ESL Pro League Season 17 Conference Europe

forZe complete ESL Pro League Season 17 team list

21/1/2023 - 23:40

The Russian team have earned the last spot in ESL's flagship league.

forZe secured the final spot in ESL Pro League Season 17 through the lower bracket of the European Conference division on Saturday, defeating Endpoint 2-1 to join Eternal Fire and SAW on the list of teams confirmed for the event in Malta.

SAW, Eternal Fire qualify for ESL Pro League Season 17

Andrey "⁠Jerry⁠" Mekhryakov's men had their first chance to secure a Pro League berth foiled by SAW in the upper bracket, and were left with no choice but to win two more best-of-threes to earn the final spot on offer in the 32-team league. The Russian team first fought past Falcons, defeating the Frenchmen in a relatively one-sided 2-0 series, but faced much more contention in their qualifying match against Endpoint.

Jerry's men will take part in EPL S17 in Malta

forZe recovered from a slow start on Ancient and ended up narrowly securing victory on the map, but failed to capitalize on that momentum on their own map pick of Overpass, dropping a 12-8 lead as Endpoint claimed a win to force a Mirage decider. There, forZe showed tenacity by recovering from 2-9 and 9-13 scorelines, narrowly clinching victory 16-13 to scrape together a win in the series and earn their spot in Pro League.

The team are the last to qualify for ESL's flagship league, joining those invited through ESL's world ranking, teams who qualified through regional Conference tournaments, and the 15 Louvre Agreement partners. The complete list of teams that will head to Malta for ESL Pro League Season 17 is:

Congrats

2023-01-21 23:40

ez 4 forze

RA > TyLUL

2023-01-21 23:43

1WIN robbed.

2023-01-21 23:45

1 reply

wdym robbed they didnt even qualify

2023-01-24 14:07

Congrats EF !

2023-01-21 23:46

les go ef

2023-01-21 23:50

rip mhl

2023-01-22 00:22

rip, 0/6 inc

2023-01-22 00:23

vamoss saw

2023-01-22 03:18

Exited to see how this new format will work...

2023-01-22 03:37

Is there any reason for ForZe able to keep their names? I mean both VP and Gambit had to change to Outsiders/Players, but why ForZe doesn't have to do that?

2023-01-22 05:08

11 replies

I think that forze isn't a russian org like Gambit and VP

2023-01-22 05:20

2 replies

Sorry, it's a russian org also, but idk too why they're able to use their name

2023-01-22 05:23

Some arbitrary technicality in the virtue signalling rules allows it maybe.

2023-01-22 05:38

Both VP and Gambit have ties with government but Forze doesn't.

2023-01-22 06:06

6 replies

Really? anyway thx for info

2023-01-22 09:07

Better question how they able to travel I understand C9 because they got signed right away to America when it all started and ptrobly live there

2023-01-22 11:32

4 replies

lol. c9 dont live in america and there is no problem to travel for russians except you need to fly through turkey most often

2023-01-22 14:19

3 replies

there is no problem to travel for russians? what about visas

2023-01-22 16:14

probly slide something in my pocket and then ask what is visa =/

2023-01-22 19:26

eu countries are still issuing visas.

2023-01-23 08:25

arent they owned by Spartak? Explaination: Spartak is a club that was formed by a union and is very far from government rule unlike Dynamo or ZSKA which is considered an Army club.

2023-01-23 08:49