The summer season of the ESL UK Premiership is set to kick off with an increased prize-pool and revamped format marking the new season's debut.

Last season's ESL UK Premiership saw Sam "⁠RattlesnK⁠" Gawn's XENEX win the series at the offline finals in London MCM Comic Con on May 22-24, taking home £2,500 (~$3,950) and bragging rights as the UK's best team in the ESL division.

The debut season of the ESL UK Premiership must have impressed viewers and sponsors alike, as ESL have announced a Summer Season with a significantly buffed total prize-pool of £10,000 (~$15,710), £4,000 more than last season.



RattlesnK led XENEX to win the first ESL UK Premiership

The ESL UK Summer Premiership will be broken into four stages: Qualifications, Promotions, Group Stages, and the Offline Playoffs. The final four teams of the previous season (XENEX, fm-eSports, Infused, and EZskins.com) will automatically be placed into the Group Stages for the summer season.

The new structure means that ambitious new teams must first play in one of two qualification tournaments in order to make it into the Promotions tournament stage, where they will be joined by teams that finished 5-8th in the first Premiership season. Teams that place in the grand final of each Qualification tournament advance to the Promotions stage.

The dates of the qualification tournaments are:

Monday, June 22nd (single elimination, best-of-one)

Monday, June 29th (single elimination, best-of-one)

Another innovation for the Summer Season will be the allocation of prize money each week as teams in the Group Stages fight it out in a round robin format. Teams will receive £142.86 (~$225) per match win. This sum is an approximation of £4,000 (~$6,280) allocated for the Group Stages divided by 28 matches.

The entire prize distribution of the ESL UK Premiership Summer Season is split-up and organised as follows (prize figures in British Pounds):

ESL UK Premiership Qualifications - Entry into ESL UK Premiership Promotions

ESL UK Premiership Promotions - £1,000 £200 per qualified teams £200 bonus for Promotions victor

ESL UK Premiership Group Stages - £142.86 per match win ( £4,000 total)

ESL UK Premiership Playoffs -£5,000 1. - £2,500 2. - £1,250 3-4. - £625 3-4. - £625



The whole season will once again culminate in offline finals at London MCM Comic Con, where half of the season's entire prize purse will be on offer.