ESL October Monthly Finals Roundup

The first ever ESL Project CARS Monthly Finals have taken place and they were awesome!

Monthly Finals take the Top 8 drivers from each platform that month and pit them against each other in a showdown race to find the best driver! For the October 2015 Finals, ESL hosted two races per platform, with drivers allocated points based on their finishing positions. Whoever had the highest total points for their platform after both would be crowned the monthly champion and win €100! With one winner each on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, plus €50 for each runner up, that means Project CARS players won €450 of prizes in one day!

The action began on PC with the Top 8 drivers from October’s PC Go4 Cups...

ESL OCTOBER MONTHLY FINAL - PC

Race 1 saw the drivers take to Circuit De Barcelona Catalunya GP for 15 laps of close and intense racing. The podium went with form, as the drivers currently leading the November Go4 Cups all pulled out great drives. khaki took the win, with Blacky second and USSRxALeXeR in third.

Race 2 went for 15 laps at the iconic Circuit De Spa Francorchamps in Belgium and produced the same podium for the second race in a row! Check out the action from both PC races in the fantastic video above, created by famed Project CARS YouTuber and shoutcaster, Yorkie065!
All that means that khaki from Poland takes home the awesome €100 prize for winning the ESL Project CARS October Finals on PC!

STANDING	DRIVER	PTS	PRIZE
1	khaki	20	€100
2	Blacky	16	€50
3	USSRxALeXeR	12	-
4	TonyR	9	-
5	F1-Masa	8	-
6	Papand	7	-
7	kestal24	DNS	-
8	boyd59	DNS	-

ESL OCTOBER MONTHLY FINAL - PLAYSTATION 4

The PS4 field for the October finals was packed full of familiar faces from the world of Project CARS eSports. Including Alexx545 who won the Paris Games Week tournament in spectacular fashion in front of a packed ESL Arena, and TSRacing's Atho, the current leader of the SMS-R Driver Network Championship and a finalist at many live events including Paris Games Week and Gamescom.

Alexx545 (GER)
CoTiNhO (ESP)
DrDrDD (GER)
DriverR1 (FRA)
gonzie24 (NED)
Grello666 (GER)
ockerocker (GER)
TSRacing_Atho (FRA)

​Race 1 at Catalunya saw Alexx545 assert his skill over the rest of the drivers with a fantastic opening victory. Alexx sometimes doesn’t perform quite as well in 1v1 races and hot-lapping, but his race craft was on full display in this larger field. DriverR1 came second in Race 1, with CoTiNhO in third.

Race 2 at Spa was an opportunity for some of the underperforming drivers to step up their game and take it to the early leaders. TSRacing_Atho could only manage fourth in the first race but got in the zone for Race 2 to take the win! DriverR1 was second one again, showing his consistency and pushing Alexx545 back to third.

That meant that we had an incredibly close result on PS4 with Alexx545 and DriverR1 finishing on equal points! However, Alexx545 took home the 100 EUR by virtue of his one race win, compared to no wins for DriverR1. Here’s how it finished on PS4...

STANDING	DRIVER	PTS	PRIZE
1	Alexx545	16	€100
2	DriverR1	16	€50
3	TSRacing_Atho	15	-
4	CoTiNhO	11	-
5	Gonzie24	8	-
6	Grello666	6	-
7	DrDrDD	4	-
8	ockerocker	2	-

ESL OCTOBER MONTHLY FINAL - XBOX ONE

Finally, there was the Xbox One October Finals, which very much carried on the theme of October’s Go4 Cups thanks to the utter domination of Finland’s SDL Mihalo. There were several other names from the SMS-R Driver Network Championship competing as well, including members of Starlux and Virtual Drivers by TX3.

Alween 88 (GER)
angust PL (POL)
da24gemini (POR)
hoodboos v2 (GER)
SDL Mihalo (FIN)
Slux J0k (FRA)
Slux PSY2PAC (FRA)
TX3 Vecko (FRA)

Both races on Xbox One were dominated by SDL Mihalo who achieved comfortable back-to-back wins to take home the 100 EUR prize. He was followed across the line in both races by hoodboss v2 in second and TX3 Vecko, our runner up from the Paris Games Week tournament, in third. Here are the full results for the Xbox One Finals...

STANDING	DRIVER	PTS	PRIZE
1	SDL Mihalo	20	€100
2	hoodboss v2	16	€50
3	TX3 Vecko	12	-
4	Slux J0k	9	-
5	Slux PSY2PAC	8	-
6	august PL	7	-
7	da24gemini	DNS	-
8	Alween 88	DNS	-

A huge thank you from everyone at Slightly Mad Studios to all of the October finalists and everyone who has taken part in an ESL Project CARS event so far. Congratulations to our first monthly winners! A special shout-out to Yorkie065 as well, for his fantastic work on the video coverage of this event.
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The next ESL Project CARS tournament is Go4 Cup #8 on Sunday November 22 with more cash up for grabs!

And don’t forget, you can now vote for the location you want to race at in the next event. Please visit the ESL Project CARS forums to make your choice!​​

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