The PGL Major Antwerp 2022, also known as PGL Major 2022 or Antwerp 2022, was the seventeenth Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Major Championship. It was held in Antwerp, Belgium at the Sportpaleis from 9 to 22 May 2022. Twenty-four teams participated, with most qualifying through regional tournaments. It featured a prize pool, half of the previous Major. It was the third Major hosted by the Romanian organization PGL, after PGL Major: Kraków 2017 and PGL Major Stockholm 2021. The Major would be won by FaZe Clan, the first international team in CS:GO history to win a Major.
Background Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Hidden Path Entertainment and Valve Corporation. It is the fourth game in the Counter-Strike series. In professional CS:GO, the Valve-sponsored Majors are the most prestigious tournaments.
The defending Major Champions were Natus Vincere, who won their first Major at Stockholm 2021. Natus Vincere would finish second at the Major, losing to FaZe Clan in the grand finals.
Format
Map Pool Dust II Mirage Inferno Nuke Ancient Overpass Vertigo
Teams Competing
Legends
Heroic Copenhagen Flames BIG Clan Cloud9 FaZe Clan Ninjas in Pyjamas Natus Vincere FURIA Esports
Challengers
ENCE G2 Esports forZe Astralis Team Vitality Bad News Eagles MIBR Imperial Esports
Contenders
Eternal Fire Team Spirit Outsiders Complexity Gaming Team Liquid 9z Team IHC Esports Renegades
New Challengers Stage
The New Challengers stage took place from 9 to 12 May 2022. The Challengers stage, also known as the Preliminary stage and formerly known as the offline qualifier, is a sixteen team swiss tournament. Initial seeding was determined using RMR standings, from the 2nd round forward the Buchholz system was used.
Round 1 matches Inferno Dust II Inferno Nuke Nuke Dust II Dust II Mirage
Round 2 matchesHigh division Dust II Inferno Vertigo Mirage Low division Vertigo Nuke Inferno Inferno
Round 3 matchesHigh division Series Series Mid division Dust II Vertigo Overpass Overpass Low division Series Series
Round 4 matchesHigh division Series Series Series Low division Series Series Series
Round 5 matches Series Series Series
New Legends Stage The format of the New Legends stage was the same as the New Challengers stage: a 16-team Swiss-system tournament with the top eight teams advancing to the playoff bracket.
Round 1 matches Vertigo Ancient Overpass Mirage Mirage Nuke Mirage Nuke
Round 2 matchesHigh division Nuke Ancient Ancient Inferno Low division Mirage Ancient Ancient Mirage
Round 3 matchesHigh division Series Series Mid division Vertigo Mirage Vertigo Nuke Low division Series Series
Round 4 matchesHigh division Series Series Series Series Series Series
Round 5 matches Series Series Series
New Champions Stage With eight teams remaining, the final stage of the Major is a single-elimination bracket, with all matches played as best-of-3 maps.
Bracket
Quarterfinals
FaZe Clan vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas Casters: Scrawny & launders
FaZe Clan vs. Ninjas in Pyjamas scores Team Score Map Score Team Nuke Overpass Inferno
FURIA Esports vs. Team Spirit Casters: JustHarry & Hugo
FURIA Esports vs. Team Spirit scores Team Score Map Score Team Vertigo Ancient FURIA Esports – Mirage – Team Spirit
Copenhagen Flames vs. ENCE Casters: Vince & Bleh
Copenhagen Flames vs. ENCE scores Team Score Map Score Team Vertigo Nuke Copenhagen Flames – Ancient – ENCE
Heroic vs. Natus Vincere Casters: Machine & SPUNJ
Heroic vs. Natus Vincere scores Team Score Map Score Team Inferno Ancient Nuke
Semifinals
Team Spirit vs. FaZe Clan Casters: JustHarry & Hugo
Team Spirit vs. FaZe Clan scores Team Score Map Score Team Mirage Dust II Team Spirit – Nuke – FaZe Clan
Natus Vincere vs. ENCE Casters: Scrawny & launders
Natus Vincere vs. ENCE scores Team Score Map Score Team Nuke Dust II Natus Vincere – Mirage – ENCE
Finals
FaZe Clan vs. Natus Vincere Casters: Machine & SPUNJ
FaZe Clan vs. Natus Vincere scores Team Score Map Score Team Inferno Nuke FaZe Clan – Ancient – Natus Vincere
Final standings The final placings are shown below. In addition, the prize distribution, seed for the next major, roster, and coaches are shown. Place Prize Money Team Seed Roster Coach 1st FaZe Clan IEM Road to Rio 2022 RMR rain, broky, Twistzz, karrigan, ropz Eddie 2nd Natus Vincere s1mple, electronic, Boombl4, Perfecto, B1ad3 3rd 4th Team Spirit chopper, magixx, degster, Patsi, S1ren – ENCE Snappi, Spinx, dycha, hades, maden sAw 5th 8th FURIA Esports yuurih, , , , tacitus Ninjas in Pyjamas REZ, Plopski, hampus, es3tag, djL Copenhagen Flames jabbi, nicoodoz, roeJ, HooXi, Zyphon vorborg Heroic stavn, , TeSeS, , sjuush Xizt 9th 11th G2 Esports IEM Road to Rio 2022 RMR JaCkz, huNter-, NiKo, m0NESY, Aleksib XTQZZZ Team Vitality apEX, ZywOo, misutaaa, dupreeh, Magisk zonic Imperial Esports FalleN, fer, fnx, boltz, VINI – 12th 14th Cloud9 nafany, , Ax1Le, interz, HObbit groove BIG tabseN, , syrsoN, faveN, gob b Outsiders buster, qikert, , YEKINDAR, FL1T dastan 15th 16th Bad News Eagles , gxx-, juanflatroo, , Team Liquid , , oSee, shox, nitr0 17th 19th forZe Jerry, , zorte, , Fierce Astralis Xyp9x, gla1ve, blameF, Farlig, k0nfig MIBR chelo, exit, WOOD7, Tuurtle, BIT 20th 22nd Complexity Gaming JT, FaNg, floppy, , T.c Eternal Fire XANTARES, woxic, Calyx, imoRR, xfl0ud bishop IHC Esports bLitz, Techno4K, kabal, nin9, sk0R 23rd 24th Renegades , ins, hatz, , Liazz Kingfisher 9z Team dgt, max, rox, , –
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