Faceit Pro League: story of CS:GO challenge event
In big sports, professional athletes train at the best facilities, where club owners invest a lot of money. In eSports, it's the same: top teams live in gaming houses where employees maintain their households while they train in front of powerful computers. But what about what happens inside the game on the servers? Dota has an MMR system, but what do CS players have to do? Play regular MMR games against global elites with a 64 tickrate? And Faceit thought the same way and, in 2015, sent out a letter to pro players asking them to evaluate their idea: they suggested forming a closed league for CS players of the highest level where only two new players can qualify in a season. All players happily approved of the idea, and Faceit started to implement it.