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January 22nd - Sunday

Swiss Round One (10:00 AM EST - 16:00 CET)

January 23rd - Monday

January 24th - Tuesday

January 25th - Wednesday

January 27th - Friday

January 28th - Saturday

January 29th - Sunday

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We are slowly, but surely, moving closer and closer to the most awaited and electrifying event of the first quarter of 2017! ELEAGUE Major Atlanta 2017 will be the tenth official Counter-Strike: Global Offensive major tournament and the third to feature a total of $1,000,000 prize purse. The event is operated by ELEAGUE, a brand of Turner Broadcasting System, and WME | IMG in association with Valve Corporation and is scheduled to run from 22nd to 29th of January 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.The tournament will feature a total of sixteen of the world's best teams just as all the previous major events to date. The top eight finishers from the previous major tournament, ESL One Cologne 2016 , have been directly invited back to participate in the major competition system ring, while the other eight had to fight for a spot via an offline qualifier ran by ELEAGUE during last year's December.Back in September 2016 it was revealed that ELEAGUE has been granted permission from CS:GO's developers over at Valve to host the tenth official major tournament after two incredibly successful seasons of their league last year. The people behind ELEAGUE possess tremendous experience in multiple directions involving traditional sport activities and will without a doubt be an enormous contribution to the scene development of CS:GO and the electronic sports world in general.The organization has been actively working with hundreds of players, journalists and experts from all over the globe within the sphere ever since making their way in to eSports and together with their knowledge, past experience, resources and influence, we are about to witness a truly one of a kind tournament and perhaps the most skillfully stacked tournament in the history of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.What makes this tournament even more unique and interesting for the fan base compared to the previous editions is the introduction of the Swiss format. A slightly modified version of the Swiss system was used at ESL One New York 2016 as well as the previous two major LAN qualifiers.The format is quite a simple one, but significantly more efficient than the one used at all the past majors. All of the sixteen teams will be placed in a single group. Three wins are needed for a team to receive a spot for the playoffs, while three losses will knock the team out from the competition. The initial matchups have been drawn with the help of data analysis taken from the previous major as well as the offline qualifier.All the remaining three rounds of the Swiss system will match up teams with equal score against each other until eight teams manage to score three wins and proceed forward to the playoffs.Nothing has been changed for the playoffs as we will once again see the traditional best-of-three single elimination structure, which even to this date continues to deliver positive end results.The tournament will also use the same standard "Active Duty" map pool consisting of the following seven maps: Cache, Cobblestone, Dust II, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass and last, but not least, our team's favorite and most reliable map Train.As mentioned above the event will feature a total of sixteen teams and as usual for official major tournaments the teams have been divided into two categories.Legends, which are the top eight finishers from the previous major and Challengers, which on the other hand had to make their way to the major via qualifiers.The following sixteen contenders will be striving to conquer the tenth official CS:GO major championship next week in Atlanta: SK Gaming (FalleN, fer, coldzera, TACO & fox) Natus Vincere (Edward, GuardiaN, seized, s1mple & flamie) Fnatic (olofmeister, dennis, twist, KRiMZ & disco doplan) Virtus.pro (TaZ, NEO, pasha, Snax & byali) Astralis Denmark (gla1ve, device, Kjaerbye, dupreeh & Xyp9x) Gambit Gaming (Zeus, Dosia, AdreN, mou & HObbit) Team Liquid (Hiko, nitr0, EliGE, jdm64 & Pimp) Flipside Tactics (B1ad3, markeloff, WorldEdit, wayLander & electronic) GODSENT (pronax, flusha, schneider, jw & Lekr0) North (MSL, Magiskb0Y, k0nfig, cajunb & RUBINO) FaZe (karrigan, allu, aizy, rain & kioShiMa) mousesports (chrisJ, NiKo, loWel, Spiidi & denis) HellRaisers (ANGE1, bondik, STYKO, Zero & DeadFox) OpTic Gaming (RUSH, mixwell, stanislaw, NAF-FLY & tarik) G2 Esports (shox, RpK, SmithZz, ScreaM & bodyy) Team EnVy (apEX, kennyS, SIXER, NBK & Happy)More information about the teams participating in the major championship will be released soon on our website.The Swiss format stage will run from 22nd to 25th of January inside Turner's ELEAGUE studio, which will not be accessible for public visitors. Then the competition will rest for a day up until it significantly heats up from 27th to 29th of January inside the famous Fox Theatre building in Atlanta, GA.The ELEAGUE Major Atlanta 2017 Championship will be broadcasted live on both twitch.tv and the cable TV channel TBS. The organizers will also provide the fans and viewers with alternative community live stream channels and platforms as well as open for public GOTV services, which will be available in-game.The primary broadcasting crew that will be responsible for your viewing experience, both on screen and live on stage, will consist of the following eleven names:Richard LewisSue 'Smix' LeeChris PuckettDuncan 'Thorin' ShieldsJason 'moses' O'TooleAnders BlumeAuguste 'Semmler' MassonnatMatthew 'Sadokist' TrivettHenry 'HenryG' GreerDaniel 'ddk' KapadiaJames 'JZFB' BardolphThe schedule for the event will be the following:Swiss Round Two (10:00 AM EST - 16:00 CET)Swiss Round Three (10:00 AM EST - 16:00 CET)Swiss Round Four (10:00 AM EST - 16:00 CET)Playoffs - Quarter-finals (10:00 AM EST - 16:00 CET)Playoffs - Semi-finals (10:00 AM EST - 16:00 CET)Playoffs - Grand final (10:00 AM EST - 16:00 CET)The entire prize purse of the tournament consists of a total of $1,000,000, exactly the same as the previous two official major tournaments, and will be distributed in the following fashion:1st - $500,0002nd - $150,0003rd-4th - $70,0005th-8th - $35,0009th-16th - $8,750This tournament is of a top importance for our Brazilian squad due to multiple factors. Our team is on the verge of being the first team ever in CS:GO to win three consecutive major tournaments and establish as the world's greatest team in the history of the game to date, surpassing the already incredible and dominant achievements of both Swedish giants Ninjas in Pyjamas and Fnatic.For this reason our team went for an over a week long extensive training session in our office in Cologne, Germany, to prepare for the tournament. We are the returning champions and title holders and will do everything within our strength to leave Atlanta as such.Our CS:GO team has never been in more need of your support, so do not hesitate to show your support usingoraround the social medias and even in the comment section here below. We truly appreciate your support!SK Gaming will provide extensive coverage for this tournament including, but not limited to, real time score updates, event information, hot news, articles, photos, videos, interviews and more. Stay tuned.More information about the event and in-game features can be found at eleague.com and counter-strike.net , respectively.