





CS:GO Major Championships (colloquially known as "Majors") are tournaments with a prize pool of $1,000,000 (previously $250,000) sponsored by Valve introduced in 2013, with recent editions including special in-game features.

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

Tournament Stages [ edit ]

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 new format 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 8 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 8 spots at the The New Champions Stage and to become The New Legends. The New Champions Stage (formerly the Playoffs) 8 Teams (The New Legends) fight to become the Major Champion.

Teams [ edit ]

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 & Features [ edit ]

Stickers are included in newer Valve sponsored Major Championships. There are both player autograph and team stickers. A portion of the money made from those stickers goes to the players and teams.

Pick'em is an in-game challenge where fans can buy stickers of teams and pick who will advance past certain stages or who will win certain matches. At some Majors, fans could purchase player autograph stickers and play a Fantasy Game where they would predict who would get the best statistic in a certain category, such as Pistol kills.

Souvenir Cases are exclusive map based † cases offered by Valve. These cases were dropped to random people watching live Majors games, the case drop was decided by the map currently being played †. You were able to receive a case by watching the game either on Twitch.TV, CS:GO's GOTV, or Steam.TV (which was announced alongside the FACEIT Major). However, during MLG Columbus you could also get drops by watching MLG.TV. This feature was adjusted for the IEM Katowice 2019 Major, introducing viewer passes. [1] These passes could be purchased in-game, granting the account access to souvenir case "drops" from completing event-related missions (such as watching a match at different stages of the tournament), alongside an upgradable event coin (which can be progressed through missions and correctly predicting the teams who advance to the latter stages). Souvenir cases from the IEM Katowice 2019 Major and those following, expire a couple weeks after the conclusion of the tournament, being un-redeemable past a specific date.

† Map based cases first appeared for ESL One: Cologne 2014

List of CS:GO Major Championships [ edit ]





Selected Statistics [ edit ]

Players That Have Attended All Majors [ edit ]

Legends Across The Majors [ edit ]

Participants by Country [ edit ]

Team Participation [ edit ]

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