{"id":651,"date":"2016-11-07T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eslproleaguecsgo.eslpro.gg\/uncategorized\/2016\/11\/announcing-esl-pro-league-for-2017\/"},"modified":"2016-11-07T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:51:00","slug":"announcing-esl-pro-league-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/2016\/11\/announcing-esl-pro-league-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing ESL Pro League for 2017!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Season 4 of the ESL Pro League concluded on October 30th in Brazil with Cloud9 emerging victorious and taking home the coveted trophy. This may be it for ESL Pro League in 2016 but we are already looking forward to the next two seasons taking place next year and we are happy to announce details about those.&#xD;<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Prize pool<\/h3>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nWe are thrilled to announce that the p<b>rize pool for 2017<\/b> will be a total of <b>US$2,000,000<\/b>! This means that each season will have a prize pool of US$1,000,000. It&#8217;s a US$500,000 increase from this year.&#xD;<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">First season finals<\/h3>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll be heading to the United States of America for the finals of the first season of 2017! The best teams will travel to <b>Dallas, Texas<\/b> and battle it out in the <b>Verizon Theatre<\/b> during the first weekend of June. &#xD;<\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\">Season schedule<\/h3>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\n<b>First season<\/b>&#xD;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start: 7th of February 2017<\/li>\n<li>End: 18th of May 2017<\/li>\n<li>Finals: 1st weekend of June<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\n<b>Second season<\/b>&#xD;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start: August 2017<\/li>\n<li>End: November 2017<\/li>\n<li>Finals: December 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\n<b>Match days<\/b>&#xD;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#xD;<\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\">See you next year!<\/h2>\n<p>&#xD;<br \/>\nWe can&#8217;t wait until we kick off ESL Pro League in February next year. Until then, be sure to follow ESL CS on <link http:\/\/twitter.com\/eslcs>Twitter<\/link> and <link http:\/\/facebook.com\/eslcs>Facebook<\/link> for everything CS:GO happening at ESL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#x2019;re happy to announce the details about the next two seasons for 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-651","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\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro.eslgaming.com\/csgo\/proleague\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}