{"id":679,"date":"2016-06-01T14:45:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/?p=679"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:45:01","slug":"esports-championship-series-announces-qualifying-teams-season-1-finals-sse-arena-wembley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/06\/01\/esports-championship-series-announces-qualifying-teams-season-1-finals-sse-arena-wembley\/","title":{"rendered":"Esports Championship Series Announces Qualifying Teams for Season 1 Finals at SSE Arena, Wembley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lineup of teams for the Esports Championship Series &#8211; Counter-Strike Finals have been determined after multiple rounds of intense league play, revealing a final lineup representing the top professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams from around the world. The Esports Championship Series (ECS) is the revolutionary new esports initiative launched by FACEIT with support from Twitch, with the final matches of the inaugural league, ECS &#8211; Counter-Strike, to be hosted at London\u2019s esteemed SSE Arena, Wembley on June 25-26, 2016. Tickets for the finals are available at the official <a href=\"http:\/\/wembley.csgoleague.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">event page<\/a> or through the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssearena.co.uk\/events\/detail\/esports-championship-series-counter-strike-season-1-finals\" target=\"_blank\">AXS website<\/a>. The full three days of the final, will be streamed live on FACEIT\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/faceittv\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch channel<\/a> on June 24-26, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup of teams for the ECS &#8211; Counter-Strike Finals are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>European teams:<br \/>\n\u00b7        Astralis<br \/>\n\u00b7        Fnatic<br \/>\n\u00b7        G2 esports<br \/>\n\u00b7        Ninjas in Pyjamas<\/p>\n<p>North American teams:<br \/>\n\u00b7        Cloud9<br \/>\n\u00b7        Team Liquid<br \/>\n\u00b7        Luminosity Gaming<br \/>\n\u00b7        Team Solo Mid<\/p>\n<p>ECS &#8211; Counter-Strike is the flagship league of the Esports Championship Series and is the first professional esports league to offer teams co-ownership, like many traditional professional sports leagues. ECS &#8211; Counter-Strike consists of 20 teams (10 from North America and 10 from Europe) with US$3.5M in payout for prize money and financial support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lineup of teams for the Esports Championship Series &#8211; Counter-Strike Finals have been determined after multiple rounds of intense league play, revealing a final lineup representing the top professional Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams from around the world. The Esports Championship Series (ECS) is the revolutionary new esports initiative launched by FACEIT with support from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/2016\/06\/01\/esports-championship-series-announces-qualifying-teams-season-1-finals-sse-arena-wembley\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esports-news","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamegnome.com\/esports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}