ESL Pro League Season 15 – FaZe move on to Grand Finals vs ENCE

The 15th iteration of the ESL Pro League is already underway, with 24 of the best teams in the world fighting it out for $823,000 in prize money. Here’s everything you need to know about the tournament.

• Grand Finals set for Aug 10 with FaZe taking on ENCE
• FaZe send NAVI home with 2-0 Quarterfinals win
• NIP lock in semis after defeating TL

With IEM Katowice in the rearview mirror, ESL is already hosting its next tournament, the biannual Pro League, featuring some of the best teams on the planet.

ESL Pro League 15 was initially due to be held in Malta, but the organizers decided to move the tournament to a studio location in Düsseldorf.

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With the Major cycle underway, there haven’t been many changes among top teams in recent weeks – meaning that most of the lineups are unchanged from Katowice. Two of the exceptions are MOUZ and FaZe, who had to field stand-ins in Poland due to the tournament’s health and safety protocols.

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• Schedule & results
• Prize distribution
• Qualified teams

ESL Pro League 15: Stream

All matches will be streamed live on ESL’s CS:GO Twitch channel, which we’ve embedded below for your convenience.

ESL Pro League 15: Schedule & Results

The 24 participating sides have been split into four groups of six teams, who will face off in best-of-three matches. The group winners will move on to the quarter-finals, while the second and third-placed teams will advance to the first round of the playoffs.

In the single-elimination bracket, all matches will be played in a best-of-three format with the exception of the grand final, which will be a best-of-five showdown.

Playoffs – April 5-10

R1: April 5

R1: April 6

Quarterfinals: April 7

Quarterfinals: April 8

Semifinals: April 9

Final: April 10

Group Stage (March 9 to April 3)

Group D – March 30-April 3

Day 1: March 30

Day 2: March 31

Day 3: April 1

Day 4: April 2

Day 5: April 3

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Group A – March 9-13

Day 1: March 9

Day 2: March 10

Day 3: March 11

Day 4: March 12

Day 5: March 13

Group B – March 16-20

Day 1: March 16

Day 2: March 17

Day 3: March 18

Day 4: March 19

Day 5: March 20

Group C – March 23-27

Day 1: March 23

Day 2: March 24

Day 3: March 25

Day 4: March 26

Day 5: March 27

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ESL Pro League 15: Prize distribution

ESL Pro League 15: All qualified teams

Of the 24 teams attending this ESL Pro League season, 14 were invited as part of the Louve Agreement, which was recently extended through 2025.

Four other teams booked slots through their placing in ESL’s world ranking, while the remaining six earned their way into the tournament via ESEA Premier and the EPL Conference.

Gambit will compete in the tournament under the name ‘Players’.

As Dexerto first reported, Virtus.pro’s team will attend the tournament as ‘Outsiders’ after ESL announced on March 2 that it would not allow Russian-based organizations to be represented in the tournament in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Gambit have since stated that their players will compete under a neutral name, with ESL then revealing that the team will be called ‘Players’.

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