Total prizepool for ESL & DreamHack exceeds $5 million in 2020

ESL and DreamHack have announced the ESL Pro Tour, a series of tournaments in 2020 with a total prize pool of more than $5 million, which will be split into Challenger and Masters categories: DreamHack Open, ESEA MDL and ESL National Championships will serve as a platform to enter the higher level tournaments - ESL One, IEM, DreamHack Masters and the ESL Pro League.

Based on the results of the ESL Pro Tour Masters-Tournaments, participants will earn points in the special rating. The strongest teams will be invited to the main championships of the series - IEM Katowice 2020 and ESL One Cologne 2020.

Current ESL Pro Tour schedule:

24-26 January - DreamHack Open Leipzig 2020 (Challenger)
21-23 February - DreamHack Open Anaheim 2020 (Challenger)
February - IEM Katowice 2020 (Masters Championship)
17-19 April - Masters-Tournament
June 9-14 - Masters-Tournament
June 23-28 - Master Tournament
July 2-4 - Challenger Tournament
July - ESL One Cologne 2020 (Masters Championship)
August 18-23 - Masters-Tournament
September 11-13 - Challenger Tournament
9-11 October - Masters-Tournament
October - Challenger Tournament
November - Master Tournament
November 27-29 - Challenger Tournament
December - Masters-Tournament