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The PGL Major Stockholm 2021, also known as PGL Major 2021 or Stockholm 2021, was the sixteenth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major Championship. [1] [2] It was held in Stockholm, Sweden at the Avicii Arena from October 26 to November 7, 2021. Twenty-four teams qualified via regional major rankings.
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.
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.
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.
15–16th - ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 [21] 12–14th - StarSeries i-League season 4; 13–16th - IEM Katowice 2018 [22] 12–14th - StarSeries i-League season 5; 2nd - V4 Future Sport Festival; 3rd - IEM Shanghai 2018; 23rd–24th - FACEIT Major: London 2018; 5th - BLAST Pro Series Istanbul 2018
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. They have ranked both Counter-Strike and Global Offensive players. 2012 was excluded due to it being a transition year between Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source to ...
Released officially in 2013 by Valve Corporation, the game's developer, it expanded the original Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source map "de_cpl_strike", [20] developed by Michael "BubkeZ" Hüll. [21] One of Counter-Strike 's most popular maps, Mirage has been used in a number of esports tournaments and Major Championships due to its ...
The 2006 season brought no successes to the Counter-Strike team, the most notable of which, the team failed to qualify for the Electronic Sports World Cup, in which Sweden was represented by rivals Ninjas in Pyjamas and the developing Fnatic team. Thereafter, the team managed to qualify for the KODE5 finals, where they won two matches and lost ...