ESL Professional League Returns to Malta with 3-12 months Partnership Extension

It was introduced right now by ESL Gaming that the ESL Professional League can be returning to Malta to kick off a three-year partnership extension. Following a rocky few years that has seen the ESL Professional League transfer from pillar to publish and swap from offline to on-line, this partnership brings stability to the league. This deal will see the ESL Professional League stay in Malta till Season 20 wraps up, giving each gamers and followers an thrilling, temperate location during which to get pleasure from a massively vital CSGO league.

This partnership extension begins with ESL Professional League Season 16, which is able to begin on the thirty first of August. As the most important and longest-running CSGO league within the historical past of the sport, the ESL Professional League attracts lots of of hundreds of viewers yearly. It’s a monumental competitors, boasting an $850,000 prize pool, and till 2024, the event might be hosted in Malta, because of this partnership.

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For years, Malta has been carving out a presence within the esports trade. Whereas lots of the esports occasions hosted in Malta are on the grassroots stage, the prolonged partnership between ESL Gaming and GamingMalta is predicted to propel the nation into the limelight. In the previous few years, Malta has been the situation of alternative for the ESL Professional League on a number of events, however owing to extenuating circumstances, mainly the COVID-19 pandemic, the plans have at all times fallen via.

In March 2020, Malta’s journey bans compelled the ESL Professional League emigrate to an online-only format. There have been guarantees that Malta would then host all occasions via 2021, however once more, difficulties introduced obstructions, and this plan by no means got here to fruition. At the beginning of 2022, ESL Professional League, poised to happen in Malta, was relocated to Dusseldorf, Germany. Now, with a three-year partnership extension within the bag and no signal of any blockers surfacing, the ESL Professional League Season 16 event might be hosted in-country.

It’s an idyllic location for any occasion, and esports followers will be capable to make the most of all that the Mediterranean island has to supply.

In an announcement, Brian Kramer, Basic Supervisor of CSGO at ESL Gaming, mentioned:

‘We’ve been a proud associate of GamingMalta for the previous two years of ESL Professional League and couldn’t be happier to lastly be in Malta to host the upcoming seasons of our premier CS:GO league. Along with GamingMalta, we’re not solely providing the right surroundings for the very best groups on the earth, however we proceed to underline our core precept of making a world the place everyone can develop into someone via activations for aspiring CS:GO gamers within the area.‘

From September twenty seventh to the 2nd of October, the Playoff Stage of the ESL Professional League will happen in entrance of a stay studio viewers. In whole, it’s twenty-four of the world’s greatest CSGO groups spending twenty-six days in Malta competing for the lion’s share of the $850,000 prize pool.

It’s going to be completely unbelievable, and for followers that can’t make it to Malta, the web CSGO betting expertise is simply sitting there ready.