The 1on1 cup series has ended, so now we are bringing you a 3on3 night cup! It will be a standard old school classic cup! No fancy rules, just the old, popular nightcup rules. Map will be random, if both teams agree you can choose another map, and it will be 2x9. Stay tuned for more cups to come as well!

The last night cup was played on Monday. Now, it is time to end the Season 3, starting to play the final stage. The best 8 players during whole competition got the ticket to this phase. Now, we want to thank you all of players, and wish good luck for the finalists. Have fun!

As support for our Counter-Strike: Source Anti-Cheat Team, we are searching for reliable and active players.

The job as an Anti-Cheat admin is no easy task, at several times it can be very stressful and you have to be up to invest time.

Consoles Sport League turns six. On the 16th of May in 2006 our league for console players went online. Since then Consoles grew and established continuously. An ambitious project evolved into the most important league for eSport on consoles in Europe. You are welcome to celebrate with us and enjoy the Consoles birthday specials.

A new week and a new schedule. This time CSS, Crossfire, Poker TH, Nexuiz und Play OK are our featured games for the next week. We hope you like the selection we made for the first week and wish you good luck for the all new VERSUS Schedule.

The 90th Cup of the hottest cup series in League of Legend takes place on Sunday. You can win 200 Euros and Riot Points and Champion Bundles. 200 Euros and Riot Points and Champion Bundles.

The 90th Cup of the hottest cup series in League of Legend takes place on Sunday. You can win 200 Euros and Riot Points and Champion Bundles.

Win 500 Euros just by playing StarCraft II! The hottest cup series continues on Wednesday with up to 512 players fighting to qualify for the 500 Euros monthly final. Sign up now and don't miss out! If you're not able to play, then sit back and watch the streams.

What can you do if you want to compete in Blizzard’s StarCraft II World Championship Series, but your nationality means you can’t enter one of the main National events? Don’t worry, because there’ll also be the Combined European National for players from other countries! The third qualifier will be held tonight, May 16th, starting at 18:00 CEST.

Having seen our most recent cups fill within just a few days of being announced, ESL is proud to announce the 16th cup of the night series!

It was the last cup. We finally got our 8 qualified. phaze won his 3rd cup during this qualifier, this time against Mustiiiiiiii. This last one get his slot into the playoffs with this second place. While CAB 3rd place wasn't good enough to qualify him.

The 3rd season of the exclusive MSN League is about to start. Win a special award and 6 months premium in total! 2 out of 4 qualifiers have been played. Here is the current state of affairs and an overview about the last possibilities to qualify.

It's time to lower our restrictions for a decent conquest team! On our jet maps like Kharg Island, Operation Firestorm and Caspian Border we will now only use 1 jet per team! Both teams are only allowed to have one jet in use at the same time. Rule punishments in this case will be handled with strict default wins and penalty points. Take a look on this news to get some information about this new rule.

On Wednesday some Admins would like to play some Counter-Strike Global Offensive VERSUS matches. Here's your chance for killing them! Shoot 'em in the face.

Right now all modes in CS:S are on decent level of players and the last experiment with bringing in 4on4 Handgun showed that you feel better with the modes that are currently in the pool. The only upset we got on the comment was to bring back other 1on1 modes than AIM. So this week, you vote for your favorite 1on1 mode to be on VERSUS!

For the last two days the best players from Poland, Belgium and the Netherlands were battling it out to find their national champions. The winners would go and participate in the European Qualifier for the StarCraft II World Championship Series.

Last Saturday the third qualifier for the German Nationals of the StarCraft II World Championship Series took place. In the end Jaxx and TLO managed to qualify. For TheLittleOne it was a special victory, which soon after led to the shaving of his by now legendary beard. The fourth qualifier will take place tomorrow, Wednesday the 16th.

The highly anticipated Diablo III launched last night and ESL TV is going to be all over it. Check out the new D3 page for all the streams, VODs and a lot more content around Blizzards new masterpiece.

We have the pleasure to present you the new Cup Series of Teeworlds.

The Cup Series will be 5 cups, fight your way to win points, the players with the most points earned from the cups, will win a cool prizes.

Now GTA-SA has been added in addition to many other games. With this new system you only need two clicks to find an opponent within seconds. It's an awesome feature!

Achtung, die Kurve is now available in VERSUS. A few months ago Achtung, die Kurve 2 got released finally supporting matches via internet. Now it is time to revive the lessons we've learned during nightly sessions playing Achtung, die Kurve at LAN parties. Start VERSUS and have the last laugh when your opponent crashes in your Kurve!

We have already seen very exciting matches in groups A-D, now groups E-H can show us their skills! Matches played in Groups E-H on playday 1 can be found in this news, along with important information about streaming and other stuff.

After the big success in the Easter Cup and the success in the First Night Cup, the Staff decided to organize another Night Cup, but this time will be played Tuesday, 22 May. Read this news for Sign-up and information

After many, many years we had to take a very difficult position, which made us very sad. The saga of football simulator, who started since Championship Manager 2003-2004 until now will end in ESL. Anyway, we hope that this decision isn't forever. However, it depends of you, player. For the next year, we need that you can get the official one to avoid what happened in this year. Without it, we won't have the love and pleasure to play Football Manager here again. Thank you very much for all of you..

Another week passed and we have seen many exciting matches. The next playday is approaching, let's see the newest special map!

Last friday night Valve published the beta version for dedicated servers for their brand new Counter-Strike game - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive! After many tests we are proudly opening Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for VERSUS.

As of now we want to offer you something new: A Weekly Cup where you can show off your skills in one chosen game. This week Booya has been chosen for our Weekly. Don't hesitate and check-in now!

We are in the Final sprint to one of our biggest events of this spring the Country Championship 2012. That's why we are announcing some extra info and rules. There are added some extra rules so make sure you read them all and don't hesitate to ask us if you are unsure of any of the rules.

Released last month, Tribes: Ascend is the highly anticipated next part in the renowned Tribes series, eight years after its predecessor and FPS classic, Tribes: Vengeance, hit stores. Today we are happy to announce the first of many competitions for Tribes: Ascend, the ESL Tribes: Ascend CTF Opening Cup.

As with most competitive titles, the ruleset to be used for competition is still to be agreed on by the community. The key question in Tribes: Ascend is: 7on7 or 8on8?

It is time again to decide a new Go4SC2 champion! The Go4SC2 April 2012 finals will be played on Monday, sixteen players fighting for the 500 Euros jackpot.

On Sunday the first matches of the playoffs were played and today we can announce the remaining four teams of the semi finals. We have a German, a Polish and two European teams left, which team do you think will win the first ESL Major Series season in Crossfire Europe?

100€ and the 2nd qualifier for the Go4BF3 Cup Final this month! Gather up your mates and prepare your vehicles, we are going to war! Sign up for the left free slots to get important qualification points for the Go4BF3 Finals with a prize money of 500€!

The Fight Club is in town we are going to start on Tuesday our next Fight Club. Only one team will survive and can enjoy the victory. This is a single elimination cup without champion bans. Set up the best tactic you can find and fight epic battles! Only one team will survive.

The Fight Club is in town we are going to start on Tuesday our next Fight Club. Only one team will survive and can enjoy the victory. This is a single elimination cup without champion bans. Set up the best tactic you can find and fight epic battles! Only one team will survive.

Trying to get up a few new teams, we will split the Night Cup for our 5on5 Infantry Mode on two days in the week. Starting on Wednesday the 23rd May at 19:30 CET with Check-in! Gather up your mates and teams to fight up next week.

Have you noticed this new section in the ESL already? The Call of Juarez is an awesome western FPS, which offers you a nice competitive gameplay. Techland provided us with 10 keys that we can give away for free, so sign up for the key raffle and maybe you will be able to join the competition soon!

Tuesday means one thing - it's the day for ESL's 2on2 Tuesday cup! Grab a friend, sign up early, spread the word and remember to check-in this evening to confirm your place. Good luck!

We've just finished AVA Demolition 5v5 Celebration Cup!! Over 40 teams battled for fame and G-Coin prizes sponsored by IJJI.COM!
We would like to thank IJJI.COM for sponsoring G-Coins, also thanks to teams and players which supported us!

The second edition of our Cup Series took place for mars, and it's time to announce the playoffs! Who are qualified for these finals ? Read on to find out all informations...

The best 8 teams of Spring League 2012 are known, so let the playoffs begin!

The Fun Cup #1 we made had the main purpose to test the ESL Features with SA-MP and make people more familiar on how things work instead of giving the official Opening Cup/Ladders without any tutorials so people would lose a lot of time trying to make things work or not even being able to play the matches at all.

This is the third Cup of our Cup Series for this month! Third chance to qualify you for the finals... Read on to find out the dates, settings.

It's time for another 2on2 AWP Cup. So take a mate and and show us your AWP-skills on monday evening. You get all needed informations in this news!

What happened to the ESL Country Championship? Nothing special - it is running! Yes, we know the coverage was not that good during the first matchweek but due to several admins who went inactive we had to restructure the admin team.

Right for the 2nd matchweek we are back! Let us have a slight view on the upcoming matches!

Night Cup Season 3 - Cup #8 wasn't played yet. So, to close and go ahead with the next stage of Night Cup Season, we need to launch the Cup #8. It will be played in this Monday @ 19.30 CET. Please, take your slot and have fun.

Here we are again. In name of section, I want to give you our apologies for the delay to draw the cup, but now we already have conditions to go ahead and start this competition. Please, check the deadline and the bracket. Good luck.

We already know what are the 10 finalists. After a very good games, they will beat for the first winner in a Season of CM0102. Who will win? Let's check the games. Good luck.

Today's the day the Country Championship 2012 will finally start! Matches played in Groups A-D on playday 1 can be found in this news, along with important information about streaming and other stuff.

The hottest cup series in StarCraft II continues. You can win 200 Euros and ranking points towards qualifying for the 500 Euros monthly final. Sign up now and don't miss out! If you're knocked out then you can sit back and enjoy the streams to see how the pros play and improve your game.

As many of you have noticed the average waiting time for VERSUS matches has increased since yesterday. "Why is that?" you may ask. We implemented some important changes in the matchmaking algorithm to ensure high quality and more even matches. The side effect is that more players are needed to be taken into account for the best possible matchup.