Get up to date on the teams, schedule, and format of the $1,000,000 world championship.

The 17th CS:GO Major, PGL Major Antwerp, will take place on May 9-22 in Belgium. In total, 24 teams will be competing across three stages of the event, with the winner set to take away the $500,000 first-place prize.

The champion will secure much more than just the hefty sum, as winning a Major engraves your name in CS:GO history. Whichever team manages to clinch the trophy will sit alongside the likes of Astralis, SK, and NAVI as victors at the game's de facto world championship, which is supported by developer Valve.

Team list

Teams such as G2, Astralis, and Liquid that qualified from the RMR tournaments as Challengers and Contenders start the event on May 9 in the Challengers stage. Out of 16 teams, the eight best will be found using a Swiss format, where three wins mean advancing to the next stage, and three losses mean elimination.

The eight best Challenger Stage teams will join the likes of FaZe, Natus Vincere, and Cloud9 in the Legends stage, where the same format will be used to find the eight playoff teams. Then, the action will move away from Swiss and out of a studio environment to a single-elimination bracket which will be played in the Antwerps Sportpaleis arena.

Find the team list for the event below:

Legends

Previews and stories

To get a better understanding of the event, the teams competing at it, and the storylines heading into the PGL Major Antwerp, read up on our latest features that go from a statistical analysis of FURIA to a collection of feel-good stories from previous Majors.

Bulletpoints: PGL Major Antwerp Contenders
Bulletpoints: PGL Major Antwerp Challengers

Blunders from Majors past
Feel good stories from Majors past

Could FURIA be dark horses at Antwerp?
What has Farlig brought to Astralis?
After a rebuild and a relocation, Spirit's bet on youth is starting to pay off

Lineups for PGL Major Antwerp

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Talent

A 16-person on-air talent crew will be bringing the action on the English broadcast of the Major, with members ranging from casting duos such as Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill - Alex "⁠Machine⁠" Richardson and Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy - Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan, to Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez and Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg on the analyst desk — which will be hosted by Eefje "⁠sjokz⁠" Depoortere and Freya "⁠Freya⁠" Spiers —, and James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks on interview duty.

The English broadcast talent is as follows:

Stage host
Frankie "⁠Frankie⁠" Ward

Interviewer
James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks

Desk hosts
Eefje "⁠sjokz⁠" Depoortere
Freya "⁠Freya⁠" Spiers

Analysts
Jacob "⁠Pimp⁠" Winneche
Mathieu "⁠Maniac⁠" Quiquerez
Alex "⁠Mauisnake⁠" Ellenberg
Jonatan "⁠Devilwalk⁠" Lundberg

Casters
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy
Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan
Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill
Alex "⁠Machine⁠" Richardson
Harry "⁠JustHarry⁠" Russell
Hugo "⁠Hugo⁠" Byron
Vince "⁠Vince⁠" Hill
Sudhen "⁠Bleh⁠" Wahengbam

Schedule

The event will be played out in three stages, the Challengers and Legends following an identical format that kicks off with BO1 matches and transitions into BO3s for progression and elimination games. In the Champions stage, two BO3s will be played on each day, aside from the last day, which is reserved for just the grand final. There will also be one day off between each stage of the Major.

PGL Major Antwerp schedule:

Challengers Stage

Monday, May 9
12:00 Vitality vs. Complexity (BO1)
12:00 Bad News Eagles vs. Eternal Fire (BO1)
13:15 G2 vs. Liquid (BO1)
13:15 FORZE vs. Renegades (BO1)
14:30 Astralis vs. IHC (BO1)
14:30 Imperial vs. Spirit (BO1)
15:45 MIBR vs. Outsiders (BO1)
15:45 ENCE vs. 9z (BO1)
17:00 1-0 match #1 (BO1)
17:00 0-1 match #1 (BO1)
18:15 1-0 match #2 (BO1)
18:15 0-1 match #2 (BO1)
19:30 1-0 match #3 (BO1)
19:30 0-1 match #3 (BO1)
20:45 1-0 match #4 (BO1)
20:45 0-1 match #4 (BO1)

Tuesday, May 10
12:00 1-1 match #1 and #2 (BO1)
13:15 1-1 match #3 and #4 (BO1)
14:30 2-0 match #1 (BO3)
14:30 0-2 match #1 (BO3)
18:15 2-0 match #2 (BO3)
18:15 0-2 match #2 (BO3)

Wednesday, May 11
12:00 2-1 match #1
12:00 1-2 match #1
15:45 2-1 match #2
15:45 1-2 match #2
19:30 2-1 match #3
19:30 1-2 match #3

Thursday, May 12
12:00 2-2 match #1
15:45 2-2 match #2
19:30 2-2 match #3

Legends stage

Follows the same schedule as the Challengers stage above from May 14-17

Champions Stage

Thursday, May 19
16:30 Quarter-final #1
20:00 Quarter-final #2

Friday, May 20
16:30 Quarter-final #3
20:00 Quarter-final #4

Saturday, May 21
16:30 Semi-final #1
20:00 Semi-final #2

Sunday, May 22
18:00 Showmatch
20:00 Grand final