ESL has released the CS:GO event calendar for the rest of 2021 and 2022.
From 2022, every tournament of the ESL Pro Tour circuit will be under the umbrella of ESL. DreamHack Open events have been renamed to ESL Challenger. ESEA Premier, the league that currently provides access to the EPL, has been renamed the ESL Challenger League.
DreamHack Open tournaments offered spots in the Master-level events of the ESL Pro Tour and were not directly tied to the EPL. Next year, all winners of ESL Challenger-level tournaments will advance to a stage called the EPL Conference, where they can qualify for the major leagues and play against the best CS:GO teams in the world. The tournament organizer will provide full details of the upcoming EPL format tomorrow.
For the remainder of 2021, there will be three ESL Pro Tour Masters and Championship events, including the final Regional Major Ranking (RMR) event, the IEM Fall, and two Challenger tournaments. ESL also reported that it is working with Valve to possibly host a CS:GO Major in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2022. The tournament was supposed to be played in 2020 but was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
ESL plans to hold six Masters tournaments for 2022, including IEM stops in Katowice, Cologne, China and the United States. There will be Challengers events and four Challenger League seasons in the USA, Spain, Australia and the Netherlands.
Here is the full schedule for the ESL Pro Tour in 2021 and 2022.
-ESL Pro Tour Masters and Championship tournaments
-IEM Autumn – September 29 – October 10
-EPL season 15 Conference – 23-28 November
-IEM Winter – December 2 – 12
-IEM Katowice – 15-27 February 2022
-EPL season 15 – 9 March – 10 April 2022
-IEM USA – May 31 – June 5, 2022
-EPL Season 16 Conference – June 14-19, 2022
-IEM Cologne – 5-17 July 2022
-EPL season 16 – 31 August – 2 October 2022
-EPL season 17 Conference – November 22-27, 2022
-IEM China – 6-11 December 2022
-ESL Pro Tour Challenger events
-DreamHack Open September – 22 – 26 September
-DreamHack Open November – 10 – 14 November
-ESL National Championship – January-May 2022
-ESL Challenger League season 40 – January 18 – April 3, 2022
-ESL Challenger 48 – 11-13 February 2022
-ESL Challenger League season 41 – April 26 – June 26, 2022
-ESL Challenger 49 – 1-3 July 2022
-ESL National Championship – August – October 2022
-ESL Challenger League season 42 – 16 August – 23 October 2022
-ESL Challenger 50 – September 2-4, 2022
-ESL Challenger 51 – 14-16 October 2022
-ESL Challenger League season 43 – October 25 – December 18, 2022