ESL Pro Tour replaces WCS on a 3-year deal - Page 14

On January 26 2020 03:37 Jealous wrote:

How so? Link?

TLDR on the context from my limited knowledge:

ESL pro league cut in half from ~48 teams to 24 which removed teams that had earned spots in the league from previous seasons or were contracted to play in relegation matches very soon to compete for a spot

Having limited or no communication with said teams which mostly found out that they are cut from the league/relegated to MDL via Dekay's reporting - Reference HAVU: and Dekay's reporting:

Using the public space to announce "invited" teams which aren't necessarily signed to the league to gain leverage to sign others and/or use teams which might not even be involved in the end as advertisement

Those are the keys point I've gathered and there is plenty I don't remember right now and are in the fine print of their league contracts etc.

Not to mention as another comment said, Thorin in general has sympathised with ESL in a lot of respects and continually called them the best TO in CSGO up until now shows he is being honest in his actions.

Edit: More Dekay reference - https://www.dbltap.com/posts/sources-no-prospective-member-teams-signed-esl-pro-league-agreements-at-time-of-esl-announcement-01dzcga7xa12

On January 27 2020 12:31 dalecooper wrote:
I've just finished reading news. I have a question to ya all. According to numbers published by ESL there is no money for KR region. Does it mean they (KR) have direct sponsorship from Blizzard? And... it seems like in 2021 SC2 will be cut heavily. You can check the numbers but prizepool for one event is 60k-80k only.

On January 23 2020 18:01 Ziggy wrote:


if they hadnt pushed sc2 onto kespa / ogn and then started charging for tournament licences then i guess id concur