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ESL has announced its second season. This will be ESL's second season in North America and they are adding a new game to the list: CS:Source. Another notable change is that the Invite division will be pay to play with cash prizes. The league will consist of two divisions, Open and Invite(pay to play), and matches will start on the 22nd. Registration is open July 10th-21st(Closes at midnight on the 20th).

Open Division
Games: CS 1.6 and CS:S
Countries Able to Play: US and Canada
Maps: dust2, inferno, train, nuke, tuscan,
Scoring: MR15 play to win
Overtime: No Overtime
Sides: knife for sides
Anticheat: Aequitas required for each match

Prizes:
1st - Free Entry to Main Division in Season III (worth 100USD if 5 players participate)
2nd - Invitation to Main Division in Season III + 6 months of ESL premium
3rd - Invitation to Main Division in Season III + 3 Months ESL Premium

Invite Division(Pay to Play)
Games: CS 1.6 and CS:S
Countries Able to Play: US and Canada
Age restriction: all players must be at least 16 years old
Maps: dust2, inferno, train, nuke, tuscan,
Scoring: MR15 play to win
Overtime: No Overtime
Sides: knife for sides
Anticheat: Aequitas required for each match
Fee: 100USD per team

Prizes:
1st - 1000USD
2nd - 400USD
3rd - 200USD

Source: ESL Season II

User Comments

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mediocre prizes + annoying european website = unsuccessful league

ESEA = CEVO > ESL

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"- ESL has hosted three events in NA with $150,000 in prizes"

Hahahaha, I wonder how much of that has been payed out from last year...I suggest you pay out the teams that earned money last year before trying to offer more. Just my opinion though ;]

We went undefeated last season, and somehow did'nt make playoffs. Terrible admin'ing.

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Actually ESL is the best league there is in europe,if you would try n play it ,you would see how good it is.
ESL>ESEA>CEVO

#3 IEM and ESL America two different things :) #4 if that happened I am really sorry, should have reported that. PS. did some research you guys played 2 games one win one FFW and did not play the rest.

This comment was edited at 07/10/2009 9:20 PM

#6 Don't care who it was, the 3 events in the US that the $150,000 is talking about, none of the teams got paid, and none of the teams from the Main Round online got paid either :\

#7 All the teams that wanted an explanation got one, no one makes a big deal from it, since ESL ALWAYS PAID their money, and giving the economic state that the whole is in world you should understand.

This comment was edited at 07/10/2009 9:37 PM

uhmmm I'd like an explanation...were still owed all of our money from the past season and past ESL events, the only explanation that we ever get is "maybe next month..."

ESL never pays any money owed.
#9 they owe aZn like 2k and other players that placed at ESL masters as well as online matches.

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#5 exactly moron, its the best league in EUROPE... notice one of the reasons i said it sucked is that the website is all confusing and euro-ish

and then there are the actually physical reasons its bad, because it doesnt value its american leagues and doesn't give good prizes... and then doesn't even pay those prizes out.

I like how people that have no clue what happened are bashing something that would be great for our community.

This comment was edited at 07/13/2009 7:18 PM

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I am not a troll :(. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VenoyFzeumY

I was an AC admin for them last season and it was a joke, there were 4 AC admins and at most 2-3 active league admins. No one even tought me how to work the website or explain to me my duties, I didnt even had admin privileges for the first half of the season, I just basically sat in the IRC channels the whole season answering the 1000000 pm's about the anti-cheat client because the other admins wouldn't and just have them submit support tickets which would never get answered. For the whole season I didn't actually handle ONE cheating request. And their anti-cheat is a joke, half the people couldn't even log into the website and all AEQ does is take SS's which can be bypassed by cheats on http://cheat-project.com .....this league will never be successful in NA because they will never compete with CEVO,ESEA and probably not with ECO either and no team is going to concentrate on 4 leagues.....

and Nick I would love to see those teams (AT LEAST 3 that I kno of ) get there money in the few months left in the year....plz make a GF post when that happens ROFL

This comment was edited at 07/12/2009 3:25 AM

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This comment was edited at 07/12/2009 1:26 PM

#16

Mark you can't say anything because you had no access to Aeq or any other function @ ESL, you had trial access which allowed you to answer tickets and look and team/player pages...

This comment was edited at 07/13/2009 7:17 PM

aequitas does a lot more in the background than just capturing screenshots... i.e. going through your cfg, going through different folders on your drive looking for known cheats and so on . i still prefer the esea ac over aequitas , but aeq aint as bad as its made out to be sometimes

#19

you cant get banned for having cheats on your pc

theres a lot of cases where this was the case in the esl, so yes , there you actually can, its even specified in the rules that they can ban you for having a cheat on your pc. some of the esl rules are really strange and not in line with the ones of other leagues

I want to clarify some stuff here, because there are a lot of unclear postings, some are partial true, some are not even closely true. The Intel Extreme Masters, ESL America and ESL.eu are all run by Turtle Entertainment, a German Company from Cologne. While the Company is the same, the websites and especially the tournaments are handled by different departments.

Yes the prizemoney is delayed, but unlike other leagues the ESL never did not pay out prizemoney at all. All teams always got there money and they will get there prizemoney. All teams can easily contact the Intel Extreme Master Admins over their contacts they got during the tournament and will be kept up-to-date about the pay out.

About the problems of Season 1, ESL America is on casual-amateur level a new field for us, so we have to improve and make adjustments to the scene and country. We are working on it and I can promise that every season will get better then the season before! Also the website adjusting to north american users, when you compare the website know to the website we had when we started in America, I think most will see and feel the improvements.

About our Anti-Cheat Aequitas, as ReverendRevenant already said, it does a lot more then randomnly making screenshots or listing the processes. I won't go into details, because that we don't reveal most of the mechanics behind it, is part of the protection, but we had quite some success with it in Europe and it still is one of the best anti-cheat tools for CS and CSS, but because the ESL is the league with the most prizemoney and most prestigous leagues in the world for CS and CSS it's also the most attacked anti-cheat tool.

Also ESL rules say that you are not allowed to have any cheat on your PC, for whatever reasons. There are a couple CS/CSS cheats that are not even VAC approved that are allowed to be installed, so you can watch demos with them, but they are not stated as cheats, they are mainly called demoview tools.

I hope that this clarifies some misunderstandings and hope the us scene gives us as chance to prove that we know what we are doing. :)

- Marcel Menge, Vice Director Community Manage & Product Manager ESL America
Turtle Entertainment

This comment was edited at 07/14/2009 7:59 AM

#22 yeah many acess with aeq, i remember many privat hacks that can pass aequitas easily :D btw the invited teams dont need to cheat.

esl better start paying up. you jews

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