Announcements

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

* 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:…