The Boston Major is the first Major of the 2016-2017 season. The main event takes place at the Wang Theater in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Notably, The Boston Major is the first publisher sponsored event to not feature a double-elimination bracket. Instead, the 16 participating teams will be seeded into a single elimination bracket based on their performance in the group stage.[1]

Format [ edit ]

Open Qualifiers - October 23rd - October 26th, 2016 Eight Regional Single-elimination Open Qualifiers, two brackets for each region. The winners of each Regional Qualifier will advance to the respective Main Qualifier.

- Main Qualifiers - October 27th - October 31st, 2016 Four Regional Qualifiers. One group containing all teams, with the top four teams advancing to the Regional Double-elimination Playoff Bracket. The winner and runner-up of each Regional Playoff Bracket will join the eight directly invited teams in Boston.

- Group Stage - December 3rd - December 4th, 2016 Four groups of four teams Bo3 GSL double-elimination format The top seed of each group will get a random bottom seed from another group as the opponent in the Main Event. The second seed will similarly face off against a random third seed as the opponent.

- Main Event - December 7th - December 10th, 2016 Teams are seeded into a single-elimination bracket after the Group Stage. All games are Bo3 , with Bo5 grand finals.

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Broadcast Talent [ edit ]

Prize Pool [ edit ]

The prize pool of the tournament is $3,000,000 USD .

Participants [ edit ]

Invited Teams [ edit ]

Qualified Teams [ edit ]

Group Stage [ edit ]

Main Event [ edit ]

Round of 16 Virtus.pro 2 iG Vitality 0 Evil Geniuses 2 Wings Gaming 0 compLexity 0 WG.Unity 2 OG 2 MVP Phoenix 0 Digital Chaos 2 Team Faceless 0 EHOME 1 Team NP 2 Ad Finem 2 Newbee 1 LGD Gaming 0 LGD.Forever Young 2 Quarterfinals Virtus.pro 0 Evil Geniuses 2 WG.Unity 1 OG 2 Digital Chaos 2 Team NP 0 Ad Finem 2 LGD.Forever Young 1 Semifinals Evil Geniuses 0 OG 2 Digital Chaos 0 Ad Finem 2 Grand Final OG 3 Ad Finem 1

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Country Representation [ edit ]

Trivia [ edit ]

This was the first Valve-sponsored event that Puppey did not attend as a player, as Team Secret finished 4th in the Europe Qualifier. The same went for MMY, who was inactive at the time.

MiSeRy and DDC became the only players to have attended every single Valve event as an active player. UNiVeRsE had also attended every Valve event, but was only a sub during The International 2011 while Hao attended the major, but only as a sub for Newbee.

Jabz became the first Thai player to attend a Valve event since The International 2011.

Additional content [ edit ]

Streams [ edit ]

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Player Profiles [ edit ]

Team Intros [ edit ]