2021 | |
Tournament information | |
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Sport | Counter-Strike: Global Offensive |
Location | Europe |
Dates | August 16–September 12, 2021 |
Administrator | ESL |
Format | 24 team round-robin tournament 12 team single-elimination bracket |
Teams | 24 |
Final positions | |
Champions | Natus Vincere |
Runner-up | Vitality |
MVP | Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev |
The ESL Pro League Season 14, abbreviated as EPL Season 14 and EPL XIV, was the fourteenth season of the ESL organized Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league, the ESL Pro League. Held between August 16 and September 12, 2021, as an online tournament, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Part of the ESL Pro Tour, the season's twenty-four teams competed for a US$750,000 prize pool and for 7,400 ESL Pro Tour Points (EPT), used by ESL to determine the participants of its two main events each year, in Katowice and Cologne.
Ukrainian team Natus Vincere won the league for the first time, by beating French team Vitality 3–2 in the final. For the win Natus Vincere, received US$195,000 of the prize pool and an additional US$1,000,000, by becoming the third team to complete the Intel Grand Slam. Furthermore, Navi received 1,300 EPT, with Vitality receiving 1,000. Navi's Aleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev was named the MVP.