why you should join esea ?

In this guide I will go over everything you need to know about ESEA, their service and how it works.
I do not work for ESEA or have any inside knowledge about this software. Everything I use in this guide is common knowledge from playing and using their service
You can get their subscription here 

ESEA?

ESEA is a 3rd party subscription based service made by Turtle Entertainment Online, Inc. for Counter Strike: Global Offensive as well as TF2 (Team Fortress 2), CSS (Counter Strike: Source) and CS 1.6 (Counter Strike: 1.6). but its main focus and use is CS:GO.

ESEA servers are 128 tick servers (regular match making servers are 64 tick). You are placed with people around your skill level based on a hidden, more complex Elo system as said in ESEA's FAQ.
"Due to the extensive amount of time we've put into creating the sorting system based on Elo, we feel it is best to not show anyone their actual Elo number. We want to have the most balanced sorting possible, and displaying the Elo allows for users to eventually find a way to game the system." 

ESEA meant for?

ESEA is meant for very skilled players in CURRENT LE-GE. if you are CURRENTLY lower than the ranks, teammates will hate on you, you will do very poor, and waste your money. For lower skilled players FaceIt and CEVO are a better option.

ESEA's cost and what you get for it

ESEA is a monthly subscription based program, just like anything else there is a cost to using their program. With it there are 2 levels of subscription. I will be going over what you get with each one. There is Premium and Insider
Prices may have changed.

Premium perks:
Cost: $6.95 USD per month
Game sever access: Yes
Industry leading anti-cheat client: Yes
League eligibility: Yes
Reserved slot on Frag Shack servers: No
Private forums & servers with top pros: No
Priority "looking for team" ad placement: No
In-game recognition: No
Free guest passes for friends to try ESEA: 0
Free alias changes per month: 2
Private message storage: 250
Free game server stats resets per month: 0

Insider perks:
Cost: $14.95 USD per month
Game sever access: Yes
Industry leading anti-cheat client: Yes
League eligibility: Yes
Reserved slot on Frag Shack servers: Yes
Private forums & servers with top pros: Yes
Priority "looking for team" ad placement: Yes
In-game recognition: Yes
Free guest passes for friends to try ESEA: 1/month
Free alias changes per month: 5
Private message storage: 500
Free game server stats resets per month: 1You can get Premium / Insider and see the perks here

ESEA Ranks

ESEA has recently implemented a ranking system.
It consists of:
(from Highest to lowest)

The S rank is reserved for Professional CS:GO players and a few players from A+ are invited to S rank at the end of each month by their points.

In Rank S you are competing for $20,000 USD at the end of each month.
"Each month, $20,000 per region will be awarded to the top performing players in Rank S based on a point structure of 3 points per Rank S win, 1 point per Rank S loss and 1 point per Pug win." 
Rank S and Elo update 

• S
• A+
• A
• A-
• B+
• B
• B-
• C+
• C
• C-
• D+
• D
• D-

This structure does not apply for normal ranks like by B-, for a win/loss you gain/lose around 12 points. If you are winning/losing games in a row, the amount of points you gain/lose will increase.
To rankup to the next rank, you need to get over 100 points, you will then be placed at the next rank higher (in my case B) at 0 points. But you don't have to worry about losing your rank the next game you play. You get a 2 loss grace, if you lose 2 matches in a row at 0 points you will not lose points so if you will the next game, you will start to gain/lose points until you rankup or get to 0 again. But if you lose 3 matches you will be bumped down again to the lower rank at 80 points.

ESEA, they keep track of everything you do in the game from the amount of bullets you have shot to your average damage a round.






















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ESEA

If it is decided to end the match, you will not gain or lose points.
If it is decided to play out until there is a winner, it is a MR3 (Max Rounds 3) so you will play 3 rounds on the side you are currently on than switch sides. You need to win 4 rounds of OT to win. The amount of overtimes is not limited and could take hours if it is that close.

RWS is out of 100 points and you could think of RWS as a percentage.
An average persons RWS should be 10, as there are 10 people on a server and its out of 100. If a team kills the other team, each doing 100 damage (no more damage to other enemies) and they win the round, each player would get 20 RWS for that round, the losing team, even if they do damage or kill a player. They get no RWS. This is were the RWS system falls short. You could have done a 1v5 retake but not have time to defuse, you would get nothing.

ESEA's HSP or Headshot Percentage works differently than most other 3rd party clients. In ESEA it is more counting a HSHP or a Headshot Hit Percentage. So it takes all the bullets you have fired, and calculates the amount of the bullets that have hit a enemies head.

ESEA for being toxic.
If a user reaches -50 Karma in ESEA and they still have that much at the end of the month, they are banned from playing on ESEA for a month, and their karma set to 0.
At the end of a match, you get to rate your self and your teammates on their attitude.
There is: Negative karma, Neutral karma and positive karma.
They ask to not rate players on their skill with karma, but only on their attitude. Most people do it on their skill.







































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Here is what after-match statistics look like, it only shows basic information. No real indepth detail of your performance in a match

ESEA Match

ESEA match, it is a lot different than a Competitive matchmaking game.

ESEA you have a knife round to decide where you start. Who ever wins gets to vote what side they start on. They can do this by typing "t" or "ct" in chat.
If the time runs out in the knife round, the team with the most players will win, if there are a even amount of players left, it randomly chooses who wins.

ESEA is the same as MAtch making but a few things.
After round timer. After the round ends in MM, you usually have a fair amount of time to pick up other weapons or nades, but in ESEA you only have a few seconds. It sets up strategy for team to delay a bomb defuse so a teammate can get a upgraded weapon that is far.
Voice chat is completely different and allows people alive to play by them self without people back seat gaming. After you die, you have 5 seconds to do callouts. After that you are muted to all living players. But if other players on your team are dead, they can hear you so you can start talking about the next round.

ESEA Community

ESEA, there is a fair amount of good topics and discussions on the forums.
ESEA also has COTW (Clip Of The Week) were they highlight clips that happen that week submitted by users and might get featured! This is some of the stuff that you might see happen in ESEAservers!

ESEA supplies for every match. This adds both teams voice chat.