ESL Pro League Season 13 began on Monday (8). The tournament Counter Strike: Global Offensive brings together 24 teams that compete for the total prize pool of US $ 750 thousand (about R $ 4.3 million). The knockout stage takes place between 8 and 29 March. The playoffs will be held from April 8 to 10, with the grand final on April 11. Check the complete championship schedule below.
ESL Pro League of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Press Release / ESL)
This edition of the tournament will be completely online, due to the COVID-19 pandemic; it is broadcast live on the ESL Pro League Twitch channel. Brazil is represented by the teams FURIA Esports, MIBR and Team oNe, as well as athletes Gabriel “FalleN” Toledo, Marcelo “coldzera” David and Wilton “zews” Prado, who are part of Team Liquid, FaZe and Evil Geniuses, respectively.
Tournament format
The ESL Pro League Season 3 will have a group stage, play-in and playoffs. In the first phase, the 24 teams will be divided into four groups with six participants, who will face each other in a better series of three matches (MD3) in search of points. The 2nd and 3rd place go to the first stage of the playoffs, while the first place of each group advances directly to the play-ins.
The two play-in winning teams guarantee a place in the semifinals of the tournament. The other two teams are placed in the quarterfinals. The confrontations in both the play-in and playoffs are in MD3. The champion of the grand final will be decided in a best-of-five series (MD5).
Groups table
| A group | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| BIG | ENCE | Cloud9 | Astralis |
| Complexity | FaZe Clan | FURY | Endpoint |
| FunPlus Phoenix | G2 Esports | Gambit | Evil Geniuses |
| Heroic | mousesports | MIBR | Fnatic |
| OG | Ninjas in Pajamas | Natus Vincere | Team Liquid |
| Renegades | Team Vitality | Team oNe | Virtus.pro |
Match schedule
The ESL Pro League group stage starts on March 8 and ends on March 29. The play-in takes place on April 8, and the playoffs are scheduled for April 9 and 10. The grand final will be on April 11th. Check, below, the tournament schedule at the official Brasilia time.
Group stage
Group A (March 8-12)
| March 8th | March, 9 | March 10 | March 11 | March 12 | |
| 8am | Complexity vs FunPlus Phoenix | FunPlus Phoenix vs Renegades | Renegades vs OG | OG vs Heroic | Heroic vs Complexity |
| 11:30 am | Heroic vs Renegades | Complexity vs OG | Heroic vs FunPlus Phoenix | BIG vs FunPlus Phoenix | BIG vs Renegades |
| 3 pm | BIG vs OG | BIG vs Heroic | Renegades vs Complexity | Renegades vs Complexity | OG vs FunPlus Phoenix |
Group B (March 13-18)
| March 13th | 14th March | March, 15 | |
| 8am | mousesports vs ENCE | ENCE vs Ninjas in Pajamas | Ninjas in Pajamas vs FaZe Clan |
| 11:30 am | G2 Esports vs Ninjas in Pajamas | mousesports vs FaZe Clan | ENCE vs G2 Esports |
| 3 pm | Team Vitality vs FaZe Clan | Team Vitality vs G2 Esports | Team Vitality vs mousesports |
| March 17 | March 18th | |
| 8am | G2 Esports vs FaZe Clan | G2 Esports vs mousesports |
| 11:30 am | Ninjas in Pajamas vs mousesports | FaZe Clan vs ENCE |
| 3 pm | Team Vitality vs ENCE | Team Vitality vs Ninjas in Pajamas |
Group C (March 19-24)
| March 19th | March 20 | March 21st | March 22 | March 24 | |
| 8am | Gambit Esports vs MIBR | Gambit Esports vs Cloud9 | Natus Vincere vs Gambit Esports | Team oNe vs Gambit Esports | FURIA Esports vs Gambit Esports |
| 11:30 am | Natus Vincere vs Cloud9 | Natus Vincere vs FURIA Esports | Team oNe vs Cloud9 | Natus Vincere vs MIBR | Natus Vincere vs Team oNe |
| 3 pm | FURIA Esports vs Team oNe | MIBR vs Team oNe | MIBR vs FURIA Esports | Cloud9 vs FURIA Esports | Cloud9 vs MIBR |
Group D (March 25-29)
| 25th March | March 26th | March, 27 th | |
| 8am | Virtus.pro vs Endpoint | Endpoint vs Fnatic | Fnatic vs Evil Geniuses |
| 11:30 am | Team Liquid vs Fnatic | Virtus.pro vs Evil Geniuses | Astralis vs Virtus.pro |
| 3 pm | Astralis vs Evil Geniuses | Astralis vs Team Liquid | Endpoint vs Team Liquid |
| March 28 | March 29th | |
| 8am | Fnatic vs Virtus.pro | Astralis vs Fnatic |
| 11:30 am | Astralis vs Endpoint | Team Liquid vs Virtus.pro |
| 3 pm | Evil Geniuses vs Team Liquid | Evil Geniuses vs Endpoint |
Play-In (April 8)
| April 8 | |
| 10am | Group A winner vs Group B winner |
| 1:30 pm | Group C winner vs Group D winner |
Play-In (April 8)
| April 8 | |
| 10am | Group A winner vs Group B winner |
| 1:30 pm | Group C winner vs Group D winner |
Playoffs and grand final (April 9-11)
The ESL Pro League Season 13 playoffs take place on April 9 and 10, with a match at 10:30 am and another at 2:00 pm on both days. The grand final will be on April 11 at 10:30 am.
Tournament Prize
The total prize for the ESL Pro League Season 3 is US $ 750,000 (about R $ 4.3 million). The first place winner takes US $ 175 thousand (around R $ 1 million) and guarantees a place in the Global Final of the 2021 Blast Premiere, which takes place between December 14th and 19th.
From the second place onwards, the prize pool is divided as follows:
- 2nd place: US $ 60 thousand (R $ 343 thousand)
- 3rd and 4th places: US $ 30 thousand (R $ 171 thousand)
- 5th and 6th places: US $ 15 thousand (R $ 86 thousand)
- 7th and 8th places: US $ 12.5 thousand (R $ 71 thousand)
- 9th to 12th places: US $ 10,000 (R $ 57,000)
- 13th to 16th places: US $ 7 thousand (R $ 40 thousand)
- 17th to 20th places: US $ 5,000 (R $ 28,000)
- 21st to 24th places: US $ 3 thousand (R $ 17 thousand)
With information: Liquipedia, Dexerto.