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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.
The map returned in Counter-Strike 2, featuring various enhancements and graphical upgrades. Since its introduction, Inferno has been one of the most popular maps in the Counter-Strike series in casual and competitive play. It has become an influential multiplayer map across the whole first-person shooter genre, being used as a community map in ...
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.
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 ...
Counter-Strike 2 is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed and published by Valve Corporation.It is the fifth game in the Counter-Strike series.In professional Counter-Strike, the Valve-sponsored Majors are considered [by whom?] the most prestigious tournaments.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series . In professional CS:GO , the Valve-sponsored Majors are the most prestigious tournaments.
Valve awarded ESL a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship for the first time in nearly two and a half years. This tournament featured twenty-four teams from around the world, fourteen of which were directly invited from their top fourteen placements from the last Major and another ten teams qualifying from their respective regional qualifiers.
One team decided whether to veto maps first or second. The team that vetoes first removed two maps. The second team vetoed three maps. The first team then chose one of the two remaining maps. The second team then chose the side it wanted to start on. The best-of-three veto process was unchanged. Each team first banned a map, leaving a five-map ...