FaZe Clan win ESL Pro League Season 15: Full recap and results

The 15th iteration of the ESL Pro League is in the books, after 24 of the best teams in the world fought it out for $823,000 in prize money. Here’s everything you need to know about the tournament.

• FaZe win ESL Pro League Season 15 with 3-1 win over ENCE
• Vertigo, Overpass, Mirage, Dust2, and Ancient in best-of-5 finals
• FaZe and ENCE advance to Grand Finals

With IEM Katowice in the rearview mirror, ESL was up next with its biannual Pro League, featuring some of the best teams on the planet.

ESL Pro League 15 was initially due to be held in Malta, until organizers decided to move the tournament to a studio location in Düsseldorf.

ELEAGUE

Karrigan and FaZe Clan proved their first place Katowice finish wasn’t a fluke.

Most of the teams were unchanged from Katowice, save for MOUZ and FaZe, who had to field stand-ins in Poland due to the tournament’s health and safety protocols.

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• Recap & results
• Prize distribution
• Qualified teams

ESL Pro League 15: Recap & Results

Faze came into ESL Pro League fresh off a first-place finish at IEM Katowice looking to put NA CS:GO back on the map in a big way. Things started out dicey though, as they barely qualified for playoffs after coming in 3rd place in Group B behind ENCE and Furia.

Once they reached the single-elimination bracket though, there was no stopping Karrigan and the boys. After a 2-1 win over Players (Gambit), FaZe would sweep Furia and NAVI 2-0 in each match.

In the finals it all came down to a best-of-five against ENCE. Despite trading the first to maps to tie it at 1-1, FaZe pulled away on Dust II and Mirage to seal the deal and walk away with the trophy.

Playoffs – April 5-10

R1: April 5

R1: April 6

Quarterfinals: April 7

Quarterfinals: April 8

Semifinals: April 9

Final: April 10

Group Stage (March 9 to April 3)

Group D – March 30-April 3

Day 1: March 30

Day 2: March 31

Day 3: April 1

Day 4: April 2

Day 5: April 3

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Group A – March 9-13

Day 1: March 9

Day 2: March 10

Day 3: March 11

Day 4: March 12

Day 5: March 13

Group B – March 16-20

Day 1: March 16

Day 2: March 17

Day 3: March 18

Day 4: March 19

Day 5: March 20

Group C – March 23-27

Day 1: March 23

Day 2: March 24

Day 3: March 25

Day 4: March 26

Day 5: March 27

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ESL Pro League 15: Prize distribution

ESL Pro League 15: All qualified teams

Of the 24 teams attending this ESL Pro League season, 14 were invited as part of the Louve Agreement, which was recently extended through 2025.

Four other teams booked slots through their placing in ESL’s world ranking, while the remaining six earned their way into the tournament via ESEA Premier and the EPL Conference.

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Gambit will compete in the tournament under the name ‘Players’.

As Dexerto first reported, Virtus.pro’s team will attend the tournament as ‘Outsiders’ after ESL announced on March 2 that it would not allow Russian-based organizations to be represented in the tournament in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Gambit have since stated that their players will compete under a neutral name, with ESL then revealing that the team will be called ‘Players’.

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