ESL One

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Established
2014 (11 years old)

First Recorded Event
2014-03-13

Current Season
2025

Current Round
1

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ESports

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Mixed

TV Rights
Twitch

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Results
11 Apr	ESL One Raleigh 2025
09 Dec	ESL One Bangkok 2024
26 Apr	ESL One Birmingham 2024
15 Dec	ESL One Kuala Lumpur 2023
01 May	ESL One Berlin Major 2023
25 Aug	ESL One Malaysia 2022
20 May	ESL One Stockholm 2022
28 Sep	ESL One New York 2019
05 Jul	ESL One Cologne 2019
30 May	ESL One Birmingham 2019

Description

ESL One refers to premier offline tournaments across a variety of games, like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Dota 2, and are usually considered among the most prestigious events for each game. ESL One events are often selected to be part of the Valve-sponsored CS:GO Major series. The ESL Counter-Strike Majors have been: EMS One Katowice 2014, ESL One Cologne 2014, ESL One Katowice 2015, ESL One Cologne 2015, ESL One Cologne 2016, IEM Katowice 2019. ESL were originally set to host a major in Rio de Janeiro in 2020 under the ESL One brand, until the event was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. After 2020, the CS:GO event of ESL One was merged into IEM brand. As of November 2022, ESL has hosted seven of the eighteen CS:GO Major tournaments, while the last one was IEM Rio Major 2022.

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