Open Division

The season-based open division is a free, competitive league that offers one match per week to test your teams ability. Teams will be split into a "West" and "East" and "Central" conference to limit ping imbalance. Make sure to enter your region on your team's profile.

Open Division Details: Countries: United States 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

With that being said, I would encourage you guys to sign up for the Open Division, CS 1.6 teams sign up here and CSS teams sign up here. Sign ups will end on Monday July 20th at 11:59PM EST.

Invite Division

The season-based Invite Division is a pay to play, competitive league where the best teams in North America are able to compete against each other for cash prizes. In addition to the Invite division, there will be a placement tournament, where the top four ranked teams will be added to Invite. The e-mail must include the following:
Title: Game Team Name
Team success in past 2 years
URL to the team on ESL website

Example:
CS ESL Admin Team
We have participated in Intel Extreme Masters in past 2 seasons.
ESL Admin Team

*If the e-mail will not include those things then it will not be taken under the consideration. All the applications please write to application@esl-america.net.

Invite Division Details: Countries: United States 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

Why I Should Choose ESL

With the first season of ESL many of you joined to compete in the ESL leagues, we liked it and that's why didn't stop there. Now there are opportunities to win attractive prizes within the Open or Invite division. Also the ESL prides itself in listening and working with the community within games. You have asked for better prizes and a more interesting season and we are bringing it to you! We are looking forward to another successful season and many more to come. Now let's look at what ESL has to offer:

Backed by the world's most prestigious e-sport league
ESL has hosted three events in NA with $150,000 in prizes
Proven, rock solid anti-cheat application
Great, built-in support
Interactive website
Match Statistics (Invite Division)

Prizes

Each team that will place top 3 will receive the following awards for their team profiles.

1st Place		2nd Place		3rd Place

Invite Divisions:
In Season II the prize pot for both of the games is 3200USD which means that each game will have a pot of 1600USD**. Saying so the following amounts will be given to the winners.

1st - 1000USD**

2nd - 400USD**

3rd - 200USD**

Open Divisions:
While the Invite division has prizes, we've also arranged for Open teams to be able to win prizes, and here are the prizes for the Open Divisions.

1st - Free Entry to Main Division in Season III (worth 100USD)

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

Downloads

• CZ Model Fix
• CS Server Configuration Files
• CSS Server Configuration Files
• ESL Aequitas (Login)

How to Participate

It is very easy to participate in our ESL Season II. You just need an ESL Account and a team with 5 members on it that have a valid game account entered on their ESL playersheet. Everything you need to know about starting in the ESL you can find here:




Season Two CS: Sign Up

Season Two CSS: Sign Up

More information about the season including the Invited Teams and the schedule for Season II will follow soon. So stayed tuned to the ESL Website for the coverage of ESL Season II.

//Your Admin team

*ESL reserves the right to only answer only specific applications
**ESL has the right to change the prize money without a notice depending on the number of participants.