The second season of ESL ESEA's Pro League, which will hand out $1 million in cash prizes by the time 2015 is complete, is ready to kick off in a few hours time.

The announcement of the ESL ESEA Pro League boasted a $1 million total prize output, split between two seasons and with offline finals in Cologne for season one and in Los Angeles for season two.

As was revealed later, the $500,000 per season is actually split evenly between the offline and online portions of the league, thereby rewarding teams merely for qualifying and competing in the Pro League itself.

With fnatic being crowned champions of Season 1 in a scorching hot studio in Cologne, Germany back in July, teams on both sides of the pond will be starting the season off with high motivations to make the offline finals in Los Angeles for the second season.

Cloud9 were the surprise North American breakout of Season 1, finishing second place

As seen in a previous article, the official team list for the ESL ESEA Pro League Season 2 is as follows:

Europe	North America
fnatic	Cloud9
Virtus.pro	Luminosity
TSM	Mythic
EnVyUs	CLG
NiP	Team Liquid
HellRaisers	compLexity
Null element Na`Vi	Conquest
dignitas	3sUP
Titan	Orgless
SK Gaming	Enemy
mousesports	Method
PENTA Sports	FolloweSports.com

ESL and ESEA also adjusted the schedule ahead of a busy LAN season this fall, with the match weeks now appearing as such:

• Week 1 (September 15-17) - Tuesday to Thursday
• Week 2 (Sep. 22) - Tuesday
• Week 3 (Sep. 29 - October 1) - Tuesday to Thursday
• Week 4 (Oct. 6-8) - Tuesday to Thursday
• Week 5 (Oct. 13-15) - Tuesday to Thursday
• Week 5 (Oct. 17-18) - Saturday & Sunday
• Week 6 (Oct. 19-22) - Monday to Thursday
• Week 6 (Oct. 24-25) - Saturday & Sunday
• Week 7 (November 3-5) - Tuesday to Thursday
• Week 8 (Nov. 10-11) - Tuesday to Thursday
• Week 9 (Nov. 17) - Tuesday

Weekday matches in Europe will start at 19:00 whereas weekend matches will begin around 17:00 . Below is a brief list for matches taking place today which kick off the second season of the ESL ESEA Pro League.

Europe - Tuesday, September 15th
19:00	NiP	vs.	EnVyUs	de_train
20:00	SK Gaming	vs.	Null element Na`Vi	de_cache
21:00	mousesports	vs.	Null element Na`Vi	de_inferno
22:00	mousesports	vs.	fnatic	de_inferno
North America - Tuesday, September 15th
02:00	compLexity	vs.	Enemy	de_cache
03:00	compLexity	vs.	CLG	de_overpass
04:00	Conquest	vs.	Team Liquid	de_train
05:00	CLG	vs.	Method	de_inferno

Match-ups for the rest of the week and for the rest of the season can be found at ESL's page here and will also be added to our Hot Matches panel as usual.

The ESL ESEA Pro League's second season kicks off in a few hours time at 19:00 with NiP taking on EnVyUs over at ESL's Twitch channel.

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