Tournament organizer reportedly delays league until CS2s release

ESEA, a known third-party matchmaking service and tournament organizer in CS:GO, is pushing back the start of its next competitive season to wait for the worldwide release of CS2, according to one of its admins.

The news was first spotted by HLTV’s vertical Dust2.us. Each ESEA season includes tournaments for different levels of competition—Open, Intermediate, Main, Advanced, and ESL Challenger League (ECL). Smaller and grassroots teams can theoretically grind all the way from Open to ECL, in which they can qualify for the almighty ESL Pro League, a circuit featuring almost every top CS team in the world.