ESL Pro League Season 4 (shortened as EPL Season 4) was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament run by ESL. It was the fourth season of the ESL Pro League, and had an overall prize pool of $750,000 . For the first time, the Finals took place in South America - São Paulo, Brazil, from October 28 to October 30. Teams from two continents, North America and Europe competed in fourteen team leagues to attempt to qualify for the Finals. Europe's season began with FaZe Clan defeating Team X (which later formed into Heroic) and ended with Team Dignitas defeating Virtus.pro in a best of three 6th place decider. North America's season started with Cloud9 defeating Team Liquid and ended with Immortals defeating Echo Fox. In the finals, Cloud9 defeated SK Gaming 2-1 to become the ESL Pro League Season 4 Champions and take home $200,000 prize money; this upset would also mark the first time a North American won an international premier event since iBUYPOWER won ESEA Season 16 - Global Invite Division in 2014.
Maps, Directions, and Place Reviews
Format
The format was slightly different to the previous renditions of the tournament.
Each continent featured the top 11 teams from ESL Pro League Season 3, one team from the ESEA Season 21: Premier Division Qualifier, one team from the ESL Pro League Season 3 Relegation, and one team from the Wild Card Qualifier. Teams within each continent played each other twice to determine the top four qualifiers to the Finals in Brazil. There was be a total of nine weeks in this phase of the tournament. All games were played online.
Teams that placed seventh to eleventh are automatically invited to next season's ESL Pro League. 12th and 13th place are invited to Season 4's Relegation and 14th place will be placed in the ESEA Premier Season 24.
The Finals consisted of twelve teams, six from Europe and six from North America. These teams were separated into two groups. The group stage consisted of every team in each group playing against each other. The top three teams in each group moved on to the Playoffs. The knockout stages were a best of three format. All games in the Finals were played offline. The top team in each group received a bye and automatically moved onto the Semifinals. The other four teams played in the Round of Six. The winners of those two games moved on to the Semifinals, and the winner of the Semifinals moved onto the Finals.
Esl Teams Video
Teams
North America
Broadcast Talent
Host
- Tom "Tsquared" Taylor
Commentators
- Sam "DaZeD" Marine
- John "BLU" Mullen
- Jason "moses" O'Toole
Analysts
- Steve "Ryu" Rattacasa
- Erik "da_bears" Stromberg
Observers
- Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo
- DJ "Prius" Kuntz
Standings
Europe
Broadcast Talent
Host
- Alex "Machine" Richardson
Commentators
- Henry "HenryG" Greer
- Mitch "Uber" Leslie
- Lauren "Pansy" Scott
- Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett
Analyst
- Janko "YNk" Paunovi?
Observers
- Alex "Rushly" Rush
Standings
Finals
The finalized teams are shown below. Each team's world ranking for October 24, 2016 is also shown.
Broadcast Talent
Host
- Beatriz "Bia" Bauer
Desk Host
- Alex "Machine" Richardson
Commentators
- Henry "HenryG" Greer
- John "BLU" Mullen
- Jason "moses" O'Toole
- Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett
Analysts
- Chad "SPUNJ" Burchill
- Janko "YNk" Paunovi?
- Luis "peacemaker" Tadeu
Observers
- Heather "sapphiRe" Garozzo
- Davis DJ "Prius" Kuntz
- Alex "Rushly" Rush
Group Stage
Group A
1Team Liquid takes Renegades's spot in the EPL Finals due to Renegades opting out of the trip to Brazil and instead headed to play in the ELEAGUE Major 2017 Asia Minor in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.
2 Fnatic withdraw from the tournament due to personal problems
Group B
Playoffs
Bracket
Round of 6 Scores
Semifinals Scores
Finals Scores
Finals Standings
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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