Party hard in 2009! We are proud to present you the first EPS finals in the new year. The best teams and players from Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland will meet from 9th to 10th January in Vienna. The alps celebrate the 7th ESL Pro Series finals! 18.000 @ € prizemoney awaits those, who can stand the pressure playing infront of a full house of esport-fans.

Since 1st of January in 2009 the fourth PGL edition is held in Chengdu, China. The best Warcraft 3 and Starcraft compete for 40,000€. 16 players started in each discipline. Three tournament phases are over and eight players were eliminated in both WC3 and SC:BW. The fourth phase called Individual Knock-Out is about to start. Get the latest information here!

The Most Matches Competition (MMC) continues into the new year! See inside to find out which ladders can get you free premium for just playing and who won last month.

The new month has started and this leads us to this News, where we announce the special Game type for next week. All players of the 1on1 Ladder had the chance to vote in a poll and the result will be published in the News. Furthermore, another month of playing, playing and playing starts with the Most Matches Competition.

A very nice Cup is over and KuLSoN is the champion of the Christmas Cup Series 2009. He defeated InmORtall in the final match. The player in third place is taSla. Congratulations to all players who reached the playoffs and especially the top three ranked players!

The Christmas Cup Series Playoffs in Carom3D takes place the upcoming Tuesday, 16:00 CET. 8 Players showed their leet skills in four Qualification Cups. Find out about all the Names, the Prizes and all you need to know about the Playoffs inside this news. Good luck and have fun all Players.

Christmas is coming closer and closer. Therefore, we got a little present for you in the time between Christmas and Newyear: The Christmas Cup Series 2008. 8 Players will advanced to the Playoffs from four Qualification Cups with different gametypes. You are interested? Read the news for futher informations and join us!

A very nice Cup is over and KuLSoN is the champion of the first Special Activity Cup. He defeated InmORtall in the final match. The player in third place is Rush13. Congratulations all and a big thank you to all players for the smooth Cup without any troubles. Keep on playing regularly in the 1on1 Ladder and stay eligible for the next Activity Cup.

More than one year ago we've launched the completely revised ESL 4.0 - Redesign v2007. Since then we were by no means idly and made a lot of improvements during the past year. Your feedback from the forums and comments was and is very important to us. Now we want to invite you to the open beta of the redesign v2008.

The ESL will be starting the New Year off with a bang as we go straight into our Winter Leagues. Many top games are participating in this season's leagues and sign ups are open now, find out more inside!

Some days have passed and it's time for a new tournament. The Electronic Sports League gives you the chance to play them FOR FREE every week on random days, allowing all players with an ESL account to join, play and win nice prizes. Get all the information about this weeks tournament inside this news.

A whole day the ESL was offline due our moving from NGZ in Coburg to fast IT in Düsseldorf, but now we are back! Our IT department worked endlessly to bring you the ESL back as soon as possible and a few minutes ago they finished the job and our Webdevelopers put the ESL on again. Everything should work again and we can all start playing again.

As earlier announced, the ESL Server move is taking place tomorrow, so please take notice that all matches for tomorrow will have to be rescheduled! You will not be able to reach the page during the day, however, we will have a blog open to keep you updated on what's going on.

Some of you might have stumbled upon someone that for some reason "need" your password and/or account name. This is however obviously a trick that dishonest phishers use in attempts to get your account data for even more dishonest reasons. Therefor we would like to clarified the usual methods to protect yourself and what you have to do when it's too late.

Playing in the Carom3D 1on1 Ladder can be more than just gaining points for the ranking or leveling up the ESL Level - from time to time the most active players will be invite to play in a Special Activity Cup. Find out all about the first edition of the Cup, the participants, the prizes and much more inside this News.

Today we can announce where and when the first UK Pro Series finals will take place. This is a very exciting time for everyone involved as we are in season one of the ESL Pro Series for the United Kingdom and we are sure to see some great eSports competitive play at our first finals.