PGL Major: Kraków 2017

PGL Major 2017
2017
The PGL Major 2017 logo
Tournament information
SportCounter-Strike: Global Offensive
LocationKraków, Poland
DatesJuly 16, 2017–July 23, 2017
AdministratorValve
PGL
Tournament
format(s)
16 team swiss-system group stage
8 team single-elimination playoff
Host(s)PGL
VenueTauron Arena Kraków
Teams16 teams
Purse$1,000,000 USD
Final positions
ChampionsGambit Esports (1st title)
1st runners-upImmortals
2nd runners-upAstralis
Virtus.pro
Tournament statistics
Attendance15,000
MVPDauren "AdreN" Kystaubayev

PGL Major: Kraków 2017, also known as PGL Major 2017 or Kraków 2017, was the eleventh Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championship. It is the first Major organized by the Romanian organization PGL and it was held in Kraków, Poland from July 16 to 23, 2017. It featured sixteen professional CS:GO teams from around the world. Eight teams qualified directly based on their top eight placement in the previous Major, ELEAGUE Major 2017, while another eight teams qualified through the Offline Major Qualifier. The PGL Major was the fourth consecutive major with a prize pool of US$1,000,000.

The playoffs consisted of eight teams. Astralis, Fnatic, Gambit Esports, North, SK Gaming, and Virtus.pro were returning Legends while BIG and Immortals were new Legends. FaZe Clan and Natus Vincere lost their Legends status after failing to advance from the group stage. The grand finals featured two underdogs: Gambit Esports, which defeated Fnatic and Astralis, and Immortals, which defeated BIG and Virtus.pro. The Major concluded with Gambit defeating Immortals 2–1 in a relatively close best-of-three series, marking just the third time a non-European team won a Major (the Brazilian Luminosity/SK roster won two Majors) and the first time an Asian team won a Major.