ESL One Rio Major 2020

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ESL One Rio 2020
2020
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Tournament information
GameCounter-Strike: Global Offensive
LocationRio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date11—24 May 2020 (originally)
9—22 November 2020 (cancelled)
Administrator(s)Valve
ESL
Tournament
format(s)
Two 16 team swiss-system group stages
8 team single-elimination playoff
VenueJeunesse Arena
Teams24
PurseUS$2,000,000

The ESL One Rio Major 2020, also known as ESL One Rio 2020 or Rio 2020, was scheduled to be the sixteenth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship. It was to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[1] It was announced with a US$1,000,000 prize pool and twenty-four professional teams from around the world, as with previous Majors.[2] It would have been the seventh time ESL had hosted a Major.[3]

The Major was originally scheduled to take place from May 11 to May 24, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Valve and ESL postponed the Major to November.[4] Because Valve generally sponsors two Majors per year, the delayed Major was to have a US$2,000,000 prize pool, making it the largest prize pool in CS:GO Major history. In September 2020, Valve and ESL announced that the Major was canceled because of continued complications from the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil.[5] In January 2021, Valve announced that PGL Major Stockholm 2021 would be the next Major instead.[6]

Qualification[]

While Rio 2020 was initially announced with the same Legends and Challengers format as previous Majors, the 14-month gap between Berlin 2019 and the postponed Rio 2020 date led Valve to announce a new qualification system.[7] No team would be given an automatic invitation based on results at the previous Major; instead, all 24 teams would have to earn their invitation through regional qualifiers known as the Road to Rio.[8][9]

There would be six regional qualifiers – North America, South America, Europe, CIS, Asia, and Oceania. Each regional qualifier received a set number of spots in the Rio Major. The number of spots corresponds with the number of teams from that region at the previous major, the Berlin Major.[7] Valve announced that these events would continue until a new date for the Major was determined.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ "ESL One Rio Overview". HLTV.org. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "ESL One Rio 2020 - ESL Pro Tour Masters Championship". ESL One Rio. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  3. ^ "ESL One Rio announced, first CS:GO major in Brazil". ESPN.com. December 11, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  4. ^ "ESL One Rio Major Moved to November". The Esports Observer. March 23, 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  5. ^ Wolf, Jacob (September 10, 2020). "ESL One: Rio Major canceled due to coronavirus concerns". ESPN. Retrieved September 13, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Švejda, Milan. "PGL to host next Major in Stockholm*". HLTV.org. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
  7. ^ a b "The Road to the November Rio Major". Counter-Strike: Global Offensive blog. April 2, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  8. ^ "ESL One: Road to Rio to fill May CS:GO Major void". ESL One Rio. April 2, 2020. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
  9. ^ Mira, Luís. "ESL One Road to Rio: All you need to know". HLTV.org. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
  10. ^ Mira, Luis. "ESL One: Rio 2020 Major cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic". HLTV. Retrieved November 29, 2020.
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