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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.
It was the third and final Valve-sanctioned event of the year, to determine the participants of the sixteenth CSGO Major Championships, the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 and the first since the Berlin major in September 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight days prior, Valve released CSGO's eleventh Operation, Riptide, alongside two gameplay ...
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.
It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series. In professional CS:GO, the Valve-sponsored Majors are the most prestigious tournaments. [4] [5] The Stockholm Major was the first Major in two years following an absence in offline play in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Astralis is a Danish esports organization. Best known for their Counter-Strike 2 team, they also have teams representing other games, such as FIFA and Rainbow Six Siege. The parent group of Astralis is the Astralis Group, who previously managed Origen and Future F.C. before the merger of all teams under the Astralis brand. [1]
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 ...
The esports organization is best known for its Counter-Strike team, [4] and has made it to the playoffs of PGL Major Stockholm 2021, [5] PGL Major Antwerp 2022 [6], Blast.tv Paris Major 2023 [7] and Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024. [8] They also placed 2nd at IEM Rio Major 2022, losing to Outsiders [a] in the grand finals. [9]