The year has come and gone, and now we are ready to welcome 2009 during this New Years holiday. To celebrate, ESL and your CS 1.6 admins decided it would be a good idea to welcome the new year with some exciting CS action. Check out all the rules and details below.

As Thanksgiving passed us by, we thought it was necessary to help you burn off a few of those holiday pounds. The Counter Strike Admin Team has put together an action packed cup featuring a single map; Inferno!

The Contintal Finals Americas are done and we have seen some hard matches for Americas' Global Finals spots for CeBIT in Hannover early next year. A big applause to the winners of this weekend: In both CS 1.6 and WoW three teams qualified and will go to CeBIT early next year. But with two more Continental Finals to go we have still a lot more to come!

Sway Gaming tops Green Berets for first place in ESL America's inaugural Sunday Night Cup.

ESL America is excited to announce an online CS 1.6 cup taking place on Sunday, 9 November 2008. The cup is only open to the first 32 teams. So sign-up now! In addition, Premium prizes are being offered to the top three finishers.

For a couple of weeks the ESL America Counter-Strike 5on5 Ladder has been running and we want to present you a small summary of it. Read more to check out which team won the first ever ladder match on ESL America. Here is a review of the matches so far.