ESL, the world’s largest esports company, brought in the new year with thousands of fans at ESL One Genting 2017 from January 6-8. The top eight Dota 2 teams traveled to the Arena of the Stars in Resorts World Genting, Malaysia to battle for a share of the US$250,000 prize pool in a stadium full of 5,000 visitors each day.
Barclays Center has been named the home to ESL One's North American flagship event and the biggest esports tournament on the East Coast. ESL One New York will be held at the Brooklyn venue for the next four years, with the next event scheduled for September 16 & 17, 2017. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster.com beginning Thursday, December 15 at 10 a.m.
Concluding one of the most explosive debut years in the history of eSports, Jagex’s incredible Deadman Invitational – based in the world of Old School RuneScape – will be hitting our screens once more on Saturday December 17. With peaks of some 90,000 concurrent viewers and three successful shows to its name, the Deadman Invitational has become one of the highlights of the 2016 eSports calendar.
The global competitive CS:GO league will return bigger and better in 2017, with more teams and regions, a record-setting prize pool, and its first offline finals to be held in the United States. The total ESL Pro League 2017 prize pool will be US$2 million (US$1 million per season) a 25% increase from last year’s US$1.5 million.
The grand finals of the fourth season of the ESL Pro League were held last weekend at the sold out Ginasio do Ibirapuera in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Over 6000 fans attended each of the event days, cheering for their local heroes, SK Gaming, who powered through to the final but ultimately lost to North American team Cloud9.