PGL Major Stockholm 2021

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) 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 competitive play, the game pits two teams against each other: the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists. Both sides are tasked with eliminating the other while also completing separate objectives. The Terrorists must either plant a bomb or kill the entire Counter-Terrorist team, while the Counter-Terrorists must either prevent the bomb from being planted by killing the entire Terrorist team or defusing the bomb. Once the bomb is planted, counter-terrorists have forty seconds to defuse the bomb; under normal circumstances, it takes ten seconds to defuse the bomb, but purchasing a defuse kit reduces the defuse time to five seconds. At the end of each round, players are rewarded based on their individual performance with in-game currency to spend on more powerful weapons in subsequent rounds. Winning rounds results in more money than losing, and completing objectives such as killing enemy players gives cash bonuses. However, the more consecutive rounds a team loses, the more money the losing team earns, with the loss bonus capping after five rounds; once that team wins a round, the loss round bonus resets to the minimum amount each player could earn after a round.

The Stockholm Major is 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,[3] but was postponed to November,[4] before later being canceled in September.[5]

The current defending champions are Astralis, after winning their fourth major championship at the Berlin Major 2019, the most of any team in CS:GO history.

There are six regional qualifiers – North America, South America, Europe, CIS, Asia, and Oceania. Each regional qualifier receives a set number of spots in the Stockholm Major. The number of spots corresponds with the number of teams from that region at the previous major, the Berlin Major.[6]

Before the Stockholm Major, each major had four regional qualifiers. Each regional qualifier, called "Minors", featured eight teams per region. Because of the 14-month gap between the planned Rio Major and the Berlin Major, Valve revised the system into the Regional Major Ranking system.[7]

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