ESL Pro-Series Season 4

Posted by cobbeh at 15:48 31/1/2004.

The Electronic Sports League has been around for a while now with its ESL Pro-Series being the centerpiece, which was won by mousesports last season. Just around the corner though is when it starts all over again, as Season 4 begins with the qualifiers on the 10th-12th of February; these will be in a best four of five fashion. Here is the list/seeds of teams that will be fighting it out this season:

mousesports (1)
a-Losers.MSI (2)
Pandora.mthN (3)
High FiDelity (4)
SSV.Lehnitz (5)
OCRANA.D-Link (6)
team radium (7)
pod (8)
SK.de (9)
mTw (10)

nine-friends (11)
DkH.Mystify (12)
EFF-KULT (13)
Pro-Pain (14)

Plan-B (15)
Justplay (16)

The top 10 positions are the teams that have automatically qualified. Positions 11th-14th are the ones that need to qualify before progressing, whilst positions 15th-16th drop to the Electronics Amateur Season.

The best four of five matches will be taking place between the top teams from Division 1 of the EAS. This consists of the four main divisions and positions 11th-14th place EPS teams. The league is quite similar to the CAL-O and the CAL-Premier, with teams being moved up through the ladders and the top two teams from Division 1 receiving autoberths into the EPS.

Here are the matches for the qualifiers, along with the schedules and maps:

Pro-Pain vs EAS 3rd place finisher
nine-friends vs EAS 6th place finisher
EFF-KULT vs EAS 4th place finisher
DkH.Mystify vs EAS 5th place finisher

February 10th (Tuesday) - 8pm - de_dust2
February 10th (Tuesday) - 9pm - de_nuke
February 11th (Wednesday) - 8pm - de_cbble
February 11th (Wednesday) - 9pm - de_train
February 12th (Thursday) - 8pm - de_inferno

The Amateur Series will be wrapped up this Monday, with the current leaders being Team64.AMD, who hold a very impressive 18-3 record. Team64 will be taking on faculty.cs, who are currently ranked 3rd, on February 2nd. Check out the amateur standings on the official site.

Source: gotFrag

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Atemi
ForsakeN
15:59 31/1/2004
im glad we know wot time these games take place in american time [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cobbeh
fluid element
16:00 31/1/2004
oops lol [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Alk0r
16:01 31/1/2004
OCRANA.D-Link 6th :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Zorro-
Clan [F]
16:46 31/1/2004
more german league coverage! >:] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Necroboy
fightclubclan
16:53 31/1/2004
Another s*** post by blitz! oh wait, wtf has happened cobbeh?

lub u blitz [ Score: 0, pointless | Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Del`
Sniper's Alley
16:57 31/1/2004
zis league is only for the fatherland, ze lesser nations can play in ze amateur cup. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
stabby
Virgins!
17:04 31/1/2004
uk terrorist not german terrorist :E [ Score: -1, pointless | Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
17:06 31/1/2004
Hold a decent tourny worth posting then [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cobbeh
fluid element
17:15 31/1/2004
ESL is one of the best, if not the best online league around europe, plenty of top teams playin in it, so yea, its worth postin about dont u think [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
FragMentor
17:22 31/1/2004
longest news post award [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Necroboy
fightclubclan
17:25 31/1/2004
I cant speak for the rest of the UK cs community, but I find it uninteresting. Just like CAL, hl2/condition zero and SEL which are all boring none-comment producing news.

If you judge there are enough people interested, sure post it. Ill try not to post my opinion on this again as I dont want to turn out like Chris0 :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
cobbeh
fluid element
17:27 31/1/2004
necro i do honestly agree with u, but its cs news invovling major teams and competitions, so it deserves to be posted [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Chris0
17:40 31/1/2004
lol necro :)

1 day you will join the darkside [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Blitz
Editor
UKTerrorist
17:49 31/1/2004
"I cant speak for the rest of the UK cs community"
Spot on.
"Just like CAL, hl2/condition zero and SEL which are all boring none-comment producing news.
News isn't posted depending on whether it has the ability to induce an intellectual discussion (/sarcasm) between the more active commenters. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Domje
18:01 31/1/2004
mTw 10th wtf [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
$aVa$
ImaGine
18:07 31/1/2004
del Plan-B & Justplay finished 15+16th means they go down. They got invited to play in The Pro Series before, with the new Qualifiers, they'll never get their again anyway. And they shouldn't have been picked in the 1st place :). Shame the UK hasn't a leauge anywhere near The Pro Series - The leauge layout with Qualifiers etc., HLTV, Videostreams, Radiostreams, weekly top match on LAN, LAN finals, big prize money, top teams etc. ... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
ColdAsIce
ImaGine
18:09 31/1/2004
You can tell Sav is German cant you :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smittins
18:19 31/1/2004
stop boasting ;) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
PFCalcio
THX
18:21 31/1/2004
I never get this dont post this crap messages

Post everything tbh - let the readers read what they want (using the filter they usually call eyes) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Blitz
Editor
UKTerrorist
18:23 31/1/2004
hear hear, PFC. :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
18:26 31/1/2004
for a site called UKTerrorist, there's been f*ck all UK news recently..... Necro's right, who cares about German leagues apart from German people. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
PFCalcio
THX
18:33 31/1/2004
Wait til you start working full time - then you'll see the value of ANYTHING mildly diverting.

If you already are then you obviously aren't yet bitter enough with your job [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
decrepit
Croydon
18:34 31/1/2004
germans [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
18:34 31/1/2004
au contraire PF, you work hard all day and then come back to news which isn't related to UK CS whatsoever, just annoys you even more!

(cheers whoever deleted my crap post) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
PFCalcio
THX
18:35 31/1/2004
Ahh the key is to sit at work reading it. The it aint on your own time :D

Post Harry Redknapp quotes, I just want something to read. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
PFCalcio
THX
18:39 31/1/2004
errr :$ post as in after not as in put Harry Redknapp on UKT [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Blitz
Editor
UKTerrorist
18:42 31/1/2004
Any suggestions then Mat, what's been happenin that we've not covered? We might've missed it...

As for 'UK news'...all the stuff about CSCZ, HL2, CD, Steam, Eurocup, etc does apply to the UK community. Not necessarily the clan/league scene, but it applies alright. Re stuff like the element/MadB interviews, we've always covered interviews from anywhere in the community so that's nothing new. Re CAL/ESL, they're a minority amongst the news posts, but like someone else pointed out, you don't have to read it...

other recent news included zebras in the OC, tR reforming, morph joining noc....all in the last 2 days, and very much UK news. what else has happened in the last two days? there's a submit news button over there if you have something worth telling us.

Now, try and get a decent argument behind these daft claims, I'm off to see the woman. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Blitz
Editor
UKTerrorist
18:43 31/1/2004
and Mat, you're welcome, it was me. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
$aVa$
ImaGine
18:47 31/1/2004
Maybe you should submit some UK news Mat :) Btw some of the "best" UK news posts are from Zorro who isn't from the UK :) imo anyway.

They post (did post)news about csgn, UK/IE CUP, OpenCup, GameOne LAN, reforming Clans and new clans etc. What else you want? "Clan X think clan y cheat..."?
Maybe, just maybe the UK clans just don't produce/submit better/more news ... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Chris0
18:53 31/1/2004
Its hard for a top UK site to post constant UK news, so they resort to posting about the enemy instead. Maybe UKT could add some weekly features and regular Iviews from the UKT staff, ready to be posted on the more quiet days. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Alk0r
18:57 31/1/2004
top german clans are amazing to watch though LD [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
PFCalcio
THX
19:02 31/1/2004
I think half the fun of the site is that every story - regardless of quality or topic tends to bring a conversation. I find the comments as much if not more entertaini than the news. You learn a lot more about the people in the stories when you read their comments [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
19:05 31/1/2004
agreed Chris0 + more news about smaller UK LANS and clans outside the top 10 maybe. I know I would rather hear news about some clans in, for example, csgn division 1/2/3 than news about Germany, which has no relevance to 98% of the people in the UK who play CS. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Choke|MaT
Choke
19:09 31/1/2004
+ you're not allowed to comment savas being one of the enemy yourself. Get that spy! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
St00piD
Intrigue
19:11 31/1/2004
It does hold some relevance in the fact that we all hate the kraut scum. [ Score: -1, abusive | Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
commentmaster
19:17 31/1/2004
clearly forgotten to add team dream folds, ctx made with "top sweedish clan" and the rest of dream and then tmc0r joined after passing VAC test. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
rd
theb0g
19:20 31/1/2004
where abouts on this site does it say that as it is called UKTerrorist it has to post UK news ONLY. I dont think it does, so if you dont like the news that is posted, there is two choices dont read it or just deal with it. Knowone has come to your house, opened IE and said read this or i will shoot you. So just stop complaining and deal with it :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
rd
theb0g
19:25 31/1/2004
just open up the page, look at the headings if they dont appeal to you, dont read the article, and just dont comment. It saves you time whining, and means we dont have to read your crap :P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
duck.
Online Multiplayer Gaming
19:29 31/1/2004
agreed with marky [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smittins
19:32 31/1/2004
I think half the fun of the site is that every story - regardless of quality or topic tends to bring a conversation. I find the comments as much if not more entertaini than the news. You learn a lot more about the people in the stories when you read their comments

Agreed, UKT is all about the comments :D

UKT would be nothing without GaZ threatening people, Rhyzz acting pro2k and comment"master" saying something stupid. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
SAmwell
19:38 31/1/2004
argh so many dirty flags on one page [ Score: -1, abusive | Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
G^D
19:39 31/1/2004
f***in german efficiency [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Mini
21:56 31/1/2004
Electronics Amateur Season --> Electronic Sports League Amateur Series.

Times are in CET (GMT +1) :o) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Psy^
xtreme9.uk
22:29 31/1/2004
lol http://www.gotfrag.com/?node=news&id=1769 [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Chris0
23:39 31/1/2004
ctx made with "top sweedish clan" by commentmaster

commentrookie : you obviously meant finnish. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
w00kie
euthanasia
00:20 1/2/2004
if we wanted foreign news we would go to schrotem sack scandinavia website wouldnt we! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
legioN-
00:37 1/2/2004
lol cobbeh way to rip off GotFrag's content and not give credit

http://www.gotfrag.com/?node=news&id=1769

And no, gotfrag didn't steal your post because they posted before you. and you somehow "accidentally" put in American time instead of UK time. oops huh? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
SAmwell
00:48 1/2/2004
whoa, sherlock > cob [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
-Naz-
fightclubclan
01:05 1/2/2004
*BuSteD* [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
$aVa$
ImaGine
01:14 1/2/2004
fk me that took a while to do


lol :S [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Necronom|.com
02:07 1/2/2004
Why to plagerize gotfrag.com, ukterrorist [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
SizeUP
03:54 1/2/2004
"The league is quite similar to the CAL-O and the CAL-Premier"

What the hell? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Highlander`
06:09 1/2/2004
"fk me that took a while to do"

Cobbeh what you have done is plagarize another sites info, and pretty blatantly also; your lucky no charges are being pressed against you for such stupid actions. First you make it seem that you put time and effort into this news post, and then you are stupid enough to leave the times in American and mention the leagues of cal-o and cal-p, which I doubt many Europeans are familiar with.

I think its time this site get its act together, meaning that you stop making fun of Americans and their sites when you rip off there work like its nothing. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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