Premier tournaments are one of the most important tournaments in the year, for 2001 & 2002 it was World Cyber Games, Cyberathlete Professional League Summer and Cyberathlete Professional League Winter, then for 2003 till 2006 it was also ESWC added to the pool (CPL Summer was not a major tournament in 2005). Then between 2007 to 2011 we had three Premier tournaments a year: Intel Extreme Masters WC, ESWC and WCG (that was not correct only in 2009 where there was no "global" ESWC final). 2012 and 2013 was a hard time for Counter-Strike with a lot of moves and updates so scene was not ready for more than one big event per year (IEM6 in Counter Strike 1.6 for 2012 and first VALVE Major event: DreamHack Winter for 2013). The rest is a recent history that you should know.

Pentagram G-Shock first big showing on the worldwide stage was Samsung European Championship 2005 but they were not a top contenders till the October 2006 when Polish side took WSVG: London and World Cyber Games:2006 with storm and cemented their place on top. For the stat reason WCG 2006 is first "Premier Tournament" that I gonna include in our statistics.





Placing Count % Winner 8 / 28 28.57% Runner-up 3 / 28 10.71% = Top2 11 / 28 39.29% 3rd/4th 9 / 28 32.15% = Top4 20 / 28 71.43% 5th/8th 5 / 28 17.86% = Top8 25 / 28 89.29% 9th/16th 3 / 28 10.71% = Qualified 29 / 29 100%



