ESL Pro Series Rulebook ESL Pro Series UK Season II Rulebook

The bullet points laid out below are guidelines to the rules you must follow when competing in the EPS. It is important that you read over the full EPS Rulebook in order to avoid being penalized.

Wildcards

Wildcards can be drawn at any time before the start of match.

between 48 and 24 hours before the match start: one (1) minor penalty

between 24 and 2 hours before the match start: two (2) minor penalties

Less than 2 hours before the match start: three (3) minor penalties

To use a wildcard, you MUST create a protest by going to Open Matches->Enter Result->Scroll down and click 'Write a Match Protest'. (If you wildcard an ESL TV scheduled match, we may add more penalty points.)

Match Procedure

Pre-match statement MUST be entered 7days - 24hours before the game begins. This is submitted as a match report, not in the match comments.

The lineup for the match MUST be entered no later than 24hours before the game begins.

If your game is being broadcasted by ESL TV we require both teams to be available 30 minutes before the scheduled start time. You are also required to be on the server, ready to begin, 15 minutes before the schedule start time.

Immediately fill in and accept the score after the match has finished.

Each team needs to upload at-least 2 in-eye demos within 24 hours, renamed to: Demo-Tag-Nickname

Post-match statement MUST be entered within 30minutes of the game finishing. (Make sure not to delete pre-match statement by accident)

Upload all Aequitas-created files within 24 hours of the match finishing.

Screenshots of SteamIDs/PBGUIDs MUST be uploaded, by the server administrator, immediately after the match.

Screenshots of the scores at the end of each half MUST be uploaded immediately after the match.

You MUST use the nickname that is on your ESL profile.

Aequitas Anti-Cheat (CS:S & CoD4)

Aequitas, ESL's very own anti-cheat client is required by everyone in Counter-Strike: Source and Call of Duty 4 matches.