On Slot Ownership in ESL Pro League


There have been some questions around spot ownership in ESL Pro League yesterday. Here is a brief summary of what the rules are:

1) In general, the licsense belongs to the organisation.
2) If the minority of the lineup is changing, nothing happens to the slot.
3) If the majority of the lineup is changing, per our license rules the slot gets reviewed to make sure that the new lineup is of similar strength and does not consist of five family members of the slot owner or other potential misuse.

Examples of how these rules were applied recently;

ex-LG/SK: The entire lineup left LG, the slot was reviewed and transferred to SK with the players.

ex-SK/Team X: The majority of the lineup left, but stayed together, so the slot was transferred from SK to the new team.

new fnatic: The majority of the lineup left, but two core players stayed and they added strong new players including one who had been in the active lineup before. The slot was reviewed but stayed with fnatic.

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