MLG Major Championship: Columbus

MLG Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship: Columbus
2016
Tournament information
Sport Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
Location Columbus, Ohio, US
Dates March 29, 2016–April 3, 2016
Administrator(s) Valve Corporation
Host(s) Major League Gaming
Venue(s) Nationwide Arena
Purse $1,000,000 USD
Final positions
Champions Luminosity Gaming
Runners-up Natus Vincere
← DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 ESL One Cologne 2016 →

MLG Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship: Columbus, also referred to as MLG Columbus 2016[1] was a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major held by Major League Gaming ("MLG") throughout March 29 to April 3, 2016 in the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio, US.[2][3] It was the first CS:GO Major in North America as well as the first run by Major League Gaming, who previously ran an exhibition CS:GO tournament at X Games Aspen 2015.[4] It was announced on February 23, 2016 that MLG Columbus 2016 would be the first Counter-Strike tournament with a $1,000,000 prize pool.[5]

Teams

In total, 16 teams competed. Listed below are the top eight finishers at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015 (known as "Legends") who received direct invitations to Columbus and the eight teams that emerged from the offline qualifiers (known as "Challengers").[6]

Legends

Challengers

Group Stage

The four groups were announced through MLG's social media accounts on March 10–11, 2016. Each group was seeded to contain a team who placed 1st–4th at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015, a team who placed 5–8th at DreamHack Open Cluj–Napoca 2015, a team who went undefeated in the offline qualifiers, and a team who won one of the final decider matches in the offline qualifiers.[7]

Group A
Pos Team Record
1 Luminosity Gaming 2–0
2 Ninjas in Pyjamas 2–1
3 Mousesports 1–2
4 Flipsid3 Tactics 0–2
Group B
Pos Team Record
1 Team Liquid 2–0
2 Fnatic 2–1
3 FaZe Clan 1–2
4 Splyce 0–2
Group C
Pos Team Record
1 Astralis 2–0
2 Counter Logic Gaming 2–1
3 Gambit Gaming 1–2
4 EnVyUs 0–2
Group D
Pos Team Record
1 Natus Vincere 2–0
2 Virtus.Pro 2–1
3 G2 Esports 1–2
4 Cloud9 0–2

Summary

On day 3 of the Major, the group stages had ended with Luminosity Gaming and Ninjas in Pyjamas advancing from Group A, Team Liquid and Fnatic advancing from Group B, Astralis and Counter Logic Gaming advancing from Group C and Natus Vincere and Virtus.Pro advancing from Group D.[8]

Group A

In Group A, the teams to advance were Luminosity Gaming and Ninjas in Pyjamas. Flipsid3 Tactics won neither of their games but both went into overtime. The game against Ninjas in Pyjamas saw one overtime, ending at a 19-17 loss to Ninjas in Pyajamas[9] and the game against Mousesports saw five overtimes, ending at a 31-28 loss to Mousesports. Luminosity was undefeated during the Group Stages, winning against both Ninjas in Pyjamas in a 16-5 match[10] and a 16-13 win over Mousesports.[11] Mousesports was eliminated after winning against Flipsid3 Tactics but losing against Ninjas in Pyjamas and Luminosity. Ninjas in Pyjamas won all their games except the match against Luminosity.

Group B

In Group B, the teams to advance were Team Liquid and Fnatic. Team Liquid was flawless, winning both of its games against Fnatic (22-19)[10] and FaZe Clan (16-11).[12]

Group C

In Group C, the teams to advance were Astralis and Counter Logic Gaming.

Group D

In Group D, the teams to advance were Natus Vincere who went flawless (2-0) and Virtus.Pro who went (2-1).

Playoffs Bracket

The playoffs bracket was announced on March 30, 2016. Each quarterfinals match was seeded to contain one top seed and one second seed from the group stage.[13]

Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
         
1 Natus Vincere 2
2 Ninjas in Pyjamas 0
Natus Vincere 2
Astralis 0
1 Astralis 2
2 Fnatic 0
Natus Vincere 0
Luminosity Gaming 2
1 Team Liquid 2
2 Counter Logic Gaming 0
Team Liquid 0
Luminosity Gaming 2
1 Luminosity Gaming 2
2 Virtus.Pro 1

Final Standings

The $1,000,000 prize pool was divided up as follows.

Place Team Prize money
1st Luminosity Gaming $500,000
2nd Natus Vincere $150,000
3rd–4th Astralis $70,000
Team Liquid
5–8th Ninjas in Pyjamas $35,000
Fnatic
Counter Logic Gaming
Virtus.Pro
9–12th Mousesports $8,750
FaZe Clan
Gambit Gaming
G2 Esports
13–16th Flipsid3 Tactics $8,750
Splyce
EnVyUs
Cloud9

References

  1. ↑ "MLG Columbus 2016". Counter-Strike Blog. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  2. ↑ Lewis, Richard (November 2015). "Report: MLG to Host ‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ Major in March 2016". Breitbart.
  3. ↑ "Le prochain Major de CS:GO aux États-Unis". vossey.com (in French).
  4. ↑ Walker, Alex (November 23, 2015). "Major League Gaming Is Getting On Board The Counter-Strike Train Too". Kotaku Australia. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Major Growth". Counter-Strike Blog. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
  6. ↑ Švejda, Milan. "Cloud9 grab last major spot". HLTV. Retrieved 28 February 2016.
  7. ↑ Apicella, Adam. "Group Stage Seeding". Twitter. Retrieved 11 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Kovanen, Tomi (1 April 2016). "Recapping Day 3 at the MLG CS:GO Columbus major". ESPN. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Kovanen, Tomi (30 March 2016). "Recapping Day 1 at the MLG CS:GO Columbus Major". ESPN. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  10. 1 2 Kovanen, Tomi (30 March 2016). "Recapping Day 2 at the MLG CS:GO Columbus Major". ESPN. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "Luminosity vs Mousesports ended". Twitter. Luminosity Gaming. 29 March 2016. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  12. ↑ "Team Liquid vs FaZe Clan". Twitter. Team Liquid. 29 March 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2016.
  13. ↑ Malachowski, Michal. "MLG Columbus playoff matches drawn". HLTV. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
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