PGL and Perfect World announce partnership

14-3-2024 12:16

The Romania and China-based tournament organizers will cooperate on hosting Counter-Strike 2 events for the next three years.

PGL and Perfect World have formally announced a partnership that will see the two tournament organizers cooperate on hosting Counter-Strike 2 (and DOTA 2) events in 2024-2026.

As a result, PGL will produce all Perfect World events in English and hold rights to their distribution outside of China and vice versa — Perfect World will produce and distribute PGL's events in China and Chinese broadcasts for PGL's other events.

To begin with, the partnership will be in effect for both of this year's Counter-Strike 2 Majors, which are due to be organized by PGL in Copenhagen from March 17-31 and by Perfect World in Shanghai on December 1-15.

The partnership isn't all new, as the Romania and China-based organizers have already cooperated in a similar capacity on Counter-Strike and DOTA events since 2017.

However, its continuation could have significant implications on the Counter-Strike landscape from 2025, when Valve's new rules come into effect and put a stop to BLAST's and ESL's franchised structures. This should create more opportunities for other tournament organizers to host large-scale Counter-Strike events featuring top teams.

PGL previously announced it would host "a minimum of eight $1 million tournaments" in DOTA 2 from 2024-2026, but they have yet to reveal their Counter-Strike plans for the upcoming years.

Pog

2024-03-14 12:16

infinite major exploit

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Lol

2024-03-14 23:18

nice

Nice

2024-03-14 12:17

Damn

what

Gg top content

2024-03-14 12:19

not bad lol

so two PGL majors in a row again? haiyaaa

2024-03-14 12:20

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i read last part by uncle roger's voice

2024-03-14 19:03

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uncle roger would be proud

2024-03-14 20:44

I swear my speech can't escape from his manerisms...

2024-03-14 23:41

pgl disgusting stickers

2024-03-14 12:21

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they are good this major

2024-03-14 14:10

They are the same 😭

2024-03-14 14:34

nearly everyone wants borderless stickers now we get them again and ppl are complaining. I get that the same again and again are not the best choice but this major are so many new teams and players that if you buy challenger/contender capsules you should have everytime a new one :) (at least at the start) i mean the rio major sticket looked absolutly shit. did you buy them? what sticker design you want from valve coming forward?

2024-03-14 16:07

Bro the guy said "they are good this major" like they haven't been identical before

2024-03-14 16:08

3 years huh?

2024-03-14 12:22

China Saudi UAE This partnerships cycle never ends 🤦🏻‍♂️:)

2024-03-14 12:23

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Everyone else knows there's inherently only losses in esports, but these countries love to appear better than they actually are

2024-03-14 12:28

they are the reason we can still watch everything for free, be more grateful my friend.

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Everything is still free because no one would buy the product overall, not because oil money bought the scene. The day CS goes pay to watch it goes bankrupt instantly.

2024-03-14 12:32

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I would pay 5$ to watch all CS events ad free and better produced. The only reason CS is still alive competitively are gambling sites and Saudi.

2024-03-14 12:34

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You'd probably be in the minority regarding paying to watch. I don't think 5$ will be enough either when it's said and done, these companies aren't here to make the best viewing experience they're here to try to make money or get market cap to eventually make money.

2024-03-14 12:35

There is no money to be made in E-Sports, it's been a money drain for years if not decades. Inflated player salaries, Orgs struggling financially left and right, Orgs fucking over own players to keep sticker money etc. TO's are there for exposure, not to make bank.

2024-03-14 12:38

But a very easy way to do money laundering.

2024-03-14 12:43

they have been a money dump because the investments were far over what the gradual climb could take. and it got worse with covid. if the growth was linear we wouldnt have any problems but the ivnestments got exponential while viewers kept being linear

2024-03-14 12:55

“ The only reason CS is still alive competitively are gambling sites and Saudi.” Gambling sites? Yes. Saudis? Well no. Sure their investment might’ve helped the game to some extent but saying their money saved the game is absolutely bs.

2024-03-14 12:39

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They bought half of E-Sports, in a time where absolutely everyone was struggling financially, they even bought percentages of Blast lmao. They helped massively, like it or not.

2024-03-14 12:41

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They didn’t help them then, they just abused their financial condition. Also they dont give a sh!t about esports at all. The only thing they are looking for is control and power, which they will get no matter what. So stop acting like they are our saviors 🤦🏻‍♂️ 🙃 I would still enjoy watching fuckin voyvoda play against fiend in the most matchfixing fashion possible. I dont need all those fireworks to get me entertained

2024-03-14 12:46

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I don't really care if you like them or not, fact is, they are the reason we still get top tier events for free. So stop complaining, or just stop watching.

2024-03-14 12:47

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That’s absolutely not true There are dozens of investors out there who are willing to do anything for more profit. Eventually there would’ve been another organization/group to invest in CS.

2024-03-14 12:50

looks like you still don't get it, there is no profit to be made, and that's why other investors are not interested, it's not about profit for saudis, it's for exposure.

2024-03-14 12:57

I wouldn't necessarily say other investors wouldn't be interested, especially when it comes to ESL, which is the biggest company in competitive Esports across multiple games, but I do agree that Saudis don't look to profit off of this, it's about image and exposure for them.

2024-03-14 12:59

Another lie :)

2024-03-14 13:04

I do agree on the exposure part tho and thats exactly why i dont like it :)

2024-03-14 13:20

i thought gade enjoyers were smart? these partnerships are needed unless you want events to become PPV? which im 100% sure you do not.

I didn’t say that. Its just exhausting constantly seeing Chinese and saudis authorities buying the ownership of things left and right. Btw idc nor follow these things in general but whenever i do it’s about them :)

2024-03-14 12:54

who cares who they are? would you be more happy with an american investor? like it's not gonna make a difference, investors are investors, morals and ethics don't exist anymore, no point of trying to look for it in esports.

Yeah thats right

2024-03-14 12:56

Hopefully it will make CS more popular in China.

2024-03-14 12:24

Its already pretty popular in China. Pretty sure the most RMR signups were in China (for like a single event there were like 6000 teams? I dont think any of the EU RMR open qualis had that). Its just the orgs/players/teams have been in a huge slump since the peaks of Tyloo.

2024-03-14 13:14

interesting

2024-03-14 12:25

Terrible stickers!

get ready for borderless stickers for the next 3 years

2024-03-14 12:30

At least some alternative to ESL/Blast duopoly

2024-03-14 12:31

Ahahahahhahaha shit can't be real this brings back memories: gosugamers.net/dota2/news/34590-shanghai..

"James is an ass, and we won't be working with him again."

2024-03-14 12:37

Nah, don't remind me bro. Worst eSports event ever in my opinion

2024-03-14 15:45

Greatest eSports event ever you mean XD

2024-03-14 19:46

W i guess?

Largest L

2024-03-14 15:51

holy fuck pgl just loves to run majors huh?

2024-03-14 12:36

RIP to RL, stunnah, Maui, Thorin, YNK, semmler for never working another major.

2024-03-14 12:42

they just gotta lower their prices, PGL is tryin to make some money here

2024-03-14 14:36

It has nothing to do with prices.

2024-03-15 06:00

so basically focused on maintaining Valve owned T1 tourneys got it

Yeah sure, let's keep partnering with China and middle eastern countries. Those guys definitely share our values and we won't ever regret it

2024-03-14 12:51

Ricky Lewis Working with Saudis = Bad Working with CCP = Good RE: human rights issues Another reason how hypocritical this guy is

2024-03-14 13:06

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Wholly Saudi government owned is far different to Chinese companies and the 'Golden Share' the state holds in them. For example Xi Jinping is not the chairman of perfect world (or the company that owns perfect world which to my knowledge there is no bigger company just a holding company of the current CEO).

2024-03-14 13:12

What if, He was not aware, Of the merge, Before accepting the job, And now will resign, Regards.

2024-03-14 13:18

But he is the esport journalist of the year with more contacts and sources than anyone else the industry (his own words). Was that a lie?

2024-03-14 13:19

Would you accept a possibility that he was not aware, despite his position? or Are you going to say with 100% certainty that he was aware and took the job knowing what is about to happen? My only stance is that, he might've been not aware and i agree with you on that, him shitting on saudis but accepting Taylor Swift '89 money makes him a hypocrite. Yes, that's a lie i have more contacts. 🗿🍷

2024-03-14 13:26

Bruv, pgl has always been running perfectworlds events. This is even pointed out by this hltv article It is practically impossible he wasnt aware of this move

2024-03-14 14:48

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

2024-03-14 16:32

lmao i forgot how he was acting like the godfather when he dissed all the guys working for gamer8 etc. i knew it wouldnt last long until he needed cash and throw all standards overboard.

PGL has to cooperate with Perfect World as PW is the sole agent of Valve in Mainland China. Anyone can't neglect PW's monopoly status expect ESL.

2024-03-14 14:51

Hope there can be more DotA and CS LAN tournaments in China.

2024-03-14 14:52

Glad im not the only 1 who notices the crazy dude switching this guy does to pander to whatever audience is in control of the media at the given time. Waiting to see how he dances around trying to justify this after going on about hong kong 🤣🤣

2024-03-14 19:29

Interesting partnership hopefully PGL runs more cs tournaments to counteract the ESL hegemony.

2024-03-14 13:08

i love saudis and china so this is awesome to me <3

2024-03-14 13:11

Holy shit, I miss PW, man! Wonderful times. The main game of my childhood 🥺🥲 <3

2024-03-14 13:16

huge L

Probably good for cs

dota major

2024-03-14 13:47

Richard Lewis will be loving it, only way he can appear on desk at major

2024-03-14 13:49

PGL + Perfect World = Perfect Audio Guy

2024-03-14 13:56

china number one

2024-03-14 14:18

it's so over

lynn Vision winning major, bookmark this now people

2024-03-14 14:21

its early morning in NA and you are already lit

2024-03-14 14:23

just sleep deprived and in class right now. I am only speaking facts

2024-03-14 14:46

noice

2024-03-14 14:24

Ffs back to back PGL majors

2024-03-14 14:42

CHINA #1

2024-03-14 14:59

Huge W china numba wan

2024-03-14 15:07

2024-03-14 15:14

huh gg, cs2 ruined

2024-03-14 15:36

PGL was allready hosting perfect world events, what’s the announce?

2024-03-14 15:37

Sick move !

2024-03-14 15:47

More sportswashing, yayy!!!!

2024-03-14 18:19

Looks like RL is taking the sports washing money after all lol please richard tell us more about your morals and how youd never take money from china saudi or russia 😊

2024-03-14 19:19