Team SoloMid, Cloud9, Team Liquid, Counter Logic Gaming, Immortals, and NRG Esports’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players have voted to participate in ESL Pro League Season 5 and not Professional Esports Association’s North American League, per the players’ representative, Scott “SirScoots” Smith.

The players have chosen to play in EPL over PEA. Six teams voted unanimously. I will be making a more detailed statement tomorrow. — Scott Smith (@SirScoots) January 5, 2017

Smith further detailed and provided rough estimation that, at least to him and the players, EPL gave the players a better chance at making more money—with PEA offering only $750,000 for one season, while EPL offers $8 million over four seasons over the next two years.

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The vote came as a result of a breakdown in communication between PEA teams and their players, initially over a decision by PEA to pull out from the European-based EPL. Team players responded in anger toward the decision, sparking controversy between some team owners and players (namely, TSM owner Andy “Reginald” Dinh and his player Sean Gares). A series of open letters precluded Gares’ eventual departure from TSM, which he had just recently joined.

PEA is believed to be withdrawing from its involvement in Counter-Strike “indefinitely,” according to Slingshot. The PEA organization was founded in September of last year, and was reportedly designed to benefit professional Counter-Strike players, offering profit sharing among other incentives. A lack of transparency between PEA and its participating players, many of which were not aware of PEA’s ESL Pro League stipulations, stirred up much of the public outcry.

Neither PEA nor ESL Pro League have responded to the latest report.