We already passed the first half of the qualification phase, now the third cup is ready to start soon! On Sunday evening the next hot battles are incoming! So collect your units and get ready to fight!

The first qualifier for ESL Major Series Season III has been filled within several hours, which is really amazing for a Team Fortress 2 competition! The seedings have just been made and can be seen at the tournament tree. The size of the second and third qualifier has been increased to 32 teams in order to ensure fairness.

Toribash is a totally free, innovative fighting game where YOU design the moves! Featuring many fighting techniques including Judo, Taek Kyon, Wushu, Aikido, Betabox and more.

Summer is over, the sun has retreated behind the clouds and the leaves are turning brown. It's time to return to serious Call of Duty 4 fighting. Compete against teams from across Europe in the ESL's Call of Duty 4 League this Autumn!

Only two months are left in the Dawn of War: Soulstorm Amateur Series. Inside we shall introduce the top five players who are currently neck-and-neck, though everyone still has the chance to win the ESL Amateur Series and get some of the amazing prizes worth 1,500 euros.

The qualifiers with the most sign ups are almost over. We are talking about the German and French national qualifier of the third ESL Major Series season. 13 teams signed up to get one of the three spots who were offered for Germany. 8 teams for two spots in France. Now we reached the final phase of the qualifiers with four teams left in each. In the upcoming days they will play their final matches! And also the two Spanish teams who signed up will play their match on Sunday!

Today we present you the rule changes of the ESL TMNF Premiership Season II. Some old rules got changed and some are new. We spend a lot of time to design rules for your advantage. Read them carefully!

Well, a new season, a new shiny homepage. The competition really has started!

Your ESL admin team is happy to announce a new homepage for all ESL Major Series business.

ESL TV confirms their presence for the European Regional Finals of the 2008 Blizzard Tournaments in Madrid. On spot the team will feed all the ESL visitors with full coverage of both tournaments, so make sure you tune in at 6th and 7th of September and follow Europe's finest battling it out for a spot at the grand final.

The qualifiers for the GOA European Championship began almost a year ago. Now we finally have the 8 best players in Europe, who. Over the next few weeks they will face each other to find the best player in Europe and win some great prizes!

Find out which teams have qualified for the third season of the ESL Major Series inside!

The regular season is over, it's time for the playoffs now.

Starting at 17:00 CET, the match between MYM and nWo will be the opener of the sixth playday. The action continues at 22:30 CET with nGize challenging KoD to a duel.

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The ESL proudly presents the third and, possibly, the last installation of the ESL Major Series Season III. 16 teams and €1,000 of prize money makes this the only place for the top players to play!

Last season Templars of Twilight won our grand final. They did so by beating Fallen Soulz, the ESL Major Series I winners, in the final. Only you* have the power to stop them!

After two cups in the Carom3d section we decided to open a Fantasy Masters section. So we welcome you to our Fantasy Masters section in the Electronic Sports League. All questions about the cups, which we will organize in the next months, and the game will be answered in this news.

We started with 64 players at the beginning of August and 2 players reached the Overall Final on last weekend: Damir vs. RioT was the matchup and both players fought in two "Best of 9" for the tournament crown. There are a total of 1000 chalks and 10 months worth ESL Premium Accounts in this Summer Extra Cup for the top 4 players. The winners are ...

The final is coming, LLL against dG promises to be a tough match. Both teams made a great tournament and thumbs up to dG that could beat dignitas in the tournament.

We proceed with this playday by giving you one of the best matches of the season, an absolute cracker. Today at 16:00, MYM will be facing off against WE.

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Yesterday the great EMS Qualification Cup #1 found its end. After several hot matches the first four participants are found. Furthermore, the next cup is ready to start soon!

Today we announce our now ruleset for the PAM mode. After some little bugts in the old and some wishes we change some settings. In the second part we want to introduce you the esports fix.

The hardcore mode is very special and has its fans. We all know that the hardcore mode is different from the original played mode. Therefore we would like to give you the opportunity to play you favorite gametype also in ESL.

The ESL Major Series Season II ended on Wednesday!
We found the winners and follower of idle.ee / Team Dignitas as winner of the ESL International Premiership Series.
Read on for all details of the EMS II!

We are proud to present you the 12 guilds that finally managed to qualify for the first Guild Wars ESL Major Series. We leave behind some long three weeks with opening cup, qualification cups and the GC Invitational. The 12 participating guilds will fight each other in a league system in order to get one of the hot spots for the Offline Finals this December!

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.

The signup for the first qualifier for the ESL Major Series Season III opened an hour ago. We are looking forward to see three very exciting tournaments in order to choose Europes Top 16 teams! In addition to that we want to present you the result of our latest vote: all 6on6 competitions are changed to demolimit 1.

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, Asian and American qualifiers for the third season of the ESL Major Series will begin this month. Find out more inside.

The first cup of the reopened Guild Wars section has already been finished some time ago. Today we want to present you the final prizes for the three top teams. The overall winner was "Team Eierbär", congratulation to this great performance!

Would like to go up against the best Pro Evolution Soccer players in Europe and have the chance to win a share of €750? The last chance to qualify for the third season of the ESL Major Series will be the European Qualifier this month. Find out more inside.

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.

Would like to go up against the best Call of Duty 4 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 this month. Find out more inside.

Monday is not only the start of a new week, but also offers you two more matches of the fifth playday: SK is taking on RAPTOR at 17:00 CET, and the action continues one hour later with wNv facing aTn at 18:00 CET.

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There are times to fight and there are times to wait and now? Now the waiting time is over! The ESL TMNF Premiership Season II is close. Read this news to find out more.

We proudly present you the newest ICQ Games ladder in the European Section -> RPS Online 1on1. The ladder will be "moved" from the german section into the european section because of regressive statistics/matches per day. This shouldn't scare you, but encourage you to participate in this ladder more active.

Today we can announce two more teams for the upcoming third season of the ESL Major Series. Three teams from Greece applied to get a spot, but at the end we had just two slots for them. Today the team Guardians played their second match in the Greece qualifier after they lost their first match last week already against Delinquent Habits.

The time for the most anticipated season of WCIP is growing near. If your team is planning on participating, this news is for you. All steps, requirements, and tips about WCIP Season 3 sign ups are explained here. Read more to get the information.

The last cup with the old map pack has ended and the winners are determined. We congratulate them and thank all participants who made this cup go smoothly.

Due to the near start of the first qualification cup, we want to remind you of the most important things. Here's how you will successfully play this cup and maybe qualify for the ESL Major Series.

To further push and grow the community we support with our ESL Major Series we are looking to setup coverage partnerships with news sites and broadcasters. Interested? Find out how we can help each other inside!

Probably you have seen Zenit beating Manchester United on last Friday. In FIFA it's time for living the same emotions between fnatic and GotGame. The spanish team will try to beat the latvian surprise in the FIFA Scene and take another important achievement.

WC3L is back after a short break with the battle between mTw and KoD at 5:00 am CET.

Read more for detailed information.

After we got a lot of feedback from you, we've decided to update our rules! In addition, we give you all details about the match times for each round. Due to signups from canadian or brasilian players, we change our rule about the "allowed countries". Now players from almost all over the world are allowed to participate!

The qualification time and the three qualification cups has been played. Now, we have found the 16 best players in europe Counter-Strike Manager. We want to present you now this players in this news.

We proudly announce the first ESL Pro Series in the United Kingdom! 30,000 pounds of prize money is available for the best UK teams to win. The biggest games in the UK, Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4, will be the disciplines of the first ESL Pro Series powered by Intel as the main sponsor. 12 teams per discipline will be able to take part in the first ESL Pro Series season in the United Kingdom.

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 some weeks and a lot of work due to prepare everything for the ESL Major Series, we are back with some hot news for you! We are glad to present you our rulebook and the sign up for the first EMS qualifier. Prepare your units, collect your ressources and get ready for battle!

Finally, even the War Rock European section will host a ladder based on one of the funniest and at the same time most organized game modes. Even if DeathMatch Mode is still in testing phase, in order to bring innovation by cutting with the usual CQC tourneys and trying to carry a revolution inside this game community, ESL is proud to present to all players Team Deathmatch 4on4 Ladder!

The group stages of the ESL Battlefield 2 Nations Championships are now complete, and we can now bring you all the information required for the knockout stages.

We had a lot of people asking us for new ladders and now we can proudly present you the new 1on1 Scout and 2on2 Sniper ladder. Also we will host a 3on3 Arena Cup next week. Besides the arena mode there is a another innovation for the cup, there are no medics allowed!

The last chance to qualify for the ESL Major Series starts tonight. Ten teams will fight each other to get one of the spots for the highest Guild Wars competition within the ESL. The decider maps are choosen and can be found together with all final details in this news.

Yesterday was played the grand final of the Cup Pangya 2on2 Holidays Cup.

Finishing the summer and we have new cup 9 Holes 1on1 prepared for the return of holiday