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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 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.
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]
Originally known as the World e-Sports games and based in Seoul, the competition has since moved to China and been renamed the World e-Sports Masters. China: 2005–2010 World Series of Video Games: The tournament held events around the world featuring a variety of games until its cancellation. Worldwide: 2006–2007 Overwatch League
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]
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. [4] The defending Major champions were Team Vitality, who won their first Major championship at Blast Paris Major 2023. [5]
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.
PGL Major: Kraków 2017, also known as PGL Major 2017 or Kraków 2017, was the eleventh Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship. It is the first Major organized by the Romanian organization PGL and it was held in Kraków, Poland from July 16 to 23, 2017. It featured sixteen professional CS:GO teams from around the