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Counter-Strike Major Championships, commonly known as the Majors, are Counter-Strike (CS) esports tournaments sponsored by Valve, the game's developer.The first Valve-recognized Major took place in 2013 in Jönköping, Sweden and was hosted by DreamHack with a total prize pool of US$250,000 split among 16 teams.
5–6th - Intel Extreme Masters X - World Championship; 5–8th - MLG Major Championship: Columbus [8] 1st - SL i-League Invitational: Kyiv [9] 3rd–4th - ESL One Cologne 2016 [10] 1st - ELEAGUE Season 1 [11] 1st - Dreamhack Bucharest 2016 [12] 2nd - ESL One New York 2016 [13] 2nd - EPICENTER 2016 [14]
The Counter-Strike series has over 20 years of competitive history beginning with the original Counter-Strike.Tournaments for early versions of the game have been hosted since 2000, but the first prestigious international tournament was hosted in Dallas, Texas at the 2001 Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) Winter Championship, won by the Swedish team Ninjas in Pyjamas.
In the Challengers Stage, 16 teams participated in a Swiss bracket. The top eight teams advanced and joined the eight teams that received a bye in the Legends stage. The top eight teams from the Legends stage advanced to the Champions stage. The Champions stage was a single-elimination tournament, where each match was a best-of-3. [8] Map pool ...
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The grand finals featured the world's number one team Astralis, which defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas and MIBR in the playoffs, and the underdog ENCE, which defeated the world's number two in Team Liquid and the world's number three in Natus Vincere. Astralis swept ENCE in two maps to take its third Major title and tie Fnatic for most Majors titles ...
1st – CIS Minor Championship – Columbus 2016 [1] 9–12th – MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016; 5–8th – ESL One: Cologne 2016; 11–14th – ELEAGUE Season 1; 1st – Adrenaline Cyber League [2] 1st – Acer Predator Masters Season 3 [3] 1st – DreamHack Open Winter 2016 [4]
The PGL Major Stockholm 2021, also known as PGL Major 2021 or Stockholm 2021, was the sixteenth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major Championship. [1] [2] It was held in Stockholm, Sweden at the Avicii Arena from October 26 to November 7, 2021. Twenty-four teams qualified via regional major rankings.