Starting today, the Mountain Dew League Global Challenge LAN Finals are taking place at the ESL Studios in Burbank California. Over the next four days, the best teams from the European, North American, Australian and South African divisions will clash for their share of the US$50,000 prize pool as well as two safe spots for the upcoming season of ESL Pro League. <\/p>\n
Get your tickets to the MDL Global Challenge LAN Finals<\/link><\/p>\n
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\nOpening the four days of CS:GO action, the top two from Europe and North America are clashing for the vacant spots in the soon starting ESL Pro League. While the winner of those matches will earn a safe spot, the loser – as well as the third placed team – will go into relegation against the bottom teams from last season.
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\nThe matches are starting at 12:00pm PDT \/ 21:00 CET and will be played back to back.
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Who can earn the lion’s share of the US$50,000 prize pool and the two spots to ESL CS:GO 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-pro-league-csgo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","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=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom Friday on, the Challenge LAN will determine the best teams across the multiple divisions all over the world. While both the Chinese and Brazilian winners couldn’t make it to the finals due to VISA issues, Muffin Lightning – including CLG.Red’s di^ – from North America and Rouge from Europe took the remaining spots in the US$50,000 tournament.
\nGroup A<\/b>
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\nGroup B<\/b>
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\nAll three days of Challenge LAN finals will kick off at 9:00am PDT \/ 18:00 CET, with Friday seeing the opening matches up to the elimination match of Group A. Saturday will see the elimination match of Group B followed by the decider matches of both groups, before the semifinals as well as the grand final take place on Sunday.
\n<\/span>Be sure to grab one of the remaining tickets<\/link> to see the action live in Burbank or enjoy the action on ESEA TV<\/link> throughout the following days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"