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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$250,000 split among 16 teams.
The Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 was the second Counter-Strike 2 Major Championship and twenty-first Counter-Strike Major overall. It was held in Shanghai, China from November 30 to December 15, 2024, and was the first Major organized by Perfect World. [2]
HLTV's old logo. HLTV was founded in 2002 by Martin "Martin" Rosenbæk [5] and Per "Nomad" Lambæk. [6] [7] It was initially created to host recordings of Counter-Strike 1.6 matches, although it grew to include Counter-Strike and Half-Life news. [7]
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) is a 2012 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series. Developed for over two years, Global Offensive was released for OS X, PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in August 2012, and for Linux in 2014.
In April 2016, FACEIT announced the launch of their Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament, known as the Esports Championship Series (ECS). [5] [6] In April 2017, the company partnered with the video sharing platform YouTube for the series. [7] [8] [9] ECS was one of the two premier Counter-Strike leagues, along with ESL Pro League ...
The list of Active Duty maps changes occasionally, normally by replacing just one map at a time. Maps such as Dust II have been added, then removed, and then added back again at a later date. [2] As of January 2025, the seven Active Duty maps in Counter-Strike 2 are Ancient, Anubis, Dust II, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke and Train.
Because Valve usually sponsors two Majors per year, the delayed Major was to have a US$ 2,000,000 prize pool, making it the largest prize pool in CS:GO Major history. In September 2020, Valve and ESL announced that the Major was canceled because of continued complications from the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. [ 3 ]