MLG Major Championship: Columbus

MLG Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship: Columbus
2016
Tournament information
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location Columbus, Ohio, US
Dates March 29, 2016–April 3, 2016
Administrator(s) Valve Corporation
Host(s) Major League Gaming
Venue(s) Nationwide Arena
Purse $1,000,000 USD
Final positions
Champions Brazil Luminosity Gaming
1st runners-up Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere
2nd runners-up Denmark Astralis
United States Team Liquid
MVP Brazil Marcelo "coldzera" David
← DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 ESL One Cologne 2016 →

MLG Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship: Columbus, also referred to as MLG Columbus 2016[1] was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major held by Major League Gaming ("MLG") throughout March 29 to April 3, 2016 in the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, US.[2][3] It was the first CS:GO Major in North America as well as the first run by Major League Gaming, who previously ran an exhibition CS:GO tournament at X Games Aspen 2015.[4] It was announced on February 23, 2016 that MLG Columbus 2016 would be the first Counter-Strike tournament with a $1,000,000 prize pool.[5]

Format

The top eight finishers at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 (known as "Legends") received direct invitations to Columbus In addition, eight other teams emerged from the offline qualifiers (known as "Challengers").[6]

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.

Broadcast Talent

Stage Hosts[7]

Desk Host

Interviewer

Analysts'

Commentators

Guest Commentator

Observers

Gameplay Director

Teams

Between DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 and MLG Columbus 2016, several changes happened to the Legends. Fnatic replaced Markus "pronax" Wallsten with Dennis "dennis" Edman from G2 Esports. G2 then signed the Danish player Philip "aizy" Aistrup.[8] Luminosity Gaming let go of Lucas "steel" Lopes and Ricardo "boltz" Prass and replaced the two with Epitácio "TACO" de Melo and Lincoln "fnx" Lau.[9] Team EnVyUs released Fabien "kioShiMa" Fiey and replaced him with Timothée "DEVIL" Démolon.[10]

Ninjas in Pyjamas released its Finnish player Aleksi "allu" Jalli and signed Jacob "pyth" Mourujärvi. However, pyth could not resolve his visa issues in time for the tournament, so he was replaced with Ninjas in Pyjamas' coach, Björn "THREAT" Pers, for the tournament.[11]

The roster of Team SoloMid left the organization and formed its own, Astralis. The roster of G2 Esports was acquired by FaZe Clan and G2 formed a new roster of French and Belgium players.

Legends
Qualifiers

Group stage

The four groups were announced through MLG's social media accounts on March 10–11, 2016. Each group was seeded to contain a team who placed 1st–4th at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015, a team who placed 5–8th at DreamHack Open Cluj–Napoca 2015, a team who went undefeated in the offline qualifiers, and a team who won one of the final decider matches in the offline qualifiers.[12]

Group A
Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Brazil Luminosity Gaming 2 0 32 18 +14 2
2 Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 2 1 68 83 +5 2
3 Germany mousesports 1 2 74 88 -14 1
4 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics 0 2 45 50 -5 0
Group A matches
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 19 17 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics
Brazil Luminosity Gaming 16 13 Germany mousesports
Germany mousesports 31 28 Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 5 16 Brazil Luminosity Gaming
Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas 2 1 Germany mousesports

Group B

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 United States Team Liquid 2 0 38 30 +8 2
2 Sweden Fnatic 2 1 67 43 +24 2
3 European Union FaZe Clan 1 2 43 51 -8 1
4 United States Splyce 0 2 8 32 -24 0
Group B matches
European Union FaZe Clan 11 16 United States Team Liquid
Sweden Fnatic 16 5 United States Splyce
European Union FaZe Clan 16 5 United States Splyce
Sweden Fnatic 19 22 United States Team Liquid
Sweden Fnatic 2 0 European Union FaZe Clan
Group C
Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Denmark Astralis 2 0 32 19 +13 2
2 United States Counter Logic Gaming 2 1 70 61 +9 2
3 Commonwealth of Independent States Gambit Gaming 1 2 63 74 -11 1
4 France Team EnVyUs 0 2 21 32 -11 0
Group C matches
France Team EnVyUs 8 16 United States Counter Logic Gaming
Denmark Astralis 16 10 Commonwealth of Independent States Gambit Gaming
France Team EnVyUs 13 16 Commonwealth of Independent States Gambit Gaming
Denmark Astralis 16 9 United States Counter Logic Gaming
United States Counter Logic Gaming 2 1 Commonwealth of Independent States Gambit Gaming

Group D

Pos Team W L RF RA RD Pts
1 Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere 2 0 32 13 +19 2
2 Poland Virtus.pro 2 1 61 49 +12 2
3 France G2 Esports 1 2 49 60 -11 1
4 United States Cloud9 0 2 12 32 -20 0
Group D matches
Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere 16 9 United States Cloud9
Poland Virtus.pro 16 1 France G2 Esports
France G2 Esports 16 3 United States Cloud9
Commonwealth of Independent States Natus Vincere 16 4 Poland Virtus.pro
Poland Virtus.pro 2 1 France G2 Esports

Playoffs bracket

The playoffs bracket was announced on March 30, 2016. Each quarterfinals match was seeded to contain one top seed and one second seed from the group stage.[13]

  Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
                                       
  Commonwealth of Independent States  Natus Vincere 16 16 –  
Sweden  Ninjas in Pyjamas 9 10 –  
  Commonwealth of Independent States  Natus Vincere 16 16 –  
  Denmark  Astralis 14 5 –  
Denmark  Astralis 16 16 –
  Sweden  Fnatic 10 5 –  
    Commonwealth of Independent States  Natus Vincere 17 2 –
  Brazil  Luminosity Gaming 19 16 –
  United States  Team Liquid 16 16 –  
United States  Counter Logic Gaming 13 6 –  
  United States  Team Liquid 15 16 –
  Brazil  Luminosity Gaming 19 19 –  
Brazil  Luminosity Gaming 17 16 16
  Poland  Virtus.pro 19 10 11  

Final standings

The $1,000,000 prize pool was divided up as follows.

Place Team Prize Money Seed Roster
1st Brazil Luminosity Gaming US$500,000 ESL One Cologne 2016 Brazil FalleN, Brazil fer, Brazil coldzera, Brazil fnx, Brazil TACO
2nd Ukraine Natus Vincere US$150,000 Ukraine Zeus, Ukraine Edward, Russia seized, Russia flamie, Slovakia GuardiaN
3rd–4th Denmark Astralis US$70,000 Denmark karrigan, Denmark dev1ce, Denmark cajunb, Denmark dupreeh, Denmark Xyp9x
United States Team Liquid United States Hiko, United States nitr0, United States EliGE, United States adreN, Ukraine s1mple
5–8th Sweden Ninjas in Pyjamas US$35,000 Sweden GeT RiGhT, Sweden f0rest, Sweden friberg, Sweden Xizt, Sweden THREAT
Sweden Fnatic Sweden olofmeister, Sweden JW, Sweden KRiMZ, Sweden flusha, Sweden dennis
United States Counter Logic Gaming United States tarik, United States hazed, United States reltuC, United States jdm64, United States FugLy
Poland Virtus.Pro Poland NEO, Poland TaZ, Poland pashaBiceps, Poland Snax, Poland byali
9–12th Germany mousesports US$8,750 ESL One Cologne 2016 Offline Qualifier Germany nex, Germany Spiidi, Germany denis, Bosnia and Herzegovina NiKo, Netherlands chrisJ
European Union FaZe Clan Portugal fox, Norway rain, Norway jkaem, Denmark aizy, France kioShiMa
Commonwealth of Independent States Gambit Gaming Russia Dosia, Russia hooch, Kazakhstan AdreN, Kazakhstan mou, Finland wayLander
France G2 Esports France RpK, France shox, France SmithZz, Belgium ScreaM, Belgium Ex6TenZ
13–16th Ukraine Flipsid3 Tactics US$8,750 Ukraine B1ad3, Ukraine markeloff, Ukraine bondik, Ukraine Shara, Russia WorldEdit
United States Splyce United States arya, United States abE, United States Professor_Chaos, Canada DAVEY, Canada jasonR
France Team EnVyUs France Happy, France NBK, France kennyS, France apEX, France DEVIL
United States Cloud9 United States n0thing, United States Skadoodle, United States fREAKAZOiD, United States Stewie2k, Canada shroud

All-Star Game

The All-Star Game was played shortly before the finals between Natus Vincere and Luminosity Gaming. Players were chosen from the continent of the team the play for rather than their origin. For instance, Oleksandr "s1mple" Kostyliev is from Ukraine, a European country, but since he plays for the American Team Liquid, he played for Team North America


North America 22–19 Europe
Hiko United States
s1mple Ukraine
tarik United States
Skadoodle United States
shroud Canada		 Nuke Sweden GeT_RiGhT
France kennyS
Norway rain
Sweden Maikelele
Bosnia and Herzegovina NiKo

References

  1. ↑ "MLG Columbus 2016". Counter-Strike Blog. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Lewis, Richard (November 2015). "Report: MLG to Host 'Counter-Strike: Global Offensive' Major in March 2016". Breitbart.
  3. ↑ "Le prochain Major de CS:GO aux États-Unis". vossey.com (in French).
  4. ↑ Walker, Alex (November 23, 2015). "Major League Gaming Is Getting On Board The Counter-Strike Train Too". Kotaku Australia. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Major Growth". Counter-Strike Blog. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "Cloud9 grab last major spot". HLTV. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  7. ↑ http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/mlg-csgo-columbus-brings-in-top-talent-and-casters
  8. ↑ "aizy signs for G2.Kinguin". G2Esports.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Mira, Luis. "Official: Luminosity add fnx, TACO". HLTV.org. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  10. ↑ "DEVIL replaces kioShiMa in EnVyUs CS:GO Lineup". TeamEnVyUs.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  11. ↑ Dosza, Preston. "THREAT to replace pyth at MLG Columbus due to visa issues". theScore eSports. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  12. ↑ Apicella, Adam. "Group Stage Seeding". Twitter. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  13. ↑ Malachowski, Michal. "MLG Columbus playoff matches drawn". HLTV. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
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