ESL Australia and ZEN ESPORTS NETWORK announce a new league for the Asia-Pacific region in 2017 with $100,000 up for grabs.

With ESL Australia & NZ Championship Season 2 Finals in action this weekend, ESL Australia and ZEN revealed on stream that the league will feature 8 teams split between the Oceanic region and the Asian region. There will be two seasons per year, which will involve a two to three week online season and LAN finals.

The first Asia-Pacific league in CS:GO 

The online qualifiers will begin next month, in December 2016. Two spots have been secured by Athletico and Chiefs after defeating Immunity and Parallax respectively in the semi-finals of ESL ANZ Season 2 Finals.

You can find the updated list of participants below:

Athletico	Chiefs	Australia #3	Australia #4
Asia #1	Asia #2	Asia #3	Asia #4

Here are the details given so far for the Oceanic region:

Online Qualifiers - beginning from December 4th 2016

Offline Qualifier - Melbourne: Crown Invitational - January 14th 2017

Season One League - February 4th to April 13th 2017

More information will be revealed from ESL Australia in the coming future. 

Chiefs #92 Michael 'Lightstep' HallTyler 'tucks' ReillyAlistair 'aliStair' JohnstonJoshua 'INS' PotterLiam 'malta' Schembri Athletico #41 Travis 'wizard' RichardsonStuart 'sonic' RaynerJesse 'InfrequeNt' BarkerJay 'Liazz' TregillgasErdenetsogt 'erkaSt' Gantulga Immunity #114 Mark 'deStiny' KaganJames 'James' QuinnCallum 'BURNRUOk' HendersonGareth 'gazR' LynnSean 'Gratisfaction' Kaiwai Parallax #130 Razmik 'RaZ' BastadjanEgor 'LONSDALE' BaranovChris 'yellow' McGillivrayJordan 'Hatz' BajicSam 'jokes' Molan