ESL to host all Minors in Katowice

9/10/2018 - 18:53

ESL will host all four Minors leading to the IEM Katowice Major in the same city as the main event, it has been revealed.

The announcement was made on Twitter by ESL's Vice President for Pro Gaming, Michal "CARMAC" Blicharz, who added that this decision will help teams from certain regions to secure visas for the events.

Hosting all the Minors in the same country as the main event was a system introduced by FACEIT ahead of the company's London Major with a view to providing more consistency between the competitions and limiting roster changes and visa issues.

Carmac reveals that all Minors will be held in Katowice

Still, Signature and Nemiga both missed the Minors after being refused visa permits, while 5POWER,PLINK, Monolith and Uniquestars had to travel to London with stand-ins.

Earlier on Tuesday, ESL revealed the first details about the qualifying process for the Minors, kicking off in just two weeks' time. Registration for the online qualifiers in all four regions will open next week.

Interesting change for a start

2018-10-09 18:54

Hyped

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yes m2

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nice

2018-10-09 18:55

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ESL tier 1 event

2018-10-09 18:59

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expected, ESL & ELEAGUE > everything

2018-10-09 19:39

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Smart move! Everyone gonna get visa to 4th world country XDDD

2018-10-09 23:55

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XD +1

2018-10-11 09:54

Noice

2018-10-09 18:57

How on earth are you people so fast? Do you just sit on the news tab and refresh all day long?

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clicked on main page and suddenly it was there with 0 comments, lucky

2018-10-09 18:56

Why lucky? What did you win?

2018-10-09 21:47

because something low chance happened

2018-10-09 22:12

Got notification via hltv app

does hltv has an app? wtf i searched it on the play store and didn't find anything.

2018-10-09 19:11

It does have and idk why cant u find it

2018-10-09 19:12

Been using it for the last year. Love the app! Instant notification but I dont care about being first

2018-10-09 19:56

Yes it does, but it is not supported from few months. Look at my last thread, there is answer

2018-10-10 16:31

Where is #1 WTF

It's a bug hahha

unluko

2018-10-09 18:58

probably got flagged as spam by a bot, so it got deleted

2018-10-09 19:04

yay

who?

it's definitely easier to get polish visa than UK LUL.

Wouldnt it be a european visa not a polish one

2018-10-09 19:01

Yes

2018-10-09 19:24

easy and whatever is connected with our government agencies can't be put in the same sentence.

2018-10-09 19:48

Quality moves

omg

esl good faceit shit

ok, but no facebook streams plz, burn that f*cking useless contract

It's sponsored by Valve, so it won't be on facebook

oh nice :D

2018-10-09 19:03

but Valve-Twitch isn't RIP man :P

2018-10-09 19:17

Its an IEM major facebook exclusivity contract is tied the the ESL One brand, not IEM

Nothing to do with it. Esl hosts the event. That shit would be facebook stream too. But all major have to be streamed on twitch so it doesnt matter who hosts or which contracts they have

No the contract is for only ESL ONE and ESL Pro league events. All IEM events have been on twitch as they arent part of the contract.

2018-10-09 19:53

Yes But even if it was an esl one event It would be streamed on twitch as well

2018-10-09 20:31

It must be streamed on twitch to give random viewers souvenir cases

2018-10-09 20:02

WHATEVER IT MAYBE, pls CHANGE THE GROUP STAGE SYSTEM. MAKE IT A LOWER BRACKET AND UPPER BRACKET SYSTEM TO MAKE THE MAJOR MORE INTERESTING.

2018-10-09 19:06

WE WANT THE SYSTEME FROM DOTA NOOOOOOW

2018-10-09 19:49

YESSSS

2018-10-09 20:04

We don't need dota's system on the major, we need the international for the csgo and then we can have the same system, cuz who would've want to play so many matches for just 500k$ cmonBruh we brothas in the hood make 500k$ just after one robbery (wait what?)

nah i dont want TI. then i wouldnt see steel at any tournaments anymore.

2018-10-09 22:36

I WANT A DYNAMIC PRIZE POOL AND AN EXPANDED SYSTEM OF THE ESL ONE COLOGNE FORMAT. ENOUGH OF THE SWISS-BUTTHOLE SYSTEM, FOOKIN BO1s SUCCC DEEEK

2018-10-15 11:12

nice, Nemiga go go <3

Thanks valve

EZ POLSKA <3 <3

Nice

good

Great news! Lessens the issues of teams playing with stand ins in the major proper, now just get them BO3 Swiss groups and we've got ourselves a real tournament!

+1 to bo3 swiss

2018-10-09 19:09

Expected from ES "best organiser ever" L

expected from ES"FACEBOOKSTREAM"L

2018-10-09 19:00

For me the stream is just as good/bad as twitch. also more lightweight player, but yt still best streaming platform, but Twitch propaganda too big.

2018-10-09 19:02

all the hype but then reality strikes its facebook stream

IEM-branded events are not part of the deal. It will be on twitch.

2018-10-09 19:44

rly? well thanks for the info i thought esl money whore took over everything with that facebook deal

2018-10-09 19:46

Intercontinental Minor?

i viseted this Major, because Poland visas its so ez pz

i have visas, i take in 27.09.2018, over 28.09.2019

2018-10-09 19:07

2018-10-09 19:08

im super hyped for esl major, looking for some quality content

Well, then also make sure to kick them out if they can't provide the visa X weeks before the main event. In London it didn't work perfectly.

2018-10-09 19:14

POLAND POWER

2018-10-09 19:20

ESL is the best.

2018-10-09 19:22

2019 February

NOOO

2018-10-09 19:26

faking facebook bich

2018-10-09 19:30

Omg yeeeeeeeees ESL IS THE FUCKIN BEST MA FRIEND

2018-10-09 19:38

i hope this shit is not on Facebook

2018-10-09 19:41

GLORIA DEUX

Cool

POGGERS MY CITY

2018-10-09 19:50

LETS WATCH THE MAJOR EATING PIEROGIES AND DRINKING ZUBRÓWKA IF CONFIRMS THE SWISS FORMAT BO3 THEN WE'LL HAVE A REAL MAJOR

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nice fake flag que ota?

2018-10-09 20:16

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Polak rodzina ale mieszkam w Brazylii

2018-10-09 20:17

Polak or Polsce?

2018-10-09 20:19

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Polska rodzina... oh nice i had family in brasil aswell

2018-10-09 20:44

Thanks yeah there are many polaks here, especially in the south

2018-10-09 21:06

Polak - polish person (w) Polsce - (in) Poland ("Polsce" is variant on building sentence) "Polska rodzina" is correct sentence (nominal sentence)

2018-10-09 21:10

it's hard to learn :P If I had been born abroad, I wouldn't learn the Polish language

2018-10-09 21:13

yeah it is I make a big shit with "Jeden" "Jedno" "Jedna" but im already able to talk a little Taksówkarz będziesz rozumieć gdzie chcę jadę, if he doesnt, i already prepared the "Czy mowisz po algieslku?"

2018-10-09 21:24

bo3 swiss system is boring as fuck, just give us proper GSL

2018-10-09 20:24

appreciate it gaben

2018-10-09 20:35

Expected

2018-10-09 21:31