ESL Pro League Season 17

ESL Pro League Season 17 highlights

EPL S17 remains one of the most prestigious championships on the competitive circuit. The global tournament offers participants a combined prize pool of $850,000, as well as entry to the upcoming S-Tier tournaments, IEM Cologne 2023 and BLAST World Final 2023.

The month-long event will be staged at Saint Julian's, Malta, with the deciding games taking place at the InterContinental Malta, a seating capacity of 1,700. The EPL S17 Championship itself runs from 22 February to 26 March 2023, and the tournament will feature some of today's top teams.

The backbone of the participants will be the EPL S17 partner teams who consistently compete in the series tournaments. ESL Pro League Season 17 features Astralis, BIG, Complexity Gaming, ENCE, Evil Geniuses, FaZe Clan, Fnatic, FURIA, G2 Esports, Heroic, MOUZ, Natus Vincere, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Team Liquid, Team Vitality and Movistar Riders.

Additional slots for EPL season 17 have been raffled off as part of third-party events. Teams paiN Gaming, Outsiders, Cloud9, Team Spirit, OG, Eternal Fire, SAW, forZe, ATK, MIBR, Imperial Esports, 00 Nation, Rare Atom, IHC Esports, Greyhound Gaming, Rooster made their way to the tournament through Conference Series events in Asia, Oceania, Europe, North and South America as well as ESL Challenger Series and ESL World Ranking championships.

ESL Pro League Season 17 has a unique championship format due to the large number of participants. EPL S17 uses Triple-Elimination format for group stage games.

ESL Pro League Season 17 format

ESL Pro League Season 17 tournaments have two phases. There's the classic group stage and the play-offs, but the former has a unique format.

Group stage of ESL Pro League Season 17

The group stage is played in a Triple-Elimination system, where 32 participants are divided into 4 equal groups. In each group, the teams begin their battles in the first round.

The teams that lose in the first round fall into the middle group, where they compete with one another for play-off qualification. The participants that fail to qualify in the middle draw are relegated to the bottom draw.

From the group stage, 4 teams qualify for the play-offs: 2 from the main draw and 1 each from the middle and relegation places. The total number of play-off participants is 16 teams.

ESL Pro League Season 17 play-offs

The main leg is played in a Single-Elimination format, with seeding depending on the result of the group play-offs. The winners of their respective ties advance to the quarter-finals, the teams from the "middle" seeds advance to the second round, while the remaining teams start the road to the cup in the first round of the play-offs.

All games are played to 2 wins (bo3). ESL Pro League Grand Final is played until 3 wins (bo5).

Where to watch ESL Pro League Season 17

ESL webcast EPL S17 games on their official channels on YouTube and Twitch. There's also third-party streaming partners and services.

All ESL Pro League Season 17 games can be found on EGamersWorld. Our resource offers CS:GO live score, multi-language streaming with an opportunity to choose the resource you like: official broadcast or accredited community-casters.

In addition to ESL Pro League Season 17 matches EGamersWorld offers full game statistics. Here you can find the schedule of all upcoming games, results of past games, team statistics, line-ups, live scoring and live odds.

In addition to the complete match statistics for EPL S17, EGW also has live match analyses for each game of the tournament. The forecasts for ESL Pro League matches are made by the site's in-house analysts. Registered users of the site can share their opinions as well.