AGO qualify for ESL Pro League Season 12

AGO beat Sprout to win ESEA MDL Season 33 Europe Finals and qualify for ESL Pro League Season 12, rounding out the list of 24 teams participating in the league.

The Polish side won the league over five months following their qualification for the playoffs, which were meant to take place on LAN at the Global Challenge earlier this year but ended up postponed to August amid the pandemic.

On the way to the title, AGO lost their opening bout with Sprout in the upper bracket final and went on to beat the only other attendant, Galaxy Racer, to go up against the German-majority side in the grand final. There, despite an automatic map disadvantage Damian "⁠Furlan⁠" Kislowski's side swept Sprout with relative ease on the back of big performances from the team's young duo, Miłosz "⁠mhL⁠" Knasiak and Maciej "⁠F1KU⁠" Miklas.

AGO finalize the Pro League team list

In early June, the organizers revealed that the twelvth season of ESL Pro League would begin in September and shared that it would be hosted in a studio setting if the players were able to travel safely without larger restrictions by the time the league kicked off.

However, with travel still being complicated, especially between the United States and Europe, and just over two weeks to go, it's expected that the league will be held online once again and divided into five regions: Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania, and South America.

As things stand, the following 24 teams have a spot in ESL Pro League Season 12:

BIG
Evil Geniuses
G2
Complexity
Liquid
Ninjas in Pyjamas
Astralis
Spirit
AGO
Triumph
ORDER
Isurus Vitality
Natus Vincere
FURIA
fnatic
FaZe
MOUZ
100 Thieves
ENCE
TYLOO
Renegades
BOOM
Sharks Renegades #57 Simon 'Sico' WilliamsChristopher 'dexter' NongJoshua 'INS' PotterJordan 'Hatz' BajicLiam 'malta' Schembri Evil Geniuses #3 Peter 'stanislaw' JarguzTarik 'tarik' CelikVincent 'Brehze' CayonteEthan 'Ethan' ArnoldTsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov Astralis #17 Peter 'dupreeh' RasmussenNicolai 'device' ReedtzPatrick 'es3tag' HansenEmil 'Magisk' ReifLucas 'Bubzkji' Andersen 100 Thieves #18 Justin 'jks' SavageAaron 'AZR' WardJoakim 'jkaem' MyrbostadSean 'Gratisfaction' KaiwaiJay 'Liazz' Tregillgas Damian 'Furlan' Kislowski Age: 25 Team: AGO Rating 1.0: 1.01 Maps played: 1645 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.69 Liquid #9 Keith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJake 'Stewie2K' YipRussel 'Twistzz' Van DulkenMichael 'Grim' Wince Complexity #7 William 'RUSH' WierzbaKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckeValentin 'poizon' VasilevOwen 'oBo' SchlatterBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer Miłosz 'mhL' Knasiak Age: 18 Team: AGO Rating 1.0: 1.14 Maps played: 280 KPR: 0.77 DPR: 0.63 Sprout #40 Timo 'Spiidi' RichterDenis 'denis' HowellMichał 'snatchie' RudzkiJosef 'faveN' BaumannPaweł 'dycha' Dycha Natus Vincere #4 Egor 'flamie' VasilyevOleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovIlya 'Perfecto' Zalutskiy Vitality #2 Richard 'shox' PapillonCédric 'RpK' GuipouyDan 'apEX' MadesclaireMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautKévin 'misutaaa' Rabier Isurus #106 Nicolás 'Noktse' DávilaRoberto 'reversive' ThemthamCaike 'caike' CostaGabriel '1962' SinopoliMarcos 'deco' Amato G2 #5 Audric 'JACKZ' JugNemanja 'huNter-' KovačKenny 'kennyS' SchrubFrançois 'amanek' DelaunayNemanja 'nexa' Isaković ENCE #21 Aleksi 'allu' JalliJani 'Aerial' JussilaMiikka 'suNny' KemppiJere 'sergej' SaloElias 'Jamppi' Olkkonen ORDER #66 Ricardo 'Rickeh' MulhollandKarlo 'USTILO' PivacAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJireh 'J1rah' YouakimMatthew 'Valiance' Hartrick FaZe #10 Nikola 'NiKo' KovačHåvard 'rain' NygaardMarkus 'Kjaerbye' KjærbyeMarcelo 'coldzera' DavidHelvijs 'broky' Saukants fnatic #8 Robin 'flusha' RönnquistJesper 'JW' WecksellFreddy 'KRIMZ' JohanssonMaikil 'Golden' SelimLudvig 'Brollan' Brolin Maciej 'F1KU' Miklas Age: 17 Team: AGO Rating 1.0: 1.03 Maps played: 143 KPR: 0.70 DPR: 0.67 Ninjas in Pyjamas #13 Simon 'twist' EliassonFredrik 'REZ' SternerHampus 'hampus' PoserTim 'nawwk' JonassonNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez Zamora Galaxy Racer #65 Fredrik 'FREDDyFROG' GustafssonJoakim 'Relaxa' GustafssonNiclas 'PlesseN' PlessenSimon 'tabz' FeldtAdam 'dezon' Wahlqvist AGO #38 Oskar 'oskarish' StenborowskiDamian 'Furlan' KislowskiDominik 'GruBy' SwiderskiMiłosz 'mhL' KnasiakMaciej 'F1KU' Miklas MOUZ #14 Finn 'karrigan' AndersenChris 'chrisJ' de JongÖzgür 'woxic' EkerDavid 'frozen' ČerňanskýRobin 'ropz' Kool Spirit #20 Leonid 'chopper' VishnyakovNikolay 'mir' BityukovViktor 'sdy' OrudzhevArtem 'iDISBALANCE' EgorovBoris 'magixx' Vorobiev Sharks #134 Raphael 'exit' LacerdaLeonardo 'leo_drk' OliveiraJhonatan 'jnt' SilvaLuca 'Luken' NadottiMateus 'supLexN1' Miranda Triumph #50 Kaleb 'moose' JayneGabe 'Spongey' GreinerAlan 'Shakezullah' HardemanPaytyn 'junior' JohnsonErik 'penny' Penny BIG #1 Johannes 'tabseN' WodarzTizian 'tiziaN' FeldbuschFlorian 'syrsoN' RischeIsmailcan 'XANTARES' DörtkardeşNils 'k1to' Gruhne TYLOO #45 YuLun 'Summer' CaiYuanZhang 'Attacker' ShengHaoWen 'somebody' XuKelun 'SLOWLY' SunZhenghao 'DANK1NG' Lv FURIA #6 Henrique 'HEN1' TelesAndrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosVinicius 'VINI' FigueiredoKaike 'KSCERATO' Cerato BOOM #92 Ricardo 'boltz' PrassJoão 'felps' VasconcellosGustavo 'yel' KnittelMarcelo 'chelo' CespedesBruno 'shz' Martinelli