Season 3 2019: Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

General info

Welcome everyone, to Season 3 of CS:GO with LPL!

Sign up for Open and Amateur will open on the 29th of July!

Season 2 has been a wild ride for us so far and we’ve gone through and learnt many things. We are thrilled to bring you another season of CS:GO! We hope to further grow the community and strengthen the Divisions we are holding for a better experience for all users coming onto the platform.

We also introduced the first ever season of Female League last season and we are proud to announce that we will be bringing it back for another season! Our aim is to provide a supportive, safe and competitive environment for women of all skill levels to showcase their love and passion for esports. We hope that the Female League will encourage a growth in the number of women competing in esports whilst providing a stable and consistent platform for women to evolve their skills.

Divisions
Season 3 2019 will commence July 29 2019 (including Relegation/Promotion Series) and will conclude 17 October 2019. You can find key dates at the bottom of this thread.

Season 3 2019 will be holding the following Divisions:

Open: Top three teams will win a free month sub, free for all players to join!
Amateur: $3,000, subscription required, open for all players to join!
Evolution: $2,000, subscription required, invite only Division.
Challenger: $3,000, subscription required, invite only Division.
Pro: $5,000, subscription required, invite only Division.
Female League: See here: https://letsplay.live/event/58/

*To be invited into Evolution and above, players must qualify through the previous Division.

All players (except Open) must have an active LPL subscription, you can subscribe here: https://letsplay.live/subscription/

All players must have their steam account linked to their LPL profile. You can do so by going to your profile -> Game ID's

Format
Open: 7 week season consisting of best of one (1) matches
Amateur: 7 week season consisting of best of one (1) matches.
Evolution: 7 week season consisting of a round robin format, with a single best of three (3) to be played each week.
Challenger: 7 week season consisting of a round robin format, with two best of one’s (1) per week (Monday, Tuesday)*
Pro: 7 week season with our new double elimination format.
Female League: See here: https://letsplay.live/event/58/

*The League format may change depending on the number of signups.

New LPL PRO Format

We are extremely pleased to announce our new format for the PRO division.


Each Thursday starting from 7PM we will be bringing you two bo3's for a continuous 7 weeks until the two finalists are confirmed and will battle it out in Auckland for the prize pool and bragging rights. All games will be live on HLTV starting from week 1.

The image above briefly showcases how each week will be played and presented to you.

Prize Distribution
Amateur: 1st: $800, 2nd: $600, 3rd: $400, 4th: $400, 5-8th: $200
Evolution: 1st: $850, 2nd: $550, 3rd: $300, 4th: $300
Challenger: 1st: $1250, 2nd: $750, 3rd: $500, 4th: $500
Pro: 1st: $3000, 2nd: $1000, 3rd: $500, 4th: $500

$1 Weeklies

We want to provide a casual space for new users coming on board to the platform, they may not want to play in an Open League over a period of two months but instead they want to test the platform and that's what the $1 weeklies will provide! Teams will have a chance to earn back their entry fee by reaching the top 3 and possibly win more money!

-$1 weeklies will replace the current existing weeklies.
-Minimum 10 teams for Weeklies to happen. If this requirement is not met, the weekly will be cancelled and all entrants will be refunded automatically.
-$1 Entry Fee per Player
-Every Wednesday at 7pm AEST/AEDT starting from 14 August

Prizes:
1st - $15
2nd - $10
3rd - $5 Total
$30/week

More Information

Register

Sign up for Open and Amateur will open on the 29th of July!

Female League: Please create a Support Ticket here: https://letsplay.live/support/, leave a message of interest and include your Discord ID to be invited to the Female League Discord. LPL Admins will be in touch! (this usually takes 1-2 days).

Key Dates
Monday 29th July - Relegation/Promotion Series begin
Monday 29th July - Easy esports Anti-Cheat Must be used
Sunday 5th August - Amateur begins
Sunday 11th August - Relegation/Promotion Series end
Monday 12th August - Evolution, Challenger begin
Thursday 15th August - LPL Pro begins
Monday 16th September - Amatuer rosters lock
Monday 23rd September - Challenger, Evolution, Female rosters lock
Sunday 29th September - Amateur ends Monday 30th September - Amateur finals begin
Sunday 6th October - Evolution, Challenger, LPL PRO and Female league end
Monday 7th October - Evolution, Challenger, LPL PRO and Female league finals begin
Thursday 17th October - Evolution, Challenger, LPL PRO, Amateur, Female all finish


Anti-Cheat
The switch from MOSS to Easy Esports:

Over the past season we have been listening to everyone’s feedback over the newly appointed anti-cheat, due to this we will be discontinuing use of MOSS for our CSGO divisions and switching over to Easy esports.

“Easy™ esports is the leading third-party anti-cheat client for Counter-Strike. We are unique by being pro-active, keeping focus on countering cheat mechanisms rather than on detecting them. This way you can have peace of mind that your opponents play clean, and won't be banned only days after having ruined your stats.”

To download Easy esports all you need to do is:

Head over to: https://store.steampowered.com/app/282660/Easy_eSports/

- Install the anti-cheat client through Steam.
- Run the client.
- Start the game.

LPL Premium
This past season we have pushed hard to enforce the rules with premium, we will be continuing to enforce this rule. Use this as a reminder to always have an active subscription when joining a server.

“Over the last season, we have been extremely lenient in regards to premium for league matches due to admins giving the benefit of the doubt to all players. However, in future seasons all participants who join a match server without premium will have there team instantly disqualified. It is the opposing teams obligation to bring any rule breaches to the admins attention”

The Inject System for the upcoming FFYI

Last season we implemented a new system regarding how Injects and the FFYI will work, if you have not seen or read about it you can find it here:
https://letsplay.live/forums/thread/621339/Upcoming-FFYI-Female-League-Anti-Cheat/

“Within previous seasons you have seen us make room for Inject teams within the FFYI's, we will no longer be doing this.

We will be using a strict system that will only see a few inject teams make it through. We are doing this to help promote team longevity. Inject teams will only be pushed into a FFYI if a team already in one has died, they will still need to meet the requirements of the division. If no teams meet the requirements then a team from below will be brought up.

If you would like to sign up as an inject team, the link is here: https://www.cybergamer.com/games/csgo/relegationapp/"

On behalf of the entire LPL Admin Team, we would like to wish every team competing the best of luck for the next coming weeks. For any questions, do not hesitate to ask by either posting in the forum announcement, contacting an admin via Support Ticket. Alternatively, you can join the community Discord channel!

Many Thanks
LPL Admin Team