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PGL Major Stockholm 2021
The PGL Major Stockholm 2021, also known as PGL Major 2021 or Stockholm 2021, was the sixteenth '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (''CS:GO'') Major Championship. It was held in Stockholm, Sweden at the Avicii Arena from October 26 to November 7, 2021. Twenty-four teams qualified via regional major rankings. It featured a prize pool, a rise from the of previous Majors due to the absence of offline competition amid the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the second Major hosted by the Romanian organization PGL, after PGL Major: Kraków 2017. Stockholm 2021 was the first Major after a break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic following the StarLadder Major: Berlin 2019. The Major was won by Natus Vincere, who did not lose a single map throughout the tournament. Background ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation. It is the fourth game in the ''Counter-Strike'' series. In professio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renegades (esports)
Renegades is an American professional esports organization. It has teams competing in ''Call of Duty'', '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', ''Fortnite'', ''Overwatch'', '' Super Smash Bros.'', ''Rocket League'', ''iRacing'' and ''Valorant''. The organization previously had a ''League of Legends'' team that qualified for the 2016 North American League of Legends Championship Series (LCS), but it was sold to Team EnVyUs after the owners were banned from NA LCS ownership. In September 2016, professional basketball player Jonas Jerebko purchased the rights to the Renegades franchise. Current divisions ''Call of Duty'' On August 30, 2016, Renegades signed the former members of Dream Team known as Ground Zero. KiLLa, Chino, Sender and Diabolic had already qualified for the 2016 Call of Duty World League Championship by earning enough CWL Championship Points from Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the CWL. At the event, the team lost their first two matches in Group D to Epsilon eSports and T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ESL One Rio Major 2020
The Intel Extreme Masters Season XVII – Rio Major 2022, also known as IEM Rio Major 2022 or Rio 2022, was the eighteenth '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' Major Championship. It was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between October 31 and November 13, 2022. Outsiders won the Major, defeating Heroic in the final 2–0. Background The Major was originally scheduled to take place from May 11 to May 24, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Valve and ESL postponed the Major to November. Because Valve generally sponsors two Majors per year, the delayed Major was to have a 2,000,000 prize pool, making it the largest prize pool in CS:GO Major history. In September 2020, Valve and ESL announced that the Major was canceled because of continued complications from the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. In January 2021, Valve announced that PGL Major Stockholm 2021 would be the next Major instead. On September 15, 2021, ESL published the 2022 ESL Pro Tour Road Map, announcing its i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multiplayer Video Game
A multiplayer video game is a video game in which more than one person can play in the same game environment at the same time, either locally on the same computing system (couch co-op), on different computing systems via a local area network, or via a wide area network, most commonly the Internet (e.g. ''World of Warcraft'', '' Call of Duty'', ''DayZ''). Multiplayer games usually require players to share a single game system or use networking technology to play together over a greater distance; players may compete against one or more human contestants, work cooperatively with a human partner to achieve a common goal, or supervise other players' activity. Due to multiplayer games allowing players to interact with other individuals, they provide an element of social communication absent from single-player games. History Non-networked Some of the earliest video games were two-player games, including early sports games (such as 1958's ''Tennis For Two'' and 1972's ''Pong''), ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Spirit (esports)
Team Spirit is a Russian esports organization based in Moscow. Founded in 2015, the organization currently has teams competing in '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'', '' Dota 2'', ''League of Legends'' and '' Hearthstone''. Their ''Dota 2'' squad won The International 2021 and received the largest single prize money payout in esports history at $18 million. On 24 March 2022 Spirit announced the opening of an additional office in Belgrade. Divisions ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' On 9 June 2016, the organization signed the members of Team Phenomenon. On 3 March 2019, Artem "iDISBALANCE" Yegorov and Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov joined the team. On 9 September 2019, Pavel "COLDYY1" Veklenko and Dmitriy "SotF1k" Forostyanko were removed from the squad. They were replaced by Nikolai "mir" Bityukov from Gambit Esports and 17-year-old Boris "magixx" Vorobyov from the ESPADA team. Roster ''Dota 2'' The organisation signed its first team in '' Dota 2'' by acqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Invictus Gaming
Invictus Gaming (IG, sometime stylized as iG, zh, s=iG电子竞技俱乐部, l=iG Esports Club) is a Chinese multi-game esports organization founded in 2011 by businessman Wang Sicong. They are primarily known for their ''Dota 2'', ''League of Legends'', and ''StarCraft II'' teams. IG's ''Dota'' team won The International 2012, and its ''League of Legends'' team won the 2018 World Championship. History Invictus Gaming was founded in 2011 by Wang Sicong, son of Wang Jianlin, one of the wealthiest men in China and Asia, who bought the team formerly known as Catastrophic Cruel Memory (CCM) at about US$6 million, in order to promote and ameliorate the professional esports scene in China. Now Invictus Gaming consist of squads for ''Dota 2'', ''League of Legends'', ''Crossfire'', and ''StarCraft II''. ''Dota'' & ''Dota 2'' ''Defense of the Ancients'' The creation of iG.Y after poaching YYF, Chuan, 830 and CH of LGD, historically one of the strongest teams in China, came days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vici Gaming
Vici Gaming (VG) is a Chinese professional esports organization based in Shanghai. It has teams competing in ''Dota 2'', ''League of Legends'', ''StarCraft II'', ''WarCraft III'', ''FIFA'', ''Hearthstone'' and '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive''. Vici Gaming's ''Dota 2'' team has been a top contender in numerous tournaments, most notably as runners-up of The International 2014. ''Dota 2'' History 2012 Vici Gaming was founded on 21 September 2012 with the help of "Fengdidi", who previously played in PanDarea Gaming under the name PanPan, handpicking skilled players that were highly ranked on the Chinese DotA ladder at the time. The players had no previous professional experience at the time with the exception of sydm who had played under the banner of TyLoo. Their mid lane player Cty had shown promise by winning a 1v1 tournament organized by 2009, in which he beat famous players like Ferrari_430, Sylar, Hao, and other top Chinese players shortly before getting recruited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intel Extreme Masters Fall 2021 Europe
Intel Extreme Masters Fall 2021 Europe (IEM Fall 2021 EU) was a '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (CSGO) tournament organized by German company ESL and sponsored by American corporation Intel. Part of the sixteenth season of Intel Extreme Masters and one of the six events under the IEM Fall 2021 tournament, the event was used by Valve as the final Regional Major Ranking (RMR) event, to determine the participants of the PGL Major Stockholm 2021. Twenty-four teams competed for a prize pool, eleven spots at the major and for 2015 ESL Pro Tour Points, used by the organizer to determine the participants of its two main events each year—IEM Katowice and Cologne. The event was preceded by four qualifier events starting on August 28, which culminated in the Closed qualifier on September 18, determining the final twelve participants for event. The event started on September 29, with the group stage, where the teams were split equal between four groups. The two best performing teams o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HLTV
HLTV, formerly an acronym of Half-Life Television, is a news website and forum which covers professional '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' esports news, tournaments and statistics. It is one of the leading websites within the ''Counter-Strike'' community with over 4 million unique visitors each month. In February 2020, the site was acquired by the sports betting group Better Collective. History HLTV was founded in 2002 by Martin "Martin" Rosenbæk and Per "Nomad" Lambæk. It was initially created to host recordings of '' Counter-Strike 1.6'' matches, although it grew to include ''Counter-Strike'' and ''Half-Life'' news. HLTV started storing GOTV demos for '' Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' when they were introduced in 2012. It has since evolved to include news, statistics, and analysis for the professional esports scene of ''Global Offensive''. Since late 2015, HLTV ranks the teams based on their own rating system. HLTV have awarded Most Valuable Player (MVP) medals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dust II
"Dust II", also known by its filename de_dust2, is a Level (video games), video game map featured in the first-person shooter series ''Counter-Strike''. Dust II is the successor to "Dust", another ''Counter-Strike'' map, and was developed by David Johnston prior to the official release of the original ''Counter-Strike (video game), Counter-Strike'' game. It was designed with the aims of simplicity and balance, based on its symmetrical design and two points, over which the two teams must fight for control. The map was first released in March 2001 for the original ''Counter-Strike'' game and is present in all games in the series. Apart from graphical updates, it underwent minimal changes after its initial release, before receiving a significant visual revision in ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' in October 2017. The map has been popular with players since its initial release, and both its original and revised design in ''Global Offensive'' have been positively received by play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team Vitality
Team Vitality is a French esports organisation founded in August 2013 by Fabien Devide and Nicolas Maurer. It has several professional teams and content creators from across Europe and India. Team Vitality's main ''League of Legends'' team competes in the LEC (formerly EU LCS), which they joined in late 2015 after purchasing Gambit Gaming's spot. In April 2021, Team Vitality partnered with French association football club RC Strasbourg Alsace to create a ''FIFA'' eLigue 1 team. ''League of Legends'' History Team Vitality entered the professional ''League of Legends'' on 9 December 2015, after it acquired Gambit Gaming's spot in the 2016 EU LCS Spring Split. The first player signed to the team at the time of the announcement was former TSM support Raymond "kaSing" Tsang. Five days later, Vitality announced the rest of their roster, which consisted of top laner Lucas "Cabochard " Simon-Meslet, jungler Ilyas "Shook" Hartsema, mid laner Erlend "Nukeduck" Våtevik Holm, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astralis
Astralis is a Denmark, Danish esports organization. Best known for their ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' team, they also have teams representing other games, such as ''FIFA'' and ''League of Legends''. The parent group of Astralis is the Astralis Group, who previously managed Origen (esports), Origen and Future F.C. before the merger of all teams under the Astralis brand. ''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' division History 2018 On January 19, Astralis entered into the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018, ELEAGUE Major in the United States with the group stages being played in Atlanta and the playoffs in Boston. Astralis, being the previous ELEAGUE major champions, were eager to claim the title and have a wonderful start for 2018 after a good run at the previous year. However, things didn't go as expected as they started the tournament by losing to Mousesports. The Danes found themselves in a pretty tough situation, but they managed to catch up by winning the second game a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
