Second season of ECS Counter-Strike league confirmed for October
Following a successful debut season, The Esports Championship Series (ECS) will launch Season Two of its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league on October 7, 2016, organisers FACEIT announced today.
A familiar format will see 20 CS: GO teams going head-to-head ten from North America and ten from Europe and the tournament will hold its first ever open qualifiers for teams interested in joining the ECS. That last part is of course great news for potential emerging talent, which will see prospective inductees compete in four rounds taking place between August 5 to August 27.
Winners of each qualifying round will join up with four invited teams within each region s ECS developmental league; with the top two teams there competing against the bottom two of last term s ECS Season One. Finally, the two winners from each region s promotion matches will join the remaining eight teams from Season One to form Season Two.
If you think you ve got what it takes, you can sign up by heading this way if you re based in Europe, or this-a-way if you re based in North America.
In praise of this year s open qualification format, Michele Attisani,: The open qualifiers will provide new teams the opportunity to showcase their talent to the world and join our top CS: PROCEED esports league.
"It s our goal to provide new teams a chance to be recognized in the community and become stars, while providing current ECS groups a fresh pool of talent to test their skills against.Buy CSGO Skins The ECS will provide a sum for Time of year Two that ll go toward the league s prize pool and supportive funds that will provide player stability, so reads an official statement. www.csgo4skin.com