An important change is taking place here in the European Counter-Strike: Source section. From now on Trusted Level 3 is required for all German and Alpen players in the ESL.

Qualification is complete! In a couple of weeks the third season of the ESL Major Series will fully begin with the Groupstage. First, the two Qualifying Rounds must take place. See inside for all the details regarding this season including the draw for Qualifying Round 1.

Hey boys and girls, we have bad news for you and we are really sorry that we are forced to do this step, but we can't find a way out of the problems in connection with too many open tickets without having enough admins.

Are you an active team here in the CS:S section? Every month starting in October we will be rewarding the most active teams through the Most Matches Competition. Check out whats the relevant ladder this month!

Thirty-two teams from across Europe are competing to qualify for the ESL Major Series. The first round matches have been fixed, see inside to find out who faces who!

We are proud to present you the winner(s) of the 1on1 and 2on2 Summer Cup. The winner of the 2on2 Summper Cup (jebie lamusy chuj.css) won two Saitek Eclipse II Illuminated Keyboards, and the winners of the 1on1 Summer Cup won different Premium prizes.

Would like to go up against the best Counter-Strike: Source teams in Europe and have the chance to win a share of €3.000? The last chance to qualify for the third season of the ESL Major Series will be the European Qualifier next month. Find out more inside.

Counter-Strike: Source is one of the largest games here at the Electronic Sports League which creates a large demand for admins to keep our ladders and other competitions running well. In the past few months we've had a number of new admins join the team and it is time again to ask for more interested people to apply.

After the 2on2 Summercup Playoffs we will start a 256 slot 1on1 Rushcup. So signup today and help us to get enough players for the biggest European 1on1 CS:S cup.

Today at 8:00 pm ESL TV will broadcast the final of the CS:S ESL Major Series between the German mTw and the French team of emuLate. The winner of this match will take home 1.500 Euros while the runner up will still get 900 euro. It looks like a promising match since mTw went through the competition undefeatet and emuLate took down the German champion ALTERNATE aTTaX.

After the end of the last qualification cup we are proud to present you the eight teams who got on the first and second place in the four qualification cups. The Playoff teams can win two gaming keyboards.

The third qualification cup is already over, so it's time to announce the fourth and last qualification cup. Again we will pick the best two teams for the Playoffs cup, where they can win two Saitek Keyboards. More information in the news.

The second qualification cup is already over, so it's time to announce the third qualification cup. Again we will pick the best two teams for the Playoffs cup, where they can win two Saitek Keyboards. More information in the news.

The first qualification cup is already over, so it's time to announce the second qualification cup. Again we will pick the best two teams for the Playoffs cup, where they can win two Saitek Keyboards. More information in the news.

The big finale match between the two top football teams. We hope to see great goals and perfekt teamplay.

During the next weeks we will run four 2on2 qualification cups. The best two teams out of each cup will play in a separate Playoffs cup. The best three teams will win ESL premium accounts and the best team will win a great prize also. More information in the news.

.. sun, beach, relaxing and cool drinks? For the CSS Section Summer means exciting Qualification Cups, great Playoffs and nice Prizes. All in all: some nice 2on2 action! In this news we want to announce you the 2on2 Summer Cup Series for Counter-Strike: Source.

The Euro-Cup is already well on its way in Austria and Switzerland. And so we thought that we would like to bring the Football feeling to you LIVE at Home.

Today we changed the Autochallenger times of the 2on2 Amateur Series.

During the next days we will reopen the 1on1 Handgun Ladder. For now we added a maximum member restriction which allows 250 players. The number of the maximum league participants will be increased / removed if we think that we can control the upcoming work.

After two months we are proud to present you the winners of the CounterStrike: Souce Spring Cup 2008. The prize for the winner team is a two months ESL Premium account for each cup player.

The groupstage is over, relegation is (almost) complete. Twenty-four of Europe's best Counter-Strike: Source teams have been narrowed down to eight. With the pressure mounting who will falter and who will take a share of the €3.000 prize money? The ESL Major Series playoffs are here!

A new zBlock version has been released. Coming along with the new version 4.1 zBlock also provides new features, such as "zb_teamcash", which of course we want to support. Because of this a few minor changes to the rules and server configs are required.

After a month of play the rankings of the Counter-Strike: Source ESL Major Series Season II Groupstage are (almost) finalised. Find out which teams have qualified for the playoffs and relegation inside!

Details for how Finnish, Swedish and UK teams can qualify for the €3.000 third season of the ESL Major Series are inside.

As more players and teams like to play their matches on LAN parties we now have updated our rules to cover those cases, because of different settings for server and client, which would be illegal without this rule. The rule update applies for matches, where both sides play on the same LAN network.

Today we will announce the participants of the Spring Cup Playoffs. We checked and tooked the best two teams out of each group.

It's time! Details for how to qualify for the €3.000 third season of the ESL Major Series are inside. Think you can compete with the best in Europe? Prove it.

We're in week four of ESL Major Series Season II. In the fourth match of the groupstage, Europe's best teams will face off on de_nuke.

We're in week three of ESL Major Series Season II. In the third match of the groupstage, Europe's best teams will face off on de_tuscan.