The Counter Strike challenge will be concluding on Wednesday the 2nd of June 2004 with the finals between OCRANA.ATI and z0lad, it was initially founded back in January of this year with the aim of introducing a successor to the former Eurocup. The main idea of this event was to establish a pan-European Tournament mainly played on the Internet excluding the large hi-profile LAN Events.

A Great interest and a large demand for a pan-European league became apparent when a large number of European teams registered for the competition, many of those being large well-known and successful teams.

The new Season being hosted by ESL will still be managed by Proca and Nils and will begin at the start of July. The official IRC Channel for the ESL CounterStrike Championsleague is #esl.cscl (Quakenet). Details regarding contestants and procedures involved will be announced within the forthcoming weeks.