When was the first Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship?
2013 DreamHack Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship
The 2013 DreamHack SteelSeries Counter Strike: Global Offensive Championship or simply DreamHack Winter 2013 was the first "" to be sponsored by Valve. The competition was held during the Winter 2013 DreamHack digital festival at the Elmia Exhibition and Convention Centre in Jönköping, Sweden. Six invitees joined ten qualifiers to form the sixteen team event. Community funding helped to build the US$250,000 prizepool. The tournament had a peak 145,000 concurrent viewers on twitch.tv and the in-game viewing client.
World e-Sports Games
The inaugural World e-Sports Games took place in 2005 from January 30 through March 20. and featured "Counter-Strike" and "" as main titles. Players resided in Seoul, South Korea throughout most of the tournament and matches were broadcast on Korean television. The finals took place in Beijing, China. Attendees were all invited based on past performances and included the likes of Jang "Moon" Jae Ho, Team NoA and Li "Sky" Xiaofeng. The prize purse for both competitions totalled US$138,000. Eight Counter-Strike teams and sixteen WarCraft III players participated.
GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship
The Global Honored Crown Openweight Hardcore Championship was a semi-official professional wrestling championship contested in Pro Wrestling Noah. It was originally created in 2004 as a singles title known as the GHC Openweight Hardcore Championship; in 2007 it was announced that it would be reformed into a tag team title, continuing with the same lineage as the original belt. Later in 2007, it reverted to being a singles championship.
Super Smash Bros. in esports
The first publicized "Super Smash Bros. Melee" tournaments were held in early 2002 with the Tournament Go series. Early tournaments had disputes over what the official ruleset should be, but the Tournament Go organizer, Matt "MattDeezie" Dahlgren, eventually came up with a ruleset that would become similar to the current fundamental ruleset. On March 1, 2003 the International Video Game Federation hosted the first corporate sponsored "Super Smash Bros." tournament, the IVGF Northwest Regionals, won by Jeremy "Recipherus" Fremlin. From 2004 to 2006, Major League Gaming sponsored "Melee" on its Pro Circuit.
DreamHack Austin 2017
Dubbed "DreamHack Astro Open 2017", the "Counter Strike: Global Offensive" tournament held at DreamHack Austin featured eight teams and spanned the entire weekend. Six "Group Stage" matches were held on Friday, four playoffs on Saturday, and the semifinals and grand final were held on Sunday. Teams such as Cloud9, Immortals and Team Liquid played on their home turf during this event. G2 Esports had just overhauled their roster with former Team EnVyUs members earlier earlier in the year, and sports news website "FanSided" noted that Gambit Esports had performed well during cs_summit this same month.
Global Wars
Global Wars is a professional wrestling event held annually since 2012 by the American Ring of Honor (ROH) promotion. Originally named Border Wars, the event was renamed Global Wars in 2014 after ROH announced a partnership with the Japanese New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. Under the new name, the event became a supershow co-produced by the two promotions. The first five were held at the Ted Reeve Arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, while the sixth took place at the Frontier Fieldhouse in Chicago Ridge, Illinois. From 2012 to 2016, the event was held in May alongside War of the Worlds, but in 2017, Global Wars was moved to October and made a four-event tour across Buffalo, New York; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Columbus, Ohio; and Villa Park, Illinois, in 2018 it moved to November with four-event tour across Buffalo, New York; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Lowell, Massachusetts; and Lewiston, Maine
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships
Across the Majors, only fourteen players have attended every Major: Paweł "byali" Bieliński, René "cajunb" Borg, Andreas "Xyp9x" Højsleth, Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski, Freddy "KRIMZ" Johansson, Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer, Filip "NEO" Kubski, Richard "shox" Papillon, Janusz "Snax" Pogorzelski, Peter "dupreeh" Rothmann, Nicolai "dev1ce" Reedtz, Robin "flusha" Rönnquist, Danylo "Zeus" Teslenko, and Jesper "JW" Wecksell. Of those fourteen, only one has been a Legend every single Major: olofmeister, first with LGB eSports, then with Fnatic, then with FaZe Clan.
NFL Global Junior Championship XI
The Championship was played during the week leading up to the Super Bowl, in the same city that was hosting the game. The first game was played in 1997, and only two teams played, Mexico and Europe. Mexico won the first and second edition, Europe won the third edition. From 2000 to 2002 four teams participated and from 2003 to 2006 five teams. The competition ended in 2007, being replaced by the IFAF Junior World Cup.
Impact X Division Championship
The Total Nonstop Action X Division has multiple styles of match types used to showcase the talent within the division and to defend the TNA X Division Championship in more marketable matches. Three of the matches used in TNA are the Ultimate X match, The Steel Asylum, and the Xscape match.The championship was created and debuted before the main event at the taping of TNA's second weekly PPV event on June 19, 2002; the event aired on June 26, 2002. Later, A.J. Styles defeated Low Ki, Jerry Lynn, and Psicosis in a Four Way Double Elimination match to be crowned the inaugural champion; this match was announced as being for the NWA X Championship on the onscreen graphic while the ring announcer stated it was for the "NWA–TNA X Championship". Afterwards, the title was renamed the NWA–TNA X Division Championship and then shortened to just the TNA X Division Championship. This is the oldest title in TNA.
N0thing
In October 2016, n0thing's Cloud9 team became the first North American team since 2006 to win a major tournament, after they won ESL Pro League Season 4 and US$200,000 over SK Gaming. Despite n0thing having played "Counter-Strike" professionally for his entire adult life, it was his first time winning a major international tournament.
Electronic Sports World Cup
Leaving France for the first time, the 2008 Electronic Sports World Cup took place in San Jose, California, USA, from August 25 to August 27 during the bigger "NVISION 08" event. The disciplines announced were: "Counter-Strike" (open and female), "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne", "Trackmania Nations Forever", "Defense of the Ancients" and, "Quake 3". "Pro Evolution Soccer" was not included because the global Konami authority had not given its support to the competition. The prize purse was approximately $200,000 US.
List of Championship Gaming Series teams
Counter-Strike: Source
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships
Starting in 2017, 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. All games were best of one up until the FACEIT Major: London 2018. The Boston 2018 Major featured two Swiss group stages; the stage formerly known as the offline qualifier was now known as the New Challengers stage and the group stage was now known as the New Legends stage. The Swiss system also guarantees no team would face each other twice unless necessary. The 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. The next Major featured an Elo system, in which teams would rank the other teams they would potentially play in the group stages to create a ranking system, thus getting rid of randomization.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
In 2014, the "first large match fixing scandal" in the "Global Offensive" community took place, where team iBuyPower purposefully lost a match against NetCodeGuides.com. The team was later banned by Valve, though ESL unbanned the team from their tournaments in 2017. They are still unable to play in Majors.
Malta
In 2018 Malta hosted its first Esports tournament, 'Supernova CS:GO Malta', a Counter Strike: Global Offensive tournament with a $150,000 prize pool.
Grand Prix tennis circuit
The first World Championship Tennis tournament was held in February 1–3, 1968, at Kansas City (US) and the first NTL tournament in March 18–21, 1968, at São Paulo (Brazil). In July 1970 WCT absorbed the NTL. In 1971, WCT ran a twenty tournament circuit with the year-ending WCT Finals held in November. At the end of 1970, a panel of journalists had ranked the best players in the world, and the best thirty-two men based on this ranking were invited to play the 1971 WCT circuit: among these 32 players were Ilie Năstase, Stan Smith, Jan Kodeš, Željko Franulović and Clark Graebner.
Super Smash Bros.
The "Super Smash Bros." series has been widely played as competitive video games and has been featured in several high-profile tournaments. The first publicized "Super Smash Bros. Melee" tournaments were held in early 2002. From 2004 to 2007, "Melee" was on Major League Gaming's tournament roster. In 2010 MLG picked up "Brawl" for its pro circuit for a year. During this time, Nintendo prohibited MLG from live streaming "Brawl" matches. At 2014 MLG Anaheim "Melee" was once again hosted at an MLG event. "Melee" was also included at the Evolution Championship Series (Evo) in 2007, a fighting game tournament held in Las Vegas. "Melee" was again hosted at Evo 2013 after it won a charity drive to decide the final game to be featured in its tournament lineup. Due to the large turnout and popularity that year, Evo again included a "Melee" tournament at their 2014 and 2015 events. New Jersey based Apex was another prominent "Super Smash Bros." tournament organizer, being officially sponsored by Nintendo in 2015.
ELEAGUE
On October 5, 2017, Valve announced that ELEAGUE would host the first major of 2018 and the twelfth major in CS:GO history: . Unlike past majors, Boston major featured 24 teams as Valve expanded the format to include what was formerly known as "The Major Qualifier", now rebranded as "The New Challengers Stage". This major was the first in CS:GO major tournaments' history to take place in two different cities. The group stage took place in Turner Studios, where all ELEAGUE season matches were played, in Atlanta from January 19, 2018 to January 22, 2018. The playoffs took place in Boston from January 26, 2018 to January 28, 2018 at the Agganis Arena in Boston University.
Super Smash Bros. in esports
Professional "Super Smash Bros." competition involves professional gamers competing in the "Super Smash Bros." series of crossover fighting games published by Nintendo. Competition began in 2002 with multiple tournaments held for "Super Smash Bros. Melee", released for the GameCube in 2001. Later tournaments also featured the original "Super Smash Bros." (1999), "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" (2008), "Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS" and for "Wii U" (2014), and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018). Major "Smash" tournaments include Community Effort Orlando, DreamHack, Evolution Championship Series, Genesis, Super Smash Con and The Big House. From 2004 to 2006, Major League Gaming (MLG) included "Melee" in its Pro Circuit, and then supported the MLG Smash Series in 2007. In 2010, MLG had "Brawl" in its Pro Circuit. The MLG Anaheim 2014 and MLG World Finals 2015 championship also featured "Melee" and "Wii U" events. "Super Smash Bros." games also have a large, widespread grassroots scene that supports tournaments at the amateur and local level. Several top players have been recruited by eSports organizations.
Intel Extreme Masters Season X – San Jose
Intel Extreme Masters Season X – San Jose (IEM San Jose for short) was a video game esports tournament occurring on November 21–22, 2015 in San Jose, California, US. It was the first tournament of 10th season of the Intel Extreme Masters and featured "League of Legends" and "" tournaments. There was a combined $175,000 USD prize pool across both games. In the case of the latter it was the first "Counter-Strike" event an IEM since IEM Season VI in 2012. Mark Cuban and Brian Krzanich played a charity celebrity exhibition match of "League of Legends" benefiting The Cybersmile Foundation.
ESL (company)
ESL worked with publisher Valve Corporation in August 2015 for ESL One Cologne 2015 at the Lanxess Arena where 16 teams competed in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. ESL implemented randomized drug testing at the event. All tests came back negative. The tournament had over 27 million viewers, making it the largest and most-watched CS:GO tournament at that time.
List of The Open Championship champions
The Open Championship is an annual golf competition that was established in 1860. It is played on the weekend of the third Friday in July, and is the third of the four major championships to be played each year. In addition, this championship is conducted by The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A). The championship was not held in 1871 due to a disagreement over a new trophy, and from 1915 to 1919 and from 1940 to 1945 due to the First and Second World Wars respectively.
Championship Gaming Series
The first televised match was shown on DirecTV-exclusive channel, The 101, on July 9, 2007. The Region 1 Grand Finals were held on July 30, 2007 in Los Angeles. The Chicago Chimera defeated the Carolina Core by 22 points to 21, to become the first CGS Regional Champions. In the World Finals in December, the Chimera defeated the Core again to become World Champions and win the $500,000 top prize.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships
On September 16, 2013, Valve Corporation announced a 250,000 community-funded prize pool for its first Major; the money was funded through The Arms Deal Update, which offers players in-game items and announced the tournament will take place in Sweden and will be hosted by DreamHack. The tournament took place in late November would later be won by the Swedish team Fnatic. After the 2013 Major, Valve would make the Major a triannual event, with all six Majors featuring the same 250,000 prize pool.
2013 DreamHack Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship
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List of WCW Hardcore Champions
The WCW Hardcore Championship was a professional wrestling Hardcore Championship contested for in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). During late 1999, WCW promoted various hardcore matches, bouts where there were no disqualifications or countouts, that mainly involved Norman Smiley and Brian Knobs. The developing rivalry between the two wrestlers led WCW to announce the creation of the WCW Hardcore Championship in November 1999. In January 2001, the champion Meng signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) after his WCW contract expired. Shortly afterwards, the promotion filed for bankruptcy and the WWF purchased all assets of WCW, and as a result, all WCW Championship copyrights were also property of the WWF. After the purchase, the WWF used the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, WCW United States Heavyweight Championship, WCW Cruiserweight Championship, and WCW World Tag Team Championship in The Invasion storyline, in which former WCW wrestlers feuded with original WWF wrestlers before WCW's purchase, however, other WCW titles, including the WCW Hardcore Title, were not used.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
The "Global Offensive" professional scene consists of tournaments hosted by third-party organisations and Valve-organised or co-sponsored tournaments, referred to as . Majors have larger prize pools; originally set at $250,000, the prize pools for majors have risen, with MLG Columbus 2016 having the first pool of $1,000,000.
World Cyber Games
The World Cyber Games (WCG) is the first international eSport competition with multi-game titles in which hundreds of esports athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions also known as Esports Olympics. WCG events attempt to emulate a traditional sporting tournament, such as the Olympic Games; events included an official opening ceremony, and players from various countries competing for gold, silver, and bronze medals. The new official motto of WCG is "Beyond the game, More than Sport" which is updated from its original version. WCG are held every year in other cities around the world, in 2019, it will be held in Xi'an, China.
World of Warcraft Trading Card Game
The first World Championship took place November 30-December 2, 2007 in San Diego, California. The winner, French player Guillaume Matignon, became the inaugural WoW TCG World Champion by defeating the French-Canadian player Eric Prieur and received $100,000, at the time it was the largest prize in TCG history.
WCW World War 3
The rules for a World War 3 match were similar to the rules for a traditional battle royal match:The inaugural World War 3 match was contested for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, which had been stripped from The Giant due to the outcome of his match with Hulk Hogan at Halloween Havoc in October 1995. In subsequent years the winner of the match became the #1 contender to the World Heavyweight Championship. Initially the winner got to pick which pay-per-view he would face the champion at, but this changed for the 1997 and 1998 matches to a set pay-per-view.
Critical Ops
Critical Ops is an objective-based, multiplayer first-person shooter, and it is influenced by Counter-Strike. The first official Critical Ops tournament was played in 2016. As of September 2018, the game had been downloaded over 34 million times.
Counter-Strike Online
"Counter-Strike Online" is one of the largest esports, with various annual tournaments taking place worldwide.
Global Wars (2014)
Global Wars featured nine professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
The event was headlined by an ROH World Championship match between champion Adam Cole and challenger Kevin Steen. On March 20, ROH announced that Steen would receive a title shot at the event against the winner of a ladder match between Adam Cole and Jay Briscoe on April 4 at Supercard of Honor VIII. The match was a culmination of a six-month-long storyline, where Briscoe, who had previously been stripped of the ROH World Championship, introduced his own version of the title, calling himself the true champion. Cole ended up winning the ladder match, unifying the two titles and moving onto the title match with Steen. Global Wars took place at the same arena where Steen won his thus far only ROH World Championship almost exactly two years earlier.
Kiev Major
The open qualifiers tournament was held on March 6–9, 2017, followed by the regional qualifiers held on March 10–13, 2017. For the first time in an officially sponsored tournament, Valve Corporation, the game's developer and tournament administrator, split the previously single Americas region into North and South America, as well as creating the CIS region out of Europe. The event had a $3 million prize pool, with the winning team taking $1 million. The best-of-five grand finals took place between OG and Virtus.pro, with OG taking the series 3–2, winning them their fourth "Dota 2" Major championship.
2006 Cyberathlete Professional League World Season
The tour featured two games, "Counter-Strike" and "Quake 3". After a total of seven qualifier events, the finals were held on 16–20 December 2006 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Dallas, Texas. The championship finals had a total prize purse of $150,000 and were won by fnatic ("Counter-Strike") and Paul "czm" Nelson ("Quake 3").
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
An update released on December 6, 2018 made the game fully free to play from that point onwards. Users that had purchased the game prior to this point received a special "Prime" status that gives them access to improved matchmaking and modes that can drop cosmetic items while new users have the option to purchase this status. In addition, the new version introduced a battle royale mode called "Danger Zone".
WWE Night of Champions
"Night of Champions" was a pay-per-view event consisting of a main event and undercard that feature championship matches and other various matches. The first event was produced as a pay-per-view event for the WWE. The inaugural event took place on June 24, 2007 under the name Vengeance: Night of Champions at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas and aired live on PPV. In the nine editions of the event, the WWE Championship was defended in the main event 7 times, with the World Heavyweight Championship defended once, and in 2011, the main event was a non-championship match.
WWE Hardcore Championship
The WWE Hardcore Championship was a hardcore wrestling championship in WWE (formerly the World Wrestling Federation), which was contested under "hardcore" rules (no disqualifications, no countouts, and pinfalls count anywhere). In the latter part of the title's history, a rule was implemented allowing anyone to challenge the champion at any place or time, provided a referee was present (dubbed the "24/7 rule"). It was established on November 2, 1998 with Mankind as the inaugural champion. In 2002, it was unified with the WWE Intercontinental Championship by Rob Van Dam, the final Hardcore Champion.
Ultimate Fighting Championship (video game)
Ultimate Fighting Championship is the first video game based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts tournament. It was first developed by Anchor Inc. for the Sega Dreamcast on August 29, 2000, then by Opus for the Sony PlayStation on November 13 the same year, and finally by Fluid Studios for the Game Boy Color on November 27 the same year. All three versions were published by Crave Entertainment.
Electronic Sports World Cup
This event marked the transitional replacement and additions of several cornerstone tournament titles. This included the replacement of "Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne" with "", as well as the replacement of "Defense of the Ancients" with "Dota 2". Additionally, this event marked the first and only year in which "Counter-Strike: Source" was present. It was also the last year that would include "Counter-Strike 1.6", which was the main attraction of the tournament for many years, and the last remaining game that had been featured in the inaugural ESWC event.
Throughout the ESWC finals the medal tally is as follows (as of ESWC 2014):
Global Wars (2016)
Global Wars featured eight professional wrestling matches that involved different wrestlers from pre-existing scripted feuds and storylines. Wrestlers portrayed villains, heroes, or less distinguishable characters in the scripted events that built tension and culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches.
Global Wars was main evented by Jay Lethal defending the ROH World Championship against Colt Cabana. The match was set up during the first night of Supercard of Honor X on April 1, where Cabana returned to ROH, confronting and challenging Lethal after he had successfully defended the ROH World Championship against Lio Rush. This marked Cabana's first appearance for ROH in five years. The following night, Lethal handpicked Cheeseburger as his next challenger, stating that he deserved a title shot more than Cabana. After defeating Cheeseburger, Lethal was again challenged by Cabana, who then proceeded to defeat Lethal in an impromptu non-title match. Cabana had lost a match for the ROH World Championship in 2009, which included a stipulation stating that he could never again challenge for the title in his hometown of Chicago. However, ROH stated that this stipulation had been overturned during negotiations between Cabana and the promotion, setting up the main event of Global Wars between Lethal and Cabana.
Intel Extreme Masters Season X – World Championship
The "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" portion was won by fnatic 3-0 with a roster consisting of Olofmeister, JW, flusha, krimz, and dennis against Luminosity Gaming.
2013 DreamHack Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship
The sixteen teams were divided into four groups, with the two first match winners playing off against each other to find the groups top seed for the knockout stages. The losers of the first match played off in a knockout match, with the winner facing the loser of the winner's match to find the second seed. With eight teams remaining, the competition reached the quarter final stage, with all knockout matches hereon played in a best-of-three format.
Counter-Strike
The game received a port to Xbox in 2003. It was also ported to OS X and Linux in the form of a beta in January 2013. A full release was published in April 2013.
Counter-Strike (video game)
Upon its retail release, "Counter-Strike" received highly favorable reviews. "The New York Times" reported that E-Sports Entertainment ESEA League started the first professional fantasy e-sports league in 2004 with the game "Counter-Strike". Some credit the move into professional competitive team play with prizes as a major factor in "Counter-Strike" longevity and success.
Kentucky State Fair World's Championship Horse Show
The World's Championship Horse Show has been held every year since it was founded in 1902 with only two exceptions. The first missed year was 1904, when no fair was held, and 1945, when the fair was cancelled due to World War II. The World's Grand Championships were first held in a modern sense in 1914. It is one of the three horse shows that compose the Saddlebred "Triple Crown," in addition to the Lexington Junior League Horse Show in Lexington, Kentucky, and the American Royal in Kansas City, Missouri. The schedule always ends on a Saturday night with the Five-Gaited World's Grand Championship, which carries prize money of $100,000.
In 1953, the stallion Wing Commander, trained by Earl Teater became the first Saddlebred to ever win six World's Grand Championship titles, all in the five-gaited division. After him, a mare named My-My matched his feat from 1963 to 1968, but she died before she could win a seventh title. More recently, a fine harness horse named Callaway's Copyright won his sixth World's Grand Championship in 2006 and retired shortly thereafter. In 1988, Michele MacFarlane became the first woman to win the Five-Gaited World's Grand Championship on Sky Watch. Since then, she has had two more wins of the same title, on two different horses in 1996 and 2007. The latter year was also notable, for another amateur woman, Mary Gaylord McClean, won the reserve title to MacFarlane. Some other horses that have made history with their performances are An Heir About Her, who became the first three-year-old Saddlebred to win a World's Grand Championship in 2002, and A Sweet Treat, who won World's Grand Championships in both the three-gaited and fine harness divisions, which is particularly unusual and proves a horse's versatility.
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is a multiplayer video game, the follow-up to "Counter-Strike". The game was released in 2004 using the GoldSrc engine. "Condition Zero" features a multiplayer mode, which features updated character models, textures, maps and other graphical tweaks. It also includes two single-player campaigns, including "Condition Zero: Deleted Scenes".
Major professional tennis tournaments before the Open Era
The oldest of these three Professional Majors , or "Pro Slams", was the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships, played at a variety of different venues and on a variety of different surfaces, between 1927 and 1999. Between 1954 and 1962, the US Pro was played indoors in Cleveland and was called the World Professional Championships. The most prestigious of the three was generally the Wembley Championship. Played between 1934 and 1990, at the Wembley Arena in England, it was unofficially usually considered the world's championship until 1967. The third professional major was the French Pro Championship, played between 1934 and 1968, on the clay-courts of Roland Garros, apart from 1963–1967, when it was played on the indoor wood courts of Stade Coubertin.
Big 12 Conference football
The Big 12 Championship Game was first held by the Big 12 Conference each year since 1996 until 2010 and again starting with the 2017 season. The original championship game pitted the Big 12 North Division champion against the Big 12 South Division champion in a game held after the regular season has been completed. The first championship game was held during the 1996 season in St. Louis. The 2009 and 2010 games were played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Following the departures of Nebraska and Colorado to the Big Ten and Pac-12 respectively, the Big 12 Championship Game was discontinued. Following a NCAA rule change in 2015 which allows conferences with fewer than 12 members to hold a championship game, the Big 12 elected to return to a postseason championship game to determine the conference champion. Following the completion of the round-robin regular season, the conference's top two teams compete in the championship game. Oklahoma defeated TCU 41-17 on December 2, 2017, in the first Big 12 Championship Game played since 2010.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
"Global Offensive" contains eight main game modes: Competitive, Casual, Deathmatch, Arms Race, Demolition, Wingman, Flying Scoutsman, and Weapons Course. Competitive mode pits competitive players against each other in two teams of five and roughly 45-minute matches. The Casual and Deathmatch modes are less serious than the Competitive modes, and do not register friendly fire against or collision with other players on the player's team. Both are primarily used for practice. Arms Race mode is similar to the "Gun Game" mod for other games in the series. It consists of players racing to upgrade their guns via killing enemies. Demolition mode is again like the "Gun Game" mod though players are able to plant and defuse the bomb too, and only receive a gun upgrade at the start of the round if they killed an enemy the last round. Wingman is a two-on-two bomb defusal game-mode taking place over fifteen rounds. It is similar to Competitive in the sense that players are paired based on their skill levels. Flying Scoutsman is a low-gravity mode in which players are equipped only with a SSG 08 and a knife. The Flying Scoutsman, Demolition, and Arms Race game modes are placed in the War Games tab. The Weapons Course is an offline practice mode designed to help new players learn how to use grenades and guns, and learning how to defuse and plant the bomb. Apart from the Weapons Course, all seven other game modes can be played online or offline.
Call of Duty Championship
The inaugural tournament was first held in 2013 on "" for the Xbox 360 and was won by Fariko Impact. Complexity Gaming won the 2014 event.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships
A controversial form of the group stage came from ESL One Cologne 2015. 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.
2015 in ONE Championship
ONE Championship: Age of Champions (also known as ONE Championship 25) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event took place on March 13, 2015 at the Putra Indoor Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.ONE Championship returned to Malaysia, with this event headlined by Adriano Moraes who made his first ONE Flyweight Championship title defense.ONE Championship: Valor of Champions (also known as ONE Championship 26) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event was held on April 24, 2015 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, Philippines.ONE Championship returned to Philippines with this event headlined by Ben Askren, who made his first ONE Welterweight Championship title defense..ONE Championship: Warrior's Quest (also known as ONE Championship 27) was a mixed martial arts event held by ONE Championship. The event was held on May 22, 2015 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, Singapore.ONE Championship returned to Singapore with this event headlined by two title fights.
GoldSrc
Valve developed a number of titles using the GoldSrc engine, many of which were based on original user-made modifications of "Half-Life". "Team Fortress Classic", released officially by Valve Corporation in 1999, was one of such games (based on an older Quake mod, "Team Fortress"). "Counter-Strike", "Ricochet", and "Day of Defeat" were also originally modifications, the rights to which were purchased by Valve. "Counter-Strike" evolved into its own series with the release of "" in 2004, and while "" ran on the Source engine, further games in the series still used GoldSrc. "Counter-Strike Neo", "Counter-Strike Online", and "", released in 2005, 2008, and 2014 respectively, utilized GoldSrc as their basis, despite the development of the Source engine having been completed and the first version released.
Counter-Strike: Source
"Counter-Strike: Source" was initially released as a beta to members of the Valve Cyber Café Program on August 11, 2004. On August 18, 2004, the beta was released to owners of "" as well as those who had received a "Half-Life 2" voucher bundled with some ATI Radeon video cards. The game was included with Half-Life 2 bundles, which were released on November 16, 2004.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships
Stickers are virtual items in the game in which players can buy or open from virtual capsules. There are four types of stickers: normal, holo, foil, and gold. Every player in the Major would get their autograph put into the game as a sticker, which fans put on their in-game weapon skins to show support. The teams and the tournament organizer also get their stickers. Each purchase of a sticker has half of its proceeds go to the player or the team and Valve takes the other half.
Overwatch (video game)
The first organized, prize-winning competitions for "Overwatch" started in mid-2016, a few months after launch. The esports organizer ESL held the first international "Overwatch" competition in August 2016, called "Overwatch" Atlantic Showdown. The competition used four open qualifiers beginning in June, followed by regional qualifiers and then a final online qualifier. Eight teams then competed for a six-figure prize in the finals to be held at Gamescom 2016 from August 20–21. Turner Broadcasting's ELeague announced the first "Overwatch Open" tournament, starting in July 2016, with a total prize pool of $300,000, with plans to broadcast the finals on Turner's cable channel TBS in September 2016. In November 2016, Blizzard hosted their own Overwatch World Cup, allowing users to vote for teams to represent their nation or region, with finals taking place during their BlizzCon event. "Overwatch" grew increasingly in South Korea since it was released. It topped gaming cafes in Korea in terms of player count, surpassing that of "League of Legends". The game influenced the creation of an esports tournament in the region, under the brand APEX, which was shut down in January 2018, replacing these and other regional tournaments with the structured Overwatch Contenders league, which serves as a minor league to the Overwatch League.
CyberStrike
Initially exclusive to the GEnie online service, it opened in February 1993, and later that year it caused Computer Gaming World magazine to create the new category of "Online Game of the Year" so it could be awarded to CyberStrike. In 1994, it was offered in stores by MicroProse.
World Championship Tennis
The first edition of the WCT Finals in 1971 was played in November, just a few days before The Masters, the equivalent of the WCT Finals for the rival Grand Prix circuit. Because of TV pressure, the second edition was held in May 1972 and most of the following editions were organized in between months of March and May. Nevertheless, in 1972 another edition, less important and with half the prize money, was held in November in Rome. The prize money offered to the winner, Arthur Ashe, was US$25,000 compared to the US$50,000 won by Ken Rosewall for the main edition in May.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" is the sequel to the popular first-person shooter "", developed by Valve Corporation. "Global Offensive"s development began when Hidden Path Entertainment attempted to port "Counter-Strike: Source" onto video game consoles, prior to the end of their lifespan. During the development, Valve saw the opportunity to turn the port into a full game and expand on the predecessor's gameplay. "Global Offensive" began development in March 2010, and was revealed to the public on August 12, 2011. The closed beta started on November 30, 2011, and was initially restricted to around ten thousand people who received a key at events intended to showcase "Global Offensive". After issues such as client and server stability were addressed, the beta was opened up to progressively more people, and at E3 2012, Valve announced that "Global Offensive" would be released on August 21, 2012, with the open beta starting roughly a month before that. Before the public beta, Valve invited professional "Counter-Strike" players to play-test the game and give feedback.
World War 3 (1996)
Eight matches were contested at the event. The main event was the World War 3 battle royal to determine the #1 contender for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. The Giant won the World War 3 battle royal by last eliminating Lex Luger. Giant earned his title shot at the inaugural Souled Out pay-per-view. Other major match on the card was a three-way match for the WCW World Tag Team Championship, in which The Outsiders retained the title against The Faces of Fear and The Nasty Boys.
Challenge Tour Championship
The Challenge Tour Championship was a golf tournament on the Challenge Tour that was first played in 1992 as the East Sussex National Challenge. After a break of two years, it returned as the Coca-Cola Open, before being retitled as the Challenge Tour Championship in 1996.
Global Wars 2017
On September 26, 2017, ROH announced the first match for the tour, which would see Kenny Omega defend the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship against Yoshi-Hashi on October 15. The match was set up on September 24 at NJPW's Destruction in Kobe show, where Yoshi-Hashi challenged Omega after he had successfully defended his title against Juice Robinson. Omega initially dismissed the challenge, but then accepted it, considering Yoshi-Hashi "great warm up". The history between the two dated back to 2016, when Yoshi-Hashi defeated Omega during the 2016 G1 Climax. The two later had a rematch, where Omega successfully defended the Tokyo Dome IWGP Heavyweight Championship challenge rights certificate against Yoshi-Hashi. This match would mark the first time the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship would be defended in the United States.
World Cyber Games
In 2004, the World Cyber Games held a tournament in San Francisco, California, United States, the first tournament outside of its home country. At this stage, the prize pool was at $2,500,000 USD; with 642 players competing in the grand final. The tournament has since been hosted in various countries around the world; including Singapore in 2005 and Monza, Italy in 2006 - at this time Microsoft became a major sponsor to the event, who would provide software and hardware for all the events through to 2008. In addition, all games played at the tournament would be based exclusively on Windows PC's or the Xbox console.
Games Convention
The European Nations Championship has taken place since 2004. It is a national team competition, where it determines which European nation has the best e-athletes. The ENC holds events in "Counter-Strike", "Counter-Strike: Source", "Warcraft III", "FIFA", "Call of Duty 4", and "DotA". The final takes place every year in August at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany.
Clash Royale
The "Clash Royale Crown Championship" was the official e-sports world championship of the game, developed by Supercell. The tournament connects the best players all over the world from North America, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and more. The first edition had over 28 million participants all over the world, becoming the world's largest Clash Royale event. The first world champion was Sergio Ramos who beat MusicMaster by 3 games to 1 on the "Crown Championship World Finals". The 2018 "Clash Royale Crown Championship" is scheduled to be held in Asia.
Championship Gaming Series
The CGS Pro-Am Division was a players opportunity to play against the Pros and compete for more than $40,000 in cash prizes. The first season included "Counter-Strike 1.6", "Counter-Strike: Source", and "Team Fortress 2" tournaments. Shortly after the first season was completed The CGS franchise was cut by DirecTV which ultimately ended this opportunity for another competitive league for the everyday gamer.
WWE Universal Championship
Named in honor of the WWE Universe, the championship was established on July 25, 2016 to be the world championship of the Raw brand. Its creation came as a result of the re-introduction of the brand split and subsequent draft on July 19, 2016 in which the WWE Championship, the promotion's original world title, became exclusive to SmackDown. The inaugural Universal Champion was Finn Bálor. Since its inception, matches for the championship have headlined several pay-per-view events, including SummerSlam in 2017 and 2018, and WrestleMania 34, both being two of WWE's "big four" pay-per-views, the latter of which is WWE's flagship event.
Grand Slam (professional wrestling)
The first Impact Wrestling Grand Slam winner, then known as the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) Grand Slam, was crowned on March 15, 2009, at TNA's Destination X pay-per-view event. At said event, then three-time TNA Triple Crown champion A.J. Styles defeated Booker T for the TNA Legends Championship. On the March 19 episode of TNA's primary television program, "TNA Impact!", announcer Mike Tenay stated that Styles had become the first TNA Grand Slam winner by capturing the World Heavyweight (NWA or TNA), World Tag Team (NWA or TNA), X Division, and Legends Championships (The Legends Championship was subsequently renamed the Global, Television, and King of the Mountain Championship, before being fully retired).
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships
On December 13, 2017, the general manager of ELEAGUE, the hosts of the ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018, Christina Alejandre announced a partially new format designed by Valve and ELEAGUE that would expand the number of team in the Major from sixteen to twenty-four. This would also be the first Major that would take place in more than one city.
Cyberathlete Professional League
The tour featured two games, "Counter-Strike" and "Quake 3". After a total of 7 qualifier events, the finals were held on 16–20 December 2006 at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Dallas, Texas. The championship finals had a total prize purse of $150,000 and were won by ORG: Team: fnatic (Counter-Strike) and Paul "czm" Nelson (Quake 3).
At the 2004 Cyberathlete Extreme Summer Championships, the CPL announced details on its largest event ever, the CPL World Tour. This event took place throughout 2005, with a total of 10 international stops, and a finals event held in New York City, televised by MTV.
The CPL also owned and operated an online video game league for amateur players and teams, named the Cyberathlete Amateur League or CAL. CAL operated year-round, with regular eight-week seasons, one or two matches per week, and a single-elimination postseason (playoffs).
Counter-Strike
"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" was the fourth release in the main, Valve-developed "Counter-Strike" series in 2012. Much like "Counter-Strike: Source" the game runs on the Source engine. It is available on Microsoft Windows, OSX, and Linux, as well as the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles, and is backwards compatible on the Xbox One console.
ESL Pro League Season 1
On April 28th, 2015, ESL announced a joint venture with ESEA to provide a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league with $1,000,000 USD in total prize money in 2015. ESL invited twelve teams to each league to participate in its professional league. Each team would face off against every other team twice to play in twenty-two games throughout the eight week season. The top four teams from each continent would move on to the finals in Germany and would be automatically invited to the next season. Teams that placed fifth to ninth would not qualify for the finals, but would still be invited to Season 2. Teams that placed tenth and eleventh would have to play in a relegation phase, in which those teams and teams that placed second and third in ESEA Season 19's Premier League, the league under the Pro League, would face off to qualify for two spots in next season's Pro League. The team that placed first in the Premier League would qualify for Season 2. The team that placed twelfth in the Pro League would automatically be demoted to the Premier League.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
The game was nominated for "Best Spectator Game" in "IGN"s Best of 2017 Awards, for "eSports Game of the Year" at the 2017 and 2018 Golden Joystick Awards, for "Best eSports Game" at The Game Awards 2017, and for "Game, eSports" at the 17th Annual National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers Awards. In 2018, the game was nominated for "Fan Favorite eSports Game" and "Fan Favorite eSports League Format" with the Majors at the Gamers' Choice Awards, and for "eSports Title of the Year" at the Australian Games Awards.
List of World Championship Wrestling tournaments
The NWA World Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to crown the first-ever NWA World Tag Team Champions. The tournament took place at The Great American Bash on July 12, 1992.The Nintendo Top Ten Challenge Tournament was a tournament.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
"Global Offensive" has matchmaking support that allows players to play on dedicated Valve servers, as well as allowing members of the community to host their own servers with custom maps and game modes. "Global Offensive" has a competitive scene, with Valve-sponsored tournaments being the premier competitive events for the game. "Global Offensive" received positive reviews from critics. The game was praised for its overall gameplay and faithfulness to the previous iterations in the series. Some of the early features were criticized, and while the console versions received positive reviews, reviewers believed there were obvious differences between the console and PC versions of the game.
ESL One Katowice 2015
"Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" (CS:GO) is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Balbe Corporation. It is the 69th game in the "Counter-Strike" series. In competitive play, the game pits two teams against each other: the Terrorists and the Counter-Terrorists. Both sides are tasked with eliminating the other while also completing separate objectives. The Terrorists must either plant a bomb or kill the entire Counter-Terrorist team, while the Counter-Terrorists must either prevent the bomb from being planted by killing the entire Terrorist team or defusing the bomb. In addition, the counter-terrorists can run down the clock before the terrorist can plant the bomb or kill the entire counter-terrorist team; if terrorists do run out of time (each round has one minute and forty-five seconds), the terrorists who remain alive by the end of the round earn no round bonus money.(Allahu Ackbar At the end of each round, players are rewarded based on their individual performance with in-game currency to spend on more powerful weapons in subsequent rounds. Winning rounds results in more money than losing, and completing objectives such as killing enemy players gives cash bonuses. However, the more consecutive rounds a team loses, the more money the losing team earns, with the loss bonus capping after five rounds; once that team wins a round, the loss round bonus resets to the minimum amount each player could earn after a round.
Dota Pro Circuit
From late 2015 until early 2017, Valve sponsored a series of smaller-scale, seasonally held tournaments known as the Dota Major Championships. Their format was based on the that Valve also sponsored for their first-person shooter game, "". Including The International 2016 and 2017, which were considered to be the cumulative Major of their respective seasons, the series had five other events, which were the Frankfurt Major, Shanghai Major, Manila Major, Boston Major, and Kiev Major. Following the International 2017, the Majors were replaced with the DPC due to criticism by teams and fans for Valve's non-transparent and unpredictable nature for handing out International invitations.
Intel Extreme Masters
Games offered in Intel Extreme Masters: Counter-Strike (Seasons 1–6), Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos and Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (Seasons 1–2, 3: Asian Championship Finals — CS1.6 and Asian Championship Finals — WoW, 4: Global Challenge Chengdu, 5: Global Challenge Shanghai), World of Warcraft (Seasons 2: Global Challenge Dreamhack, 3–4), Quake Live (Seasons 4–5), StarCraft II (Seasons 5–6), League of Legends (LoL) (Seasons 5: World Championship (LoL Invitational), 6)
Counter-Strike (video game)
On March 24, 1999, Planet Half-Life opened its "Counter-Strike" section. Within two weeks, the site had received 10,000 hits. On June 19, 1999, the first public beta of "Counter-Strike" was released, followed by numerous further "beta" releases. On April 12, 2000, Valve announced that the "Counter-Strike" developers and Valve had teamed up. In January 2013, Valve began testing a version of "Counter-Strike" for OS X and Linux, eventually releasing the update to all users in April 2013.
Fnatic
Fnatic's "Counter-Strike" team, which has traditionally been located in Sweden, is also considered one of the best in the video game series' history, having won three "Global Offensive" Majors and several other tournaments.
SmithZz
SmithZz first joined VeryGames back in 2008 and went on to have great success in the Counter-Strike: Source scene through the years. With some on and off time in the French giants, he finally returned in August 2012 to replace Dan "apEX" Madesclaire, and complete the lineup that would around a month later together switch to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.
Big 12 Championship Game
The first championship game was played after the 1996 regular season, the first year of play for the Big 12 (which was created from the merger of the Big Eight Conference and four teams from the Southwest Conference). Like the SEC Championship Game (which has been played since 1992), the game matched the winners of the conference's two six-team divisions. The championship game was held at several sites within the Big 12 states, with Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, hosting more often than any other venue.
The 2008 Big 12 Championship Game was notable for the controversy over choosing the South Division representative. The Oklahoma Sooners, Texas Longhorns, and Texas Tech Red Raiders all finished with identical records and had each recorded a win and loss amongst one another. The Sooners earned a berth to the title game because they had the highest Bowl Championship Series ranking of the three at the time of selection. Oklahoma defeated the Missouri Tigers and earned a berth in the 2009 BCS National Championship Game.
Clash of the Champions
The Clash of the Champions is a series of professional wrestling television specials that were aired by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). The specials were supercards comprising pay-per-view caliber matches, similar to World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) "Saturday Night's Main Event". "Clash of the Champions" shows were famous for typically not airing commercials during matches even though many of these matches were 20 minutes or more.
The first "Clash of the Champions" was held on March 27, 1988 by Jim Crockett Promotions and was entitled NWA: Clash of the Champions. Subsequent Clash events had different subtitles, i.e. "Clash of the Champions II: Miami Mayhem", up until "Clash of the Champions XVI: Fall Brawl 1991" which was the last event with a subtitle. Jim Crockett Promotions was sold to Ted Turner and renamed World Championship Wrestling in 1988, and WCW continued to air the events until 1997. The rights to "Clash of the Champions" now belong to WWE. All 35 episodes are available for on-demand viewing on the WWE Network.
Killer Instinct World Cup
Killer Instinct World Cup is an annual fighting game tournament held in Texas, specifically focusing on the 2013 "Killer Instinct" reboot. The event's first incarnation was in January 2016 which featured "Killer Instinct" with a total of 32 qualifiers. The finals uses a double-elimination format and includes various tournaments as qualifiers such as EVO and Combo Breaker.
Cloud9
Cloud9 formed when Jack Etienne bought the former Quantic Gaming "League of Legends" roster. Following the success of the Cloud9 LoL team in the North American League of Legends Championship Series"," the team was able to expand to field rosters in other esports. In 2015, Cloud9's "Heroes of the Storm" team won the first Heroes of the Storm World Championship, becoming the inaugural winner of the championship. In 2018, Cloud9's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive roster became the first American team to win a major championship, securing a 2-1 victory against FaZe Clan in the ELEAGUE Boston: Major 2018 final.
Intel Extreme Masters Season XIII – World Championship
Valve Corporation awarded ESL a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship for the first time in nearly two and a half years. This tournament will feature twenty-four teams from around the world, fourteen of which were directly invited from their top fourteen placements from the and another ten teams qualifying from their respective regional qualifiers.
Mod (video gaming)
The Half-Life modding community splintered across the different total conversions available, often modding for a particular total conversion rather than Half-Life in general. Examples of famous total conversions include "Counter-Strike" (1999), whose developers were hired by Valve Software to turn it into a commercial product, "Defense of the Ancients" (2003), which was the first MOBA to have sponsored tournaments, and "Garry's Mod" (2004), for which fans created thousands of game modes over its decade-long development.
2013 DreamHack Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Championship
Commentators
Counter Logic Gaming
Counter Logic Gaming's potential expansion into "" was first discussed publicly in a December 2014 interview of George "HotshotGG" Georgallidis, who commented, "We're looking at all avenues. Right now we're really interested in "CS:GO" and "Dota 2", and hopefully we'll be expanding to those areas very soon." This ambition became reality when, in early 2015, CLG signed the ex-mouseSpaz roster of Tarik "tarik" Celik, James "Hazed" Cobb, Stephen "reltuC" Cutler, Pujan "FNS" Mehta, and Peter "ptr" Gurney as CLG.CS. The team's first major event under the CLG banner was the first of three annual , ESL One Katowice 2015, where they dropped out in the group stages of the tournament. The team had decent success over the next few months, winning the CEVO Season 6 LAN Finals, and coming in fifth/sixth place at ESEA Global Finals Season 18, losing to European teams Fnatic and mousesports.
Counter-Strike Online 2
Counter-Strike Online 2 was an first-person shooter video game and was the sequel to the 2008 game "Counter-Strike Online". It was targeted towards Asia's gaming market. The game implements the Source engine allowing for better graphics compared to its predecessor and more complex equipment and weapons. The game uses the free-to-play and micropayment business model, similar to its predecessor. After a period of open beta testing, it was released in December 2013 in the Asian markets. All CSO2 regions were closed down in early 2018.
ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018
ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018, also known as ELEAGUE Major 2018 or Boston 2018, was the twelfth "" and second organized by ELEAGUE. The group stage was held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from January 12, 2018 to January 22, 2018 and the playoffs took place at the Agganis Arena in Boston, Massachusetts, United States from January 26, 2018 to January 28, 2018. It featured twenty-four professional teams from around the world. All sixteen teams from last major, PGL 2017 Kraków Major Championship, directly qualified for the major while another eight teams qualified through their respective regional qualifiers as ELEAGUE and Valve Corporation agreed to expand the major to 24 teams. ELEAGUE Major is the fifth consecutive major with a prize pool of $1,000,000. This was also the first time a CS:GO major took place in two cities.
Overwatch World Cup
In June 2016, the eSports organizer ESL announced that they would host the first international "Overwatch" competition in August 2016, called "Overwatch" Atlantic Showdown. The competition used four open qualifiers beginning in June, followed by regional qualifiers and then a final online qualifier. Eight teams then competed for a six-figure prize in the finals to be held at Gamescom 2016 from August 20–21. Turner Broadcasting's ELeague announced the first "Overwatch Open" tournament, starting in July 2016, with a total prize pool of $300,000, with plans to broadcast the finals on Turner's cable channel TBS in September 2016.
Counter-Strike (video game)
Counter-Strike (also known as Half-Life: Counter-Strike) is a first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation. It was initially developed and released as a "Half-Life" modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess Cliffe in 1999, before Le and Cliffe were hired and the game's intellectual property acquired. "Counter-Strike" was released by Valve on the Microsoft Windows platform in 2000. The game spawned a franchise, and is the first installment in the "Counter-Strike" series. Several remakes and ports of "Counter-Strike" have been released on the Xbox console, as well as OS X and Linux. It is commonly referred to as Counter-Strike 1.6 to distinguish it from other titles of the series, 1.6 being the final major software update the game received.
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike (CS) is a series of multiplayer first-person shooter video games, in which teams of terrorists battle to perpetrate an act of terror (bombing, hostage-taking) and counter-terrorists try to prevent it (bomb defusal, hostage rescue). The series began on Windows in 1999 with the first game, "Counter-Strike". It was initially released as a modification ("mod") for "Half-Life" and designed by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe before the rights to the game's intellectual property were acquired by Valve Corporation, the developers of "Half-Life".
Men's major golf championships
The majors originally consisted of two British tournaments, The Open Championship and The Amateur Championship, and two American tournaments, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur. With the introduction of the Masters Tournament in 1934, and the rise of professional golf in the late 1940s and 1950s, the term "major championships" eventually came to describe the Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the PGA Championship. It is difficult to determine when the definition changed to include the current four tournaments, although many trace it to Arnold Palmer's 1960 season. After winning the Masters and the U.S. Open to start the season, he remarked that if he could win the Open Championship and PGA Championship to finish the season, he would complete "a grand slam of his own" to rival Bobby Jones's 1930 feat. Until that time, many U.S. players such as Byron Nelson also considered the Western Open and the North and South Open as two of golf's "majors," and the British PGA Matchplay Championship was as important to British and Commonwealth professionals as the PGA Championship was to Americans.
List of esports games
The "Counter-Strike" series is a series of team based first person shooters which began as a "Half-Life" mod which was bought by Valve and released from beta in 2000. Professional competition is centered in North America and Europe in tournaments such as the World Cyber Games, CEVO, ESEA League, Intel Extreme Masters, Cyberathlete Professional League and the Electronic Sports League. The defunct league Championship Gaming Series franchised teams with contracted players who played "".
List of esports games
"Counter Strike" is consistently at competitions such as DreamHack and World Cyber Games as the 1.6 version released in 2003, despite newer versions having been released by Valve over the years.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
In 2016, the game saw two remakes of original "Counter-Strike" maps, as well as the introduction of Prime matchmaking and additional items. As a part of the Operation Wildfire promotion, Nuke was remade and re-released in February with the primary goals being to balance the map and make it more aesthetically pleasing. In April, Prime matchmaking was added to the game. To partake in this mode, the user had to have a verified phone number connected to their account. It was introduced in an attempt to prevent legitimate players from playing with cheaters or high-skilled players playing on alternative, lower ranked accounts, a practice colloquially known as "smurfing". Inferno, another original map, was re-released in October. Valve said they had three reasons behind the remake: "to improve visibility; to make it easier to move around in groups; and to tune it with player feedback." Also in October, consumable items called graffiti were added to the game. These items replaced a feature present in the previous iterations of the series called sprays. Previously, players could customize their sprays. Graffiti ideas can be uploaded to the Steam Workshop in the similar manner as gun skins and players can buy and trade the existing graffiti in game. One month later, glove skins were added.
WWE Intercontinental Championship
In November 2001, the then-WCW United States Championship was unified into the Intercontinental Championship. In 2002 after the first brand split, it became exclusive to Raw and the WWF was renamed WWE. Later that year, the European and Hardcore championships were unified into the Intercontinental Championship, which itself was unified into the World Heavyweight Championship. The next year, it was reactivated for Raw, followed by the United States Championship's reactivation as a counterpart on SmackDown. The championship has switched between brands over the years as a result of the WWE draft; the 2017 Superstar Shake-up moved it back to Raw.
PGA Professional Championship
Sam Snead and Bob Rosburg are the only players to win a major championship and the PGA Professional Championship. Bruce Fleisher and Larry Gilbert each would go on to win a senior major. Several other winners have had PGA Tour careers, either before or after winning the championship. The first edition in 1968 was held in early December in Scottsdale, Arizona.