4 updates to preserve fun, gaming variety and the requirement of skill, concerning start money, giving "gg" and other important parts.

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 here at ESL feel your pain and that is why we want to make you aware of our gather system which allows you to practice and enjoy yourself without all the fuss.

The Electronic Sports League - ESL - with its 850,000 active members and more than 2000 matches per day is Europe's biggest online computer gaming league. The league is subdivided into the ESL Pro Series, the professional league, the EAS, the amateur league and the ladder system, which allows players to enjoy random games without further commitments.

Would like to go up against the best DotA teams in Europe and have the chance to win a share of €1.500? The European and American qualifiers for the third season of the ESL Major Series will begin this month. Find out more inside.

The great final between Meet your Makers and Mousesports ended with MYM as a fair loser and mouz as the happy winner.

Another week, another Community Gather! This time we will all come to gather in the European Section. So save this evening for finest DotA ESL Gathers including a free TS2 server for all players. At 8pm CET we will meet once again and are looking forward to meet many European players. Prepare yourself for another funny evening!

By launching several tournaments for the DotA community we started to support the players of the most successful modification of Warcraft 3. Now we want you to play DotA gathers with us. Join the Community Gathers and start playing DotA in the ESL: Define the skill level, choose the players and rate them after the match!

The beginning of this week brought us a new Warcraft Patch that can seriously taken as the first DotA Patch for Warcraft. Since it brought some problems with DotA concerning the Runespawn, there has been a bugfix as well.

Upon several requests, the issue of PC filled slots in the 2on2 Ladder has been discussed again. We came to the conclusion that the majority of the teams wish to at least try a new approach.

Since the ESL is announcing several Summer Cups, we will do so as well. The small and fast tournament will start from monday on. Since we want the new premierships to be Representative for a the DotA Scene, we want to you to get ready for it!Vast prizemoney is waiting for the premierships winner, this cup will be rewarded with lots of Premium keys to let you show the pride.

Last season's ESL Major Series winner SK-Gaming is removed from this season's playoffs after accumulating 10 minor penalties for failing to follow simple rules and meet basic requirements.

Some of you might know already, others will never get to know it...there has been a major exploit inside the latest DotA release, that brings us to update to .52d. All games are changed to .52d with immediate effect.

Later this summer, new international premierships will be introduced with a total of $2,100 prize money! Along with the new rulebook and the new ladders, this is another major step in the renewal of the DotA Section.

After a long groupstage, tiebreakers and relegation, it is time to begin the DotA ESL Major Series Season II Playoffs. The best eight teams from the groupstage have qualified for the final stage of the competition. Who is the favourite to win? Maybe SK, or MYM or mouz? Expect exciting matches!

You guys out there have been pretty determined in reminding us that you are not satisfied with the current provided set of ladders. Now we announce the opening of the beloved 1on1 and 3on3 Ladders. You now have the full scale of possible systems. with the 1on1 Ladder with -arshom you can test your itembuild knowledge and show your true skills. In the 3on3 Ladder you can show your lane domination skills. We love it...and hope you will, too.

A few weeks ago the Groupstage of Season II ended, because teams tied with the same points in Groups A and C it was necessary to run tiebreakers which are now complete. Four teams are directly qualified for the Playoffs leaving 4 spots still to be filled. Now we have Relegation with the teams who finished 2nd and 3rd in their groups, the winners will go on to the Playoffs!

The Groupstage has found its end. We have found that most teams are very disciplined and triedto play their matches fair and punctual. But there where some teams who don´t do this and they make a chaos in our schedule leading to penalties and some chaos.

We finally announce our first action as your new team in charge of the international Section. The new rulebook is a complete remake, so all of you are obliged to read through it completely. Of course we did not only think about what we like them to be, but took into consideration what the whole DotA community and especially you prefer.

Now it is time to come to the end. We are going into the last week of ESL Major Series Season II. So far it has been a good groupstage and we are pleased, that many things are better than last season.

It's time! Details for how to qualify for the €1.500 third season of the ESL Major Series are inside. Think you can compete with the best in Europe and the world? Prove it.

After 3 Playdays, we are very impressed with how some teams have been playing their games on time. Other teams are not so good and delay their matches day by day so you must continue to wait for some results from playday 1, 2 and 3. See inside for the results so far and this week's upcoming matches.

We today announce a rulechange concerning game Victory. Since there were many misunderstandings concerning the phrase "the last tower(the one in the base)" we decided to exchange this clause with the one from the new set of rules that will be online at the beginning of may. You now must give GG or get a main building destroyed to end the game.

As you can see, the 2nd Playday is over and most matches have been played. This means now we can give you a small forecast for which teams are favourite in their group and which teams are trailing behind. You can also find inside information on XsK's replacement.

The first Playday is not over yet. Over a half of all Matches in this Round are played. Teams like mouz, Meet your Makers and w4sp could win their matches and leave their opponents behind. But what did one playday say about the strength of the teams. Nothing. So lets see what happened and look to playday 2. Maybe, then we can have a ranking which is significant.

Twenty-four teams have qualified, their groups have been decided, it is time to begin the second season of the DotA ESL Major Series! Find the groups and fixtures for the first match week inside.

This week is Qualifying Round 2, twenty four teams from across Europe and the world will play each other, half of them will be eliminated, half of them will make it through to the groupstage of the ESL Major Series.

The national qualifiers are complete and it is time to enter the next stage of qualification. This week is Qualifying Round 1, twenty four teams from across Europe and the world will play each other, half of them will be eliminated, half of them will make it through to fight next week.

Two of the world's top DotA teams faced off last night in the grand final of the first season of the ESL Major Series. The Swedish SK-Gaming squad claimed a 2-0 victory over Meet Your Makers and winning themselves €700.

Details for the Russian DotA ESL Major Series Season II qualifier inside...