Indeed, it’s a very special time of year for the competitive CS:GO community. Accordingly, everyone’s gearing up for the upcoming PGL Major Antwerp 2022 next week! Read on as we provide all the viewership details you need to enjoy this historical event!
Event Background
Just like any other Major before it, we have $1,000,000 on the line for the 24 best teams in the world. Heading offline to the Belgian city of Antwerp, all teams will compete in an offline environment from 9th May to the 22nd May.
Offering an epic amount of competition, the contenstants have all had to earn a spot at this coveted event. Divided into three tiers of competition, take a look at the best 24 teams in the world from the best regions out there:
Legends
- Heroic
- Copenhagen Flames
- BIG
- Cloud9
- FURIA Esports
- FaZe Clan
- Ninjas in Pyjamas
- Natus Vincere
Challengers
- ENCE
- G2 Esports
- forZe
- Astralis
- Team Vitality
- MIBR
- Imperial Esports
- Bad News Eagles
Contenders
- Eternal Fire
- Team Spirit
- Outsiders
- Complexity Gaming
- IHC Esports
- Renegades
- Team Liquid
- 9z Team
Considering these tiers of competition, there’s a lot to dig into
Format
Indeed, there are three stages of competition, coinciding with the three levels of seeding.
To start with, we have the Challengers Stage. Running from May 9-12th, here we’ll enjoy the first 16 Team Swiss System Format.
With both the Contenders and Challengers competing, all elimination and advancement matches will be BO3. While all others will be BO1, the Buchholz system will determine the remaining seeds.
Once that’s over, only the top 8 will proceed to the Legends Stage – everyone else will be eliminated.
Taking place from May 14th to May 17th, the 8 seeded teams from the previous stage will compete against the Legends seeded teams.
Rules stay the same here, with all games BO1, except for elimination and advancement matches being BO3. Once again using the Buchholz system, we’ll have our top 8.
And for the second time, the top 8 proceed while the bottom 8 are sent home.
Then finally, we’ll have our Champions Stage. Concluding from May 19th to May 22nd, a final bracket will decide everything. Specifically, a single-elimination bracket, seeded using final rankings from The Legends Stage will fight over BO3 matches to earn the glory of winning the Major!
Schedule for the PGL Major Antwerp 2022
There are a tonne of matches to take place. Bearing this in mind, below we have listed the schedule for Round 1 of the Challengers Stage for context:
May 9th – Round 1 (CEST Time Zone)
- Vitality vs Complexity (12:00)
- BNE vs EF
- G2 Esports vs Team Liquid (13:15)
- forZe vs Renegades
- Astralis vs IHC (14:30)
- Imperial vs Team Spirit
- MIBR vs Outsiders (15:45)
- ENCE vs 9z
We recommend visiting the event Twitter page to stay up to date.
Watch the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 on esportsguide
You can also watch the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 live stream via our very own website. Providing an extensive list of the biggest esports together with streams for each esports match live today or upcoming matches.
Predictions
Indeed, heading into this event, only the Legends can be favoured to take home the Major title. Specifically, all eyes are on FaZe Clan, who have walked away as Champions at the recent EPL Season 15 and IEM XVI Katowice!
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