qualifiers

2016-07-12 20:01

south america qualifiers would be a waste of spot imo... SA teams have no chance against a ELITE team. They should somehow move to NA or smth like that.. then they might get better to compete at this tournament lvl

2016-07-12 22:42

i think that 1 spot should for SA.sk and inmortals show that you can maybe find a good team.

2016-07-13 03:15

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2016-07-12 20:03

C9 will win it. not!!

2016-07-12 20:09