Event overview

12 Januari 2018 - 28 Januari 2018

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Boston & Atlanta, United States

Information

ELEAGUE will be hosting their second Major in the beginning of 2018. Majors is CS:GO is the most prestigious tournaments, with all the best teams participating as well as a $1,000,000 prize pool.

The 2018 ELEAGUE Major Qualifiers and the Group Stage will take place in the ELEAGUE Arena at Turner Studios in Atlanta and the playoffs with be played in the Agganis Arena in Boston.

Teams that makes it to the playoffs in Majors gets a Legend Status, meaning that they will be directly invited to the next Major. The eight legends will be joined by eight challengers that will be going through the Qualifiers.

The teams that are participating in the qualifiers will be the eight teams that didn't make it out of groups in the last major as well as the top two teams from each of the four Minors that will take place ahead of the Major.

Format

The New Challengers Stage: January 12th - 15th, 2018 in USA Atlanta

16 Team Swiss System Format, all matches are best-of-one.
Top 8 Teams proceed to The New Legends Stage (bottom 8 Teams are eliminated)

The New Legends Stage: January 19th - 22nd, 2018 in USA Atlanta
 
16 Team Swiss System Format, all matches are best-of-one.
Top 8 Teams proceed to The New Legends Stage (bottom 8 Teams are eliminated).        

The New Champions Stage: January 26th - 28th, 2018 in USA Boston

Playoffs, Single-Elimination Bracket all matches are best-of-three.