Today at 19:00, the Krakow Championship will start the quarter-final contest. GO brother looks at the young man who is busy hanging boxes and opening dragon snipers these days, but not many players understand the Major. So today I will introduce the CS:GO Major and its history to everyone, so that everyone can better understand the Major and the top events of CS:GO.
After CS:GO was launched in the summer of 2012, the community is slowly transitioning from 1.6 to CS:GO. As Valve launched special systems such as skins, the number of players began to increase dramatically. Afterwards, Valve directly hosted CS:GO event organizations, supported CS:GO competitions, and promoted new top-level CS:GO events in various forms such as bonus support and client integration. The Major (special tournament) came into being as a result.
The first Major championship commemorative medal
The first Major event was the 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries CS:GO Winter Tournament hosted by Dreamhack. This event has been continuing since the 1.6 era, but this is the first time it has become a Major event. Valve officials used part of the sales of the early-launched weapon boxes to use US$250,000 as prize money for this event. Steelseries also became the first and last sponsor in history to include its name in the name of a Major event because of this sponsorship. In the end, fnatic defeated NiP to win the championship. JW, flusha, schneider, devilwalk, and pronax also became the first five players to win the Major championship. This is also one of the signs of the first dynasty change in CS:GO. Features such as officially sponsored bonuses, live streaming in the client, souvenir drops, exclusive badges, and quizzes have since become unique features of the Major event, and the Major event has since become a feast for CS:GO players around the world.
The first Major championship team fnatic, look at the young Zhuzhu, time is like a butcher's knife
Today's Zhuzhu is still the most handsome, no one else
In the early days of the Major competition, the competition system gradually matured, although in the main game During the period, the competition format was fixed at the GSL group stage (double-elimination group stage without finals) plus BO3 knockout, but the qualifying format has undergone continuous optimization. In the first Dreamhack 2013 Winter Tournament, 6 of the 16 teams were directly invited, and 10 teams advanced through the qualifiers. This was the only time that participating teams were directly invited. In the second Major EMS One: Katowice 2014, in addition to the eight legendary teams participating directly, there were also several winners of ESL's own EMS events, and the remaining places were determined through the qualifiers. Interestingly, fnatic and VP won the first two Majors as local teams at home. After that, no team could win a Major at home.
Pasha led VP to lift the EMS One 2014 trophy. This is the only top team that has maintained its lineup to this day.
By the time of the next ESL One: Cologne 2014, the competition format was determined to be a relatively mature and fixed Legend Group + Division. Qualifying format, but this qualifier has specially set up the Oceania Division and the Indian Division, so the Indian team Team Wolf is lucky to become the first and currently the only Asian team to play in the Major. Another lucky team is the South African team Bravado, the next Major, who was directly invited to participate in DreamHack Winter 2014. At that time, China did not have an influential team, so it lost the opportunity to take shortcuts to participate in the Major. When Cyberzen and Tyloo began to rise in 2016, the Major qualifiers became regional Minors as early as 2015. There are two levels of global offline qualifiers, which greatly increase the difficulty of advancement, so currently no Chinese team has been able to make it to the Major stage.
With the help of Major events, each Major will cause the peak online number to increase significantly. During the first Major, the daily maximum online number increased from 60,000 to 90,000, while the second Major increased from 100,000 to 90,000. It rose to 160,000 people. At the sixth Major ESL Cologne 2015, the highest number of online users exceeded 800,000. By the 2017 Eleague Major, the highest number of online users had reached 1.4 million. CS:GO has since entered its heyday. period.
During every Major, it is the peak online time for CS:GO players.
As the Major event has become one of the most successful e-sports events in the world, Valve also intends to make changes to it and expand its presence around the world. Influence.In November 2015, the seventh Major DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 went out of the three-city cycle of Jönköping in Sweden, Katowice in Poland, and Cologne in Germany, and came to the new venue of Romania for the first time. Rouge Napoleon then landed in Atlanta and Columbus, the hometown of CS, in the United States, so the hope of the first Major held in Asia seems to be beginning to show.
The Cluj-Napoca Major represents the beginning of a new round of innovation.
has also ushered in new blood in terms of event organizers. The first 7 Majors were all organized by ESL (4 times), which belongs to the same company (Swedish MTG Group). ) and Dreamhack (3 times) organized by the brotherly companies. Starting from the eighth session, MLG, the leading American e-sports organization, ELEAGUE with a TV background, and Poland's PGL and ESL, another established e-sports organization, began to take turns taking the throne. ELEAGUE, a subsidiary of the traditional American TV station TBS, has realized the live broadcast of CS:GO Major events for the first time. CGS, the pioneer of live TV e-sports competitions in North America ten years ago, finally has a successor to its unfinished business. However, TV live broadcasts have different requirements for program quality and comprehensive control of events than online live broadcasts. The realization of TV live broadcasts marks that the program production level of CS:GO events has reached an unprecedented peak, which is comparable to top traditional sports events.
TBS TV station ELEAGUE Major broadcast room
Starting from the eighth Major event MLG Columbus 2016, the prize money has also been significantly increased from US$250,000 to US$1 million, driving the overall increase in CS:GO e-sports prize money, ECS, ELEAGUE, WESG, EPL The prize money of all events has been close to or even exceeded the million dollar level, which makes CS:GO firmly occupy the second place in the total e-sports prize money list, second only to the DOTA2 TI event.
Starting from 2016 MLG, the Major has become a million-dollar event.
Although the organization of the event is interesting, the most attractive thing for players is always the competition, the team and the star players. In the course of the 11th Major, it has also left countless impressive memories for fans.
In the first ten Major events, fnatic has won three championships, while SK (including its predecessor LG) has won two championships. They are also the only two teams that can win the Major championship in 2015. fnatic, known as the Cosmos team, and SK in the first half of 2016, and NiP won one championship and four second place in the first five Majors. The period when their three teams dominated can be called the three dynasties of CS:GO.
SK achieved two consecutive major championships at the 2016 Cologne Major
and is currently in the stage of the Warring States Period when all the heroes are coming together. VP, LDLC, EnVyUs, and Astralis are the other four teams that have won Major championships. Counting the runner-up, only NaVi and Liquid have made it to the finals. These teams have also witnessed the dominance of the CS world from the Nordics, to the rise of Eastern Europe, to the recovery of , Western Europe, , North America, and South America. We also look forward to the early return of Chinese CS, which left a strong mark in 1.6, to the world. Top stage. In any case, the Major is definitely a game for the strongest. Only the top and most stable teams can shine in the Major.
Astralis ELEAGUE Major victory is the clarion call for the rise of Danish CS.
Valve has made the most exciting shots in the Major event into map graffiti and permanently displayed them on the map to remember these magical moments. For example, Coldzera's jumping sniper 4 kills in a row on the second floor of Area B of Lost City, and Simple's blind sniper double kill falling from the sky on the second floor of Area B of Mystery of the Dead City. These are all classic shots that happened in the Major arena and have been made into maps. Graffiti and forever engraved in CS:GO.
As time goes by, many wonderful moments may be slowly forgotten by everyone, but the classic scenes at the Major will always be remembered. Every time the client is opened, the entire process of the previous Majors is also completely preserved for viewing at any time.
The photo of GTR crying with joy at the 2014 Cologne Major is a classic in the history of CS.
On the field, some classic images have also become classics in the e-sports circle. For example, the shot of GeT_RiGhT crying with joy after winning the ESL One Cologne 2014 Major has become a classic in e-sports. One of the most touching scenes in the competitive scene. The bustling Lanxess Center in Cologne, which is as grand as the Colosseum in ancient Rome, has also become an iconic image of the success of e-sports events, and it also leads the development direction of e-sports venues.
Lanxess Arena interior and exterior, ESL One Cologne Major venue
The most exciting event is always the next one. I hope that the Major can come to China and let the majority of Chinese CSers experience this carnival at their doorstep. Countless players will be encouraged by the Major to go together on the road to CS:GO.
This article is reproduced from the WeChat public account CSGO national server
