Counter Strike Amateur League

The **Counter Strike Amateur League** (often abbreviated to CSAL) is a series of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive amateur tournaments held by fr0g.

The latest edition of the tournament, Season 3, was held between January 20th, 2018 and February 11th, 2018, and saw Infinix UK beat Pragmatic eSports 2-1 in the best-of-three final.

## Season 1

Season 1 was held in late 2016, with announcements made on the organisation's Steam Group of the teams involved. The format was described as an 8-team Double Elimination

### Teams

* Team InfiniX
* Project InfiniX
* ProLex eSports
* Orient eSports
* Invidious eSports
* CooksUK
* Team Rebellium
* Fabulous Knights

Citation.

## Final positions

### 3rd-4th

Destined, Venus Esports

The second season of the CSAL started on February 24, 2017. Eight teams participated in the event which featured a group stage for the first time. InfiniX Black won the final, as they beat Immense Esports 2-0.

### Teams

* Destined
* ExA eSports
* InfiniX Black
* Immense Esports
* Purgatory.UK
* Team InfiniX
* TTH
* Venus Esports

### Results

**Group A:**

 2
 3

**Group B:**

 2
 3

###

**Play-Offs:**

Semi-Finals (best-of-three)

* Immenese Esports 2-0 Destined
* InfiniX Black 2-0 Venus Esports

Final

* Immense Esports 0-2 InfiniX Black

## Final positions

### 3rd-4th

Diversity, Fat Vikings

The third season of the CSAL started on January 20th, 2018. Eight teams participated in the event which returned to the double elimination format. Team InfiniX retained the title, after defeating Pragmatic eSports 2-1.

### Teams

* Diversity
* Fat Vikings
* InfiniX EU\*
* Infinix UK
* Pragmatic
* Rising Wolves
* Team Teqk
* Team Zenetics

\*Infinix EU started the tournament known as LF ORG.

### Results

**Round 1 (losers fall to LB Round 1):**

* Pragmatic 1-0 Team Zenetics
* Infinix EU 1-0 Fat Vikings
* Rising Wolves 0-1 Infinix UK
* Diversity 0-1 Team Teqk

**Round 2 (losers fall to LB Round 2):**

* Pragmatic 1-0 Infinix EU
* Infinix UK 1-0 Team Teqk

**Round 3 (losers fall to LB Round 4):**

* Pragmatic 1-0 Infinix UK

**Losing Round 1 (losing team eliminated):**

* Team Zenetics 0-1 Fat Vikings
* Rising Wolves 0-1 Diversity

**Losing Round 2 (losing team eliminated):**

* Team Teqk 0-1 Fat Vikings
* Infinix EU 0-1 Diversity

**Losing Round 3 (losing team eliminated):**

* Fat Vikings 0-1 Diversity

**Losing Round 4 (losing team eliminated, winner moves to final):**

* Infinix UK 1-0 Diversity

**Final:**

* Pragmatic 1-2 Infinix UK

## Season 4

The fourth season of CSAL was suggested by the organisations Twitter account on February 15th, 2018. The top four teams from Season 3 (Infinix UK, Pragmatic, Diversity, Fat Vikings), and four teams from a qualification stage (Flawless eSports, Except Esports, BTFV, Vallery 5) qualified. However, on April 8th, it was announced that several teams had dropped out. It is unclear whether the event will still continue.

The fourth season was officially confirmed on Twitter on June 25th, 2018, and will feature between 8 and 16 European teams.

## References

1. ↑ FR0G, Steam Community <https://steamcommunity.com/groups/csamateurleaguee#announcements/detail/798653837790217500>
2. ↑ Challonge.com, CSAL1 <https://csamateurleague.challonge.com/Season1>
3. ↑ CSAL, Twitter <https://twitter.com/CSAmateurLeague/status/964195974951337984>
4. ↑ CSAL, Twitter <https://twitter.com/CSAmateurLeague/status/982773487369629696>
5. ↑ CSAL, Twitter <https://twitter.com/CSAmateurLeague/status/1011129617862811648> Accessed July 01, 2018