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![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/3Pcl0tl.png) StarLadder Berlin Major 2019
Challengers Stage
The valve sponsored Majors are played twice a year and are still the most prestigious tournament in CS:GO. There are 10 qualification spots for all relevant regions (Europe, CIS, Americas, Asia/Oceania) in the so called Minors. 14 teams are automatically qualified for progressing to a certain stage at the last major, meaning the tournament will feature 24 teams in total. The Major has 3 stages: - The challenger stage consists of 16 teams: 10 teams that qualified through the Minors, and 6 teams from last majors legend stage (see below). They play in a swiss system; winner vs winner, loser vs loser until each team has either 3 wins or 3 losses. The best 8 teams advance to the legends stage. The other 8 teams will have to go through qualification again for the next major.
- The legends stage consist of 16 teams: 8 teams from the challenger stage and 8 teams that made the playoffs in the last major. It uses the same system as the challenger stage. The best 8 teams advance to the playoffs. From the rest, two teams will not win any games and will have to qualify again for the next major. The other 6 teams are qualified for the challengers stage of the next major.
- The playoff stage: 8 teams battle it out in a classic playoff, all games are Best-of-3. Winning team gets 500'000 Dollars. All 8 teams are also qualified for the legends stage of the next major.
Friday, Aug 23 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
Round 1: Friday, Aug 23 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 2: Friday, Aug 23 3:00pm GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 3: Saturday, Aug 24 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 4: Sunday, Aug 25 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)Round 5: Monday, Aug 26 10:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)https://liquipedia.net/counterstrike/StarLadder/2019/Major/Challengers_Stage
Streams
Starladder Main Stream | Starladder B Stream
TeamsThe Returning Challengers![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/6/66/Team_Vitality_2018_no_text.png/115px-Team_Vitality_2018_no_text.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/f/f6/AVANGAR_2019.png/165px-AVANGAR_2019.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/d/d3/HR_LOGO_2018.png/164px-HR_LOGO_2018.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/3/33/G2_Esports_2019.png/127px-G2_Esports_2019.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/3/3e/Complexity_Gaming_2019_teamcardimage.png/155px-Complexity_Gaming_2019_teamcardimage.png) The Minor Challengers![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/d/d4/Mousesports_new.png/190px-Mousesports_new.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/5/5c/NRG_2019_Black.png/190px-NRG_2019_Black.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/d/de/ForZe_2019.png/123px-ForZe_2019.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/f/f8/Grayhound_Gaming_teamcardimage.png/136px-Grayhound_Gaming_teamcardimage.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/c/cc/CR4ZY.png/147px-CR4ZY.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/7/7d/Furia_eSports.png/151px-Furia_eSports.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/0/06/Syman_2018.png/147px-Syman_2018.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/8/81/TyLoo2016logo.png/164px-TyLoo2016logo.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/e/eb/North.png/142px-North.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/8/85/DreamEatersnew.png/146px-DreamEatersnew.png) ![[image loading]](https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/d/dc/Intz.png/190px-Intz.png) heads-up for new viewers: Team Liquid is the current No1 and is already qualified for the legends stage, which will be played next week. Their preparations are going well, though.
Results+ Show Spoiler [Qualified Teams] +- 3-0: North, Mousesports
- 3-1: G2 Esports, NRG Esports, CR4ZY
- 3-2: Team Vitality, Avangar, DreamEaters
- 0-3: Tyloo, INTZ eSports
- 1-3: Complexity Gaming, Hellraisers, Furia Esports
- 2-3: Syman Gaming, Grayhound Gaming, Forze
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With Liquid being the Number 1 in CS:GO and Major still being the most prestigious tournament, I thought I try to spark some more interest in this beautiful esport on this board. I'll do the LR threads for the legends and playoff stage as well, and we'll see were it goes from there...
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I haven't been following much of the recent games. Is Vertigo going to be a permanent veto map and veto-chicken target or do some teams actually play it properly?
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On August 21 2019 18:12 Bacillus wrote:
I haven't been following much of the recent games. Is Vertigo going to be a permanent veto map and veto-chicken target or do some teams actually play it properly?
Vertigo has been played a measly 10 times in Big Events since its introduction. However, the situation for new Nuke was similar when it was introduced. The new changes valve made to the Vertigo 2 weeks ago might make it more interesting for teams, but I doubt we are going to see much of it at the major.
Most teams have another permaban than Vertigo, and must therefor risk to play it if its an opponents first pick. However, I assume it will be mostly underdogs that pick it first, to try to get an upset. That has not worked out so far, as every time the favored team won.
Some teams are also willing to let it slip through as a possible decider map, like Astralis and Liquid in the ESL Pro League season 9 quarterfinals game. Overall though, we are probably not gonna see much Vertigo.
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Ence just killed itself xD
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Syman just fucked the Pick'ems.
Edit: Also SpunJ casting feels so weird.
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Vitality should have practiced shooting instead of playing leap frog.
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Misses the pistol round and the round after due to ads not playing during ads break during the half.
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On August 24 2019 01:34 WindWolf wrote:
Misses the pistol round and the round after due to ads not playing during ads break during the half.
Not the first time that this happens on a Starladder event...
I am surprised by the Observing so far. The few games I have seen it has been pretty good, considering that they don't have any of the usual observers on board.
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I know very well that Train is a CT-sided map, but given how the first half looked, I'm impressed North-Syman went to 30 rounds.
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that north vs cr4zy game is insane.
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Forze vs Dreameaters is shaping up to be a great game. The first 5 rounds on Overpass are exciting to watch!
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On August 26 2019 22:44 phagga wrote:
Forze vs Dreameaters is shaping up to be a great game. The first 5 rounds on Overpass are exciting to watch!
Tuned in for the second half and it was exciting indeed. Mirage is currently shaping out to be the same
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EPT
