The newest season of ESL Premiership is set to get underway today at 17:45 BST with Coalesce versus GEEKZ and Arctic Raptors versus Heaven & Hell kicking off proceedings. ESL Premiership Spring 2023 has the potential to be one of the most competitive ESL UK events in the last ten seasons.
Endpoint are currently ten time champions and, with Owen “smooya” Butterfield and Rory “cryths” Ursell as their stand-ins, they are looking dangerous. Into the Breach, however, will be the favourites as they recently qualified for the Legends stage of the BLAST.tv Paris Major. The two UK titans are not the only competitors that should be taken seriously, as Coalesce and Viperio both have the potential to cause an upset, and find themselves in the final. This combined with the fact that there are only two “mixed” teams makes this an historic Premiership event.
Format
The group stage of the tournament will run from the 1st of May to the 25th before the playoff bracket gets underway. The games will be played in a single round robin format whereby all teams play each other in best-of-ones. After the group stages conclude the #1 teams go into the Semi-finals whilst the #2 and #3 teams are seeded into the Quarter-finals.
The playoffs will be single elimination best-of-threes up until the Grand Final, which will be a best-of-five.
Day 1 Schedule
| 18:00 – Coalesce vs GEEKZ ENERGY |
| 18:00 – Arctic Raptors vs Heaven & Hell |
| 19:00 – eMasters vs DemoDive |
| 19:00 – 7AM vs The Last Resort |
| 20:00 – Coalesce vs MadeInKettering |
| 20:00 – Endpoint CeX vs Arctic Raptors |
| 21:00 – ITB.SHUFFLE vs eMasters |
| 21:00 – Viperio vs Heaven & Hell |
Teams
Endpoint
Viperio
Into the Breach
Coalesce
GEEKZ
Arctic Raptors
7AM
The Last Resort
eMasters
DemoDive
Made In Kettering
Heaven and Hell
Prize Pool Breakdown
1st €5,500.00 + EPL Season 18 EU Conference
2nd €2,600.00
3rd – 4th €1,200.00
5th – 6th €1,000.00
7th – 8th €600.00
9th – 10th €400.00
11th –12th €250.00
Casters
Just like the teams at ESL Premiership Spring 2023 the casting crew is stacked. From Neo “Ne0Kai” Caine, who is coming off the back of casting duties at the BLAST.tv Paris Major European RMRs, to Jamie “TheEternalJay” Martin who just finished commentating at MistGames: Heroes of Lofoten 2023; the talent runs deep. Alongside the well-known casters are newcomers aiming to carve a name for themselves such as Samantha “NaoriMizuki” Timms who did a stellar job last season.
The full list of casters is:
Neo “Ne0Kai” Caine
Jamie “TheEternalJay” Martin
Harvey “Skriv” Rodgers
Samantha “NaoriMizuki” Timms
Tom “Tom Pickering” Pickering
Charlie “cmd64” Drudge
Jack “Zerpherr” Kelly
Fred “Zola” Schwefel
