CS:GO Major Championships

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CS:GO Major Championships (colloquially known as Majors) are tournaments sponsored by Valve with a prize pool of at least $1,000,000 (previously $250,000). They were first introduced in 2013 at DreamHack Winter.

Earlier versions of Counter-Strike also had Majors, but they were not supported by Valve.

Tournament Stages

Starting from ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018, Valve announced a new overall tournament format, which brought in the Offline Qualifier as a part of the Major Championship. This change increased the number of teams at the Major Championships from 16 to 24 and re-named each stage of the tournament.

The New Challengers Stage (formerly the Offline Qualifier)

16 teams (The Previous Major's Fallen & The Minors' Champions) fight for eight open spots at the The New Legends Stage.

The New Legends Stage (formerly the Group Stage)

16 teams (The New Challengers & The Current Legends) fight for the eight spots at The New Champions Stage and to become The New Legends.

The New Champions Stage (formerly the Playoffs)

Eight teams (The New Legends) fight to become the Major Champion.

Teams

At the Majors, teams earn certain titles based on how far they make it into the major and where they came from.

The Legends: The top eight teams from every Major gain "Legend" status, and are automatically qualified to the next Major's New Legends Stage as The Current Legends.

The New Challengers: The top eight teams from the New Challengers Stage gain Challenger status at the current Major and proceed to face off The Current Legends.

The Previous Major's Fallen: The top six teams from the previous Major's New Legends Stage gain this status and are automatically qualified to the next Major's New Challengers Stage.

The Minors' Champions: The top 2 teams from each regional Minor Championship and the top 2 teams among the 3rd place Minor teams who have qualified to the next Major's New Challengers Stage.

In-Game Items

The first Major at DreamHack Winter 2013 introduced map collection-based souvenir packages and souvenir weapons with a souvenir quality yellow theme in the inventory. The packages act as containers that can be opened without a key and can be obtained by watching the tournament via GOTV or via Twitch with a linked Steam account. The souvenir packages at this Major came with six uniquely designed stickers with normal and foil variations. Weapons dropped from these packages came with just one sticker applied.

EMS One Katowice 2014 famously introduced buyable team stickers in normal, foil and holo versions, which can be opened from sticker capsules. Weapons dropped from Katowice packages came with three stickers applied – two foil team logos from the spectated match and a golden wolf or skull design. The latter were replaced by the tournament's organizer logo from ESL One: Cologne 2014 onwards, while the former were changed to the gold version from DreamHack Winter 2014 onwards. ESL One: Cologne 2015 introduced player autograph stickers in normal and foil versions, which on souvenir weapons were selected based on the round MVP. MLG Columbus 2016's All-Stars Showmatch souvenirs came with special blue and orange holo stickers. PGL Kraków 2017 added gold player autographs.

IEM Katowice 2019 introduced the paid Viewer Pass, which overhauled and integrated the Pick'Em Challenge and became the only way to get souvenir package drops by completing event-related missions, alongside an upgradable event coin and team graffitis. StarLadder Berlin 2019 allowed users to directly buy souvenir packages. PGL Stockholm 2021 added team patches, notoriously limited player autographs to playoffs and exchanged player autographs for map stickers in souvenir packages.

List of CS:GO Major Championships

G & S   Tournament

Date

Prize

P#

Location

Winner

Runner-up

PGL Major Stockholm 2021

Oct 26 - Nov 7, 2021

$2,000,000

24 teams

 Stockholm, Sweden

  TBD

  TBD

ESL One: Rio 2020

Nov 9 - 22, 2020

$2,000,000

24 teams

 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cancelled

StarLadder Berlin Major 2019

Aug 23 - Sep 8, 2019

$1,000,000

24 teams

 Berlin, Germany

  Astralis

  AVG

Intel Extreme Masters XIII - Katowice Major 2019

Feb 13 - Mar 3, 2019

$1,000,000

24 teams

 Katowice, Poland

  Astralis

  ENCE

FACEIT Major: London 2018

Sep 5 - 23, 2018

$1,000,000

24 teams

 London, United Kingdom

  Astralis

  Na`Vi

ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018

Jan 12 - 28, 2018

$1,000,000

23 teams

 Atlanta, USA
 Boston, USA

  C9

  FaZe

PGL Major Kraków 2017

Jul 16 - 23, 2017

$1,000,000

16 teams

 Kraków, Poland

  Gambit

  IMT

ELEAGUE Major: Atlanta 2017

Jan 22 - 29, 2017

$1,000,000

16 teams

 Atlanta, United States

  Astralis

  VP

ESL One: Cologne 2016

Jul 5 - 10, 2016

$1,000,000

16 teams

 Cologne, Germany

  SK

  Liquid

MLG Major Championship: Columbus 2016

Mar 29 - Apr 3, 2016

$1,000,000

16 teams

 Columbus, United States

  LG

  Na`Vi

DreamHack Open Cluj⁠-⁠Napoca 2015

Oct 28 - Nov 1, 2015

$250,000

16 teams

 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  Envy

  Na`Vi

ESL One: Cologne 2015

Aug 20 - 23, 2015

$250,000

16 teams

 Cologne, Germany

  Fnatic

  Envy

ESL One: Katowice 2015

Mar 12 - 15, 2015

$250,000

16 teams

 Katowice, Poland

  Fnatic

  NiP

DreamHack Winter 2014

Nov 27 - 29, 2014

$250,000

16 teams

 Jönköping, Sweden

  LDLC

  NiP

ESL One: Cologne 2014

Aug 14 - 17, 2014

$250,000

16 teams

 Cologne, Germany

  NiP

  Fnatic

ESL Major Series One Katowice 2014

Mar 13 - 16, 2014

$250,000

16 teams

 Katowice, Poland

  VP

  NiP

DreamHack Winter 2013

Nov 28 - 30, 2013

$250,000

16 teams

 Jönköping, Sweden

  Fnatic

  NiP

Selected Statistics

Organization Medals

Team				Total
	4	0	2	6
	3	1	2	6
	1	4	1	6
	1	1	5	7
	1	1	1	3
	1	0	2	3
	1	0	1	2
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	1	0	0	1
	0	3	3	6
	0	1	2	3
	0	1	0	1
	0	1	0	1
	0	1	0	1
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	2	2
	0	0	2	2
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1

Country Medals

Team				Total
	4	6	5	15
	4	1	5	10
	2	1	5	8
	2	1	3	6
	1	4	4	9
	1	4	3	8
	1	1	5	7
	1	1	5	7
	1	1	0	2
	0	3	1	4
	0	2	1	3
	0	1	2	3
	0	1	0	1
	0	1	0	1
	0	0	2	2
	0	0	3	3
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1
	0	0	1	1

HLTV MVP of Each Major

Major	Player	Team
DH Winter 2013	JW
ESL Katowice 2014	pashaBiceps
ESL Cologne 2014	friberg
DH Winter 2014	Happy
ESL Katowice 2015	olofmeister
ESL Cologne 2015	flusha
DH Cluj‑Napoca 2015	kennyS
MLG Columbus 2016	coldzera
ESL Cologne 2016	coldzera
EL Atlanta 2017	Kjaerbye
PGL Kraków 2017	AdreN
EL Boston 2018	tarik
FACEIT London 2018	device
IEM Katowice 2019	Magisk
SL Berlin 2019	device

Titles Won per Player

Player		Team(s)
device	4
dupreeh	4
Xyp9x	4
gla1ve	4
flusha	3
JW	3
pronax	3
Magisk	3
olofmeister	2
KRIMZ	2
Happy	2
NBK-	2
kioShiMa	2
FalleN	2
fer	2
coldzera	2
fnx	2
TACO	2
Devilwalk	1
znajder	1
TaZ	1
NEO	1
pashaBiceps	1
Snax	1
byali	1

Player		Team(s)
f0rest	1
GeT_RiGhT	1
Xizt	1
friberg	1
Fifflaren	1
shox	1
SmithZz	1
kennyS	1
apEX	1
Kjaerbye	1
AdreN	1
mou	1
Hobbit	1
Dosia	1
Zeus	1
Skadoodle	1
Stewie2K	1
autimatic	1
RUSH	1
tarik	1

Players That Have Attended All Majors

Event / Player
olofmeister
device
dupreeh
Xyp9x
shox

Top 8 Across The Majors

Participants by Country

Country																	Total
Denmark	17	16	10	15	5	5	10	6	11	12	11	11	17	5	11	20	182
Sweden	21	15	10	15	9	11	11	11	10	10	5	6	12	12	6	5	169
United States of America	8	8	6	7	7	8	13	16	9	6	4	12	13	11	9	5	142
France	12	12	12	5	8	8	8	8	10	10	6	11	4	10	9	7	140
Russia	4	3	6	3	6	4	4	5	6	5	9	15	14	13	15	17	129
Brazil	-	-	-	-	5	5	5	5	5	4	10	6	4	10	15	21	95
Ukraine	5	5	7	6	7	5	5	7	5	7	6	6	9	8	3	3	94
Poland	5	5	5	10	5	10	10	5	5	5	6	6	6	-	1	3	87
Germany	-	3	-	10	5	4	3	3	3	2	7	8	4	4	-	4	60
Australia	-	5	5	-	5	10	-	-	-	-	-	3	4	7	7	5	51
Canada	2	2	4	3	3	2	2	3	3	2	1	2	4	4	3	3	43
Kazakhstan	1	1	1	-	1	-	-	2	2	3	3	8	3	6	5	4	40
Finland	-	-	-	-	6	1	1	1	1	2	4	2	1	5	6	1	31
Norway	2	-	5	-	5	1	2	2	3	2	1	1	2	2	2	1	31
China	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	3	6	3	5	21
Slovakia	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	1	2	2	1	2	1	20
Belgium	2	2	2	-	1	2	2	2	1	1	-	1	1	-	1	-	18
Turkey	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	6	2	1	-	14
Bosnia & Herzegovina	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	13
Netherlands	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	1	-	10
Spain	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	1	-	-	-	1	5	10
United Kingdom	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	2	-	6
Estonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	-	1	1	6
Lithuania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	2	1	6
Switzerland	1	1	1	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
India	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
South Africa	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
Indonesia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	1	-	5
New Zealand	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	1	5
Czech Republic	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	1	-	4
Hungary	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	1	-	-	3
Jordan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-	3
Bulgaria	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	3
Serbia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	3
Malaysia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	2
Mongolia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	2
Hong Kong	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	2
Latvia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2
Uzbekistan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Azerbaijan	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Israel	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1

Team Participation

Team																	Total
	INV	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	CHL	-	-	14
	Q	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	-	-	-	Q	CHL	LGD	LGD	13
	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	-	-	-	-	5
	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Q	-	Q	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Q	Q	Q	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	CHL	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	16
	INV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	INV	LGD	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	LGD	CHL	-	5
	INV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	INV	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	INV	INV	Q	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4
	Q	LGD	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	Q	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	-	LGD	Q	-	Q	Q	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
	-	LGD	LGD	LGD	-	-	Q	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
	-	LGD	LGD	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
	-	LGD	LGD	Q	LGD	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	Q	LGD	CHL	-	8
	-	INV	Q	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
	-	Q	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	CHL	-	-	CON	13
	-	Q	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	-	Q	-	-	-	LGD	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	CHL	LGD	-	Q	CHL	11
	-	-	LGD	LGD	Q	Q	Q	Q	-	-	Q	CHL	LGD	CHL	-	-	10
	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	Q	LGD	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	3
	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	INV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	INV	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	Q	LGD	Q	CHL	-	-	-	-	9
	-	-	-	-	LGD	LGD	LGD	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
	-	-	-	-	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	Q	Q	-	Q	-	-	-	-	7
	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	Q	Q	LGD	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5
	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	LGD	LGD	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	Q	LGD	CON	6
	-	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	Q	Q	Q	Q	CHL	LGD	CHL	CHL	LGD	10
	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	LGD	LGD	-	Q	CHL	LGD	LGD	LGD	9
	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	LGD	CHL	LGD	LGD	CHL	9
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	Q	Q	LGD	CHL	LGD	LGD	LGD	CON	9
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	LGD	LGD	LGD	CHL	-	-	LGD	7
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	-	-	Q	-	-	-	3
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	CON	2
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	LGD	LGD	CHL	-	Q	-	5
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	LGD	CHL	LGD	-	CHL	5
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	CHL	CHL	CHL	-	-	4
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	CHL	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	CHL	-	-	-	2
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	Q	CHL	-	3
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	-	CHL	3
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	LGD	LGD	-	3
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	Q	-	-	2
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	CHL	Q	CON	4
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	LGD	CHL	3
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	CHL	LGD	3
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	-	2
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	-	2
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	Q	LGD	3
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Q	-	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	CON	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	CON	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	CHL	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	CHL	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	CON	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	CHL	1
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	LGD	1

Key
INV	Directly invited to the tournament
LGD	Legend status
CHL	Challenger status
CON	Contender status
Q	Qualified
-	Didn't participate