ESL One Rio Major 2020

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ESL One Rio 2020
2020
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The ESL One logo
Tournament information
Game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Date11—24 May 2020 (originally)
9—22 November 2020 (cancelled)
Administrator(s) Valve
ESL
Tournament
format(s)
Two 16 team swiss-system group stages
8 team single-elimination playoff
Venue Jeunesse Arena
Teams24
PurseUS$2,000,000

The ESL One Rio Major 2020, also known as ESL One Rio 2020 or Rio 2020, was scheduled to be the sixteenth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship. It was to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [1] It was announced with a US$1,000,000 prize pool and twenty-four professional teams from around the world, as with previous Majors. [2] It would have been the seventh time ESL had hosted a Major. [3]

The Major was originally scheduled to take place from May 11 to May 24, 2020. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Valve and ESL postponed the Major to November. [4] Because Valve generally sponsors two Majors per year, the delayed Major was to have a US$2,000,000 prize pool, making it the largest prize pool in CS:GO Major history. In September 2020, Valve and ESL announced that the Major was canceled because of continued complications from the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil. [5] In January 2021, Valve announced that PGL Major Stockholm 2021 would be the next Major instead. [6] In May 2022, Valve announced a replacement Brazilian Major, IEM Rio Major 2022, in October. [7]

Qualification

While Rio 2020 was initially announced with the same Legends and Challengers format as previous Majors, the 14-month gap between Berlin 2019 and the postponed Rio 2020 date led Valve to announce a new qualification system. [8] No team would be given an automatic invitation based on results at the previous Major; instead, all 24 teams would have to earn their invitation through regional qualifiers known as the Road to Rio. [9] [10]

There would be six regional qualifiers – North America, South America, Europe, CIS, Asia, and Oceania. Each regional qualifier received a set number of spots in the Rio Major. The number of spots corresponds with the number of teams from that region at the previous major, the Berlin Major. [8] Valve announced that these events would continue until a new date for the Major was determined. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "ESL One Rio Overview". HLTV.org. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ "ESL One Rio 2020 - ESL Pro Tour Masters Championship". ESL One Rio. Retrieved December 11, 2019.
  3. ↑ "ESL One Rio announced, first CS:GO major in Brazil". ESPN.com. December 11, 2019. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ "ESL One Rio Major Moved to November". The Esports Observer. March 23, 2020. Retrieved March 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ Wolf, Jacob (September 10, 2020). "ESL One: Rio Major canceled due to coronavirus concerns". ESPN. Retrieved September 13, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "PGL to host next Major in Stockholm*". HLTV.org. Retrieved February 17, 2021.
  7. ↑ Robertson, Scott (May 24, 2022). "Bound for Brazil: IEM Rio Major 2022 announced for October". Dot Esports. Retrieved May 25, 2022.
  8. 1 2 "The Road to the November Rio Major". Counter-Strike: Global Offensive blog. April 2, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  9. ↑ "ESL One: Road to Rio to fill May CS:GO Major void". ESL One Rio. April 2, 2020. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
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