ESL has teamed up with Intel and DHL to announce a brand new $500,000 Ladies’s CSGO Circuit.
This new aggressive ecosystem goals to extend consciousness, present new alternatives, and enhance the illustration for all girls CSGO gamers.
The initiative is step one in ESL Gaming’s new #GGForAll program, following the assumption that “it’s not GG (Good Sport), till it’s GG for all,” and specializing in making gaming and esports an “inclusive, respectful and all-empowering area”.
This program will embody a number of Company Social Duty (CSR) initiatives to lower the corporate’s environmental impression, to assist in establishing an inclusive gaming group freed from discrimination, verbal abuse, bullying and extra.
The CSGO ecosystem for girls affords $500,000 throughout regional leagues, standalone occasions at DreamHack festivals and ESL Money Cups.
The brand new leagues function eight groups in each Europe and North America and a complete of $150,000 prize pool. The three finest groups from each areas, along with a South American and an Asian-Pacific staff coming from open qualifiers, will take part within the International League Finals at DreamHack Dallas (June Third-Fifth 2022) and DreamHack Winter (November Twenty fifth-Twenty seventh 2022).
Moreover, throughout DreamHack festivals, there will likely be standalone occasions which is able to, per occasion, see eight groups from all 4 areas battle over a $100,000 prize pool, equal to ESL Challenger occasions which might be a part of ESL Professional Tour. The primary occasion will happen at DreamHack Valencia on July 1st-Third 2022.
Lastly, beginning in January 2022, ESL Money Cups for girls’s groups will likely be added to ESEA, giving groups that includes a full girls’s roster the chance to compete twice a month for his or her share of a complete of $4,000 prize pool (cut up evenly between the Asian-Pacific, European, North American and South American areas).
On prime of that, ESL Gaming has dedicated to instituting a girls gamers council that can assist in defining additional particulars across the CSGO ecosystem for girls. It is going to additionally present girls with a platform for suggestions in direction of ESL Gaming and different match organisers.
ESL can even proceed to work in direction of growing the illustration of girls as broadcasting skills in addition to throughout the firm.
It is going to introduce a expertise growth program that gives choose aspiring broadcast skills the ‘ways and instruments to grow to be profitable’ and affords alternatives to solid competitions inside ESL Gaming’s CSGO ecosystem. The corporate can also be opening up further job alternatives.
“By offering an infrastructure equal to their male counterparts, we’re thrilled to create extra visibility and alternatives for girls within the esports area, in addition to to assist them of their skilled growth and to assist make their desires come true,” stated Roberta Hernandez, SVP of individuals and tradition at ESL Gaming.
“That is solely the primary a part of quite a few #GGForAll initiatives we’re at the moment engaged on and we will’t wait to inform you extra about what’s but to return.”
“By offering an infrastructure equal to their male counterparts, we’re thrilled to create extra visibility and alternatives for girls within the esports area, in addition to to assist them of their skilled growth and to assist make their desires come true.”
Roberta Hernandez, ESL
“At ESL Gaming we really consider in a world the place all people may be any person, so going again to the grassroots degree and creating an all-new ecosystem to make sure formidable girls CSGO gamers are given equal possibilities is a good step ahead,” added Brian Krämer, basic supervisor for CSGO at ESL Gaming, and Charlie Sirc, product supervisor at ESL Gaming, in a joint assertion.
“With an excellent line-up of occasions for subsequent 12 months already, we’re tremendous excited to develop this new product additional in 2022 and past.”
Different CSR initiatives launched along side the ladies’s CSGO circuit embody ESL Gaming’s not too long ago introduced efforts to offset its carbon footprint.
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Earlier this 12 months, Riot Video games introduced its personal girls’s match collection for Valorant – VCT Sport Changers, with UK org Tenstar Nova turning into back-to-back VCT Sport Changers EMEA champions.
Dom is an award-winning author who graduated from Bournemouth College with a 2:1 diploma in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller within the late ’80s, he has written for a variety of publications together with GamesTM, Nintendo Official Journal, trade publication MCV in addition to Riot Video games and others. He labored as head of content material for the British Esports Affiliation up till February 2021, when he stepped again to work full-time on Esports Information UK and as an esports guide serving to manufacturers and companies higher perceive the trade.
