ELeague

On September 27, 2016, Valve announced the tenth major in CS:GO and the first major of 2017: the ELeague Major 2017, also known as ELeague Atlanta 2017.[21] Like other majors, the top eight teams from the last major, ESL One Cologne 2016, will be invited to the major and eight other teams will play through a qualifier. ELeague Major 2017 took place from January 22 to 29, making it the longest-running major with eight days. Previous majors lasted three to six days.[22]

Like previous majors, eight teams received an automatic bid based on their top eight placement at the previous major, ESL One Cologne 2016, and another eight teams qualify through the Major Qualifier. The group stage format differed completely from previous majors, as the major would use a 16-team Swiss system rather than the four group GSL system.

The top eight teams in this major were Natus Vincere, Virtus.pro, Astralis, and North, FaZe Clan, Fnatic, SK Gaming, and Gambit Gaming, who were called Legends by making the top eight.

In the quarterfinals, Astralis defeated Natus Vincere, Fnatic defeated Gambit Gaming, Virtus.pro defeated North, and SK Gaming defeated FaZe Clan. In the semifinals, Astralis defeated Fnatic after a close game one and a clean game two. Virtus.pro scraped by a somewhat crippled SK Gaming in a close 2–0 set.

The finals pitted Astralis, who was in its first major championships, and Virtus.pro, who was in its second and had one major title under its belt. In a close and intense three-game set, Astralis defeated Virtus.pro—12–16, 16–14, 16–14—to win its first-ever major title. Markus "Kjaerbye" Kjærbye was named the MVP of the major.

On October 5, 2017, Valve announced that ELeague would host the first major of 2018 and the twelfth major in CS:GO history: ELeague Major: Boston 2018. Unlike past majors, Boston major featured 24 teams as Valve expanded the format to include what was formerly known as "The Major Qualifier", now rebranded as "The New Challengers Stage".[23] This major was the first in CS:GO major tournaments' history to take place in two different cities. The group stage took place in Turner Studios, where all ELeague season matches were played, in Atlanta from January 19 to 22. The playoffs took place in Boston from January 26 to 28 at the Agganis Arena in Boston University.[24][25][26]

Only two Legends made the playoffs, as SK Gaming and Fnatic made it into the top eight. New Legends were G2 Esports, FaZe Clan, Natus Vincere, Quantum Bellator Fire, mousesports, and Cloud9. The grand finals put the pressure on the tournament favorites FaZe Clan, which defeated mousesports and Natus Vincere, and the dark horse Cloud9, which upset G2 Esports and SK Gaming. In what was being called one of the best series of all time in Global Offensive, Cloud9 upset FaZe Clan—14–16, 16–10, 22–19—to take home the Boston 2018 major. In addition, Cloud9 became the first ever North American team to win a major title.

In July 2016, ELeague announced the first Overwatch Open, starting in August 2016, with a total prize pool of $300,000. Sixteen teams took part in the main tournament, eight from North America and eight from Europe, and many more took part in the qualifier for the main tournament. The winners of each continent faced off in the ELeague Arena.[27] The tournament took place between August 1 and September 30, 2016. In North America, the final four teams were Team EnVyUs, Cloud9, Fnatic, and NRG Esports. EnVyUs defeated Fnatic 3–1 in the North American final. In Europe, the final four teams were Ninjas in Pyjamas, Misfits, Rogue, and FaZe Clan. Misfits defeated Rogue 3–2 in the Europe finals. In the grand finals, Misfits defeated EnVyUs three games to one to take home one third of the prize pool.[28][29]

ELeague hosted the Injustice 2 World Championships that started on October 27, 2017 and will end on November 10, 2017. Sixteen players qualified for the tournament and competed for US$250,000.[30][31][32]

Qualifying event	Qualifying root	Qualified players
Proseries Injustice 2 2017	Top 8	ALG | Dragon F3 | DR Gross PG | Hayatei BC | Honeybee Noble | Semiij FOX | Sonic Fox | Tekken Master FOX | Theo
Gamestop Hometown Heroes Injustice 2	Top 2	ER | Knicks Nubcakes
Injustice 2 Path To Pro	Top 2	Bombooka Happypow
Liga Latina Injustice 2 2017	Top 2	VX | HeeyGe0rge VX | Killer Xenox
The ELeague Last Chance Qualifier	Top 2	PxP | A F0xy Grandpa Circa | ForeverKing

Players were separated into two groups of eight. Each group would be an eight player, best of five, double elimination bracket. Only two players from each group would make it to the main playoffs. In the playoffs, players played in a four player, best of five, double elimination bracket. In the end, Dragon defeated A F0xy Grandpa from the winner's side of the bracket to take home $150,000 of the $250,000 prize pool home.

ELeague announced the Rocket League Cup that would start on December 1, 2017 and end on December 3, 2017. The studio invited eight premier teams from around the world that included Chiefs Esports Club, Cloud9, G2 Esports, Gale Force eSports, Ghost Gaming, Method, Mock-It eSports, and PSG eSports. The teams competed for a $150,000 prize pool.

In a tense grand finals between G2 Esports and Gale Force eSports, G2 was able to take down the then current world champions in a close best-of-seven series, four games to three, to take home $70,000 of the $150,000 prize pool.