CSGO2ASIA League

August was a particularly competitive month in India’s premier division. It was great to see players play more than 150 games in a season once more. Queue times decrease and more games occur when players are eager to play – it simply becomes a better experience for everybody. Let’s cross our fingers that the momentum continues in September.

only so much to write about), we do have some news from the Asian CS:GO scene that should excite teams and players looking for competition.

We’re back with our monthly update article, where we keep you up to date on everything CAL and the state of CS:GO in Asia (hint: it’s not great). The 45th season of CAL was a slow one, with little activity across our divisions. The only active division was India Division 2.

We launched our new initiative with FACEIT and Gamers Without Borders in May, bringing you three community tournaments with prizes to compete for! So far, two tournaments (21-22 May and 28-29 May) have been held, the first on Mumbai servers and the second on Singapore servers. In both tournaments, the same team, NEXGA, was victorious.

Naturally, good news about CAL would be welcome; perhaps a new partner for the coming season, increased activity in the hub, and a resurgence of sorts for CS:GO in Asia. Unfortunately, we’re still heading down the same path, with decent to healthy activity in our India divisions and no activity in our Southeast Asia divisions.

Ever since we introduced our India divisions late last year, we’ve been positively surprised by the passion and determination of the South Asian CS:GO community. But more than anything it has warmed our hearts. That’s why we’ve decided…

We’re not going to lie, the start of the year for CAL has been slow. And since it’s been a slow start, we don’t have exciting things to write about.

Our Southeast Asian divisions are continuing to experience a lack of activity. Unfortunately, it appears that the current cash prizes are insufficient to attract participants to show up and grind. As former players, we recognize that putting in the effort is more enjoyable when the returns are larger.

e 40th season of CAL was relatively quiet, at least in our Southeast Asian divisions, which saw little to no activity during the month. This comes as no surprise to us; after five months of intense competition with more appealing leaderboard prizes, we’ve returned to where we were half a year ago, with cash and FACEIT points for our top achievers.

CAL’s 39th season was not only the last season of 2021, it was also the last season for the time being with ZOWIE as our official partner. For five months, starting in September 2021, ZOWIE’s support has meant that CAL players have competed for awesome hardware leaderboard prizes. In total, 10 top-notch ZOWIE gaming monitors and multiple ZOWIE EC3-C gaming mice have been won by our best performers over the last five months.

season throughout most of our CAL Divisions, with the exception of SEA Division 3 which once again didn’t see any games played (starting to sound like a broken record here). With that said, we had the most games played in CAL this year in November by quite a huge margin, which can be attributed to the well-received launch of our India Divisions.