The Professional Esports Association will reportedly ban affiliated teams from playing in the ESL Pro League, a competing CS:GO league, according to a report from Slingshot's Jarek "DeKay" Lewis.

According to DeKay's report, PEA teams will not be allowed to participate in ESL's league, though the organization has allegedly offered to partner with ESL and the World Esports Association for a global finals which would see teams from various CS:GO leagues around the world competing at one tournament. DeKay's report states that WESA has declined the offer.

The report also says that various players associated with the teams involved in the PEA are unhappy with the decision. The next season of the ESL Pro League begins in February, and players signed to the seven PEA teams who attempt to play in the league would allegedly breach their contracts.

The PEA was announced in September, and is made up of: Team SoloMid, Cloud9, NRG Esports, Team Liquid, compLexity Gaming, Counter Logic Gaming and Immortals. When these teams announced the new organization, they stated that they would be running a league starting in 2017, which will have a $1 million prize pool across its first year.

At the time of the announcement, TSM's Andy "Reginald" Dinh tweeted that teams will not exclusively play in the PEA, and that the organization was working on a deal with the Esports Championship Series.

Just to be clear. We have no intention to be exclusive and are working with ECS on a multi-year agreement. — Andy Dinh (@TSMReginald) September 8, 2016

In an ECS press conference in November, CSO of FACEIT Kurt Pakendorf said that the organization saw no conflict with the PEA at the time. During the same press conference, Reginald stated that TSM is doubling their CS:GO budget for 2017.

Daniel Rosen is a news editor for theScore esports. You can follow him on Twitter.