Heroic crowned ESL Pro League Season 13 Champions: Full placements & recap ESL / DexertoESL Pro League Season 13 has wrapped up, with the original 24 teams battling until only Danish org Heroic remained standing. This Pro League has already set the scene for the rest of 2021, so here’s how it all went down. Heroic become the ESL Pro League Season 13 Champions, with a 3-2 win over Gambit. – Heroic beat FURIA 2-0 to advance to Grand Finals match vs. Gambit. – Gambit walks away with 2nd place and $85,000, plus a solid win over Astralis. – The ESL Pro League returned in style for Season 13, featuring the highest level of Counter-Strike competition to be seen anywhere. 24 of the world’s best teams fought it out for the prestigious title, $750,000 prize money, and bragging rights. After the dust settled and the Playoffs were all said and done, Heroic and cadiaN remained as the last team standing. ESL Pro League Season 13: Final placements Danish esports org Heroic have not only established themselves as the team to beat going forward into 2021, but they also took home a cool $200,000 after winning the Grand Final. Gambit will walk away with $85,000 and in third and fourth, FURIA and NiP leave with $45,000 and $50,000, respectively. ESL Pro League Season 13 playoffs: full results Friday, April 2: Round of 12 Saturday, April 3: Round of 12 Sunday, April 4: Round of 8 Thursday, April 8: Play-In Matches Friday, April 9: Quarterfinals Saturday, April 10: Semifinals Sunday, April 11: Grand Final ESL Pro League Season 13 groups: results Group A: March 8 – March 12 Monday, March 8 Tuesday, March 9 Wednesday, March 10 Thursday, March 11 Friday, March 12 Group B: March 13 – March 18 Saturday, March 13 Sunday, March 14 Monday, March 15 Wednesday, March 17 Thursday, March 18 Group C: March 19 – March 24 Friday, March 19 Saturday, March 20 Sunday, March 21 Tuesday, March 22 Wednesday, March 24 Group D: March 25 – March 29 Thursday, March 25 Friday, March 26 Saturday, March 27 Sunday, March 28 Monday, March 29 ESL Pro League Season 13 groups: final standings Group A The action started with Group A, and right from the start it was clear Heroic would be the team to beat. Despite a valiant effort from BIG on the second day of match play, Heroic would go undefeated and earn a play-in match against NiP. Group B Group B was a bit more of a toss up, with eventual first-place finishers Ninjas in Pyjamas losing on the first day to G2. NiP wouldn’t drop another match though, and will face Heroic during the play-ins. Group C Over in Group C it was all Gambit, who managed to go undefeated despite close matches against MiBR, Na’Vi, and FURIA. The latter of these two teams will join Gambit in the Playoffs, so it will be interesting to watch if they can extract some revenge for these early setbacks. Group D Finally, Group D rounded things off with a three-way race between Virtus.Pro, Team Liquid, and Astralis for the top spots. In the end it was favorites Astralis that earned their way to a Play-In match against Gambit, but VP and Liquid are still lurking in the main bracket as well. ESL Pro League Season 13: teams 24 teams from Australia to Brazil to Europe competed in ESL Pro League Season 13. IEM Katowice champions Gambit Esports were in attendance, as well as finalists Virtus.pro. However, rising CIS stars Team Spirit failed to qualify. Read More: Top 10 moments from IEM Katowice – Usual suspects like Astralis and Na’Vi will be looking to bounce back, while the new-look G2 Esports without kennyS will be one to keep your eyes on.
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