CS:GO server platform, Faceit and prominent streaming platform, Twitch, announce a partnered eSports League, boasting an aggregate $3.5 million prize pool.
The two organisations have come together to create an impressive $3.5 million eSports league, branded the Esports Championship Series (ECS). The tournament will feature a total of twenty teams, ten from Europe and ten from North America. It is also the first eSports league to offer teams co-ownership. The league will exclusively be streamed on Twitch.tv.
It has also been expressed that the organisation will be closely working with all parties involved, aiming to produce a strict code of conduct, as well as help develop and enforce "key aspects of the league, including regulatory framework, integrity, players’ welfare, holidays, and best practices to ensure synergy among the league and its participants".
Co-founder of Faceit, Michele Attisani expressed the following:
Stuart Saw, Direct of eSports strategy for Twitch, said: