ESL One Los Angeles 2020 ONLINE (Major)
Start date | Cancelled |
Prize Pool | $1,000,000 USD |
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Region | North America |
Location | Los Angeles, USA |
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The third major of the season will be taking place in Los Angeles. The prize pool will traditionally consist of $1,000,000 and 15,000 DPC points.
Match schedule
General description
The ESL One Los Angeles 2020 competition will be happening on 15-22 March at “Shrine Auditorium” in Los Angeles, the USA. 16 best teams of the modern stage will be fighting for the prize pool of $1,000,000 and 15,000 DPC points.
Prize pool
The competition got the Major status from Valve, so it has a prize pool of $1,000,000. Also the participants will share 15,000 DPC points which are necessary to get to The International 2020 directly. By the way, the champion of the tournament will provide themselves with participation in the main championship of the year.
Division of the prize pool:
- 1 place: $300,000 + 4850 DPC points
- 2 place: $160,000 + 3000 DPC points
- 3 place: $110,000 + 2100 DPC points
- 4 place: $80,000 + 1350 DPC points
- 5-6 place: $60,000 + 900 DPC points
- 7-8 place: $40,000 + 450 DPC points
- 9-12 place: $25,000 + 150 DPC points
- 13-16 place: $12,500 + 100 DPC points
Participants
In total, sixteen teams will be taking part in ESL One Los Angeles 2020. Each of them passed the qualifiers in their region while the last slot will be gained by the winner of the minor.
Distribution of the slots to the regions:
- North America - 3 slots
- Europe - 3 slots
- CIS - 2 slots
- China - 3 slots
- South America - 2 slots
- Southeast Asia - 2 slots
- Winner of the minor - 1 slot
Format
All the participants in the event will be divided into groups where they will play by the GSL format with matches up to two wins. None of the roster will leave the event in the follow-up of the group stage and the positions in the quartettes will influence only the seeding to the next stage as two best teams from each of the groups will make it to the upper bracket and the team that will fail to show their best side will pass to the lower bracket.
We are to see the double-elimination bracket at the playoff stage. There will be matches up to two wins. Only the first losers' matches will be played in the bo1 format, and as for the grand final, a team has to win three matches to raise the cup over their heads.
List of talents:
The list of talents of ESL One Los Angeles 2020 has not been announced yet and will get disclosed closer to the date of the start of the competition.