ESL Academy coaches list announced
Ihor MatusESL told that the following notorious four players from the world of Dota 2 will mentor students of the new eSports Academy:
- Jonathan 'Loda' Berg
- Per Anders 'Pajkatt' Olsen Lille
- Du Yong 'DuBu' Kim
- Jimmy 'DeMoN' Ho
ESL Academy is an academy that aims to help find talented players among the lower ranks and bring them to the professional stage. All online matches of the academy will be held on the reach.gg platform, which will help to conduct detailed statistics and based on it make a player rating.
During the third minor, ESL One Los Angeles 2020, the coaches will choose five players each from the list of the best forty representatives of the reach.gg platform. After that, they, together with their wards, will go to the bootcamp and conduct a full-fledged training session, which will last until the start of ESL One Birmingham 2020. At the Birmingham Championship, ESL Academy participants will make their debut in the big arena. A large prize pool will be drawn at the LAN finals. According to ESL announcements in the Academy announcement, a prize pool of $ 240,000 will be raffled off among the group members.