A new month, a new ESL Wire Version. This release doesn't add a lot of new features, but holds a very important change, which caused a lot of work "behind the scenes". For most of the current ESL Wire user, not much will change.

Only with the help of Intel and Dell the first ESL Pro Series Finals came into the world. From 13th to 15th December the ESL Pro Series Finals we're held at Future Point, a regional Internet Café in Cologne. The best German teams met there first time in history and played on the very first official tournament system from Dell to determinate the German champion.

The Most Matches Competition for February has finished and the next month has begun. You may ask: "Who played the most matches in my favourite ladder?" or "Which ladders are in the MMC this month?" Read the whole news and you will find the answers to both of these questions!

The Electronic Sports League will distribute more than 700,000 Euro in 2010. With the new ESL Pro Series editions in Europe, the next season of the ASUS European Nations Championship and Intel Extreme Masters IV, the total prize money of the year 2010 will amount to much more than a half million Euro.

Two weeks ago the ESL Video Feature was set offline. Now there have been some changes and you can start using it once more. We hope that you will have lots of fun with this feature!

Only with the help of Intel and Dell the first ESL Pro Series Finals came into the world. Eight years later we're very happy to welcome back the combined power of these partners. Therefore we retrospect our history and present you the tournament system of the very first ESL Pro Series finals. Guess what! It was a Dell! A Dell Dimension 8100 to be exact.

Yes, it's that time of the year again: We proudly announce our newest raffle in cooperation with the main sponsor of the Consoles Sports League's EU section, Bigben Interactive. Something is new though - instead of the usual hardware bundles, we're giving away five 4in1 Racing Seats for your console. Enhance your racing experience at home by winning one of the Bigben 4in1 racing seats!

Today we are proud to present Dell and Intel as sponsors of the ESL Pro Series. The engagement contains sponsoring activities for ESL Germany, France, United Kingdom, Alps, BeNeLux, as well as Scandinavia. Several appearances at trade shows like the gamescom in Cologne, the MCM Expo in London, the Festival de Jeux Video in Paris and the CeBIT in Hannover are planned.