Electronic Sports League
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Electronic Sports League
Company Information
Parent Company:
Founded:
1997 as Deutsche ClanLiga
2000 as ESL
2000 as ESL
Employees:
636 [1]
Links
Overview[edit]
The Electronic Sports League, abbreviated ESL, is an esports league founded in 1997 and operated by Turtle Entertainment in Cologne, Germany. Today it has more than 5,000,000 registered members and consists of over 1,000,000 teams, thus being one of the biggest gaming leagues, and has organized several Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive events over the years.
The ESL, is nowadays present in 37 countries. Each sections of ESL are operated by ventures under a license granted by Turtle Entertainment GmbH. These sections could correspond to a country, (like ESL Germany for instance), or to a group of low-demography countries (like ESL Nordic for Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark).
The ESL supports over 50 games in different games and runs several tournaments which are ruled by volunteer admins.
Events[edit]
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Tournament
Date
Prize Pool
Location
P#
Winner
Runner-up
Jul 22 - 31, 2022
$50,000
16 participants


Jul 15 - 17, 2022
24 participants


Jul 15 - 17, 2022
24 participants


Feb 25 - Mar 6, 2022
$50,000
16 participants


Feb 9 - 20, 2022
24 participants


Feb 9 - 20, 2022
24 participants


Jul 14 - Aug 8, 2021
$50,000
16 participants


Jul 23 - 25, 2021
24 participants


Jul 23 - 25, 2021
24 participants


Apr 23 - May 2, 2021
$50,000
24 participants


Apr 13 - 18, 2021
32 participants


Jan 20 - 28, 2018
908 participants

