CoD4 League Premier & League Divisions

image: 2504This Spring is the inaugural season of the ESL's Call of Duty 4 League. More than 200 teams signed up to play, the top twenty-four of those teams have been placed in the Premier Division. Representing the best teams in Europe outside of the ESL Major Series they will fight for honour, pride and 3 direct slots for the next season of the ESL Major Series.

These groups are a draft, we will take into account any constructive criticism towards changing them. Remember, these divisions are not split by skill, they are all equal.

Premier Division First Draft[/i]

Group A
Netherlands SeriousGaming
Italy nightForce
Hungary Wonderful5 Gaming
Croatia Team Xeqte
Germany coldgame CoD4
Spain wNs-eSports

Group B
Sweden L2W Gaming.CyberSnipa
Europe Team regnum
Austria Ultima Ratio CoD 4
Italy Inferno eSports
Germany veXo EAS
Germany BioXar.FortKnox - CoD

Group C
United Kingdom Veritas-gaming COD4
Germany zeroPoint CoD4
Germany TBH.MSI CoD4
Poland Delta.CoD4
Hungary ancients
Sweden Vicious and Evil .CoD 4

Group D
Europe Team CoolerMaster
Spain nextlevel e-Sports
Russia Team Empire CoD4
Slovenia fragnation
France exotiC.fr
Germany ninja

The top team from each group will go through to double elimination playoffs (bo3, MR12). The second and third team from each group will go to relegation before qualifying for the playoffs. In the playoffs, the top 3 teams will earn direct slots for next season's ESL Major Series.

As several teams are still in ESL Major Series qualification these groups are almost certainly going to change in a few days.

On the waiting list to move up to the Premier Division should any of the above teams qualify for the ESL Major Series or drop out:
Finland K1ck esports club Call of Duty 4
Sweden Fly För Fan

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CoD4 League Divisions[/i]

192 teams will play in Divisions A-D. These teams will play for fun, pride, honour and a chance to win a direct slot to next season's ESL Major Series!
All teams who were not placed in the Premier Division will play in Divisions A-D - all considered to be on the same level, totally randomly placed and all are able to win the ESL Major Series slot



Each division has 48 teams who are split into 8 groups of 6 teams each. Teams will play each team in their group once, one match per week, over five weeks. Groupstage matches are one map, play all 20 rounds.

The top 2 teams from each divisions will play in their division's playoffs, that's sixteen teams, single elimination. Divisional playoff matches are best of three, first to 13 rounds.

Finally, the winner of each division will go through to the overall playoffs. Four teams, double elimination. Again, best of three, first to 13 rounds.

Don't understand? In a few days we will have a graphic that explains it all!


Schedule
Groupstage
Matches played every week from 14th April to 18th May, plus one week of catch-up

Playoffs
Top 2 teams from each group go to divisional playoffs, sixteen team single elimination, 19th May to 15th June

The wining team from each playoff will go to overall playoffs, 4 team double elimination, 16th to 29th June


Links:
Premier Division
Link to newspost on Europe ESL.eu
Comments
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Hopefully Serious finally got the hang of the game
wasnt SeriousGaming one of the best cod2 teams:D
they were, they had some lineup issues at the start of CoD4 but seem to have a stable lineup again.
Parent
Novamania will get removed as we're already playing EMS
Hmm seems to be a small mistake putting us in there...
croatia is hr not cr...
sorry, thanks
Parent
gL syc & uR :D
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