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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 winner of each season's finals goes on to participate the Global Finals at the end of the year, as well as winners of other prestigious non-BLAST Premier events and those that rank highest in the BLAST Premier Global Leaderboard, a standings of the top events of the year from multiple leagues and tournaments. [4]
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 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 early November 2014, the German-based Electronic Sports League announced the creation of the ESL Pro League as the European ESL league. On April 28, 2015, ESL announced a joint venture with the North American-based E-Sports Entertainment Association League to provide a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league with US$500,000 in total prize money in the first season between two continents.
In 2017, the company announced new server expansion in Dubai to serve the CS:GO community in Middle East. In April 2018, ESEA announced Rank S division for players in that region. [ 14 ] Later in May 2018, ESEA announced the first CS:GO League for Middle East teams.
SK Gaming dominated the North American scene during the season, but the team struggled in the latter stages of the season, including a 0–2 loss against Counter Logic Gaming. However, the two time major champions still came up on top and comes into the tournament with a premier event win, taking the IEM Sydney 2017 title after defeating FaZe Clan.
G2 began the 2023 season in superlative form, besting Natus Vincere and BIG in dominant fashion in the Blast Premier Spring Groups and qualified for the Blast Premier Spring Finals. G2 continued their strong run of form into IEM Katowice 2023, where they dispatched of NaVi , FaZe , and BIG without dropping a single map to proceed straight to ...