PGL_Major_Stockholm_2021

PGL Major Stockholm 2021

PGL Major Stockholm 2021

CS:GO tournament


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.[1][2] 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 US$2,000,000 prize pool, a rise from the $1,000,000 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.[3]

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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 professional CS:GO, the Valve-sponsored Majors are the most prestigious tournaments.[4][5]

The Stockholm Major was the first Major in two years following an absence in offline play in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, the ESL One Rio Major 2020 was planned for May 2020,[6] but was postponed to November,[7] before later being canceled in September.[8]

The defending champions were Astralis, who won their fourth Major at Berlin 2019. They were eliminated in the Legends stage after their loss to Team Vitality.[9][10]

Format

Map Pool

Between the Berlin 2019 Major and the Stockholm 2021 Major, Valve replaced Train in the active duty map pool with Ancient.[11]

  • Dust II
  • Mirage
  • Inferno
  • Nuke
  • Ancient
  • Overpass
  • Vertigo

Regional Major Ranking

On April 2, 2020, Valve revised the former major qualification system which featured direct qualifiers called minors, for a yearly circuit where teams had to earn Regional Major Ranking Points (RMR) in a series of tournaments. The system was revised in scope of the first postponement of the Rio Major.[12] In early January 2021, Valve reached out to organizers for proposals of three RMR events per region–Asia, CIS, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania.[13] Five days later, the corporation released the 2020 RMR Sticker capsule as an in-game item, including the team's logos as sticker who qualified for Rio. They furthermore reset all the points acquired and reset the leaderboard. As a compensation, teams who qualified as a Legend for the Rio Major were awarded with 600 points, Challengers with 300 and Contenders with 100.[14] Through the rules laid out by Valve, teams were able to replace up to two members of their roster at a time for a penalty. Teams lost 20% of their points per player change. If three or more players were removed from the team, the points would be reset. At least two RMR events per region were required with an optional third one being possible.[15] The only regions to have three RMR events were CIS and South America.

Tournaments

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RMR standings

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Teams competing

Legends
Challengers
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New Challengers Stage

The New Challengers stage took place from October 26 to October 29, 2021, at the Avicii Arena. The Challengers stage, also known as the Preliminary stage and formerly known as the offline qualifier, is a sixteen team swiss tournament. Initial seeding was determined using RMR srandings, from the 3rd round forward the Buchholz system was used.

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New Legends Stage

  • Top 8 Teams proceed to New Champions Stage
  • Bottom 8 Teams are eliminated
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New Champions Stage

With eight teams remaining, the final stage of the Major is a single-elimination bracket, with all matches played as best-of-3 maps.

Bracket

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1 Natus Vincere 16 16 2
8 Team Vitality 11 13 0
1 Natus Vincere 16 16 2
4 Gambit Esports 8 3 0
5 FURIA Esports 17 10 0
4 Gambit Esports 19 16 2
1 Natus Vincere 16 22 2
2 G2 Esports 11 19 0
3 Heroic 16 13 16 2
6 Virtus.pro 10 16 12 1
3 Heroic 16 10 15 1
2 G2 Esports 12 16 19 2
2 G2 Esports 16 16 2
7 Ninjas in Pyjamas 11 11 0

Quarterfinals

Heroic vs. Virtus.pro

Casters: Semmler & moses

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G2 Esports vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas

Casters: Semmler & Anders

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FURIA Esports vs. Gambit Esports

Casters: James Bardolph & ddk

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Natus Vincere vs. Team Vitality

Casters: James Bardolph & ddk

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Semifinals

Heroic vs. G2 Esports

Casters: Semmler & Anders

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Natus Vincere vs. Gambit Esports

Casters: Semmler & Moses

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Finals

Natus Vincere vs. G2 Esports

Casters: Machine & SPUNJ

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Final standings

The final placings are shown below. In addition, the prize distribution, seed for the next major, roster, and coaches are shown.

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Notes

  1. July 9: Invictus part ways with Starry;[30] August 17: Invictus sign rage[31] (−280)
  2. July 6: Wings Up replace DD with ayaya[32] (−260)
  3. February 2021: Renegades replace dexter with aliStair (−20)
  4. July 2021: LookingForOrg, at the time still under the Dire Wolves name replace soju_j with apoc (−260)
  5. January: B1T joins the roster for flamie[33] (−120)
  6. January 21: iDISBALANCE is replaced with degster[34] (−120)
  7. April 2: speed4k gets replaced with iDISBALANCE[35] (−60)
  8. August 30: 1eeR replaces mdr[36] (−48)
  9. January 11: degster and Patsi become inactiv[37] (−40)
  10. January 2021: Furia replace HEN1 with junior (−120)
  11. June 2021: junior gets replaced by drop (−396)
  12. January 2021: Twistzz gets replaced by FalleN (−120)
  13. March 2021: Ethan retires and gets replaced by oBo; April 2021: tarik is benched and replaced by MICHU (−240)
  14. January 2021: jks gets replaced by BnTet
  15. May 2021: alter gets replaced by Shakezullah; August 2021: ptr gets replaced by junior
  16. January 2021: BnTeT is removed from the roaster
  17. January 2021: exit replaces felps (−20)
  18. June 2021: caike replaces Leomonster (−260)
  19. September: danoco replaces KaiG (−608)
  20. July: w1 is benched and replaced by skullz (−210)
  21. May: chara is replaced with DANVIET; July: dukka leaves the roaster (−420)
  22. August: Santos e-Sports remove their core roaster of xns, voltera, MaLLby (−1050)
  23. May/June: Meta Gaming part ways with their core roaster of rushardo, 648, and restik (−1050)
  24. January: twist is replaced with ztr; April: dev1ce replaces nawwk (−240)
  25. June: LNZ replaces ztr (−372)
  26. April: Kyojin replaces RPK (−120)
  27. April: kennyS gets replaced with NiKo (−60)
  28. February/March: OG replace ISSAA with flameZ and NBK- with niko (−120)
  29. April: emi replaces krystal (−60)
  30. April 30: NBK leaves DPL Poney.;[38] June: Ex3rcice joins the roaster as a stand-in.[39] (−180)
  31. July 29: denis leaves the team;[40] August 12: raalz joins the team (−120)[41]
  32. January: Kjaerbye replaces Lekro; MSL replaces b0RUP (−40)
  33. July: HYENAS loose their roaster (−310)

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