ESEA

[e][h]E-Sports Entertainment Association

Basic Information

Full name:

E-Sports Entertainment Association

Current Season:

Season 31 (6v6)

Links

History

Created:

2003

ESEA (E-Sports Entertainment Association) is an e-sports organisation located and hosted in North America and hosts 6s tournaments in Team Fortress 2. ESEA also hosts competitive teams for other games, such as Counter Strike: Source and Counter Strike: Global Offensive.

Format

The ESEA regular season consists of 16 regular season matches, played over 8 maps with one map per week. The top teams from each division participate in double-elimination playoffs to compete for the division's prize pool. Each game in the playoff bracket at ESEA LAN is played as a best-of-3-matches, while playoff games in the other divisions are single-game. Between seasons, teams may be promoted or demoted to another division based on their performance during the season.

Matches are played on a single map, with two halves of 30 minutes. Depending on the game type, the win conditions differ:

• On 5CP maps, the first half is played until the time limit runs out or one team wins 3 rounds; the second half and the match ends once the time limit runs out or one team wins 5 rounds;
• On King of the Hill maps, the first half is played until the time limit runs out or one team wins 3 rounds; the second half and the match ends once the time limit runs out or one team wins 4 rounds;
• On Attack/Defend maps, each half consists of a stopwatch round. The teams alternate between attacking and defending, such as if team A defended first, team B will be the first to defend in the next round. Each team can score one point in a half. The game ends once one of the teams reaches 2 points.
• In Capture the Flag, the times of each half are only 20 minutes long and has no capture limit. The team with the highest amount of captures by the end of the second half wins the round.

Divisions

Within the TF2 league, there are four divisions:

• ESEA-I (Invite)
• ESEA-M (Main) (only during Season 15)
• ESEA-IM (Intermediate)
• ESEA-O (Open)

The Invite division currently hosts the highest level of 6v6 competition in North America. Although ESEA is hosted in North America, players from other continents are allowed to participate in any of the divisions. At the end of each season the top teams from the Invite division participate in a LAN event to compete for the Invite prize pool.

After the ESEA S18 LAN Finals, ESEA announced that they would no longer be hosting LAN Finals for TF2, relegating the post-season to online playoffs.

Hall of Fame

ESEA Invite

Season	Winner
ESEA-I Season 3	Blight
ESEA-I Season 4	Loaded
ESEA-I Season 5	compLexity
ESEA-I Season 6	Blight-own
ESEA-I Season 7	eMazing Gaming
ESEA-I Season 8	CheckSix Gaming (undefeated)
ESEA-I Season 9	eMazing Gaming / Dashner
ESEA-I Season 10	Classic Mixup
ESEA-I Season 11	Leviathan Gaming
ESEA-I Season 12	Classic Mixup (undefeated)
ESEA-I Season 13	High Rollers Gaming
ESEA-I Season 14	High Rollers Gaming
ESEA-I Season 15	Classic Mixup
ESEA-I Season 16	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 17	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 18	froyotech (undefeated)
ESEA-I Season 19	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 20	Ascent
ESEA-I Season 21	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 22	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 23	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 24	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 25	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 26	froyotech (undefeated)
ESEA-I Season 27	froyotech (undefeated)
ESEA-I Season 28	froyotech (undefeated)
ESEA-I Season 29	froyotech
ESEA-I Season 30	froyotech (undefeated)

ESEA Intermediate

Season	Winner
Season 7	Harmonic (invite is hard)
Season 8	iDEMISE TF2
Season 9	High Rollers Gaming
Season 10	The Dinosaurs (Pinball Wizards)
Season 11	The Mad Men (No Need for Names)
Season 12	SteveCGames (Apocalypse Gaming)
Season 13	The Mad Men
Season 14	Chill to Good Ratio
Season 15	Tonight's Entertainment
Season 16	Meat Market
Season 17	Cisco Adlers Balls
Season 18	cafe monster
Season 19	Getawhale Fanclub
Season 20	Not Fast Food
Season 21	eL cLaSslcO
Season 22	dead babies mad gunz
Season 23	running without scizors
Season 24	running without scizors
Season 25	†
Season 26	†
Season 27	mr_popo_rocks
Season 28	OMNI5 ESports
Season 29	Frankensteins Roster

†ESEA Intermediate was not run during ESEA seasons 25 and 26.

ESEA Open

Season	Winner
Season 2	Loaded!
Season 3	Harmonic
Season 4	Tool Academy Grads
Season 5	Leviathan Gaming
Season 6	Nexzil Gaming
Season 7	TEAM EXPLOSION
Season 8	Avoided
Season 9	Team Bad v2
Season 10	Team iT
Season 11	Down to Pound
Season 12	Disposable Heroes
Season 13	The Crunchy Bunch
Season 14	The Italian Stallions
Season 15	Budsquad
Season 16	Arizona Iced Out Boys
Season 17	Mad Luxurious
Season 18	Muffin Men
Season 19	6cuties
Season 20	Ed Head
Season 21	Wood Pig Black
Season 22	stewy business
Season 23	1eL cLaSsIcO
Season 24	eL cLaSsIcO
Season 25	mr_popo_rocks
Season 26	Gods of Destruction
Season 27	The Midnight Society
Season 28	HLPugs tf
Season 29	MrPoPos Newbie Mix

Fees and Prices

To participate in ESEA, all players are required to pay a league fee and subscribe to ESEA Premium. The league fees are as follows:

• Invite: $39.95 USD
• Intermediate: $14.95 USD
• Open: No longer requires a fee for participation, only needs ESEA Premium.

The cost of Premium varies depending on the length of the subscription and the tier purchased.

External Links

• Official ESEA website
• ESEA TF2 rules
• A Beginner's Guide to ESEA by tetromino