Guild Wars 2

Hey all,

Just to clarify a few misunderstandings around the GW2 section on ESL Play closing down:

" We are only talking about our #ESLPlay activities, which will end after today’s cup. "
" This does not exclude us to do any GW2 activities in the future as we had a great time with the game and the community in the past years. "

https://twitter.com/ESLGW2/status/849949931624443904
https://twitter.com/ESLGW2/status/849950170305277953

Dainank.1308:

Thank You so much!

Weird that its from an external source. ESL should seriously make their own ):

It should be available sometime soon on http://pro.eslgaming.com/gw2/proleague

Acandis.3250:

And move on to the fact that you now toss double elim out the window.
How can you possibly excuse that?

It was always the plan to do single elimination for the Monday matches, check the forum post where we announced that Saturday would be double elim: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Pro-League-Open-Qualifiers/first#post5755165

We reseeded this bracket so that the WB teams will fight vs. the LB teams as that is in our, and many others, opinion the most fair way to do things.

32 European teams and 19 North American teams played in the Pro League Open Qualifiers yesterday, after hours of play we got down to the top 8 teams from each region! On Monday, 16th November, those 8 teams will battle it out for a final spot in the Pro League. There are a total of four spots up for grabs in each regions, that means that teams just have to win one single match to secure their spot.
The action will be broadcasted live on Twitch from the ESL Studios in Leicester, England and Los Angeles, USA. The European broadcast will start at at 19:00 CET/10:00am PST and the North American broadcast which will kick off at 02:00 CET/5:00pm PST.

Prizes

• 1-4th for each region: Spot in the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League Season 1
  
  European Qualifier
• Teams: Purple Noise, Team Aggression, Celerius e-Sports, Chaotic Contingency, Pizza With Nutella, Car Crashed, We Inspire, More Guns Than Roses)
• Coverage: Brackets & Stream
• Casters: Daniel “Jebro” Littleton & Joe “Munchables” Fenny
  
  North American Qualifier
• Teams: Team PZ, ASAP Zerg, You Back In Time, Spoookie, Zero Counterplay, Auto Correct, Radioactive, Ez Pz Lemon Squeezy
• Coverage: Brackets & Stream)
• Casters: Joe “Storm” Nowasell & Christian “Heurix” Thomasser
  
  Quick Info
• Date: 16th of November
• EU Start: 19:00 CET // 10:00am PST
• NA Start: 02:00 CET // 5:00pm PST
• Coverage: Brackets EU, Brackets NA, Live Stream
• Pro League Portal
• Facebook: ESLGW2 & GuildWars2
• Twitter: ESLGW2 & GuildWars2

When the Pro League was announced one month ago it was also announced the the qualifiers would take place on the 14th. http://pro.eslgaming.com/gw2/proleague/news/arenanet-esl-launch-us-400000-esl-guild-warsR-2-pro-league/

The eight European teams that have made it through to the deciding matches on Monday have been found!

• Purple Noise
• Pizza With Nutella
• More Guns Than Roses
• Chaotic Contingency
• Celerius e-Sports
• We Inspire
• Car Crashed
• Team Aggression

Congrats to all teams! More info about the deciding matches will be released soon.

Today is the day! Please remember to submit a support ticket before or during the qualifier if you have any questions or are experiencing any kind of issues: http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/support

And please remember to check the email you have linked to your ESL account, updates and information will be sent out via email to all signed up teams during the day.

Good luck to everyone participating!

Most of these questions should be answered here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Pro-League-Open-Qualifiers-Sign-up-now/first#post5755165
If you still need some answers feel free to submit a support ticket: http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/pro-league-season-1-qualifier-europe/support

We have listened to your feedback and been looking at how we could make changes to the format but still follow our schedule and time available.

We have decided to make the Open Qualifiers on Saturday double elimination. On Saturday play will continue up until top 8. Top 8 will then be seeded into a single elimination bracket that will be played on Monday, the 4 winning teams will have secured themselves a spot in the ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League. The matches on Monday will also be broadcasted live from our UK studios on http://twitch.tv/guildwars2.

Please keep in mind that this will make the tournament on Saturday run longer than first expected, we’ll do our best to keep delays a minimum and also hope that teams will do their part to have everything run smoothly.

Good luck to all participants

Super.2749:

does the qualifier have loser bracket?

The Open Qualifier will be single elimination.

Anti.9156:

any new about how you are going to do the seeding

The plan is to use mainly the Go4 rankings but other major competitions might affect your seeding as well. More info on how the qualifiers will be seeded should be available soon.

Demus.4571:

There is an issue with the signups for NA. The site asks for an EU gameaccount even when signing up for NA qualifiers.

I’m not entirely sure why this error is occurring, please open a support ticket at http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/support so we can take a closer look at it.

EDIT: Found what was causing this error, should be fixed now.

Three weeks ago, we announced the upcoming ESL Guild Wars 2 Pro League with $200k up for grabs every season!
Four teams from each region have already secured a spot in the Pro League via the Go4GuildWars2 cups and the World Tournament Series.

The qualified teams from EU

• Orange Logo
• The Civilized Gentlemen
• Rank 55 Dragons
• Vermillion

The qualified teams from NA

• The Abjured
• Final Form
• Apex Prime
• Team Faded

Now, there are still four slots up for grabs in each region. These slots will be determined through our Open Qualifiers starting on the 14th of November!

And yes, Open Qualifiers means it’s open to literally everyone who wish to sign-up, just keep in mind that only players from: North America, South America, Oceanic countries, Japan, Taiwan, Korea can play in the North-American qualifier and only players from: Europe, Africa, Asia (excluding Japan, Taiwan, Korea) can play in the European qualifier.

The Open Pro League Qualifier Portal can be found at http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/gw2/major/pro-league-qualifiers and you can already sign-up for both the NA and the EU qualifier now!

On the 14th the Open Qualifier will run up until the top 8 teams from each region have been decided, the final 8 teams will then play off in the livestreamed Open Qualifier finals on the 16th.

Prize Pool Breakdown
Scheduled Regular Season Placement (Per Region):

• First place: $10,000, entry into Season Finals
• Second place: $9,000, entry into Season Finals
• Third place: $8,000
• Fourth place: $7,000
• Fifth place: $5,000
• Sixth place: $4,500
• Seventh place: $3,500
• Eighth place: $2,500

Season Finals (NA & EU)

• First place: $50,000
• Second place: $25,000
• Third place: $12,500
• Fourth place: $12,500

If you have any questions regarding the Pro League or the Open Qualifiers feel free to ask in this thread.

Just be patient, it’ll most likely be up on youtube in the following days

Oh and also, it wasn’t just Chaith who got the NVIDIA card, all the players got one, he was just the only one to have it handed to him on stage

Terrorsquad.4802:

• Keyboards and mice: I did notice most players were playing with a different mouse and/or keyboard compared to its partner. I don’t know if they are the player’s personal equipemnt brought from home or ArenaNet/Gamescon actually was able to deliver what the player wanted.

As referee for this event I guess I can give some insight. All players could bring their own equipment if they wanted to. Some players didn’t bring their own equipment and in that case we provided them with proper keyboards and mice.

Terrorsquad.4802:

Lan or..?: Afaik there can be DC’s in a LAN. But if I heard it right, a caster mentioned ‘internet’. Not sure if he was wrong or the Tournament is actually logged onto the internet. If they are, then that might cause (security) problems compared to 100% LAN without any internet. This might be far-fetched but a DDoS can always happen to that certain IP once its traced.

All matches happened on the live GW2 servers. Obviously ESL took security into consideration and did everything to prevent DDoS attacks or similar events. Some of the internet problems we had were actually because of our security, some new IPs had to be whitelisted for it to work. It’s still not really known what caused one of the other internet issues, whether it was ESL’s firewall or the GW2 login servers, but I can say for sure that it wasn’t a DDoS attack as that would’ve affected more than just a few players since we were all on the same network.

To people saying they should use the prize money on balancing the game, please understand that they will NEVER take money from balance and development and use it for a tournament prize pool. It’s two completely different budgets.

After investigating this case we’ve come to the conclusion that the match result for the match will stand, no rematch is needed.
By watching the VoDs from the match and comparing it with meshu.6832’s screenshots it’s clear that oRNG didn’t use any of the information that meshu.6832 was messaging to Fraelin to their advantage.
After the first match meshu.6832 was banned from the arena which means he can’t have given any information to anyone about the match during the last two games which were also the only games oRNG won. The only match where meshu.6832 allegedly helped them were also the only match they lost.

None of the teams involved in this match will be penalized.

Twitch Heroes will be penalized for playing with players not on their roster and meshu.6832 will be penalized for unsportsmanlike behaviour. Twitch Heroes will lose the right to receive any potential rewards they may have won during the tournament.

Just want everyone to know that we at ESL are already looking into the case and will write a response in this thread when we have come to a conclusion.

Ginaz.3206:

the link in the news post links to the elementalist cup instead of the engi cup

Fixed.

Lordrosicky.5813:

Because people with real lives dont want to wait around for 3 hours to play a game.

I can assure you that no one is waiting 3 hours to play one game. It would help a lot if you could give an example of a time where you’ve waited for a long time to play your match, otherwise I won’t be able to look into why this is happening.

This is tonight! 20 teams signed-up, remember it’s the first 16 teams to check-in who gets a spot!

ESL Stronghold Beta Cup

On Tuesday, ESL will host the first ever Stronghold tournament! All the action will be streamed live on Twitch at http://twitch.tv/guildwars2 casted by Jebro and Chronick, other languages will be available as well, check announcement for more info on that.

Region: EU
Date: The 2nd of June
Time: 3:30PM EDT // 12:30AM PDT // 21:30 CEST
Prizes: 2000 gems per player for first place, 800 gems per player for second place,
Spots left: 16
Info/Signups

Should be up now

The ranking should be updated tomorrow and available at: http://toolbox1.tedc.de/go4/go4guildwars2_eu/2015-05/

Don’t forget that sign-ups are open all the time up until cup start.

tichorum.2415:

there are limited spots for ESL and AG tournaments.

Just want to let you know that there’s unlimited spots in all ESL tournaments, so there’s room for all teams who’d like to participate :)

Syrius Gorn.5384:

ESL recently threatening to cut rewards if less than 8 teams register for each session …. We see that esport does not touch enough people because the number of tournaments is too small, people do not want to face the top teams.

I’d like to make it clear that this was a requirement from our sponsor, ArenaNet. We’re still hoping for as many teams to sign up as possible and hope that this requirement won’t be an issue for the amount of people who wants to sign-up for our cups.

Together with ArenaNet we’re continuing the Go4GuildWar2 series for EU & NA for another three months! There’ll still be 500 EUR/USD and 20k gems up for grabs every single week!

Read our full announcement here: http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global/news/255401

Congrats to Orange Logo for winning the EU monthly finals! NA finals coming up soon!

Lupanic.6502:

NA ESL GO4GuildWars2 Cup – on twitch/guildwars2 is only 30sec long. Is their a possiblity to see the complete recorded stream for NA cup #22 ?

You should be able to find it here: http://www.twitch.tv/drwilco/profile/past_broadcasts

So apparently my stats doesn’t reset anymore, but I didn’t get my old stats back. Any update on this? Will I ever get my stats back?

Looking for a team for today as well! Hit me uuuup

Diva.1476:

@ Eurantien.4632: 2 vs 2 sounds good to me, thanks for giving out these links. Also, I don’t think ESL is for NA peeps so I’m gonna look into Mistpedia I guess?

We host most of our tournaments on EU but we also have the Go4 series running on NA, you can check out all our tournaments here: http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/global

OzarcTheDefialer.5346:

“We have given out thousands of dollars to players” Nope.
I, as well as every other winner of a Go4 tournament, have not seen a dollar yet. I won money as far back as November and I still don’t have the money nor a date when I will receive it… ESL has been rather unprofessional in their collection of our information as well as the distribution or prize money…. Anet or ESL needs to do something to fix this…

I unfortunately only know how it happens on EU but I’ll also let our NA department know about it.
But for EU all prizemoney are paid to the team leader either via PayPal or bank transfer. All money from November & December have been paid out, so in case you haven’t gotten your prizemoney yet either talk to your team leader or please submit a support ticket at http://play.eslgaming.com/guildwars2/support

The EU cup is now live!

uberkingkong.8041:

lol, not sure but I know by looking at brackets some games are like by’s, makes me think whoever is in charge of this just assumes teams are playing regardless of asking them, but who knows.

We don’t sign anyone up for the cup without confirmation from a team member.

Another month of feirce competition from across the globe, but here we are at the Go4GuildWars2 January Monthly Finals! The action begins February 4th at 19:00 CET/1:00pm EST, with the European Monthly Final. Then prepare yourself for the North American final, which will kick off around 01:00 CET/7:00pm EST.

Good luck to all sixteen teams, and have fun competing in the Go4GuildWars2 January Monthly Finals!


Prizes

• 1st: 1000 USD/EUR
• 2nd: 300 USD/EUR
• 3-4th: 100 USD/EUR

Go4GuildWars2 January Monthly Finals Europe

• Teams: The Civilized Gentlemen, Orange Logo, Team Zip Zap Zoop, Fifty Five HP Monks, Fanatic Plush Griffons, Threesixty Noscope, Various Artists, Svanir Pushing Lord
• 1st match: Team Zip Zap Zoop vs. Orange Logo
• Coverage: Brackets & Stream
• Casters: Daniel “Jebro” Littleton & James “Kaelaris” Carrol
• German Stream: Casted by Sputti & Chronick on the Guildnews Channel
• French Stream: Casted by Waffle & Audio on FureurWebTV

Go4GuildWars2 January Monthly Finals North America

• Teams: Academy Gaming, The Abjured, Dodge or Die, Radioactive, Paradox, Ellusive, Literally Whatever, Tha Dankening
• 1st match: Ellusive vs. Radioactive
• Coverage: Brackets & Stream
• Casters: John “Blu” Mullen & Dan “EGAD” Caruso

Quick Info

• Date: 4th of February
• EU Start: 19:00 CET // 1:00pm EST
• NA Start: 01:00 CET // 7:00pm EST
• Coverage: Brackets EU, Brackets NA, Live Stream & Announcement
• Facebook: ESLGW2 & GuildWars2
• Twitter: ESLGW2 & GuildWars2

uberkingkong.8041:

Speaking of PvP youtube videos, it boggles my mind how ESL gives $400 weekly… Yet they don’t post there videos on the forums or to youtube, and if they do, its not very good advertising because I’m not and if I’m not than most people aren’t aware of it.

ArenaNet put together a great playlist with some VoDs from our Go4 series here.

Otherwise you can find most VoDs on Blu’s channel or Jebro’s channel

You can also just go on YouTube and search for “esl gw2”

Just over 2 hours till EU starts!

We’ve had an amazing month with a bunch of top tier teams competing in the weekly Go4GuildWars2 cups in December, we’ve found the top 8 of all those teams and they’re going up against each other in the December Monthly Finals!
On January 14th at 19:00 CET/1:00pm EST we are starting the Guild Wars 2 action with the European Monthly Final. The Monthly Final in North America will start around 01:00 CET/7:00pm EST. We wish all sixteen teams good luck and have fun competing in the Go4GuildWars2 December Monthly Finals!
We’re streaming the European finals live from our studios in Cologne and the North American finals live from our studios in Los Angeles.

Prizes

• 1st: 1000 USD/EUR
• 2nd: 300 USD/EUR
• 3-4th: 100 USD/EUR

Go4GuildWars2 December Monthly Finals Europe

• Teams: The Civilized Gentlemen, Cheese Mode, Pizza With Nutella, Fifty Five HP Monks, Anti Social Dragon Finishers, Focus Sauron, Various Artists, Svanir Pushing Lord
• 1st match: Anti Social Dragon Finishers vs. Svanir Pushing Lord
• Coverage: Brackets & Stream
• Casters: Daniel “Jebro” Littleton & James “Kaelaris” Carrol
• German Stream: Casted by Sputti & Chronick on the Guildnews Channel

Go4GuildWars2 December Monthly Finals North America

• Teams: Academy Gaming, The Abjured, Dodge or Die, Radioactive, Paradox, Ellusive, Gerudo
• 1st match: Paradox vs. Radioactive
• Coverage: Brackets & Stream
• Casters: John “Blu” Mullen & Dan “Frodan” Chou

Quick Info

• Date: 14th of January
• EU Start: 19:00 CET // 1:00pm EST
• NA Start: 01:00 CET // 7:00pm EST
• Coverage: Brackets EU, Brackets NA, Live Stream & Announcement
• Facebook: ESLGW2 & GuildWars2
• Twitter: ESLGW2 & GuildWars2

I’ve been soloq’ing and duoq’ing in ranked a lot lately with no problems. You have probably just gotten really unlucky.

Buuuump, this is in one hour

Need a team for the next cup! This sunday January 4th, remember that this is a chance for your team to qualify for the WTSIQ.

Playing with Team Frandly in the cup today. Feel free to hit me up next week!

EDIT: or maybe not ;o hit me up if you still need one more for tonight.

Hey all,

I’m Laaw, you might’ve seen me ingame on my characters Mr Laaaw or Legendary Laaw.
I’m currently looking to sub for any team that wants me for the NA ESL Go4 cups, due to me also being european I won’t be able to play in ALL of the cups, but should be available for the majority.

I main ranger and have around 4k (can’t really tell the exact amount since my stats were reset -.-) games played on the class, I’m able to play every ranger build currently out there but atm my main spec is power, which is of course not really preferred by a lot of people, so I’m also able to play my survival build.

I was on a solid team, Team Mister, just over a year ago, but since my team disbanded I have just been subbing for different teams every now and then in different tournaments.

Reason why I’m only looking to be a sub and not a solid player on the roster is also because of me being european, so it’s hard for me to attend to NA practice times.

Anyways, if you need one more for your pug team or solid team for one of the Go4s (or other cups for that sake) feel free to hit me up no matter what skill level.

/Laaw

Hey,

I’ve been playing PvP exclusively since betas, which means I obviously had a lot of games played, iirc it was around 4k. Though, for some reason it says I only have 14 games played now.
I’m hoping this is a bug and that my stats didn’t get reset.

This starts in 1 hour! Still time to sign-up!

Everyone will be allowed to play in all of our Go4GuildWars2 cups, we won’t add any further restrictions to the cups during the time they function as qualifiers.

EDIT: With “everyone” I mean everyone that follows our current rules/requirements

Diva.1476:

Is it only for EU people?? How come NA people can’t participate in this official event? Or I didn’t understand it correctly?

Not sure what exactly you mean with an official event, it’s an official ESL event if that’s what you mean, yes.
The GW2 section at ESL consists of two departments, NA and EU. Different people are running both departments which means we don’t necessarily host the same tournaments.