ESEA has suffered immense damage to its reputation over the course of the past few months. The Third-party ladder service has had a disastrous PR campaign which looks worse when compared to FaceIT.
However, it is not really a David vs Goliath kind of situation as both the parties have their own sets of flaws and good things. That is exactly what former CSGO Pro Steel seems to say in his tweet below.
This esea vs FaceIt circlejerk is so fucking gross. Especially when it comes to rank s vs FPL debates. FaceIt is the best company ever with absolutely no flaws? Fuck off. There's plenty on their end that can be better but it's excluded to fit the narrative. It's just gross.
— steel (@JoshNissan) June 6, 2018