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Blast Premier (stylized as BLAST Premier) is a Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) (previously Counter-Strike: Global Offensive) professional esports league launched in 2020. It is primarily based in two regions: North America and Europe.
3–4th - BLAST Premier Spring Final 2024; 3–4th - Esports World Cup 2024; 13–16th - BLAST Premier Fall Groups 2024; 13–16th - IEM Cologne 2024; 3–4th - BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2024; 5–6th - BetBoom Dacha Belgrade Season 2; 13–16th - ESL Pro League Season 20; 5–6th - IEM Rio 2024
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.
Chris Shive of Hardcore Gamer stated that Counter-Strike 2 is a "mostly positive update to Global Offensive", and gave it a 4/5 rating. [6] Polygon ' s Charlie Theel called Counter-Strike 2 "a significant move forward for the franchise", praising the game's changes to weapon handling, visuals, sound design and art direction. [55]
The ESL Pro League (formerly ESL ESEA Pro League; shortened as EPL) is a Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) professional esports league, produced by ESL.It was previously based on four regions: Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania but following a format revamp in season 13, regional leagues were discontinued and unified into one league.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series. The first game in the series, Counter-Strike 1.6, was officially released in 2000 and competitive play began soon after.
Mark Glickman created the Glicko rating system in 1995 as an improvement on the Elo rating system. [1]Both the Glicko and Glicko-2 rating systems are under public domain and have been implemented on game servers online like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Team Fortress 2, [2] Dota 2, [3] Guild Wars 2, [4] Splatoon 2, [5] Online-go.com, [6] Lichess and Chess.com.
Each year, the HLTV staff rank professional Counter-Strike players based on their performance, and write an article explaining their choice. These rankings are based on how successful the player's team is, the individual performance based on the HLTV Rating 1.0 and Rating 2.0, and MVP/EVP awards given by HLTV.