ESL Pro League Season 5

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SportCounter-Strike: Global Offensive
LocationDallas, Texas
DatesFebruary 7, 2017–June 4, 2017
AdministratorElectronic Sports League (ESL)
ESL Pro League
2017
Tournament information
SportCounter-Strike: Global Offensive
LocationDallas, Texas
DatesFebruary 7, 2017–June 4, 2017
AdministratorElectronic Sports League (ESL)
Teams28 teams
PurseUS$1,000,000
Final positions
ChampionsG2 Esports
1st runners-upNorth
2nd runners-upSK Gaming
Team Liquid
MVPKenny "kennyS" Schrub

ESL Pro League Season 5 (shortened as EPL Season 5) was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament run by ESL. It is the fifth season of the ESL Pro League, and has an overall prize pool of $1,000,000 . For the first time, the Finals will take place in Dallas, Texas, from May 30 to June 4, in the Verizon Theatre. Teams from two continents, North America and Europe competed in fourteen team leagues to attempt to qualify for the Finals over a ten-week regular season.[1] Europe's season began with Natus Vincere defeating Astralis and ended with Team EnVyUs defeating Astralis. North America's season started with Cloud9 defeating Rush and ended with Renegades defeating Rush. In the finals, G2 Esports was crowned Season 5's champion after winning a best of five series against North.

The format is the same as EPL Season 4.

Each continent will feature the top 11 teams from last season's ESL Pro League Season 4, one team from the ESEA Season 23: Premier Finals, one team from the ESL Pro League Season 4 Relegation, and two teams from the Season 4 Relegation. North America will have three teams from the Season 4 Relegation after Echo Fox's roster disbands. Teams within each continent will play each other twice to determine the top six qualifier to the Finals in Texas. There will be a total of nine weeks in this phase of the tournament. All games will be played online.

The Finals will consist of twelve teams, six from Europe and six from North America. These teams will be separated into two groups. The group stage will consist of every team in each group playing against each other. The top three teams in each group will play move on to the Playoffs. If three teams are tied for one or two playoffs spot, then the teams will play on Train in an overtime-style best of one tiebreaker. Two teams will be randomly chosen to play in the first match. The winner of that match will play the third team. The winner of the second match will receive a spot in the playoffs. The remaining teams will play in a final third match and the winner of that match will move on to the playoffs. In the playoffs, the Round of Six and 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. The top team in each group will receive a bye and automatically move onto the Semifinals. The other four teams will play in the Round of Six. The winners of those two games will move on to the Semifinals, and the winner of the Semifinals will move onto the Finals. The winner of the grand finals is crowned as champion of ESL Pro League Season 5.

Teams

North America

1Selfless Gaming released its roster midway through the season. The team finished the season under the banner The Foundation.

Europe

North America

Broadcast Talent

Commentators

  • Tim "Brainstorm" Dunne
  • Ben "SandMan" Green
  • Sam "DaZeD" Marine
  • Jordan "Elfishguy" Mays
  • John "BLU" Mullen
  • Kevin "KaRath" Zhu

Analysts

  • Tres "stunna" Saranthus
  • Erik "da_bears" Stromberg
  • Mark "boq" Wilson

Observers

  • Heather "sapphiRe" Garrozo
  • David DJ "Prius" Kuntz

Standings

The North American final standings are shown below. The top six teams go to Dallas to play in the finals and are invited to next season's EPL. Teams that placed seventh through eleventh did not qualify to the finals but are still invited to next seasons EPL. The bottom three teams need to go through various qualifiers in order to qualify for next season's EPL. The teams' in-game leaders are shown first for each roster. (RUSH's, The Foundation's, and Winterfox's – now Animal Squad – in-game leaders are either unknown or do not have an in-game leader.)

The defending EPL champions, Cloud9, made it to the finals once again. In addition, the two time major champions and runners-up from last season, SK Gaming, qualified with the top seed in North America. The same six teams who went to Brazil's finals qualified for the Dallas finals, with OpTic Gaming and Cloud9 winning crucial games while Luminosity Gaming dropped both its games to Team Liquid on the last day of the season, knocking the third Brazilian team out of finals contention.

Final Standings
Place Prize Money Team W-L RF-RA RD Pts Roster Coach
1st TBD SK Gaming 18-6 363-264 +99 54 FalleN, coldzera, TACO, felps, fer dead
2nd TBD Team Liquid 17-7 353-277 +76 51 stanislaw, nitr0, EliGE, jdm64, Twistzz zews
3rd TBD Immortals 17-7 321-255 +61 51 boltz, steel, HEN1, LUCAS1, kNg, fnx zakk
4th TBD NRG Esports 15-9 349-274 +75 45 daps, ptr, FugLy, Brehze, LILMAN Professor_Chaos
5th TBD Cloud9 15-9 323-283 +40 45 autimatic, n0thing, Stewie2k, Skadoodle, shroud valens
6th TBD OpTic Gaming 14-10 316-291 +25 42 RUSH, tarik, NAF, mixwell
7th US$27,000 Luminosity Gaming 13-11 312-284 +28 39 PKL, yeL, destinyy, SHOOWTiME, shz felippe1
8th US$23,000 Counter Logic Gaming 13-11 320-331 -11 39 FNS, reltuC, koosta nahtE, Rickeh ImAPet
9th US$19,000 Renegades 13-11 307-291 +16 39 AZR, jks, USTILO, Nifty, nexa kassad
10th US$17,500 Misfits 12-12 300-296 +4 36 sgares, SicK, ShahZaM, devoduvek, amaNEk peacemaker
11th US$15,000 compLexity Gaming 6-18 261-334 -73 18 desi, Slemmy, Surreal, dephh, androidx23 Warden
12th US$11,500 RUSH 2-22 216-369 -153 6 Toy, blade, aKis, SileNt, rooRoooo
13th US$8,000 The Foundation 1-23 192-375 -183 3 kaboose, mCe, dizzywi, dee, zqk Ryu
DQ – Winterfox – – – – RaZ, zewsy, ofnu, emagine, apoc

During the season, many roster changes took place.

Team SoloMid's roster transferred to the Misfits after controversy surrounding Misfits captain Sean "sgares" Gares and TSM owner Andy "Reginald" Dinh.[2]

Yassine "Subroza"' Taoufik left Counter Logic Gaming. CLG brought in James "hazed" Cobb, who had just left the team, as a temporary substitute.[3] The team then brought in Ricky "Rickeh" Mulholland from Renegades after the Australian AWPer was let go and replaced with the Swedish player Simon "atter" Atterstam.[4][5] A few weeks later, Renegades leader Yaman "yam" Ergenekon stepped down from the team and returned to Australia, citing personal reasons. Michael "Uber" Stapells, who had just been released by compLexity Gaming, stepped in to replace yam temporarily.[6] Renegades later announced the transfer of Noah "Nifty" Francis from Selfess Gaming and added Nemanja "nexa" Isaković from Serbia to complete its roster.[7]

Matthew "no_one" Congdon stepped down from the Selfless Gaming active roster as his team reported that he desired to take a break. Chris "cJ-dA-K1nG" Jones was moved up from the substitute role into the active roster.[8] Later, Selfess Gaming owner Steve "Ryu" Rattacasa released his roster. The team played under the name The Foundation. The team brought in various other players, including former teammate of Gabriel "FalleN" Toledo and Fernando "fer" Alvarenga of SK Gaming Caio "zqk" Fonseca from Brazil.

Peter "stanislaw" Jarguz left OpTic Gaming as its in game leader and signed with Team Liquid. Team Liquid then released Spencer "Hiko" Martin and OpTic took in the American veteran as a temporary substitute while also signing Luis "peacemaker" Tadeu as the coach.[9][10] However, Hiko soon announced that he would not stay with OpTic and peacemaker left OpTic.[11][12] Once Hiko left, former Cloud9 rifler and current Echo Fox player Ryan "fREAKAZOiD" Abadir stepped in as a temporary substitute.[13] The team then announced that former Splyce player-turned-streamer Jason "jasonR" Ruchelski would be the temporary fifth and in-game leader after standing in for compLexity Gaming and then later stood in for OpTic Gaming.[14]

Samuel "SileNt" Portillo replaced Daniel "virtus" Carrillo and Adam "aKis" Kisseberth replaced Matt "Pollo" Wilson on Rush.[15][16] Derrick "LILMAN" Boyne left RUSH to go replace Omar "MarkE" Jimenez on NRG Esports and Steven "rooRoooo" Herrell took LILMAN's spot.[17]

Winterfox withdrew from the EPL Season 5 North American division and its spot was transferred to its players. However, just over a week later, the players, now under the banner Animal Squad, forfeit the rest of their matches and were disqualified by ESL.[18][19]

NRG Esports brought it former Splyce member Andrew "Professor_Chaos" Heintz as a coach.[20]

Team Liquid brings in the 17 year old Russel "Twistzz" VanDulken from Misfits. Misfits also benched Skyler "Relyks" Weaver and acquired two Frenchmen, David "devoduvek" Dobrosavljevic and François "AmaNEk" Delaunay.[21][22]

Immortals bench Lincoln "fnx" Lau due to internal problems within the team and replace him with Vito "kNg" Giuseppe. fnx will most likely leave Immortals and join his CS 1.6 teammate Raphael "cogu" Camargo.[23]

North America Scores

North America Results
Results
C9 IMT SK OpTic RNG NRG Liquid CLG WFX coL Misfits LG TF RUSH
C9 16-9
8-16		 12-16
16-10		 16-11
16-6		 16-19
16-1		 10-16
19-17		 5-16
11-16		 22-19
9-16		 16-4
16-6		 16-7
19-15		 23-25
4-16		 6-16
16-6		 16-14
16-12		 16-9
16-3
IMT 9-16
16-8		 11-16
7-16		 16-6
5-16		 16-3
4-16		 16-14
10-16		 3-16
16-9		 16-8
16-6		 16-11
16-14		 16-10
16-12		 16-7
16-13		 22-19
16-11		 16-2
16-5		 16-13
16-1
SK 16-12
10-16		 16-11
16-7		 14-16
16-7		 16-8
13-16		 16-11
19-16		 16-9
14-16		 12-16
12-16		 W-F
W-F		 16-10
16-9		 16-6
16-5		 16-8
16-8		 16-10
16-9		 16-9
16-6
OpTic 11-16
6-16		 6-16
16-5		 16-14
7-16		 16-5
19-17		 9-16
12-16		 13-16
14-16		 19-15
16-11		 16-3
16-0		 8-16
16-7		 16-3
16-11		 16-7
6-16		 16-12
16-8		 16-5
16-13
RNG 6-16
1-16		 16-3
4-16		 8-16
16-13		 5-16
17-19		 16-12
16-8		 16-8
TBD		 18-22
16-2		 16-4
16-8		 16-11
16-8		 17-19
6-16		 17-19
10-16		 16-11
16-8		 16-12
16-5
NRG 16-10
17-19		 14-16
16-10		 11-16
16-19		 16-9
16-12		 22-18
2-16		 22-19
14-16		 16-11
19-6		 16-6
16-6		 7-16
16-6		 16-9
12-16		 16-10
16-2		 16-6
16-2		 16-8
16-5
Liquid 16-5
16-11		 16-3
9-16		 16-9
14-16		 16-13
16-14		 8-16
TBD		 19-22
16-14		 13-16
10-16		 16-11
16-5		 16-11
16-9		 16-11
16-5		 16-11
16-12		 16-10
16-8		 16-3
16-11
CLG 19-22
16-9		 8-16
6-16		 16-12
16-12		 15-19
11-16		 22-18
2-16		 11-16
16-19		 16-13
16-10		 16-14
16-5		 16-10
16-12		 19-17
12-16		 10-16
16-14		 16-11
7-16		 16-8
16-10
WFX 6-16
4-16		 14-16
11-16		 F-W
F-W		 3-16
0-16		 4-16
8-16		 6-16
6-16		 11-16
5-16		 14-16
5-16		 6-16
14-16		 4-16
11-16		 19-17
6-16		 F-W
F-W		 16-7
14-16
coL 7-16
14-16		 10-16
12-16		 10-16
9-16		 16-8
7-16		 11-16
8-16		 16-7
6-16		 11-16
9-16		 14-16
9-16		 16-6
16-14		 2-16
9-16		 14-16
2-16		 16-10
16-14		 16-2
16-5
Misfits 25-23
16-4		 7-16
13-16		 6-16
5-16		 3-16
11-16		 19-17
16-6		 9-16
16-12		 11-16
5-16		 17-19
16-12		 16-4
16-11		 16-2
16-9		 13-16
10-16		 16-4
16-5		 16-12
16-11
LG 16-6
6-16		 19-22
11-16		 8-16
8-16		 7-16
16-6		 19-17
16-10		 10-16
2-16		 11-16
12-16		 16-10
14-16		 17-19
16-6		 16-14
16-2		 16-13
16-10		 W-F
W-F		 16-14
16-8
TF 14-16
12-16		 2-16
5-16		 6-16
9-16		 12-16
8-16		 11-16
8-16		 6-16
2-16		 10-16
8-16		 11-16
16-7		 W-F
W-F		 10-16
14-16		 5-16
4-16		 F-W
F-W		 7-16
12-16
RUSH 9-16
3-16		 13-16
1-16		 12-16
17-19		 5-16
13-16		 5-16
12-16		 8-16
5-16		 3-16
11-16		 8-16
10-16		 7-16
14-16		 2-16
5-16		 12-16
11-16		 14-16
8-16		 16-7
16-12

Europe

Finals

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