Players furious as ESL Impact removes slots for North and South America ESLESL Impact, the women\u2019s league for CS2 esports, has announced its 2024 schedule and roadmap which includes fewer spots for the Americas. ESL Impact announced its 2024 roadmap on November 30, 2023, which included the schedule for domestic tournaments and international LAN events. The announcement features adjustments in regional slots for season finals to \u201censure that the best talent is given the opportunity to compete at top-tier events.\u201d The Tournament Organizer has also reallocated slots to regions with higher participation rates. Consequently, North and South America will have fewer slots at international events next year. At both Season 5 Dallas and Season 6 Stockholm the two regions will only have three slots combined. This has caused much outrage from the North and South American CS2 communities as they have called on ESL to revert the decision. ESL Impact reduced slots for NA and SA in 2024 Multiple prominent North American players and community members have called out ESL for the slot distribution changes, saying the move makes no sense. \u201cIn my 14+ years competing in 1.6, CSGO, and now CS2\u2026. this is historically the most NA women teams we have EVER seen. To remove 1 NA slot now when the scene is thriving makes absolutely no sense, and will only hurt it in the future. Please reconsider this decision,\u201d Counter-Strike veteran Emmalee \u2018EMUHLEET\u2019 Garrido said on social media. Others said the organizer should\u2019ve kept the same amount of slots for North and South America, and instead just added more slots to Europe. \u201cAll for more slots where the strongest teams are, but feel it should just be a larger event rather than taking slots from other regions,\u201d caster Lucy \u2018LucyLuce\u2019 Eastwood said. Evil Geniuses Gold player Vanessa \u201cvanessa\u201d Gideon pointed out that this move will further hobble the growth of the women\u2019s scene in CS2, just as it had started to rebound. \u201cDamn, y\u2019all want NA to die in both scenes so bad lol. I was a brand new player who broke into competing for the first time because of Impact, just like many teams\/players that exist now. The majority of NA teams are busy playing catch up in skill and experience just to be shut down,\u201d she said. Whether this outrage will change ESL\u2019s mind about its slot distribution has yet to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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