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.…
Announcements ESEA Prize Payments Update Over the last few years ESEA has grown tremendously with the ESEA League giving out over $450,000 a year and the Rank S system having given out over $1,000,000 over the course of the last two years.…
Technical August and September 2018 Updates Over the last several weeks, ESEA's engineering teams have been hard at work. Below are some of the changes that have been deployed.…
Announcements Alias Policy Update and New Knowledge Base Alias Updates Since ESEA has launched, we have had very few restrictions on user aliases. A common practice among almost all websites, we’ve developed a new policy for aliases and have implemented…
Product .Clip of the Week Relaunch and VAC Ban Update Launched in 2005, Clip of the Week has been one of the longest running features in ESEA history. With the creation of the new ESEA Clip feature, we’re ready to bring the…
Product Leaderboard Update: Reactions Our newest addition to the Leaderboards, called Reactions, allows you to break down your reaction time based on the type of weapon you use, or an average of all weapons available.…
Product New Verified Clubs and Updates! Over the past few weeks, since we have launched ESEA Clubs, we’ve seen a lot of great interactions using and being a part of an ESEA Club. We wanted to take some…
Announcements 안녕, 한국! Korea Club, Seoul Servers, and more! Just over a week ago we launched the ESEA Thailand Club. Similar to our Japan Club, we have seen a tremendously positive response from the local community. We are now continuing our re-expansion…
Technical July 2018 Updates Over the last several weeks, ESEA's engineering teams have been hard at work. Below are some of the changes that have been deployed.…
Announcements こんにちは、日本！ New Tokyo servers and Japan Club! Almost four years ago ESEA launched in Asia. We quickly saw an influx of players wanting to improve their experience by playing on 128-tick servers on our anti-cheat. We qualified two teams from…
Technical ESEA Client Chat and Languages Update Highlights ESEA Client Chat Language Support With our ESEA Client UI refresh last year, ESEA users have been suggesting features to be added, such as a way to chat with your buddies,…
Product Tag Up! We just launched ESEA Clubs To help foster an organized community around 10-mans, today we are introducing you to our newest project, ESEA Clubs. Clubs have long been a staple in Counter-Strike, and today we’re helping organize…
