What I'm hoping ESL can offer is around the same sort of structure to what ESEA was running, we're chatting at the moment about how viable it is for us to run this.

We need a strong supporting from the community to do it.

Our main issue however is our administration team. If you're uneducated on us, ESL is the world's largest esports company, based in Europe. To employ any US resident it costs us a lot cause they can't legally volunteer, they must be paid for their work. Hence why tri was the only ESEA TF2 admin. Our only solution to this is to hire people from Canada, South America or elsewhere.

We will make a PSA in a few days asking for feedback and getting an idea of what we can do for the NA community.

As I said in the original post, stay tuned to TFTV for further announcements. I literally woke up an hour ago to this so we're all pretty shaken.

why are you assuming this is paid? We haven't even announced our plans.

Edit: I won't lie though it's likely on the cards if we want a prize pool. But our requirements are better than ESEA's was.

Hi all,

I'm aware that this has occurred, there was no communication about it between the two parties but we will anticipate to provide North Americans a service after ESEA Season 31.

Please make sure to watch on TFTV for upcoming announcements.

Edit: this does not mean we will be, but we're aware and might run something in the future.

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it wasn't profitable cause ESL is a european company, hence why ESEA is still doing all the work in NA. It is still 'possible' for one of the parties to start a LAN, but it entirely depends on how many people are playing the league/cup.

mmm FACEIT must be having a bad year then :')

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Thanks for your feedback. Just to clear up, roster riding is not possible and all players on roster must play in one entire match for them to receive a medal, we will add these rules into the rule book to make it clear.

We can quite easily start a league now, as other ESL Play games are, but ESL doesn't want to clash with ETF2L so we would need a strong calling for it to happen.

As mentioned in our original post, ESL won't be able to provide their own prize pool unless we see a consistent 50 - 100 teams playing in our events. If we see those numbers we can definitely accommodate a prize pool for a league and possible future Pro events.

Unfortunately yes but that's why we have a leaderboard. If premier teams really want the medal, they have to be playing every week to reach the top eight. I understand this isn't great for all teams but we didn't want to devalue the medal by releasing it to everyone.

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This cup will start Sunday 7th of April at 4pm CEST and will continue throughout the night.

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• cp_granary_pro_rc8
  
• koth_product_rc9
  
• cp_gullywash_final1
  
• cp_snakewater_final1
  
• cp_sunshine
  
• cp_prolands_rc1
  
• cp_logjam_rc10a

Format
Thanks to everyone's feedback Monthly Challenge cups will be using the Swiss system for the qualifiers, which is a mix of both SE and DE but also has its cons. You're eliminated after 2 losses. You will play every round with a similar skill leveled opponent to yours. The team with the most wins at the end of the cup will be crowned winner. This is good for time periods (cup takes ~4.5-6h with 17+ teams) but doesn't have a grandfinal unlike the above two - More details here: https://play.eslgaming.com/swiss-cup-faq

The Monthly Final will be played as a single elimination bracket with the top eight teams from the previous weeks, with the winner of each month taking home the prestigious ESL medal!

Other Regions and staff
I have been working on getting more regions supported by ESL. This however has been a challenge as ESL cannot take any staff from US due to laws over there. If you live elsewhere and are interested in volunteering as an ESL Referee, we are now taking applications! Apply here if you're interested.

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this has been said too many times