cal updates

We understand that all good things must eventually come to an end. It is with heavy hearts that we have now reached the conclusion of the league, but we are grateful for the opportunity to have been a part of such a special community for the past few years.

For the first time in a long time, we have some major CAL news to share: the league will be winding down at the end of season 51.

It’s been a wild ride, to say the least. When we created CAL, we envisioned a league where players could compete, improve, and eventually be noticed by teams. It was our small contribution to the Asian CS:GO ecosystem. CAL was thriving at the start, with a lot of activity and player interest. With time, the interest in CS:GO in Asia has seen a significant decline. To be completely honest, our own interests have shifted elsewhere as well. It’s still sad to end support for something that we’ve been working on for so long. In esports, four years is a long time.

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.

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.

The 38th season of CAL is LIVE! The improved CAL, offering five different divisions with two server locations (Singapore and Mumbai), now caters to a larger amount of players within the Asian CS:GO community!

The 37th season of CAL is coming up! Various events will be going on throughout October to celebrate our three-year anniversary, and our regular divisions will feature ZOWIE gaming monitors and cash as leaderboard prizes! Time flies when…

a healthy amount of games going throughout the season, which is something that has not happened in a long time. Nostalgic, indeed.

The 35th season of CAL is going live midnight 3rd of August with ZOWIE gaming monitors and cash as leaderboard prizes!

The 34rd season of CAL is live with cash prizes, FACEIT points, and skins up for grabs. In June we asked our CAL community to help us to improve by filling out a questionnaire about their experience in the league. Overall, we were positively surprised to find out that a high percentage of you are happy with the way things currently are.

The 33rd season of CAL is live with cash prizes, FACEIT points, and skins up for grabs. Today we are also announcing the first dates for the returning Grassroots Cup series.