Spirit vs Cloud9 headlines Elimination Stage Round 1

The match-ups for the first round are in, and there will be a handful of mouth-watering contests.

Spirit will go up against Cloud9 in the first round

PGL has revealed the match-ups for the opening round of the Copenhagen Major's Elimination Stage, which will be headlined by a Russian derby between Spirit and Cloud9, the only clash between top 10 teams in the first round.

It will be the first time that these two teams will face each other in Counter-Strike 2. The most recent match between them, in the grand final of a BLAST Fall Showdown qualifier, ended with Cloud9 picking up a close 2-0 win. Back then, Dmitry "⁠sh1ro⁠" Sokolov was still AWPing for Cloud9, and Artem "⁠ArtFr0st⁠" Kharitonov was playing for Spirit.

Current world No.1 FaZe will go up against HEROIC in another highly-anticipated match, while reigning Major champions Vitality will take on Eternal Fire. G2 will face FURIA, the last team to make it through the Opening Stage.

Andrei "⁠arT⁠" Piovezan's troops, just like Imperial and The MongolZ, will have very little time to reset and refocus before the Elimination Stage kicks off on Thursday. Just like in the Opening Stage, the first day will see every team play two best-of-one games. Only the qualification and elimination matches will feature a best-of-three format.

The top eight teams will progress to the playoffs, which will be held at the Royal Arena in front of a crowd between March 28-31.

Below you can find the first-round matchups:

Date Matches
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024
21/03/2024
13:00
Match
21/03/2024
13:00
Match
21/03/2024
14:00
Match
21/03/2024
14:15
Match
21/03/2024
15:05
Match
21/03/2024
15:25
Match
21/03/2024
16:05
Match
21/03/2024
16:40
Match
Russia Artem 'ArtFr0st' Kharitonov
Artem 'ArtFr0st' Kharitonov
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.14
Maps played:
372
KPR:
0.72
DPR:
0.54
Brazil Andrei 'arT' Piovezan
Andrei 'arT' Piovezan
Age:
27
Team:
Rating 1.0:
0.99
Maps played:
1206
KPR:
0.69
DPR:
0.70
Russia Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Dmitry 'sh1ro' Sokolov
Age:
22
Team:
Rating 1.0:
1.22
Maps played:
1112
KPR:
0.77
DPR:
0.54
Left Teams Win?
2024-03-20 20:35
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3 replies
i think pain > complexity
2024-03-20 21:55
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2 replies
#38
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Ukraine fallenaxe
+1
2024-03-20 23:13
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#44
tN1R | 
China A25N
+1
2024-03-21 01:57
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#4
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Denmark DanishDelight
Good luck Ecstatic and Heroic!
2024-03-20 20:36
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8 replies
Good luck astralis, you may beat 9 pandas soon
2024-03-20 21:24
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7 replies
#24
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Russia KopHuLLloH
you are the embodiment of those "guys, when Astralis is playing?" twitch comments and i absolutely love it
2024-03-20 21:41
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2 replies
meh I'm the "where Liquid bracket guys" chatter
2024-03-20 21:43
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1 reply
Its ok im still lovin it
2024-03-20 22:46
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#35
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siuhy | 
Poland makut0N
779elo, regards
2024-03-20 22:54
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3 replies
Does that make astralis any better in the publics eyes? No. Does that make your life any better? Maybe, but meds XP
2024-03-21 07:03
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2 replies
#57
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siuhy | 
Poland makut0N
no, and no, but it makes any of your opinions instantly invalid
2024-03-21 09:06
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1 reply
"Good luck astralis, you may beat 9 pandas soon" is an opinion to you? You have the IQ of room temperature in the winter, in Celcius of course.
2024-03-21 09:10
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pog donk
2024-03-20 20:36
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Papatronic will teach his son donk a lesson or two
2024-03-20 20:37
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2 replies
so 2 rounds? i tought c9 will get a couple more
2024-03-20 23:54
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1 reply
Haha mens)) I’m honestly curious to see how this plays out
2024-03-21 00:13
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#8
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Scotland TWGKofi
Death, Taxes, Pain.... Complexity v Pain arrives all the same.
2024-03-20 20:38
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Mouz ALWAYS get easy opponents this is insane!
2024-03-20 20:39
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What look at the past Majors and Qualifier definitely not true at all. And easy is no game especially Bo1s
2024-03-20 20:52
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Cloud9 humbles donk tomorrow .
2024-03-20 20:40
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1 reply
#37
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United Kingdom Cake00
Idk man, I'm not so sure. They may still win tho
2024-03-20 23:01
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heroic-faze and EF-vitality are the most interesting matches imo
2024-03-20 20:45
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Ummmm its march 28-31 not April 28-31. Just for anyone who panicked seeing that in the post
2024-03-20 21:16
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#21
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Brazil MrLucas
g2 will be exposed once again
2024-03-20 21:20
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#23
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Russia KopHuLLloH
big oof... it's bo1, so c9 might take it. But honestly, despite the great showing so far, as boombl4 said himself - a lot of luck was with them so I will root for those who rely less on that and more on donk
2024-03-20 21:40
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I belive in BO3 C9 would have more chances. What I like about Boombl4 IGLing is that he can adapt mid game, and when he will face Spirit's aggressive playstile on one map there will be not enough time to adapt and find a solution. But in BO3 I believe he would figure out how to stop Donk
2024-03-21 03:08
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3 replies
#52
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United States injury
No one can stop donk. He wins 100% of the duels.
2024-03-21 04:04
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2 replies
I respect the commitment
2024-03-21 07:15
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1 reply
#60
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United States injury
0/8
2024-03-21 11:08
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#26
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China RADNIKEY
Time to show off those AWPing skills against donk
2024-03-20 21:46
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1 reply
you mean shiro
2024-03-20 22:51
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#27
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Norway matsdeff
Why is it so that seed 1 plays seed 9, seed 2 plays seed 10 etc??? In all other sports seed 1 would play seed 16, seed 2 - seed 15 etc
2024-03-20 21:53
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valve math
2024-03-20 23:57
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#53
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United States injury
To keep it from being a bloodbath
2024-03-21 04:05
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All left side
2024-03-20 22:11
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G2 so lucky, they face Furia first, not in the elimination match... G2 winning this major is not a dream anymore
2024-03-20 22:18
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zamn
2024-03-20 22:25
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#32
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Canada minibeech
C9 has no tier2 team like all 3 of their matches in opening stage. About to experience getting donked.
2024-03-20 22:29
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liquid vs Astralis top match of day one
2024-03-20 22:56
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donk
2024-03-20 23:17
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#43
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France docking
G2 v FURIA is gonna top 1M viewers
2024-03-21 01:56
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#45
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Russia *Tpo-_-JI.b*
This is hard and exciting! GL HF
2024-03-21 02:47
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So they reward 3-0 teams in opening stages with harder opponents and give the 3-2 teams easier opponents. Why not go 1seed vs 16 seed can anyone explain?
2024-03-21 02:58
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Because playing low seeded teams is very disadvantageous with Buchholz scoring, and it means that strong teams are more likely to play each other in rounds 3-5. It's better to defeat a team that will go 2-3/3-2 than one that will go 0-3
2024-03-21 03:22
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Perfecto is gonna have hard time anchoring site against Donk
2024-03-21 03:01
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#50
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Indonesia F0RGED
banger match
2024-03-21 03:43
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sh1ro will have his revenge on perfecto and electronic for calling out his bait style of play.
2024-03-21 06:22
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every favourite must win their 1st matches. Only Pain - Compl can be considered as 50/50. Every other Higher seeded level above their opponents. No excuses about bo1 accepted. If u better just win 1 map out of 4 best of your map pool. If u lose just go home
2024-03-21 09:50
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