ESL Pro League Season 10 announces its CSGO groups

The ESL Pro League is one of the main CSGO esports leagues. For each of the three regions, there are 16 teams competing. The regions consist of Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific. This format is different than the previous ESL Pro League Season. It featured four regions of Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Asia with 12 teams each instead.

???? The groups are drawn, the fixtures set. Let the games begin! #ESLProLeague returns October 8 for Season 10. These are the full Round 1 matches in the road to Odense 2019:

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— ESL Counter-Strike (@ESLCS) October 2, 2019

ESL Pro League

Season 10 of the ESL Pro League will have the same round format other than the difference in the number of teams. There are four round-robin groups where teams compete in best-of-three games. The groups are seeded based on the world rankings of Counter-Strike ESL teams. The winner of each group will proceed to the ESL Pro League Finals. 

However, the 2nd and 3rd place teams from each group will still have a chance. They will be sent to a “Round 2” bracket where the eight teams will be split into two groups. These teams will then similarly compete in best-of-three matches for a chance to go to the finals. The fourth-place teams will be eliminated and sent to a relegation round. 

One difference is that the Asia Pacific region will play its matches differently than the other two regions. Instead of four round-robin rounds, there will only be two for the Asia region. These include a Southeast Asian and Chinese group, with each having four teams. This is because the previous Oceania region has been consolidated under the Asia Pacific umbrella. There will be two teams determined, with one each from Asia and Oceania, to advance toward the finals. 

Season 10 groups

The Europe region features mousesports, BIG CLAN, FaZe Clan, OpTic Gaming, Vitality, Sprout, Ninjas in Pyjamas, and Heroic. It will also have teams like Astralis, Aristocracy, Fnatic, North, Natus Vincere, Hell Raisers, G2 Esports, and Windigo. 

The North American region of the ESL Pro League will see organizations like MiBR, Envy, FURIA Esports, Swole Patrol, Evil Geniuses, eUnited, Cloud9, and Complexity Gaming compete. Season 9 winner Team Liquid, Renegades, Isurus Gaming, Infinity, Sharks, and DETONA will also participate. There are two empty spots in Group C of the Americas, due to two teams that have since disbanded.

The Asia Pacific region will be represented by Grayhound Gaming, Recursive, Ground Zero, AVANT Gaming, Chiefs, really weird, ORDER, and Paradox from the previous Oceania region. The Asia part of the league will feature ViCi Gaming, MVP PK, TYLOO, Invictus Gaming, Lucid Dream, BTRG, Alpha Red, and BOOT. 

Pro League Finals

The ESL Pro League revealed it would have its finals event in Odense, Denmark. The venue will be the ODINCON EXPO for the Group Stage, with the Sparekassen Fyn Arena for the Playoffs. A total $600,000 USD prize pool will be awarded to the finalist teams between Dec. 3 and 8. 

Teams will play in two double-elimination format groups, where the top three teams from each group will advance to the playoffs. The playoffs will consist of a single-elimination bracket with a best-of-three in the quarterfinals and semifinals. The grand finals will be a best-of-five instead.

Death Stranding Unjuk Trailer Sinematik Keren – The Drop!

“Ambisius”, tampaknya merupakan satu kata absolut yang paling pantas menggambarkan Death Stranding. Diracik melalui melalui tangan dingin sosok Hideo Kojima, proyek ini memang jadi salah satu yang paling dinanti di tahun ini. Muai terbukanya berbagai tabir misteri yang selama ini menyelimuti Death Stranding juga membuat para fans semakin tak sabar lagi.

Kini hanya tinggal menunggu sebulan lagi hingga proyek ambisius tersebut resmi meluncur di pasaran. Dan dengan tanggal rilisnya yang kian dekat tersebut, Sony dan Kojima Production telah meluncurkan sebuah trailer sinematik berjuluk – The Drop. Trailer berdurasi semenit tersebut memperlihatkan bagaimana sang protagonis utama – Sam Porter Bridges harus menghadapi segala tantangan demi dapat membuat semua orang bisa “terhubung”.

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Death Stranding sendiri rencananya akan meluncur pada tanggal 8 November 2019 mendatang, eksklusif untuk PlayStation 4 saja (untuk saat ini).

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London Spitfire release three players and coach

With the off-season starting in the Overwatch League, moves are already being made. The inaugural season champion London Spitfire are releasing Ji-hyeok “birdring” Kim, Hee-dong “Guard” Lee, and Jong-seok “NUS” Kim, along with coach Jeong-min “Jfeel” Kim. from their roster. All these members were key to specific moments of victory in both season one and two. Yet these releases seem to indicate London wants season three to be more consistent.

London Spitfire needed a change

The London Spitfire won the first Overwatch season, much to the surprise of everyone, but lost relatively early in the second season playoffs. Inconsistency and incapability to beat the top-tier teams were their major issues. They would easily defeat lower-tier teams like the Defiant and Fuel and then lose to middle-tier teams like the Mayhem and Reign.

After making it into the play-ins, they won a close 4-3 series against the Shanghai Dragons. Unfortunately that was their last win, losing to the New York Excelsior 4-1 after. After having a tumultuous inaugural season and still winning the championship, not reaching the finals clearly hit them hard. So when this exodus of players and a coach was announced on Twitter, it was expected yet still inherently a little surprising.

Today we part ways with @NUS_OW, @Guard, @Birdring, & @JfeelOW.

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— London Spitfire (@Spitfire) October 3, 2019

How will this affect London?

It won’t affect much in the long run, to be blunt. At season’s end, all three of these players weren’t starting anyway. Birdring, while starting caliber, didn’t have a great year at all in comparison to the inaugural season he had. His inconsistency was an issue then and even more so now. Guard, the backup DPS player, was brought in last off-season to shore up the Sombra role but didn’t have an impact at all in the London Spitfire’s season. And Nus, while one of the players that led to their inaugural championship, was benched by new support Ji-hoon “Quatermain” Song as soon as he arrived.

It can’t be said precisely why coach Jfeel was released, but he seems to be a simple casualty of needed change.

However, I can see this leading to a massive signing for the London Spitfire, as they have only one DPS player currently on their roster. They need to sign a new starting DPS player to play alongside former playoff MVP and All-Star Joon-yeong “Profit” Park. Rumors are swirling around as to whom that might be, from Byung-sun “Fleta” Kim to Jae-hyeok “Carpe” Lee. If they get a star to truly match Profit’s flexibility or skill, the London Spitfire could be a team to fear in season three.