SearchESL Major Series drop DotA, hoist WarCraft 3
Posted by Ghassen "MaelStroM" Soussi 1 year ago
The Green Skins are now officially back - Photo by: ESL
ESL organisation has announced a new Major Series season with a major shake-up in the disciplines covered, confirming WarCraft 3 and crossing out DotA from the list.
As the German organisation announced 2 weeks ago, WarCraft 3 has been added to the RTS titles within the 1on1 disciplines in Europe's best online league, the Major Series, brandishing a respectable 500€ prize at stake.
On the other hand, Avalon Heroes seems to have supplanted Defense of the Ancients and gets a whopping 5,000€ prize pool. ESL announced that the newly-introduced game is included as a so-called 'publisher game', which means that the developers behind the game are backing it with prize money.
The whole ESL Major Series event puts forward an attractive money-box of 16,500€ for all the games supported, though it accounts for 1,500€ less than the running season's pot.
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| It was fail anyways. |
| esl sucks |
| esl is a bunch of idiots, all write /care pls |
| /spit |
| Avalon Heroes sounds pretteh ghey |
| o...m...g... dunno what to say  |
Now they're off to destroy War3??  |
dota will die  |
| :(( |
| esl useless anyway |
| .careface inc! |
| #10 :D |
| Makes sense to remove DotA as most of the big teams didn't bother sign up for it, MYM even withdrew them selves. Isn't Avalon Heroes like the Korean version of a stand-alone-DotA? |
| oh they still had dota in EMS? didnt know that |
| /care |
| why so butthurt? i guess u r the same ppl that await every single ESL MS dota game and when it doesnt start on tiem u get fucking mad and now u flame esl as idiots the decision is 100% understandable, just take a look at the game Tribal.int/AzN today ... AzN showed up with missing players ... they couldn't play ... as a sponsor/organizer of a league i'd be pissed |
| I played Avalon Heroes, and although it has some good starting ideas the realisation is TERRIBLE. |
| @17: rly nobody cared about the ESL don't even try to say otherwise |
| #17 Maybe cuz ESL didn't pay shit for the last few seasons so they dont really care? |
| hate to say it but dota is becming a joke at pr0 level |
| source |
| sigh.................. |
| esl sux! pay out money, mb some1 Will play then :D |
| Phew! At least wc3 survives. For now... |
| bye dota i hope i never hear of you again :D |
| [x] vote WarCraft III |
| /care |
| #21 wil u xplain how exactly its becoming a joke ? |
| :ESL: |
| /care |
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| the organisers made a poll, where u can vote for a game. the most active community will get a season + 1000 $ prize money http://www.esl.eu/eu/ems/season7/poll/34477/ :))) |
| What's this warcraft 3 they're talking about? Those silly ESL organizers don't they realise warcraft 3 is a custom game of dota? |
| I do agree on the fact that dota teams in the "big league" is a joke, the players sometimes dosnt show up, other times they play whit a wrong nick, so you have to guess who it is playing. SUCKS! Anyhow, ESL sad they choose avalon heros over DOTA, lets see how it goes. Dosnt think it will pay off for them, dont even think avalon heros have the same amount of veiwers as a dota game have through stream. (can anyone name a pro avalon heros player?) |
| And anyway this means less matches for us dota fans to watch, how cool is that, no matter how much you think ESL sucks? |
| Omfg idiots! |
| It's all about money, no great games. |
| #38 what a great comment, how usefull. |
| dota will die ... :( |
| #19 #28 and others Why to invest in DotA when the coummunity don't even bother to play on ESL cups and ladders. You all want big tournaments with lots of $$$ but all of you play pubs or just flame on forums Very good decision ! |
Avalon Heroes?! Just epic....  |
| Warcraft 3: best game Warcraft 3: best e-sport dota is a joke, if you think dota requires skill then try real wc3 LOL... |
| care, esl sucks anyway, easy to navigate on their website btw! NOT... |
| #44 comparing dota to wc3 is like quakelive 1on1 vs counterstrike 5on5 |
| Edit: Deleted |
| #47 Thats why cs 1.6 > HL ? |
| wow! Amazing..,, love it GG.net |
| the simple and basic stuff that i know is that ESL didnt pay money...and thats all the efect of this decision will probably efect the viewers |
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