PGL Major Stockholm 2021: Survival Guide

After two years, CS:GO Major is back; 24 teams from around the world will be battling in Stockholm to compete for a share of the $2,000,000 prize pool

The biggest CS:GO tournament is here and GosuGamers has you covered with a one-stop guide to all things Major Stockholm.

Stockholm will be hosting the CS:GO Major tournament this coming October 26. A city associated with the Counter-Strike community; the Swedish capital will see 24 teams converging in the Swedish capital for the first Major in two years. After nearly 2 years of no Major championship, PGL will have the honor to run the first Major in 24 months.

13 days of non-stop CS:GO will be played at the Avicii Arena in Stockholm, where dreams will be created – and destroyed.

It will also be the first major LAN event after the cancellation of Rio 2020, as well as the first Major in a while to have spectators cheering for their favourite team. With a prize pool of $2,000,000, it is the biggest prize pool ever for a Major event.

Major Stockholm teams

Legends

• Ninjas in Pyjamas
• Team Vitality
• G2 Esports
• Team Liquid
• Evil Geniuses
• FURIA Esports
• Gambit Esports
• Natus Vincere

Challengers

• Astralis
• ENCE
• BIG
• Movistar Riders
• Heroic
• MOUZ
• paiN Gaming
• Team Spirit

Contenders

• Copenhagen Flames
• FaZe Clan
• GODSENT
• Outsiders
• Entropiq
• Sharks Esports
• TyLoo
• Renegades

Tournament Mechanic

New Challengers stage

• 16 teams will play in the Swiss System Format
• Elimination and Advancement matches are Bo3
• All other matches are Bo1
• PGL will be using the Buchholz system to seed matches from rounds 3 to 5
• Top 8 team will proceed to New Legends stage

New Legends stage

• 16 teams will play in the Swiss System Format
• 8 seeded, 8 from New Challengers stage
• Elimination and Advancement matches are Bo3
• All other matches are Bo1
• PGL will be using the Buchholz system to seed matches from rounds 3 to 5
• Top 8 team will proceed to New Champions stage

New Champions stage

• Single elimination bracket
• All matches are Bo3

Prize Pool

The total prize pool clocks in at $2,000,00. The breakdown of the prize money is as listed in our illustration above.

Along with the prize money, the top 22 teams will be given ESL Pro Tour points while the top 8 teams will receive BLAST Premier points, with the winner of Majors Stockholm seeded to the BLAST Premier: World Final in December.

Schedule

Check out the official schedule straight from PGL.

^{*Updates will be added later in the event}

How to catch it

There will be multiple streams for fans to catch their favourite teams play during the tournament. The list of official broadcast partners, as well as their streaming link are as below:

English: PGL Twitch channel | PGL Youtube Channel | CS:GO Steam TV

Russian: Weplay Twitch 1 | Twitch 2 | Youtube

Chinese:  PW Esports

Portuguese (Brazil): Gaules Twitch

Portuguese (Portugal): RTP Arena Twitch

Czech: Turbokanal Twitch

Romanian: Youtube Werty |Infinite Gaming Ro (October 30-31)

Bulgarian: Esports Bulgaria Twitch

Estonian: Esports Eesti Twitch | Esports Meedia Facebook

Latvian: GOEXANIMO Youtube

Lithuanian: Twitch SirDanny| Esports Namai (November 6-7)

Serbian:  Fortuna Esports Youtube | Sport Klub Esports 

Norwegian: TV 2 Play

Hungarian: Leet Esport Twitch | Arena4plus

Finnish: Yle Areena (online streaming) | yleeurheilu Twitch

French: Twitch 1pvcs | 9pvcs

German: Twitch 99damage | 99damage2

Malay:  Astro EGG Network 

Icelandic: Stöð 2 eSport

Ukrainian: Twitch Csgouesf_ua | Csgouesf_ua2

Vietnamese: Nimo.tv

Filipino: Focus Fire Gaming Facebook | Focus Fire Youtube

Spanish: PituHerranz