ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) has secured a multi-year partnership with esports and gaming knowledge platform GRID.
Taking impact as of IEM Cologne 2025, GRID has grow to be the unique distributor, infrastructure, and integrity companion for all ESL Counter-Strike 2 and Dota 2 tournaments, together with ESL One and the ESL Professional League.
Based on a launch, EFG will utilise GRID’s infrastructure to handle knowledge seize and distribution for a lot of of its esports tournaments. It’ll present insights and feeds for followers, media, sportsbooks and ESL FACEIT Group companions.
GRID will even deliver audio/video feeds and visualisations of information for each betting and media entities.
“EFG has outlined esports in CS2 and Dota 2 over the past twenty years, and we’re proud to enter into this ecosystem as an unique knowledge companion,” commented Moritz Maurer, CEO and Founding father of GRID.
“In the end, EFG and GRID, alongside the prevailing portfolio of main rights holders on the GRID Knowledge Platform, intention to determine a regular for knowledge in esports and gaming.”
The partnership will take impact instantly with IEM Cologne, which is operating from July twenty third to August third, 2025. As certainly one of Counter-Strike 2’s greatest occasions, it incorporates a prize pool of $1m and contains the highest groups from Valve’s International Rankings in June.
ESL FACEIT Group’s Knowledge Focus
ESL’s partnership with GRID highlights the latter’s rising curiosity within the knowledge and analytics facet of its expansive ecosystem. This 12 months alone, ESL FACEIT Group introduced a multi-year cope with Shikenso Analytics and bought analytics platform Mobalytics.
GRID additionally continues to solidify its presence within the esports sector, offering its knowledge providing to many stakeholders within the business. Its ESL partnership was introduced not lengthy after its current partnership with Clavision for Dota 2 Masters 2025: Snow-Ruyi. GRID’s different companions additionally embrace Riot Video games and BLAST.
Georg Brandes, Senior Director Media Rights & Distribution at ESL FACEIT Group, added: “We’re wanting ahead to seeing how GRID’s know-how will enhance the expertise for our followers, gamers, and companions, whereas unlocking new methods to have interaction with our merchandise and creating modern income alternatives that help a extra sustainable future for esports.”
