Product ESEA Website Redesign ESEA has improved leaps and bounds over the last years with a redesigned ESEA Client [https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=15088] and shocked the cheating…
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 [https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=15252] the ESEA Thailand Club [https://play.esea.net/club/38]. Similar to…
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 [https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=14337]. We quickly saw an influx of players wanting to improve their…
Technical ESEA Client Chat and Languages Update Highlights * ESEA Client Chat * Language Support With our ESEA Client [https://play.esea.net/client] UI refresh last year [https://blog.esea.net/welcome-to-the-redesigned-esea-client/], ESEA users have been suggesting features to be…
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…
Technical June 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 ESEA Payment Platform Update and More Update Highlights * ESEA partners with new payment platform Xsolla * ESEA Summer Promotion * Twitch integration and free clips Founded in 2003, ESEA was built from the ground up to satisfy its long history of…
Product New Leaderboards and MFA Changes A fresh view on statistics and updated policy for MFA TL;DR: * Introduced new leaderboards [https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=leaderboards] * Added a process to retrieve an account…
Product Clips now available to all subscribers and updated ESEA Points store Clips launched as an Insider only feature a few months ago, and today we are happy to bring this exciting feature to all subscribers on ESEA. Insider subscribers will continue to receive 3…
Product Introducing ESEA Clips Beta You get the craziest frags, funniest fails, and unique moments when playing an ESEA pug. Often times those moments are never shared. Editing your own clips is often a tedious process, and many…
Announcements Live Support now available to all subscribers On March 14th we launched the Live Support Beta, which introduced the ability for users to request the assistance of an admin in a live matchmaking game. The initial launch was only available…
Announcements Introducing Live Support Beta & Improving Community Values * New in-game support system with live admin moderation * Starting with NA Insiders to be rolled out to all users in the upcoming month * Recommitment to community values and improving user experiences Part 1:…