Counter Strike Major

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The two spots would instead be filled in via a playoff stage featuring the four third place teams at the Minors.

Unlike traditional sports or other esports leagues, Valve's policy on a spot in a Major is based on whichever the majority of the players are on rather than the team itself.

From to , Majors used a four group GSL format for the group stage. The highest seed the semifinalists and finalists from the last Major in each group would play the lowest seed in each group and the other two teams would play.

The two winners would then play to determine which team gets the top seed. The two losers then play to decide which team would go home.

The remaining two teams play to determine which team takes the final playoff spot. All games were best of ones.

The last Major of and both Majors in featured a best of three decider match to make it more fair and to have a more guarantee that the better team would come out on top.

Starting in , the group stage would feature a Swiss group stage. This would mean teams would be divided into four pots, in which pot one had the four highest seeds, pot two had the next four highest seeds, and so on.

A randomly selected team from pot one would face off against a randomly selected team from pot four. The same process is done with the pots two and three.

After initial matches are done, teams with the same record would play, so that teams with a 1—0 record would only play another team with a 1—0 record.

If a team gets three wins, then that team moves on to the next stage. If a team has three losses, that team is eliminated.

The Swiss system also guarantees no team would face each other twice unless necessary. The FACEIT Major: London revealed a slightly different form of the Swiss system called the Buchholz system, in which matchups would now be seeded instead of random and the last round would feature best of three sets.

Initially, the first three matches started out the same way as the GSL format intended, so that the winner of the group was determined.

However, teams were then reassigned afterwards so that the two losers played from different groups and then the decider match would also be teams from different groups.

The playoffs, now known as the New Champions stage, have featured eight teams since the Major's inception. All games are best of three series.

With the GSL format, the group winners would earn top seeds and the group runner-ups would earn the bottom seeds.

Each top seed plays a bottom seed in quarterfinals and teams play until a winner is decided. For the Swiss format seeding, the two teams that came out on top in the group stage earn the highest seeds.

Two randomly selected teams from the bottom three teams would be pitted against the top seeds. Players and teams that are already qualified for or participating in an event e.

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