ELEAGUE to Host Boston CS:GO Major

Boston — the Place to Be in January

The group stage will be played January 19-22 at the ELEAGUE Arena in Atlanta, while the final phase will be played January 26-28 at the Agganis Arena in Boston. It is a fantastic pavilion with a capacity of 7,200 spectators on the campus of Boston University.

 

What is the Legends Status?

The tournament will have 16 participants. Eight of whom will classify by the Legend Status acquired in the last Major. What is the Legend Status? It consists of a title that is awarded to all players who pass the group stage of a Major. If three or more of these players continue together, they will receive an invitation to the next Major. Whenever a player leaves the squad, the team loses the Legend Status. If fewer than three players with Legend Status remain together, one more place will be added to the qualifier.

The Legends of Boston

In this tournament, the ELEAGUE continues listing Immortals with the status of legends. Although the Brazilians only have at present two players that arrived at the end of Krakow. This situation will force the club to play to place in the Minor of America.

Teams with Legend Status for the Boston Major are:

• Astralis
• BIG
• Fnatic
• Gambit
• Immortals
• North
• SK
• pro

Road to Main Qualifiers

The eight teams that failed to qualify for the finals of the past Major will receive an invitation to compete in the main qualifier. The main qualifiers will be held from January 12 to 15 in Atlanta.

 

 

The following teams will participate in the main qualifier:

• Cloud9
• FlipSid3
• G2
• Do it
• mousesports
• Natus Vincere
• Seed (former Penta)
• Vega Squadron

The road to the Boston Major starts October 9 with online Minor Qualifiers in all regions except Asia. In the Asian region, all of their teams will receive a direct invitation to the Minor.

Below the dates of all Minor, main qualifier, and tournament:

• October 26-29 — Minor of Asia (Seoul)
• October 26-29 — CIS Minor (Bucharest)
• November 2-5 — Minor of Europe (Bucharest)
• November 2-5 — Minor of America (Toronto)
• January 12-15 — Main Qualifier (Atlanta)
• January 19-22 — ELEAGUE Major Boston Group Stage (Atlanta)
• ELEAGUE Major Boston Final Phase (Boston)

This will be the second time that ELEAGUE has sponsored a Counter-Strike Major. The first was the Atlanta 2017.