ESL Challenger League Season 45 North America is held in North America from 12.04.2023 to 27.05.2023. ESL Challenger League Season 45 North America features 21 CS:GO squads all over the globe vying for a prize pool of $50,000.
This event is going to be divided into 4 parts:
- Relegation (North America): 09.06.2023 – 12.06.2023. 8 Teams.
- Playoffs (North America): 21.05.2023 – 27.05.2023. 8 Teams.
- Group A (North America): 25.04.2023 – 18.05.2023. 8 Teams.
- Group B (North America): 13.04.2023 – 16.05.2023. 8 Teams.
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ESL Challenger League Season 45 North America is a B-Tier online north american tournament, that will take place at the beginning of April and will finish at the end of May, 16 north american teams will go head to head to pursue not only an incredible prize pool with the value of 50.000 dollars, but most importantly, the winner from this tournament, will a spot at ESL Pro League Season 18 at Malta later in August. Out of the 16 teams playing, in this tournament, 11 will come from ESL Challenger League Season 44 north america, 1 of them being the winner obviously, 4 will come from Season 44 relegation stage, and 1 will come from ESEA Advanced season 44. This tournament has 2 stages, the regular season stage and the playoffs stage.
In the regular season stage, the 16 teams will be divided in 2 groups with 8 teams each, and we will have a round robin format group stage, with all teams playing against each other one time and one time only, all matches will be BO3, which means that every single team will make 7 games. The top for teams from each of the groups will proceed right into playoffs, while the bottom 4 teams will be eliminated from the competition, meaning that we will have 8 teams at the total in the layoffs stage. As we might have some tied win rates in this group stage format, as it is very common, there are a bunch of tie breaker process points that have to be enrolled in case that happens:
- Points amassed between tied teams (mini-league)
- Map difference between tied teams
- Map wins between tied teams
- Overall map difference
- Overall map wins
- Round difference between tied teams
- Round wins between tied teams
- Overall round difference
- Overall round wins
In the playoffs stage, we will have a double elimination bracket, with all matches being BO3, and there will be second chances allowed, we will have a lower bracket, so only a second loss will get you eliminated from this competition. Since the first round will be 4 matches that means that every single team qualified from group A, 4 in total, will play against a random team that has qualified from group B, so this is how it will be done only at the first stage. Only the grand final will be a BO5 match, and it is where we will see the winner from the upper bracket final, the undefeated team from the tournament so far, facing the winner from the lower bracket final which will automatically be a team with a single loss in the competition. However, the upper bracket finalist will already have a crazy advantage, will have already a single map in advance, so they will enter this grand final winning 1-0. Usually the BO5 matches we have 2 map picks from each team plus a decider map which is left over, but here, since the upper bracket finalist will already be entering winning 1-0, there will be only 2 map picks from each team without decider map, upper bracket finalist will only need 2 maps, while the lower bracket finalist will still have to win 3 maps. The winner from the Grand Final will be crowned champion from ESL Challenger League Season 45 North America, will win a total prize of 20.000 dollars, and most importantly, secure a spot at ESL Pro League Season 18 at Malta. Keep in mind that top 10 teams from the tournament will already secure a spot at ESL Challenger League Season 46 North America starting only on July, and eleventh to fourteenth placed teams will be sent into Season 45 relegation and will still have to fight for a spot at ESL Challenger League Season 46 Europe. Bottom 2 teams, 15th and 16th will be demoted to season 46 Advanced.
