A supplemental CSGO Major Rulebook has been deployed in a bid to eliminate “inconsistencies across Valve-sponsored events and allow tournament operators to prepare their staff well in advance of their events”.
Valve has released a CSGO Major Rulebook which highlights a plethora of aspects involving from the format of Major tournaments to Technical Specifications and Regulations to be scrutinized ahead of the pinnacle challenges. Through a blog post headlining the next PGL Major to be held in Antwerp, Belgium from May 19-22, the new Major Rulebook was brought into effect starting from the Antwerp major and forward.
Over the past two years, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive majors had indeed hit the slump leading to the ESL One: Road to Rio major getting canceled due to a series of unforeseeable circumstances forced by the ongoing Coronavirus Pandemic as the Minors and the qualifiers were forced online, making Valve to introduce a new Regional Major Ranking System (RMR) spread across the regions Europe, Americas, Oceania, CIS, and Asia.
The CSGO Major Series Supplemental Rulebook does overhaul the above system with a single RMR event system and not more than one.
According to what Valve addressed is the Regional Major Ranking events (RMRs) sort teams within their region, and the top teams from each region receive Major invitations. In addition, the geographic dependencies would be taken into consideration in a bid to provide the teams with the least possible latency while in competition.
Would the RMR events be held on LAN, there would be just three regions comprising the teams across the globe:
- Europe
- America
- Asia
If the RMR event is forced to be held online, the above three regions would split in five:
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Asia
- Oceania
Unlike the previous majors, PGL Antwerp would determine their Legend and Challenger slots on the basis of how teams fared at the Stockholm Major. For example:
If a team from North America made it to the Champions Stage at the Stockholm Major, the NA region would earn a Legends Spot at the Antwerp Major while the teams reaching the New Legends stage at Stockholm would earn their regions, the Challenger spots in Belgium. The final contender spots are divided among the regions NA, EU, and Asia with the first two getting 3 each and Asia bagging two spots.
The current and final composition of PGL Major Antwerp is as follows:
- Europe : 7 Legends, 6 Challengers, 3 Contenders (Stockholm New Champions stage : Natus Vincere, Team Vitality, Gambit, Heroic, Virtus.Pro, Ninjas In Pyjamas, G2 Esports.)
- Americas : 1 Legend, 2 Challengers, 3 Contenders (Stockholm New Champions Stage : Team Liquid.)
- Asia : 2 Contenders
