ESL Pro League to return in September, with LAN matches under consideration

8-6-2020 21:04

ESL has announced that it is looking into the possibility of bringing the ESL Pro League back to an offline setting for Season 12, which will kick off in September.

On the competition's official website, ESL notes that it is monitoring the global health situation and that, should players be able to "travel safely without larger restrictions" by the time Pro League starts, the league will be hosted in a studio environment with 24 teams split into four round-robin groups.

In case travel restrictions aren't lifted by then, ESL added, the competition will be held online again with divisions covering all major regions: Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, and South America.

ESL Pro League will return on September 2

ESL Pro League Season 12 will feature 24 teams, including the 13 partners who signed what was called the "Louvre Agreement" following a meeting in Paris in January 2020.

Invites have been handed to Renegades, Sharks and BOOM, three teams who missed Season 11 due to travel restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic and that, as ESL had promised, kept their spots in the league for another season.

ESL will be hosting a special qualifier across five regions for the teams that were moved to the Mountain Dew League (MDL) as a result of the decision to reduce the number of competing sides in Pro League from 48 to 24. These teams will have the chance to re-qualify for Pro League via a tournament that will also feature the non-partner teams from Season 11, with six slots on offer (two in Europe and one in the remaining regions). The final two Pro League spots will be taken by the best teams from ESEA MDL.

Below you can find the 16 teams that are already confirmed for Season 12:

Partner teams

Invited

The following teams will be taking part in the special qualifiers:

Europe

North America

Triumph
South America

Oceania

Asia

Can't wait. Gonna be sick.

2020-06-08 21:05

25 replies

BIG back to tier 10 on LAN 💪

2020-06-08 21:06

23 replies

2020-06-08 21:08

9 replies

Whres MIBR?

2020-06-08 21:17

8 replies

flashpoint

2020-06-08 21:20

1 reply

Very excite

2020-06-08 23:07

somehow throwing against T2 teams/mald lions a free 500k in flashpoint lul

2020-06-08 21:49

4 replies

I wouldnt count on that. C9 and Gen.G are getting better day after day.

2020-06-08 22:01

3 replies

c9 100% need to make moves. geng with time I agree they can be a top 10 team they just need autimatic bntet and koosta to perform well at the same time. Honestly, just dont buy awps or let s0m do it autimatic is useless awper

2020-06-08 22:16

2 replies

I'm done with the c9 train. Bro they play great sometimes they throw the sickest flashes and then whiff like silvers when matters most. I agree they need changes. And also GenG need to change something isn't clicking

2020-06-09 10:14

with C9 floppy is the only when clicking heads consistently which is a big issue. GenG 1 issue is auti awp make him stop its just bad. Maybe also s0m wasn't a good pickup but at least make autimatic stop awping its so bad

2020-06-09 10:34

Flashpoint

2020-06-09 13:06

They have better ratings on lan and won both LANs they attended this year but please just keep talking shit without backing it up

10 replies

😂😂😂😂 Yeah bro

u mean tier-5 dreamhack event and 1 qualifier? good shit

2020-06-08 21:10

tbh there weren't any other LANs

2020-06-08 21:18

against tier 9999 teams lol

2020-06-08 21:11

6 replies

a win is a win And there were not a lot of other lans this year anyway

2020-06-08 23:45

5 replies

that doesn't make them a great team then lmao gtfo

2020-06-09 00:07

I did not say they are great, because they aren’t But you said they are t10 which they certainly aren’t either „Lmao gtfo“

2020-06-09 00:39

Obviously not tier 10, I was just exaggerating you dummy. But they will definitely go back to sucking dicks against tier 1 teams.

2020-06-09 00:57

Really not sure about that my friend, i agree that they have mixed results against t1 teams but i think they will stay at about the same level they are now

2020-06-09 07:21

Definitely not

2020-06-09 10:01

0/8

2020-06-08 22:05

Good joke men

2020-06-09 09:00

faze will finally show they aren't onliners

2020-06-08 21:13

Yes

omfg no heretics,plz dont tell me they will go to flashpoint

WeII ez money I guess

2020-06-08 21:09

I'd love to see Heretics in Flashpoint. They would really make that tournament competetive.

2020-06-08 23:10

Also add detona to smash heretics once again

2020-06-08 23:18

Hell naw

2020-06-08 23:51

maybe TIGER also

2020-06-09 11:13

Would also be interesting!

2020-06-09 13:50

nice

You know what else would be nice? If someone gave smooya a home!

2020-06-08 21:55

You know what else would be nice? If Thorin left the CS scene

2020-06-08 22:55

This will be a good chain. And I just ruined it.

2020-06-08 23:11

Liquid smooya incoming after corona

2020-06-09 07:22

pls

HELL YEA

let's go

NICE FINALLY MOUZ WILL BE BACK AT #1

2020-06-08 21:07

dream big

7 replies

LULTALITY

Remember epicenter?

Naiz, basically the only thing they won, right?

No :)

okay :) let's hope for a Vitality vs. mouz on lan with crowd soon, can't wait

we have already seen it 3 times... Score is 6:2 for Vitality

okay beef back in cry more #10

2020-06-08 21:23

Back to normal - big yes!

another L for ginger's trashpoint

ez navi

2020-06-08 21:29

FINALLY

Sharks 16 rounds across entire season

I don't know if you are new or just a hater, anyway, they usually play very well vs top teams, taking maps and sometimes even winning series: hltv.org/matches/2338057/renegades-vs-sh.. hltv.org/matches/2338043/g2-vs-sharks-es.. hltv.org/matches/2337799/astralis-vs-sha.. hltv.org/matches/2336671/sharks-vs-cloud.. hltv.org/matches/2336201/liquid-vs-shark.. hltv.org/matches/2329911/tyloo-vs-sharks.. hltv.org/matches/2329665/sharks-vs-north..

2020 matches?

2020-06-08 21:15

Same core

2020-06-08 21:35

Their most recent results suggest they haven't been able to find the same sort of form as back then. Not having meyern doesn't help. Also I wouldn't say going out in last place in both ECS and EPL finals is really anything to brag about.

2020-06-09 07:10

This is not about going last, this is about "getting 16 rounds across entire season". Sharks struggle against BR teams in Brazil but somehow when they play t1 and t2 teams on lan they surprise, even when they lose they put great fight, win maps or even series (like when they trashed TyLoo and North 2-0).

2020-06-09 07:20

Hellraisers and no heretics KEKW

F mibr

POGGERS

POG

Ez G2

azazaza lan in september, gl at least 70% of players are gonna fail to turn up due to travel restriction and ofc there won't be any crowd

Many countries are alredy opening up so in september should be fine

With the exceptions being Brazil Sweden and USA

2020-06-08 21:36

wtf!!!!!! why do u invite teams that dont play anythink?????

EZ 4 BIG

where's dig

At trashpoint

2020-06-08 21:12

flashpoint? season 2?

2020-06-08 21:21

They paid lot of money to play in Flashpoint tournaments. Flashpoint and EPL had same dates this spring and as I understand they will have them in all seasons. Even if Flashpoint season 2 have different dates with EPL, I don't think for esl it's a good idea to invite team, which have contract with their competitor tournament

2020-06-08 21:47

Hmm ok

2020-06-08 22:56

too old

ok taz

LOL no Heretics but Singularity gj

are you stupid?

2020-06-08 21:38

Hmmm no tell me why

2020-06-08 21:51

+1 No Heretics but Singularity OMG KEKW, Hellraisers LMFAO, and Havu, Forze (Ok )

2020-06-09 00:50

yeaaaaah

cant wait, i miss lan

2020-06-08 21:22

good mens))

2020-06-08 21:24

Unfortunately LAN matches won't happen, huge surge of infections is on the rise and will reach a high peak again around that time of year.

2020-06-08 21:25

get out tool boy

2020-06-09 00:10

Please invite MIBR

2020-06-08 21:27

why?

2020-06-08 21:31

Maybe because any Company would like to have the most popular CS GO team in your tournaments. MIBR and NAVI means money

2020-06-08 21:45

260k people watching MIBR games seems like a great reason: D

2020-06-08 22:08

260k people watching bunch of clowns playing cs

2020-06-09 20:00

They are still 260k and bigger than NA.

2020-06-09 20:12

YES

2020-06-08 21:30

nice BOOM got invited, they definetly deserve it

2020-06-08 21:32

2020-06-09 16:34

haha no MIBR this is how it should be, no placeholder teams

Flashpoint is basically placeholder league

not really upcoming tier2 teams can play in a well organized league with high production value so it's really good for them to get a taste of what it's like to be on the big stage it's way better for tier2 teams where basically anyone can beat anyone not like when a random t2 CIS team qualifies for a major and gets 16-0'd or something like that

2020-06-08 21:42

I'm talking about the partner teams

not sure what u mean lol flashpoint is not a placeholder in any ways

2020-06-08 22:23

Search for 'Partner teams' in this page

2020-06-08 23:21

YES PLEASE this will expose all the fluke trash teams

2020-06-08 21:37

flair checks out

2020-06-08 21:40

PLEASE LAN

Please god... make lan happen.

Hope so

kkkkkkk RIP MIBR

look at these teams and look at flashpoint

This looks exciting .... Let's go..!

LOL @ Singularity... There's literally 20-30 better EU teams that deserved that invite

they got the spot from NA Singularity from EPL10

2020-06-08 22:19

2020-06-08 22:15

PogU

no Tiger in Asia is a big F moment

2020-06-08 22:20

HAVU not more on Flashpoint?

2020-06-08 22:30

Thy qualified last season why would thy be there

2020-06-08 22:40

Finally. This online shit has gotten old real fast.

LETS GO FUCKING LAN

2020-06-08 22:41

Where is the MDL season 33 Global Finals with EPL spots?

2020-06-08 22:54

MIBR????

2020-06-08 23:06

#78

2020-06-08 23:15

PogChamp

2020-06-08 23:19

Let's go rio

no TIGER ??

2020-06-08 23:22

GIVE US MAJOR

2020-06-08 23:23

Finally LAN tournament. Unfortunately, in 3 months.

2020-06-08 23:24

LETSGOOOOOOOOOO

2020-06-08 23:36

Mouz back to tier 1 again. So done with this online bullshit

2020-06-09 00:02

mouz was good online, the krieg

2020-06-09 02:04

mibr :/

2020-06-09 00:04

2020-06-09 00:11

Oceania lan, the rest online

2020-06-09 00:16

NICE MDL... #EPLQUALIFIERSforAGO

2020-06-09 01:18

why no gen.g on the list ?

2020-06-09 01:46

Something to do with them being a Flashpoint member team, I assume

2020-06-09 07:03

damn they were so bad at that event :(

2020-06-09 07:16

They are a founder of Trashpoint and so not compete in EPL, as the dates collide (when they play offline)

2020-06-09 11:05

Nice and let's hope offline cs starts this September

2020-06-09 01:53

LETS GO

2020-06-09 02:19

2020-06-09 06:46

EZ 4 best LAN player ever kennyS

2020-06-09 07:07

ez for navi

2020-06-09 10:54

AHAHAHAH SHARKS AND BOOM INVITED FURIA TO QUALIFIERS xdddd

2020-06-09 12:38

good thing lans are coming back

2020-06-09 14:15

GEN.G?

2020-06-09 16:00