ESEA.net Official Blog

February 2022 Updates

Our engineering teams have been hard at work on updates and we want to share them with you. Below are some of the changes that have been deployed.…

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May 2021 Updates

Our engineering teams have been hard at work on updates and we want to share them with you. Below are some of the changes that have been deployed.…

Presenting ESEA Fast-Path to improve your connectivity

Today, we are proud to announce ESEA Fast-Path, built on technology from our partner, Network Next [https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/23/network-next-raises-4-4-million-to-create-an-internet-fast-lane-for-online-games/] , that improves your connection to ESEA gameservers. Technical Terminology Before…

Technical

January 2021 Updates

Our engineering teams have been hard at work on updates and we wanted to share them with you. Below are some of the changes that have been deployed.…

ESL/ESEA introduce CSGO HUB

CSGO HUB [https://www.csgohub.com/] is a new platform for players of all skill levels who wish to enhance their skills and rank up. Currently in Beta phase and free to use,…

Announcements

ESEA introduces visibility to Matchmaking Rating, Rank S/G rework, 5v5 Cash Cups, and more!

TL;DR * Added visibility to Matchmaking Rating for all ranks, added MMR decay, and a scaling queue stack penalty. * Rank S/G Rework: reworked Rank S/G qualifier process, weekly prize pools for…

Introducing: ESEA Refrag

ESEA Refrag [https://play.esea.net/refrag] is a suite of custom in-game Counter-Strike Global Offensive mods including Restrat, Prefire, and NADR that assists players of all skill levels improve, prepare, and analyze…

Announcements

Max Rounds 12: A blast from the past!

ESEA announces a fun weekend of testing MR12 in pugs. This means the team that reaches 13 rounds won first wins the game! If a game goes to 12-12, there will be an…

[REPOST] Evaluating Pro CS

By: Trevor Schmidt [https://web.archive.org/web/20040901175858/http://www.gotfrag.com/cs/user/4/], last updated August 5 2004 at 1:27 PM EDT We’ve dug up the old article…

Announcements

New to League? Try your first season of ESEA Open for FREE!

As ESEA rapidly approaches its 34th Season of League with over $180,000 in prizes, we are excited to announce that if you or your friends have never given the ESEA League a try, we’re giving you the chance to do so for FREE.…

Technical

March 2020 Updates

Our engineering teams have been hard at work on updates and we wanted to share them with you. Below are some of the changes that have been recently deployed.…

Announcements

New Captains System for Rank S, G and Clubs!

To elevate competition to the next level, Rank S, Rank G, and ESEA Clubs now have the ability to utilize a new captains selection system. Rank S, Rank G and Clubs will now…

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ESEA Free-to-Play during EPL S10 Finals!

To celebrate 10 seasons of the ESL Pro League Season, ESEA will be FREE TO PLAY WORLD WIDE throughout the final stages of the event this weekend! Free-to-Play details: * NEW USERS: Signup NOW…

Technical

October 2019 Updates

Our engineering teams have been hard at work on updates and we wanted to share them with you. Below are some of the changes that have been recently deployed.…

Product

Introducing Warm Up Mode - DM while you queue

Whether it’s honing that all important muscle memory, breaking in a new sensitivity or piece of equipment, or practicing quick flicks, deathmatching is one of the traditional methods of warming up for…

Product

Improving our support system with Zendesk

In an ongoing effort to enhance our customer support to be more time efficient, user friendly, and optimized, we are excited to announce the expansion of our Zendesk integration. Moving away from our…

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ESEA MDL Global Challenge July 2019

As the teams start their journey to Dallas for the MDL Global Challenge we’re giving you everything you need to know about the action this weekend. Tune in to twitch.tv/esea…

Product

Introducing our overhauled match pages

Following our recent website redesign [https://blog.esea.net/esea-website-redesign/] and overhaul of features this year, we’re very excited to continue expanding and improving our Match Pages in an ongoing project to…

Product

New Vote Kick System, PUG Balance Changes, and More!

Over a year ago we launched our updated live support system and through a process of more extensive community surveys, discussions with players in forum threads/tickets we have designed the next iteration…

Announcements

Launching Global Discord Community!

We are excited to announce the launch of our global Discord community server. For some time, we've been using Discord to facilitate various functions of ESEA across multiple servers, and we…

Announcements

The Rank S Combine

Next weekend ESEA is teaming up with Xfinity, Chipotle, and MGM Resorts to bring you the Rank S Combine where some of the top players in Rank S and Rank G will coming…

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¡Holá! ESEA Launches Miami Servers

Over the past few months, we have seen an increase in the active number of Latin American players on ESEA from countries such as Peru, Colombia, etc. Due to ISP routing outside of…

Technical

February 2019 Updates

It has been several months since our last changelog post. The reason is that our engineering teams have been hard at work on major updates and we wanted to share them with you all at once. Below are some of the changes that have been deployed.…

Announcements

IEM Katowice Major Sale

With the stage set and the teams decided for the IEM Katowice Major this weekend the best players in the world will battle it out for the lion's share of the…

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ESEA Rank S Combine

Last November we updated Rank S and Rank G and teased a LAN event in Las Vegas. In our most recent update, we announced that the LAN would involve both Rank S and…