Krakow was chosen to host the eleventh Major CS tournament: GO

The tournament will be held on July 16-23 this year. The playoffs will be held at the TAURON Arena Krakow, which already hosted the League of Legend tournament last year. The prize fund as well as on the last three major'ah will be $ 1,000,000.

This is the third Major held in Poland, which are ESL 2014 and 2015. In addition, this is the first PGL tournament that Valve spiced, before that Valve was sponsored by DreamHack, ESL, ELeague and MLG.

On PGL 2017 Krakow selected teams from minorities passing in Asia, America, the CIS and Europe. The best teams will get on offline qualifications and eight more teams will get a direct invite from Major's past.

Dates for the performance of the minors and majors:

June 1-4: PGL Asian minor
June 8-11: PGL American minor
June 8-11: PGL CIS Minor
June 15-18: PGL European minor
June 29 - July 2: Major offline qualifications
July 16-19: PGL Krakow Major group stage
July 21-23: PGL Krakow Major Main event

For the first time in the history of majors, all matches, including qualifications, will be broadcast with a quality of 1080p / 60fps. "PGL Major Krakow" will also "mark the beginning of a number of new functions aimed at making the viewing both in direct and online mode the best of its kind."

8 teams received the status of legends from Atlanta and participating in the subsequent major: Astralis, Virtus.pro, fnatic, SK, Natus Vincere, Gambit, North, FaZe.

8 teams that will qualify: TBA, GODSENT, Liquid, G2 *, mousesports, OpTic, FlipSid3, HellRaisers.

* G2 - ex-EnVyUS