Counter Strike: Global Offensive eSports Tournaments
The CS: GO tournament hierarchy is called different from some other esports categories. Currently, there are five types of competitions in Esports categories of Global Offensive. The biggest torments are CS:Go Major Championships (Majors). This is the top one that has the highest prize pool, at least 1,000,000 USD. The top-tier of the tournament is A-Tier Events, which are known as Major Tournaments in the previous season. This type of tournaments have a large prize pool and high level esports teams. Most of the CS:GO international tournaments mostly known as CS:GO Major Championships, some label as S-Tier Event.
S-Tier Tournaments were known as Premier Tournaments. This is the type of events that have high prize pool and mostly play offline. The S-Tier tournaments are featured with the best teams. Most of the well-known S-Tier are:
- BLAST Premier: World
- Intel Extreme Master
- ESL Pro League
- cs_Summit
- DreaHack Master
- PGL Major.
A-Tier Tournaments were known as Major Tournaments that offer a large prize pool. Teams participant are the top-tier of the CSGO eSports. The most famous A-Tier events are:
- Global Esports Tour
- LAN Sweet LAN
- ESL Challengers at DreamHack
- Copenhagen Games
- Funspark ULTI
- Elisa Invitational
- v4 Future Sports Festival
- DreamHack Open
- REPUBLEAGUE.
B-Tier Tournaments are the Tier 2 events. The B-Tier is new that play in smaller LAN with a medium prize pool. The most popular tournaments are:
- ESL Pro League Conference
- CBCS
- FiReLEAGUE
- JBL Quantum Cup
- Funspark ULTI
- Exeedme Revolution
- BLAST Rising LATAM
- ESEA: Premier Division
- IESF World Championship
- 99Liga Div. 1
- KeyDrop Cup
- Svenska Elitserien.
C-Tier Tournaments were former known as Minor Tournaments. It is the lowest Tier of CSGO eSport tournaments, yet they offer the good prize pool. The C-Tier events are still interesting to see, such as:
- Fragleague
- 5E Open Cup Invitational
- GCS Cup
- LVP Supercopa
- National League
- Testament Cup
- RESF Open Cup
- ESEA: Open Division
- MESL Ultimate Cup
- ROG Master.
Counter Strike: Global Offensive Betting Markets
Counter Strike: Global Offensive is one of the eSport game that has a wide range of tournaments. Let just look at the betting markets of 1XBET.com. It’s the best website that provides simple but various betting market. For small tournaments of CS:GO like B-Tier and C-Tier, mostly the choices to place a wager are:
- 1×2 Winner
- Total map Handicap
- Total Rounds Even/Odd.
For the bigger competitions like S-Tiers and A-Tier that have more maps, the betting options for each match could be:
- Winner 1×2. 1 map
- Handicap. 1 map
- Win in Round. 1 map
- Who will win Pistol Round 1. 1 map
- Who will win Pistol Round 16. 1 map
- Who will win X round. 1 map
- Correct Score. 1 map
- Total Round Even/Odd. 1 map
- Will there be overtime?. 1 map