ESL Pro League Season 2 explained

ESL Pro League
Sport:
Year:2016
Location:London, United Kingdom
Start Date:February 9, 2016
End Date:May 15, 2016.
Administrator:Electronic Sports League (ESL)
Teams:24 teams
Purse:250,000 for Finals
125,000 for Preliminaries
Champions:Fnatic
Runners-Up1:Natus Vincere
Runners-Up2:? (ex-TSM)
Team EnVyUs
Previous:Season 1
Next:Season 3

ESL Pro League Season 2 (officially known as ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2; shortened as EPL Season 2) was an Electronic Sports League (ESL) tournament. It was the second season of the ESL Pro League. The Finals took place in Burbank, California, United States from December 10 to December 13, 2015. The regular season for Europe began on September 9, 2015, with Ninjas in Pyjamas beating Team EnVyUs and ended with Team EnVyUs defeating mousesports. North America's season began on the same date and kicked off with compLexity Gaming defeating Enemy and concluded with Team Liquid defeating Enemy. The season ended with Fnatic defeating Natus Vincere in a close best of five finals, 3–2. Teams from two continents, North America and Europe, competed in twelve team leagues and play against each other twice to determine the top four teams from each continent would play in the Finals.[1]

Format

Each continent featured the top nine teams from last season's ESL Pro League Season 1, the winning team from ESEA Season 19: Premier Division for North America and the winning team from ESEA Season 21: Premier Division for Europe, and two teams from the ESL Pro League Season 1 Relegation. North America had one more spot remaining after roster of disbanded, so ESL invited one more team to complete the twelve team league. Teams within each continent will play each other twice to determine the top four teams to the Finals in Burbank. The regular season spanned to eleven weeks of play and all these matches were played online.

The top four teams after the conclusion of the regular season moved on to Burbank to play in the Finals; in addition, those teams were invited to next season's ESL Pro League. Teams that placed fifth to ninth place did not make the Finals, but were invited to next season's ESL Pro League. The teams in ninth and tenth place were required to play in Season 2's Relegation match, in which two teams from each continent play to see which team moves on to next season's ESL Pro League. The teams in twelfth place would have no chance to redeem themselves and were automatically demoted to the premier division.

The Finals consisted of eight teams, four from Europe and four from North America. These teams will be separated into two groups – the first and third seeds from North America and the second and fourth seeds from Europe will be in one group and the other teams in the other group. The group stage will consist of the highest seed going against the lowest seed and the middle two seeds against each other, both games in a best of one format. The winners will play in a best of one to determine one team in the Playoffs; the losers will play in a best of three to determine which team gets eliminated from the tournament. The remaining two teams will play in a best of three to determine which team will be the second team in the group to move on to the Playoffs. In the Playoffs, the semifinals will be a best of three and the finals will be a best of five. The winner of the finals will win the tournament and the top prize. All games in the Finals will be played offline.

North America

Broadcast Talent

Commentators

Final standings

Final Standings
PlacePrize MoneyTeamW-LRF-RARDPtsRosterCoach
1st18,000Team Liquid18-4340-212+12854, ELiGE, FugLy, Hiko, GBJame^s
2nd16,500Luminosity Gaming16-6294-197+9748,, FalleN,, nak
3rd15,000Conquest15-7324-236+8845, NAF,, RUSH, ShahZaM
4th13,500Counter Logic Gaming14-8301-245+5642,,,, FNS
5th13,000compLexity Gaming12-10341-293+4836,,,, SemphisWarden
6th11,500Cloud912-10295-246+4936fREAKAZOiD, n0thing, sgares, Skadoodle, shroud
7th10,0003sUP Enterprises11-11284-280+433,, Professor_Chaos,,
8th8,500Enemy10-12276-291-1530Anomaly,, MAiNLiNE, Relyks, UberRyu
9th7,000SapphireKelownaDotCom8-14250-291-4124,, OCEAN, FGB,
10th5,500Method8-14246-276-3024, SileNt3m, streboR, Toy, DAVEY
11th4,000Winterfox8-14270-302-3224,,, LeX, Xp3
12thCoastless1,, ScrunK
1Coastless disbands before the season starts, forcing the team to forfeit all games.

Europe

Broadcast Talent

Commentators

Final Standings
PlacePrize MoneyTeamW-LRF-RARDPtsRosterCoach
1st18,000Team SoloMid18-4342-215+12754,, dupreeh, karrigan, Xyp9x3k2
2nd16,500Fnatic17-5337-255+8251dennis, flusha, KRiMZ, JW, olofmeister
3rd15,000Natus Vincere14-8325-267+5842Edward,, GuardiaN, seized, Zeus
4th13,500Team EnVyUs14-8311-266+4542apEX, Happy, kennyS, kioShiMa, NBK-
5th13,000Titan12-10270-294-2436Rpk,, SmithZz, Ex6TenZ, ScreaM
6th11,500Team Dignitas12-10269-287-1836Kjaerbye,, MSL,, RUBINOzonic
7th10,000Ninjas in Pyjamas11-11294-265+2933, friberg, GeT RiGhT, Xizt, allu
8th8,500mousesports9-13278-298-2027,,,, NiKo
9th7,000Virtus.pro8-14257-322-6524byali, NEO,, Snax, TaZkuben
10th5,500SK Gaming6-16256-304-4818AcillioN,, Friis, Magiskb0y, MODDII
11th4,000HellRaisers6-16256-304-6118ANGE1,,,, STYKO
12th2,500PENTA Sports5-17213-318-10515, Spiidi,,,

Finals

The finalized teams are shown below. Each team's world ranking for December 8, 2015 is also shown.

Broadcast Talent

Host

Commentators

Observers

Group stage

Group A

PosTeamWLRFRARDPts
1Team EnVyUs206436+286
2Fnatic218168+136
3Team Liquid128593-83
4Conquest024376-330
Group A Matches
Team Liquid02Team EnVyUs
Fnatic20Conquest
Fnatic02Team EnVyUs
Team Liquid21Conquest
Fnatic20Team Liquid
Group A Scores
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Team Liquid14Cobblestone16Team EnVyUs
Team Liquid5Cache16Team EnVyUs
Team LiquidMirageTeam EnVyUs
Fnatic16Mirage4Conquest
Fnatic16Inferno10Conquest
FnaticCacheConquest
Fnatic11Cobblestone16Team EnVyUs
Fnatic6Inferno16Team EnVyUs
FnaticMirageTeam EnVyUs
Team Liquid12Inferno16Conquest
Team Liquid16Cache7Conquest
Team Liquid16Overpass6Conquest
Fnatic16Cache14Tean Liquid
Fnatic16Mirage8Tean Liquid
FnaticDust IITeam Liquid

Group B

PosTeamWLRFRARDPts
1?206443+216
2Natus Vincere2110485+196
3Luminosity Gaming128596-113
4Counter Logic Gaming023864-260
Group B Matches
?20Counter Logic Gaming
Luminosity Gaming02Natus Vincere
?20Natus Vincere
Luminosity Gaming20Counter Logic Gaming
Natus Vincere21Luminosity Gaming
Group B Scores
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
?16Mirage12Counter Logic Gaming
?16Infenro6Counter Logic Gaming
?TrainCounter Logic Gaming
Luminosity Gaming5Dust II16Natus Vincere
Luminosity Gaming15Inferno19Natus Vincere
Luminosity GamingOverpassNatus Vincere
?16Train12Natus Vincere
?16Inferno13Natus Vincere
?MirageNatus Vincere
Luminosity Gaming16Mirage8Counter Logic Gaming
Luminosity Gaming16Overpass12Counter Logic Gaming
Luminosity GamingCacheCounter Logic Gaming
Natus Vincere16Cobblestone11Luminosity Gaming
Natus Vincere12Cobblestone16Luminosity Gaming
Natus Vincere16Mirage6Luminosity Gaming

Playoffs

Semifinals

Semifinals
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Team EnVyUs9Dust II16Natus Vincere
Team EnVyUs18Cobblestone22Natus Vincere
Team EnVyUsMirageNatus Vincere
?12Inferno16Fnatic
?14Mirage16Fnatic
?Dust IIFnatic

Finals

Finals
TeamScoreMapScoreTeam
Natus Vincere14Inferno16Fnatic
Natus Vincere14Dust II16Fnatic
Natus Vincere16Mirage6Fnatic
Natus Vincere16Train14Fnatic
Natus Vincere6Cobblestone16Fnatic

Finals Standings

Final Standings
PlacePrize MoneyTeamRosterCoach
1st100,000Fnaticdennis, flusha, KRiMZ, JW, olofmeistervuggo
2nd60,000Natus VincereEdward,, GuardiaN, seized, Zeusstarix
3rd 4th25,000?cajunb, dev1ce, dupreeh, karrigan, Xyp9x
Team EnVyUsapEX, Happy, kennyS, kioShiMa, NBK-Next
5th 6th12,500Luminosity Gamingcoldzera, FalleN, fer, fnx, TACOzews
Team LiquidadreN, ELiGE, FugLy, Hiko, m0E, nitr0GBJame^s
7th 8th7,500Conquestdaps, NAF, stanislaw, RUSH, ShahZaM
Counter Logic Gaminghazed, jdm64, reltuC, tarik, FNS

Between the end of the online season and the start of the finals, an unexpected number of changes took place.

The players of Team SoloMid opted out of their contracts, leaving the players without a team. Before the players started their own organization, which would be called Astralis, the team played under the name "?", which is pronounced "Question Mark."[2]

Team EnVyUs pick up a new coach, Jordan "Next" Savelli.

Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski had final exams for his high school on the first day of finals, so Team Liquid brought in former Counter-Strike: Source professional turned streamer Mohamad "m0E" Assad as a replacement in Liquid's match against EnVyUs.

Luminosity Gaming replaced Ricardo "boltz" Prass, Lucas "steel" Lopes, and Renato "nak" Nakano and brought up Lincoln "fnx" Lau, Epitácio "TACO" de Melo, and Wilton "zews" Prado from Games Academy, an organization FalleN is the owner of.[3] [4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 Finals .
  2. Web site: TSM lose CS:GO team. Luis. Mira. HLTV.org. December 3, 2015. October 17, 2017.
  3. Web site: LG calls on fnx, TACO, zews. Luminosity.gg. November 24, 2015. October 17, 2017.
  4. Web site: Official: Luminosity add fnx, TACO. Luis. Mira. HLTV.org. November 23, 2015. October 17, 2017.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "ESL Pro League Season 2".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.