Starting in May with DreamHack SC2 Masters, the new run of ESL Pro Tour in StarCraft II is set to bring us a full year packed with online tournaments as well as the long awaited return to LAN!

It's not GG until it's GG for all.

ESL’s calendar for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 2021 rounds off with Intel® Extreme Masters Winter, in Stockholm, Sweden. In Sunday’s grand final, the French powerhouse Team Vitality defeated the Swedes Ninjas in Pyjamas in a Bo5 round robin with a swift 3-0 victory, taking home their stake of the USD 250,000 prize money.

The environment is an essential question to all, so also to us at ESL Gaming. As the world’s leading esports company, we find ourselves in a unique position to positively impact our industry regarding the environment through our overall CSR strategy and particular initiatives. It is, therefore, with great pleasure that we’re able to say that ESL Gaming is now a CO2 neutral company, calculated by Planted and offset via United Nation Certificates.

At the end of November we will get things rolling again with ESL PUBG Open as we have the qualifiers for Open: Winter starting November 22nd! The full tournament will take place in the first two weekends of December to round off the year of ESL PUBG and once again there is $2,000 up for grabs!

ESL introduced its first non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for IEM Cologne 2021 and has since endeavored to find a partnership that ensures esports and Counter-Strike fans can have access to NFTs in a secure, carbon neutral, and gas-free way.