After a false begin in 2023, Asia may lastly get a shot at internet hosting a Counter-Strike Main subsequent 12 months with Chinese language match organizer Excellent World set to companion with PGL for a 2024 software to Valve.
With PGL already securing the rights to host the primary CS Main of 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark subsequent March, it’s understood the organizer needs to get their fingers on December’s match too and can hyperlink up with Excellent World to deliver CS2 to Shanghai, China in December according to CS news site HLTV.
Plans to host a Valve-sponsored occasion in China date again to 2022 when Excellent World found themselves in a race against BLAST to host the second Main of 2023. BLAST would in the end win that race, with the organizer opting to take the coveted match to Paris, France.
The information comes following Valve’s July 19 choice to maneuver Majors to the tip of every aggressive season—a transfer welcomed by each the enjoying group and the neighborhood. Beforehand held in Might and October, Valve’s pinnacle tournaments fell awkwardly in the course of every season. Now, beginning in 2024, the participant break will start the second the Main ends.
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Curiously, Valve’s Main tips name for host areas to indicate earlier profitable iterations of occasions in addition to a schedule handy with European timezones—round 4pm to 9pm CEST. The final large-scale match to be hosted in China was IEM Beijing in 2019, with Australia seeing each ESL Challenger and IEM-level occasions return post-COVID in 2022 and 2023.
Having the occasion held in China—or any nation in Asia or Oceania, for that matter—would battle to fulfill the schedule requirement. The Main would want to run as late as attainable to cater to a European viewers, which might in flip affect followers on-site.
However, ought to Excellent World safe the Main for Shanghai, it might be a large enhance for CS as a complete in Asia, particularly China, and particularly so given it might be the second Main in CS2 following Copenhagen.
Likewise, PGL has a lot to achieve by partnering and co-hosting the match in Shanghai. The organizer has earlier expertise operating occasions in China, together with a partnership with Excellent World for the CS:GO Asia Championships in 2018 in addition to Dota 2’s 2019 version of The Worldwide.
The second Main of 2024 is ready to start Dec. 1, with regional qualifiers for the yet-to-be-announced match locked in for October and November.
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