ELeague Major 2017

ELeague

2017
Tournament information
Sport	Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location	Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Dates	January 22, 2017–January 29, 2017
Administrator(s)	Turner Studios William Morris Endeavor
Tournament format(s)	16 team double-elimination group stage Eight team single-elimination playoff
Teams	16 teams
Purse	$1,000,000 USD
← ESL One Cologne 2016

ELeague Major 2017 is a Turner and William Morris Endeavor Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament. It will be the tenth Valve-sponsored tournament in CS:GO history. It will be held at the in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from January 22–29, 2017. It will featured 16 teams throughout the world competing. ELeague Major is the third consecutive major with a prize pool of $1,000,000.^[1]

Format

Like the previous majors, there will be a major qualifier. The bottom eight teams from ESL One Cologne 2016 will receive automatic bids to the qualifier. Two teams each from the Asia, North America, Europe, and CIS Minors will be able to compete in the major qualifier.

In the major qualifier, the top eight teams will move on to the major. These teams will be known as "Challengers. The top eight teams from the previous major will receive automatic bids to the major; these teams are known as "Legends."

Teams will be split up into four groups. All group matches are best of 1. The highest seed will play the lowest seed in each group and the second and third seeds will play against each other. The winner of those two matches will play to determine which team moves on to the Playoffs; the loser of that match will play another match against the winner of the two losing teams. The loser of the lower match is eliminated from the tournament. The last two teams will play each other and the winner of that match moves on to the playoffs.

The playoffs bracket consists of eight teams, two from each group. All of these matches are a best of three, single elimination format. Teams advance in the bracket until a winner is decided.

Major Qualifier Teams

The bottom eight teams from the previous major will be joined by eight other teams from around the globe.^[2]

¹ - The players of ALL-IN are signed by Vega Squadron after the CIS Minor

Qualifiers

The final four teams from each qualifier are shown below; two from each move on to the main qualifying event. All games are offline.

Asia Minor 

	First round					Semifinals					Finals
		TyLoo	0
		VG.CyberZen	2
							VG.CyberZen	0
							Renegades	2
		Renegades	2
		MVP Project	0
												Renegades	0
											TyLoo	2
		TyLoo	2
		MVP Project	0
							VG.CyberZen	1
							TyLoo	2

Europe Minor 

	First round					Semifinals					Finals
		Space Soldiers	0
		HellRaisers	2
							HellRaisers	2
							GODSENT	0
		Epsilon eSports	1
		GODSENT	2
												HellRaisers	1
											GODSENT	2
		Space Soldiers	0
		Epsilon eSports	2
							GODSENT	2
							Epsilon eSports	1

CIS Minor 

	First round					Semifinals					Finals
		Team Spirit	2
		VwS Gaming	0
							Team Spirit	2
							ALL-IN	1
		ALL-IN	2
		Quantum Bellator Fire	0
												Team Spirit	0
											ALL-IN	2
		VwS Gaming	1
		Quantum Bellator Fire	0
							ALL-IN	1
							VwS Gaming	0

Americas Minor 

First round

Semifinals

Finals

Cloud9

1

Muffin Lightning

0

Cloud9

0

Immortals

2

Immortals

1

Team SoloMid

0

Immortals

Q

Cloud9

Q

Muffin Lightning

0

Team SoloMid

2

Cloud9

2

Team SoloMid

0

Teams Competing

The top eight teams from ESL One Cologne 2016 (Legends) will be joined by the eight teams from the main qualifier (Challengers).^[3]

Prior to the major, changes took place. GODSENT acquire Robin "flusha" Rönnquist, Jesper "JW" Wecksell, and Freddy "KRiMZ" Johansson from Fnatic, who acquired Jonas "Lekr0" Olofsson and Simon "twist" Eliasson, so GODSENT acquired the Legends spot from Fnatic.^[4] However, KRiMZ rejoined Fnatic while Lekr0 rejoined GODSENT, giving the Legends spot back to Fnatic.^[5] Fnatic use John "wenton" Eriksson to fill in its last spot, but is soon replaced by Joakim "disco doplan" Gidetun.^[6]

Natus Vincere acquire Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev from Team Liquid and release Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko.^[7] Meanwhile, Zeus goes on to join Gambit Gaming with Abay "HObbit" Khasenov and Gambit release Ivan "spaze" Obrezhan and Dmitry "hooch" Bogdanov.

Flipsid3 Tactics release Oleksandr "Shara" Hordieiev and sign Denis "electronic" Sharipov.^[8]

Astralis agree to release Finn "karrigan" Andersen and sign Lukas "gla1ve" Rossander as in game leader. karrigan is then signed by FaZe Clan.^[9][10]

SK Gaming bench Lincoln "fnx" Lau following internal problems.^[11]

Broadcast Talent

Host

• TBD

Analysts

• TBD

Commentators

• TBD

Observers

• TBD

References