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, last updated August 5 2004 at 1:27 PM EDT We’ve dug up the old article published on August 18th 2004 (shortly after CPL Summer 2004) by ESL’s…
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…
Announcements 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…
Announcements 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 and overhaul of features this year, we’re very excited to continue expanding and improving our Match Pages in an ongoing project to support our player base and…
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 believe it’…
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…
Announcements ¡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 $1,000,…
Announcements 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…
Product ESEA Website Redesign ESEA has improved leaps and bounds over the last years with a redesigned ESEA Client and shocked the cheating underground with the most advanced anti-cheating technology updates including detecting hardware cheats. At the…
Announcements Prize Pool Update In November of 2018, we released one of our most ambitious updates to date, that saw us introducing new systems and improvements to old ones. The Rank S system saw its prizes raised…
Announcements 10-year Anniversary Holiday Sale Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings! Speaking of Seasons, the upcoming ESEA League Season will be the 30th run by ESEA, spanning 10 years of competition. We wanted to take a moment to…
Announcements U.S. National Championship The U.S. National Championship is a new program solely dedicated to showcasing and highlighting the best CS:GO players in the nation, exclusively profiling the climb and struggle of graduating from (G)…
Product Rank S Updates You’ve seen the major changes to the ESEA PUG system and Rank G, but we’re not done yet. We’ve spent the last few months working with players from across the…
Product A New Season Begins: Seasonality Introduced and Rank A+/G Overhauled ESEA PUGs and matchmaking services have had many iterations over the past few years, each attempting to improve upon the last. Today we are proud to launch the latest versions, with a host…
Technical Cat And Mouse — ESEA Anti-Cheat As the industry-leading anti-cheat platform, ESEA works diligently to ensure fair gameplay on the ESEA platform and sets the standard for anti-cheat technology.…
