In May, the world’s best CS:GO teams will gather in Paris to play for the million pot. shows half of the matches of the majors and their qualifiers, including the final match of the major tournament.
will show the major tournament of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive video game to be played in Paris in May together with Pelajat.com. broadcasts half of the matches of the qualifiers, group stage and playoffs of the tournament live, including the final match of the tournament.
The major tournament starting in Paris on May 8 is also the last one for the CS:GO game. Valve, the American game company that developed the game, said last week that CS:GO’s sequel, Counter-Strike 2, will replace the current game next summer.
The teams playing in the tournament will survive through the qualifying tournaments played at the beginning of April. Two 16-team Regional Major Rankings – i.e. RMR tournaments – will be played in Europe, the first of which from 6.-9. April and another from 11.-14. April. The 8 best teams from both tournaments advance to the majors.
and Pelaajat.com also share the broadcasting rights for the qualifying phase. In RMR tournaments, two matches are played simultaneously, so one of the pairs of matches can be watched from Areena and From E-sport’s Twitch channel (you’re moving to another service)another from Pelajat.com’s Twitch channel.
Finnish players are aiming for a major place in the qualifying tournament Alex “Alexib” Estonian, whose Ninjas in Pajamas team will open their qualifying match at the second European RMR tournament on 11.4. against Turkish Eternal Fire. The Finnish organization ENCE, on the other hand, will face its coach An advantage “saw” Saw in the lead on the same day, in the opening match of the qualifiers, the Ukrainian Monten.
will show Europe’s second RMR tournament on the opening day of April 11. ENCE’s opening match against Monte and NiP’s second round match. The broadcasting rights for the Finnish matches alternate, so ‘s channels also show ENCE’s third qualifying match, NiP’s possible fourth match and ENCE’s possible fifth match. If the teams play against each other, Pelaajat.com will show the match.
The last, 17th tournament place in Europe will be decided on April 15th in the further qualifiers among the last-placed teams in the RMR tournaments.
The rest of the teams advancing to the Paris majors will be decided at the beginning of April in the Asian qualifiers played in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (2 spots available for the tournament) and the American qualifiers (5 spots) in Monterrey, Mexico.
The Paris major tournament starts with the group stage matches on Monday, May 8. The winner of the tournament will e.g. from the World Hockey Championships and the tennis French Open at the familiar Bercy arena on Sunday, May 21.