Tournament duration
11 March – 24 May Regular Season,
6 – 9 June Finals
6 – 9 June Finals
Total Prize Pool
$ 750,000
$ 500,000 for Finals
$ 250,000 for Regular Season
The SSE Arena, Wembley
Arena Square, Engineers Way,
London HA9 0AA
London HA9 0AA
Regular Season
Online Series
We've made some changes for this ECS season.
Goodbye low-stakes matches. Hello BO3 knockout series.
EU Season 7 Teams
NA Season 7 Teams
Open Qualifiers
Enter the ECS Open Qualifiers from 16–28 February for 4 single elimination tournaments, each with 2 slots for the Challenger Cup. This is your chance to compete against the greatest teams in CS:GO! Enter your team now!
Challenger Cup
In the Challenger Cup 16 teams (8 qualified, 8 invited) will fight it out in a BO3 Swiss tournament from 5–7 March to determine their Challenger Cup rankings. These rankings will be used to determine who fills the open slots in the ECS regular season brackets.
Regular Season
The ECS regular season consists of five online series eight-team single elimination brackets per region.
Top eight teams from ECS Season 6 will have priority slots for each series. Any open slots will be filled by the ECS Season 6 ninth and tenth placed teams and the Challenger Teams.
The winners of the first three series will qualify automatically for the ECS Season 7 Finals. The remaining two slots will be given to the top earning team from each region in prize pool across the whole regular season. Teams already qualified will not be counted.
Each series will have a weekly $25,000 prize pool, totalling $250,000 for the regular season.
Each series will take place over 4 days, with each knockout game being a BO3 single elimination tie.
Schedule per region
- Day 1: 4x BO3 Quarter-Finals (8 teams)
- Day 2: 1x BO3 Semi-Final (2 teams)
- Day 3: 1x BO3 Semi-Final (2 teams)
- Day 4: 1x BO3 Final (2 teams)
Qualification for the Finals per region:
EU/NA winning team of the First Series
EU/NA winning team of the Second Series
EU/NA winning team of the Third Series
EU/NA team with the most money from the regular season
EU Series Dates
11 – 14
March
March
18 – 21
March
March
25 – 28
April
April
13 – 16
May
May
21 – 24
May
May
NA Series Dates
11 – 14
March
March
18 – 21
March
March
25 – 28
April
April
13 – 16
May
May
21 – 24
May
May
Weekly Prize Pool
First place
$ 12,000
+ a place in the finals for the first 3 series winner
Second place
$ 5,000
3rd/4th place
$ 2,500
3rd/4th place
$ 2,500
5th/8th place
$ 750
5th/8th place
$ 750
5th/8th place
$ 750
5th/8th place
$ 750
Finals
Grand Finals
The SSE Arena, Wembley
6 – 9 June 2019
Winners of EU Series 1
HiddenAstralis
Winners of NA Series 1
HiddencompLexity Gaming
Winners of EU Series 2
HiddenNorth
Winners of NA Series 2
HiddenNRG eSports
Winners of EU Series 3
TBD
Winners of NA Series 3
TBD
Highest earning EU team
TBD
Highest earning NA team
TBD
The ECS Season 7 Grand Finals will take place at The SSE Arena, Wembley in London. The four-day finals will be two GSL groups, with the top four teams entering a knockout bracket to determine the champion for this season of ECS.