The ESL, a big Counter-Strike: International Offensive esports league, introduced all of the modifications it made to its rule ebook forward of the upcoming IEM Cologne 2023 competitors in Germany. And among the many modifications is an important one: Crocs are banned.

Launched in 2015 because the Digital Sports activities League, the ESL has advanced and grown to develop into one of many largest CS:GO aggressive leagues on this planet. The league holds tournaments around the globe and options greater than a dozen groups unfold throughout 4 areas of the globe. And earlier than its subsequent massive occasion in August, the ESL needed to let everybody know its ideas on open-toed footwear.

On July 20, ESL introduced over 50 new and amended guidelines take impact instantly, however it’s the Croc ban that stood out amid a clarification relating to open-toed footwear and foam clogs aka Crocs. Quite a few followers and gamers on-line throughout Twitter and Reddit joked concerning the Croc clarification, seen particularly in a tweak to rule 4.3 discovered within the occasions part of the ESL Professional Tour Normal Guidelines Guide.

• Clarified in “4.3 Clothes” that Crocs are thought-about open footwear and subsequently not allowed.

Different banned clothes for ESL Professional occasions consists of shorts, flip-flops, and “any sort of headwear.” Should you determine to put on Crocs anyway, be ready to pay at minimal a $250 nice. Apparently, ESL will present “appropriate clothes” for people who aren’t following the principles and the price of these rule-allowed objects might be “subtracted from the prize cash” gamers may win. Yikes!

As soon as once more, the standard Croc is handled like an issue and never given the respect it deserves. That little hero was a platforming grasp and a loveable reptile who…wait a minute, somebody is explaining to me that that is truly about banning these ugly plastic-looking footwear and has nothing to do with Fox Interactive’s hit platformer from 1997, Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. Actually, this all makes much more sense now…