ESL Gaming and EPL Partner Teams Extend Louvre Agreement until 2025

Tournament operator ESL Gaming and 15 ESL Pro League partner teams announced the extension of the Louvre Agreement until at least the end of 2025. All tournament league partners have unanimously agreed to the extension of the partnership and will continue to jointly manage the ESL Pro League.

Recall that currently fourteen organizations are partners of the ESL Pro League: Astralis, BIG, Complexity, Evil Geniuses, ENCE, FaZe Clan, Fnatic, FURIA, G2 Esports, mousesports, Natus Vincere, Ninjas in Pajamas, Team Liquid and Team Vitality. Starting in the second half of 2022, they will be joined by Heroic, which first announced its partnership with ESL Gaming at the end of last year.

Alex Inglot, ESL Pro League Commissioner: “Despite the global challenges and uncertainties of the past 24 months, I am proud that together we have created something so dynamic for the CS: GO ecosystem. within CS: GO that can have a positive impact and impact on the rest of the ecosystem. "

The Louvre Agreement was first signed in 2020, in response to the emergence of the FLASHPOINT franchise league, as well as the increasing presence of BLAST in the tournament calendar. Already last year, ESL Gaming expanded the number of participants to include Heroic, BIG and FURIA in the agreement.

The participating teams have an untouchable place in the ESL Pro League and influence the direction of the league's development. As part of the renewal of the agreement, the tournament operator and the organizations will work on new joint projects focused primarily on NFT.