ESL is not considering a CS2 transition yet

ESL will continue to host tournaments in CSGO until further notice

In response to a Twitter inquiry, Mark Winther, Head of Counter-Strike Ecosystems at ESL, revealed that CSGO will remain the game of choice in ESL tournaments until further notice. He noted that CS2 does not have an exact launch day yet, and promised that as soon as more information becomes available, the organization will notify fans and teams immediately.

Everything will be played in CS 2?

– Michel Solon (@michelsolon) June 26, 2023

Although Valve has confirmed that CS2 Full Version will hit the servers this summer, they haven’t yet set an exact release date. This has resulted in tournament organisers, players and fans not knowing when they can expect to move to the new competition.

The BLAST Fall collections are about to start, due in two weeks, while IEM Cologne is less than a month away. It is widely assumed that both tournaments will take place on CSGO. Even though summer technically ended in September, fans expected the new game to launch earlier in the season rather than later. Since there are no recent updates from the developer, ESL and BLAST will likely continue in CS:GO until Valve decides to make the game available to the general public.

It’s been a little over a week since the start of the off-season, and the anticipation of a reboot is incredibly going through the roof. With the imminent release of CS2, many teams are rearranging their rosters, and fans are eagerly anticipating the appearance of these new lineups on the servers.