ESL Pro League Season 4

ESL Pro League
2016
Tournament information
SportCounter-Strike: Global Offensive
LocationSão Paulo, Brazil
DatesAugust 17, 2016–October 30, 2016
AdministratorElectronic Sports League (ESL)
Teams28 teams
PurseUS$750,000
Final positions
ChampionsCloud9
1st runners-upSK Gaming
2nd runners-upmousesports
Ninjas in Pyjamas
MVPTimothy "autimatic" Ta [1]

ESL Pro League Season 4 (shortened as EPL Season 4) was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament run by ESL. It was the fourth season of the ESL Pro League, and had an overall prize pool of $750,000 . For the first time, the Finals took place in South America – São Paulo, Brazil, from October 28 to October 30.[2] Teams from two continents, North America and Europe competed in fourteen team leagues to attempt to qualify for the Finals.[3] Europe's season began with FaZe Clan defeating Team X (which later formed into Heroic) and ended with Team Dignitas defeating Virtus.pro in a best of three 6th place decider. North America's season started with Cloud9 defeating Team Liquid and ended with Immortals defeating Echo Fox. In the finals, Cloud9 defeated SK Gaming 2–1 to become the ESL Pro League Season 4 Champions and take home $200,000 prize money; this upset would also mark the first time a North American won an international premier event since iBUYPOWER won ESEA Season 16 - Global Invite Division in 2014.[4]

  1. ^ "Video: Autimatic - MVP of PL S4 Finals".
  2. ^ http://en.pro.eslgaming.com/csgo/proleague/news/the-us-750k-esl-csgo-pro-league-season-4-finals-are-coming-to-brazil/
  3. ^ ESL. "ESL CS:GO Pro League". en.pro.eslgaming.com. Retrieved 2016-11-29.
  4. ^ ESL. "ESL CS:GO Pro League". en.pro.eslgaming.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-30. Retrieved 2016-11-29.