{"id":649,"date":"2017-01-12T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eslproleaguecsgo.eslpro.gg\/uncategorized\/2017\/01\/announcing-the-esl-pro-league-relegation-matches\/"},"modified":"2017-01-12T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T16:57:00","slug":"announcing-the-esl-pro-league-relegation-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/2017\/01\/announcing-the-esl-pro-league-relegation-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the ESL Pro League relegation matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 17th to 18th, we will see a total of eight teams, four European and four North American, battling out for a coveted spot in season 5 of the ESL Pro League. The winner of each matchup will be able to compete in the upcoming season with the top EU and NA teams for a prize pool of US$1,000,000.&#xD;<br \/>\nFrom the European division, we&#8217;ll see Heroic and PENTA who placed 12th and 13th respectively in season 4, as well as two teams who placed second and third in the MDL Premier League &#8211; LDLC and Rogue respectively. LDLC lost in the grand final to Team Kinguin who earned a direct slot into the ESL Pro League, while Rogue won the 3rd place match against GODSENT.&#xD;<br \/>\nFighting for the North American slots will be Selfless and Splyce (12th and 13th in season 4), joined by Rush and Luminosity. Rush lost to Team SoloMid (who earned a direct slot into the ESL Pro League) in the MDL Premier League finals, while Luminosity won the 3rd place match versus eUnited.&#xD;<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">How it&#8217;s going to happen<\/h2>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nNorth America&#xD;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17th of January at 8:00 PM EDT &#8211; Selfless vs. Luminosity<\/li>\n<li>18th of January at 8:00 PM EDT &#8211; Splyce vs. RUSH<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nEurope&#xD;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>18th of january at 6:00 PM CET &#8211; PENTA vs. LDLC<\/li>\n<li>18th of January at 9:00 PM CET &#8211; Heroic vs. Rogue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nAll of the matchups will be played in a single elimination match in best of three format with the winners either staying in or advancing to the ESL Pro League.&#xD;<br \/>\nThe matches will be streamed live on our <link http:\/\/youtube.com\/eslcs>YouTube<\/link> and <link https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/esl_csgo>Twitch<\/link> channels &#8211; be sure not to miss them!&#xD;<br \/>\nSeason 5 of the ESL Pro League kicks off next month, on February 7th, with Europe&#8217;s and North America&#8217;s best CS:GO teams engaging into several weeks of top-notch competitive action. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled on our <link http:\/\/twitter.com\/eslcs - external-link-new-window \"Opens external link in new window\">Twitter<\/link> and <link http:\/\/facebook.com\/eslcs - external-link-new-window \"Opens external link in new window\">Facebook<\/link> for all updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#x2019;t miss teams fighting for a coveted spot in the upcoming season of the ESL Pro League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"_blank"},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-esl-pro-league-csgo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}