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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 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]
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.
New Champions stage: New Champions stage: 3–5: Heroic: 3–1 +22 L Low match Team Vitality 16–12 Overpass: Mid match Astralis 16–7 Ancient: High match Copenhagen Flames 2–1: New Champions stage: Gambit Esports: 3–1 +17 ENCE 16–7 Overpass: L Mid match Virtus.pro 16–14 Vertigo: High match Ninjas in Pyjamas 2–0: New Champions stage ...
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.
The game features two primary matchmaking modes: Competitive and Premier. [3] [4] Competitive is a continuation of the official matchmaking system from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Players can choose any map, and ranks are now determined on a per-map basis. [5]
Such maps are considered the most balanced and competitive by Valve and were used in nearly all competitive Counter-Strike esports tournaments, as well as the Premier matchmaking mode. [1] The group of seven are chosen from a wider set of maps, with some community-created maps and some designed by Valve.