Photos: First shots from the PGL Major Challengers Stage

Get a glimpse at the action that went down in Antwerp on day 1.

HLTV.org's photographers "MAKKU" Makuch and Josip "brcho" Brtan are on site for the 17th CS:GO Major to bring you closer to the teams and the players competing at the event.

Scroll through the article to see some of the standout shots of the first day, including the reactions of Flatron "⁠juanflatroo⁠" Halimi, Gabriel "⁠FalleN⁠" Toledo, and Dan "⁠apEX⁠" Madesclaire, as well as Eternal Fire's shock as an unexpected round win came through to close out the game.

Check out the full day 1 gallery here.

Brazil Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Gabriel 'FalleN' Toledo
Age:
30
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.07
Maps played:
1538
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.60
France Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Dan 'apEX' Madesclaire
Age:
29
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.02
Maps played:
1955
KPR:
0.71
DPR:
0.70
Kosovo Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi
Flatron 'juanflatroo' Halimi
Age:
25
Rating 1.0:
1.05
Maps played:
534
KPR:
0.76
DPR:
0.73
#1
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Singapore kmslol
wow
2022-05-09 23:20
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hahahaha calyx and xantares looks like 2 orcs or smth xDDDDDDDD
2022-05-09 23:52
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United States cybonics
+1 legendary photo the tuurtle one too haha
2022-05-10 01:51
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Turtle is like: where the fk I am?
2022-05-10 07:44
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Poland l1m4k
Pog
2022-05-09 23:21
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mibr good.
2022-05-09 23:21
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World streetson
TUURTLE GOAT
2022-05-09 23:21
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Why flatroo always has to look good, lol
2022-05-09 23:23
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Canada qui9
Tuurtle lol
2022-05-09 23:24
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Finland Gulaash
2022-05-09 23:51
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rofl
2022-05-10 00:05
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ahahaha
2022-05-10 01:39
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AXAXAXAXAXAXAXAXA
2022-05-10 02:33
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#43
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Brazil MulaManca
lmao hahahahaha
2022-05-10 10:51
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g0dnesy
2022-05-09 23:24
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Pog
2022-05-09 23:25
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#9
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Mexico jorgehdzzs
i hate tuurtle
2022-05-09 23:26
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Flair checks out, dav1d's fault that he wasn't able to kill 11 hp guy or simply move around the truck
2022-05-10 02:39
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cute choppa!
2022-05-09 23:30
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lmfao tuurtle that photo had me crackin up
2022-05-09 23:30
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1 reply
#20
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United States Haydog322
did him dirty
2022-05-10 00:29
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Lithuania Scanixon
lmao that turtle pic xd
2022-05-09 23:30
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yekindar chill out with that monitor
2022-05-09 23:32
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#16
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Brazil gu1zera
Papa FalleN is happy.. so am I
2022-05-10 00:03
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tuurtle is an emote waiting to happen hahaha. Caught him at exactly the right frame inbetween facial expressions hahaha
2022-05-10 00:16
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#26
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United States cybonics
i.imgur.com/KRej93W.png first thing I thought of
2022-05-10 02:10
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LOL
2022-05-10 02:37
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that's great hahaha, gj
2022-05-10 03:14
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LMFAO
2022-05-10 10:45
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#44
Faceit level 7  | 
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Hungary YoloKutya
hahahah nice
2022-05-10 11:43
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bro tuurtle pic is actually meme material
2022-05-10 00:23
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Brazil hugoooo
Dude... XANTARES on that pic, if we say what he look like, it will be a insta-ban, seriously, the photographer should've deleted that photo
2022-05-10 01:03
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#25
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Sweden Xaby
nikoc...?
2022-05-10 02:00
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agree
2022-05-10 06:00
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I'm sure in that photo where he's looking at the Liquid player, falleN was thinking: "you guys traded us for this???..." hahahahahhahah hahahahah falleN tried to take Fer to Liquid but they didn't accept... now Fer humiliated them, what an irony of fate... 😀😀😀😆 FNX the legend 4ever
2022-05-10 02:39
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Just Tuurtle being Tuurtle.
2022-05-10 05:29
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kkkk xantares head is funny
2022-05-10 05:59
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Tuurtle :((((
2022-05-10 06:30
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#36
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Pakistan LoOuU2
Animated Apex is back, I love it
2022-05-10 06:33
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Niko BALDING
2022-05-10 06:53
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XANTARES AHAHAHAHAAHHAAHAHAHH
2022-05-10 10:49
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fallen v nitr0 legit looks like some JoJo shit
2022-05-10 12:03
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