Heroic crowned ESL Pro League Season 13 Champions: Full placements & recap

ESL Pro League Season 13 has wrapped up, with the original 24 teams battling until only Danish org Heroic remained standing. This Pro League has already set the scene for the rest of 2021, so here’s how it all went down.

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• Heroic become the ESL Pro League Season 13 Champions, with a 3-2 win over Gambit.
• Heroic beat FURIA 2-0 to advance to Grand Finals match vs. Gambit.
• Gambit walks away with 2nd place and $85,000, plus a solid win over Astralis.

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The ESL Pro League returned in style for Season 13, featuring the highest level of Counter-Strike competition to be seen anywhere.

24 of the world’s best teams fought it out for the prestigious title, $750,000 prize money, and bragging rights. After the dust settled and the Playoffs were all said and done, Heroic and cadiaN remained as the last team standing.

ESL Pro League Season 13: Final placements

Danish esports org Heroic have not only established themselves as the team to beat going forward into 2021, but they also took home a cool $200,000 after winning the Grand Final.

Gambit will walk away with $85,000 and in third and fourth, FURIA and NiP leave with $45,000 and $50,000, respectively.

ESL Pro League Season 13 playoffs: full results

Friday, April 2: Round of 12

Saturday, April 3: Round of 12

Sunday, April 4: Round of 8

Thursday, April 8: Play-In Matches

Friday, April 9: Quarterfinals

Saturday, April 10: Semifinals

Sunday, April 11: Grand Final

ESL Pro League Season 13 groups: results

Group A: March 8 – March 12

Monday, March 8

Tuesday, March 9

Wednesday, March 10

Thursday, March 11

Friday, March 12

Group B: March 13 – March 18

Saturday, March 13

Sunday, March 14

Monday, March 15

Wednesday, March 17

Thursday, March 18

Group C: March 19 – March 24

Friday, March 19

Saturday, March 20

Sunday, March 21

Tuesday, March 22

Wednesday, March 24

Group D: March 25 – March 29

Thursday, March 25

Friday, March 26

Saturday, March 27

Sunday, March 28

Monday, March 29

ESL Pro League Season 13 groups: final standings

Group A

The action started with Group A, and right from the start it was clear Heroic would be the team to beat. Despite a valiant effort from BIG on the second day of match play, Heroic would go undefeated and earn a play-in match against NiP.

Group B

Group B was a bit more of a toss up, with eventual first-place finishers Ninjas in Pyjamas losing on the first day to G2. NiP wouldn’t drop another match though, and will face Heroic during the play-ins.

Group C

Over in Group C it was all Gambit, who managed to go undefeated despite close matches against MiBR, Na’Vi, and FURIA. The latter of these two teams will join Gambit in the Playoffs, so it will be interesting to watch if they can extract some revenge for these early setbacks.

Group D

Finally, Group D rounded things off with a three-way race between Virtus.Pro, Team Liquid, and Astralis for the top spots. In the end it was favorites Astralis that earned their way to a Play-In match against Gambit, but VP and Liquid are still lurking in the main bracket as well.

ESL Pro League Season 13: teams

24 teams from Australia to Brazil to Europe competed in ESL Pro League Season 13. IEM Katowice champions Gambit Esports were in attendance, as well as finalists Virtus.pro. However, rising CIS stars Team Spirit failed to qualify.

• Read More: Top 10 moments from IEM Katowice

Usual suspects like Astralis and Na’Vi will be looking to bounce back, while the new-look G2 Esports without kennyS will be one to keep your eyes on.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D