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April 24, 2018 01:07PM
Written by tolkienfanatic

ESEA introduce Advanced division between MDL and Main

Certain members of the community have been vocal about wanting this to happen for some time, and now their wishes have been granted.

ESEA have announced the addition of a new division to their league system, the Advanced division.

Also read: JoshRT's Prospects win ESEA Intermediate over ETHEREAL

This new division will sit between MDL and Main, and comes as an attempt by the organizer to "try and rebalance the league so that players in each division are competing against others of similar skill and commitment to CS:GO."

ESEA will be issuing invites to the league, applications for which can be filled out here.

Also read: Forty Six and 2 top ESEA Open

The organizer also made mention of the fact that top playoff teams from Main, Intermediate, and Open will qualify for the new division. Move ups were originally set to be announced today, though it is unknown if that is still the case in light of this new announcement.

The move could see the young guns of FeelsUnderAgeMan move up to the new division, since the majority of the team is still ineligible for MDL.

Also read: Atmosphere and Etherian players set to form new team

https://twitter.com/jmc_025/status/988821508771467264

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#1(With 0 replies)
April 24, 2018 01:13PM
shrek
im in it lol

love u jimmy
#2(With 0 replies)
April 24, 2018 01:19PM
cuze
MDL
ImPerium
JIM BIM
#3(With 5 replies)
April 24, 2018 02:42PM
JoshRT
I hope IM winners still get moved to MDL and not an 'advanced' division...
#4(With 2 replies)
April 24, 2018 03:04PM
agm
MDL
I think its a little silly open and IM winners have a chance at getting moved to MDL more so IM since I do believe winning open is harder than winning IM. And placing top 4 in main is harder than winning IM
#7(With 1 replies)
April 24, 2018 04:45PM
JoshRT
i used to subscribe to that premise but from game theory that's not really the case as teams started to form in IM for this exact reason in capturing the MDL spot which makes it competitive. You're also forgetting teams can apply to IM/main now so with teams thinking open is long and gruesome (8 playoff games to win) and main is competitive, they would pick IM (shorter playoffs but still no margin of error as you need to grab 1st). For example this season FGB's squad (MDL or bust), zander/lennox's squad (myRevenge), Convict/dolzy (grampzgoonsquad), and a couple teams all tried to make it work but failed. Not only that main has some leniency in that there are 4 spots up for grabs and teams like that margin.

Hell, i tried to do the IM->MDL play in season 25 and lost to the current f1racecar squad 14-16 16-14 14-16 and they're doing alright in MDL
#8(With 0 replies)
April 24, 2018 05:22PM
tolkienfanatic
Dust2 Birthday cake!
Reminder that four spots have never been guaranteed from Main, and expecting them (especially now), is a bad idea :)
#5(With 1 replies)
April 24, 2018 03:41PM
shiraz
One of the admins said the MDL moveup will be the same as last season
GL in mdl man lol
#10(With 0 replies)
April 25, 2018 12:02PM
Joe
Dust2 Birthday cake!
blnk mdl when?
#6(With 0 replies)
April 24, 2018 04:45PM
JoshRT
edit: oops meant to reply to agm #4
#9(With 0 replies)
April 25, 2018 10:38AM
sotz
interesting
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