After the success of season 1 of ESEA EU people have been questioning whether they will return for a second season.

Those questions have been answered today as ESEA announce the sign-ups and prize pot for the second EU season. This time around there will be an invite and open division, with 12 teams in the invite division that will be announced at a later date. The open division however is open for sign-ups for anyone in the EU although games will be played on UK hosted servers. The first 32 registered and fully paid up teams will then battle it out for the majority share of the $1,000 cash prize pot.

Teams for the invite division will be announced in the coming days and that tournament will carry a $2,000 prize pot. Registration will cost $10 per player for the invite division and $5 per player for the open division. All players must be Premium to compete in their league matches and registration will close Monday, November 30th at 22:00 CET.

Features of ESEA League Season 5 include:

- One match per week for both the invite and open divisions - Complete web match scheduling
- SMS scheduling alerts
- All matches played on our ESEA UK servers
- Protection from our industry leading anti-cheat / config locking Client
- Helpful team of handpicked paid league Admins who are active in each community
- Complete box scores and stats for EVERY match (just as we have for gathers)
- SourceTV demo downloads for every match within 5 minutes of matches finishing
- Automatic live SourceTV for every match (unlimited number of spectators)
- Automatic POV demo recording
- Automatic live irc scorebots for every match
- User prediction system for every match
- You build your permanent league record

To register click here

*UPDATE* It has been decided that the matchdays for ESEA Season 5 UK, will be Wednesday for the Open division and Sunday for the invite division. Matches will be able to be rescheduled 24 hours either side, but for now those are the match days. Also, the first few teams who sign up for the season, will receive some free premium accounts. So don't forget to sign up, with registration closing on the 30th November at 22:00CET