ESL Challenger League Season 44 Europe is planned in Europe from 17.01.2023 to 26.03.2023. ESL Challenger League Season 44 Europe includes 36 CS2 (CS:GO) squads across the world vying to win the prize pool of $50,000.
This event is going to be divided into 2 parts:
- Playoffs (Europe): 17.01.2023 – 26.03.2023. 16 Teams.
- Relegation (Europe): 23.03.2023 – 26.03.2023. 16 Teams.
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ESL Challenger League Season 44 Europe, is a B-Tier tournament gathering 24 european teams that will go head-to-head, on an 50.000 dollars prize pool, and also fighting for an opportunity to secure a spot on ESL Pro League Season 18, that will take place on Malta later in August. Many other teams will also get qualified for ESL Challenger Season 45. This tournament started on January and will finish at the end of March 26th.
Out of the 24 teams playing in this tournament, SAW, Sprout, Forze, Bluejays, FTW, Endpoint, Sangal, Permitta, 9INE, Believer, Movistar Riders, K23, ECSTATIC, ex-Team Finnest and Bad News Eagles came from Season 43, 1Win, Team Falcons and Into the Bin, came from ESL Challenger League Season 43 Relegation Stage and got between first and fourth places, and LDLC and Eyeballers got into 5th and 6th places and lastly 500 and HEET got into 7th and 8th places. Apeks and Monte came from ESEA Advanced Season 43 where they got first and second places respectively. The former participants are Team Spirit, coming from Season 43, and AGO, a team that came from Season 43 Relegation.
The format from this tournament will be a double elimination bracket, which means teams will need to get 2 losses to be eliminated from the competition, a single loss will get you into the lower bracket and all matches will be BO3. Since there are 2 brackets, the upper bracket finalist will face the lower bracket finalist in the grand finals, which will be the only BO5 map, and the upper bracket finalist, who will not lose a single match in the competition until the Grand Final will get 1 map advantage, so the upper bracket finalist will only need to win 2 maps in the Grand Final, while the lower bracket finalist will need to win 3 maps in the Grand Final, the upper bracket finalist will already win 1-0 at the entrance of the last match. The winner from the Grand Final will get the biggest prize of 20.000 dollars and most importantly, secure a spot at ESL Pro League Season 18 at Malta. 16 out of the best 24 teams in this tournament will get qualified automatically for the ESL Challenger League Season 45, while the bottom 8 teams will be sent to Season 44 relegation, and still will have to fight for an opportunity to get into ESL Challenger League Season 45 Europe.
Those 8 teams will then face another 8 teams from ESEA Advanced, from third placed to tenth, and will fight on a double elimination bracket, with all matches being BO3, and 2 losses will get you out of the competition. Top 8 teams from this tournament, will be qualified for ESL Challenger League Season 45, and bottom 8 teams will go to ESEA Advanced Season 45.
