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ESL has revealed that Cloud9<\/a>, Spirit<\/a>, and Movistar Riders<\/a> have been invited to compete in the 16th season of Pro League based on their standing in the ESL World Ranking, completing the 24-team list set to compete in the league starting in late August.<\/p>\n

The trio will join the 15 partnered teams, who have now formally inducted Heroic<\/a> into their ranks after the Norwegian organization struck a deal to join the partner list late last year<\/a> alongside BIG<\/a> and FURIA<\/a>, as well as the six teams who earned their spots through the Conference stage in J\u00f6nkoping last month.<\/p>\n

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Movistar Riders’ final push in the season earned them an invitation<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

Having been overtaken in the ranking thanks to a great effort from Movistar Riders<\/a> in the past month, with the Spaniards having won ESL Challenger Valencia before making a surprise run to the semi-finals at IEM Cologne, perhaps the biggest two teams to miss out on a spot in the league are OG<\/a> and Outsiders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ESL Pro League Season 16 kicks off on August 31 and will be the second tier-one tournament to take place following the official summer tournament break, after BLAST Premier Fall Groups. The league will run for four weeks in the familiar round-robin format before concluding with the playoffs in the final week leading up to the grand final on October 2.<\/p>\n

ESL has yet to reveal where the tournament will take place, but it is expected to be run on LAN from a studio location.<\/p>\n

Below is the full team list:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1741944,"template":"","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","type":"","auto_type":false,"post":"","stream":"","stream_url":"","waveform_data":[],"duration":0,"bpm":0,"downloadable":false,"download_url":"","purchase_title":"","purchase_url":"","post-count-all":0,"like_count":0,"download_count":0,"editor_note":"","copyright":"","captions":[]},"genre":[81],"artist":[77],"mood":[],"activity":[],"station_tag":[18717,18736,18740,18752,18751,18737,18747,18733,18727,5516,10610,18741,14031,18731,18728,18721,13258,18715,18719,18742,18712,18714,18729,18748,18739,18743,16767,18720,18716,18708],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station\/1741943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/station"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=1741943"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=1741943"},{"taxonomy":"mood","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mood?post=1741943"},{"taxonomy":"activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/activity?post=1741943"},{"taxonomy":"station_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/station_tag?post=1741943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}