Here are порнография детейsome points to remember going into the upcoming Major cycle.
On Wednesday, the Spring Major of 2022 was announced to be PGL Antwerp, with the Romanian tournament organizer revealing that the tournament would take place in the Belgian port city on May 9-22.
Valve made their own announcement shortly after, which contained a supplemental rulebook containing a set of rules and stipulations that must be followed at all Valve-sponsored events, enforced on top of any given tournament organizer's own ruleset.
While this rulebook officially codified many existing but not publicly stated rules from Valve, there were many changes compared to previous Major cycles. Here are some of the most important notes to remember.
An unforgiving qualification system
- No more points. Only one RMR tournament per region will decide all Major teams
- RMRs have been consolidated into three regions: Europe, America, Asia
The first part that will stand out to fans is that rather than running multiple Regional Major Ranking events and awarding points to teams at each, there will be a single RMR event in each region, awarding direct qualification to the Major.
Furthermore, the previous six regions used during the online era (and the four used during the Minor era) are being compressed down to three: Europe, Americas, and Asia-Pacific. This means that Europe and CIS will play in one mega-region in a bid to qualify for the Major.
Invites to the RMR tournaments will be awarded to teams who placed in the Legends stage of the previous Major (the top 16). The rest of the spots at each event will be filled through qualifiers, the format of which is currently decided by the tournament organizer.
No more inconsistencies in RMR formats
- 1-2 Major spots: 4-team GSL
- 3-4 spots: 8-team double elimination
- 5-8 spots: 16-team Swiss
- 9 or more spots: Split into multiple groups
Following up on streamlining of the qualification through the Regional Major Ranking events, Valve also standardized the formats of the RMR events for each region according to the number of spots that region has at the Major.
This addresses one of the biggest criticisms of the past two RMR cycles, which saw radically different formats used between both regions and tournament organizers, resulting in inconsistencies in how easy or hard it was for certain teams to qualify.
While each region will use a format corresponding to the number of spots that region has at the Major (as shown above), particularly large regions will split up their RMR teams into multiple groups to make the qualification process more manageable. Each of the groups will essentially function as its own event and will both award qualification to the Major.
Regional slot distribution is flexible
- Number of teams representing a region can change from Major to Major
- Only Contenders will remain fixed
Following the much-criticized regional slot distribution of PGL Stockholm, which was based on the results of StarLadder Berlin, Valve made slight alterations to the system of determining regional slot distribution, allowing for changes in the future.
While the slot distribution for the Legend and Challenger teams is strictly determined by the previous Major's results, with the top eight earning Legends spots for their region and the 9th-16th teams earning Challengers spots, the distribution for the Contenders will always be the same, with Europe and Americas having 3 spots, while Asia-Pacific has 2.
What does this mean for PGL Major Antwerp?
For the upcoming PGL Major in Belgium, this will be the regional slot distribution, as based on the results of PGL Stockholm:
- Legends:7 Europe, 1 Americas
- Challengers:6 Europe, 2 Americas
- Contenders:3 Europe, 3 Americas, 2 Asia-Pacific
These are the teams who are currently set to receive invites to their respective RMR event, and which slots that event will award at the Major:
Europe 1 (Swiss)
Natus Vincere
Virtus.pro
Copenhagen Flames
ENCE HEROIC
VitalityAstralisUnknown flag cis Qualifier x9 Europe 2 (Swiss)G2
Ninjas in PyjamasFaZeUnknown flag cis Qualifier x10 GambitEntropiqMOUZ Americas (Swiss)
FURIA 
Qualifier x15 Asia-Pacific (GSL)
Qualifier x4
It's important to note that, due to losing their core from PGL Major Stockholm, Liquid and Evil Geniuses will not receive an invite to the Americas RMR tournament. Based on the rulebook, it is possible that their invites will be handed out to the next two teams in line, which should be paiN and GODSENT.
Find out more about the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 on our special Coverage Hub.
MOUZ #25 Nathan 'NBK-' Schmitt
Christopher 'dexter' Nong
David 'frozen' ?erňansky
ádám 'torzsi' Torzsás
Aurimas 'Bymas' Pipiras 
Liquid #56 Richard 'shox' PapillonNick 'nitr0' Cannella
Keith 'NAF' MarkovicJonathan 'EliGE' JablonowskiJosh 'oSee' Ohm 
Gambit #2 
Abay 'HObbit' KhassenovTimofey 'interz' YakushinSergey 'Ax1Le' RykhtorovDmitry 'sh1ro' SokolovVladislav 'nafany' Gorshkov 
Entropiq #9 Aleksei 'NickelBack' TrofimovVladislav 'Krad' KravchenkoViktor 'Lack1' BoldyrevAleksei 'El1an' GusevIgor 'Forester' Bezotecheskiy 
G2 #4 Audric 'JACKZ' Jug
Nikola 'NiKo' Kova?Nemanja 'huNter-' Kova?
Aleksi 'Aleksib' VirolainenIlya 'm0NESY' Osipov 
Astralis #8 Andreas 'Xyp9x' H?jslethLukas 'gla1ve' RossanderKristian 'k0nfig' WieneckePhilip 'Lucky' EwaldBenjamin 'blameF' Bremer 
Vitality #3 Dan 'apEX' MadesclairePeter 'dupreeh' RasmussenEmil 'Magisk' ReifMathieu 'ZywOo' HerbautKévin 'misutaaa' Rabier 
Evil Geniuses #101 William 'RUSH' WierzbaTimothy 'autimatic' TaJake 'Stewie2K' YipVincent 'Brehze' Cayonte
Tsvetelin 'CeRq' Dimitrov 
HEROIC #5 Casper 'cadiaN' M?llerIsmail 'refrezh' AliMartin 'stavn' LundRené 'TeSeS' MadsenRasmus 'sjuush' Beck 
Copenhagen Flames #18 Rasmus 'HooXi' NielsenNico 'nicoodoz' TamjidiFredrik 'roeJ' J?rgensenJakob 'jabbi' NygaardRasmus 'Zyphon' Nordfoss 
FURIA #13 Andrei 'arT' PiovezanYuri 'yuurih' SantosKaike 'KSCERATO' CeratoRafael 'saffee' CostaAndré 'drop' Abreu 
Virtus.pro #6 Timur 'buster' TulepovEvgenii 'FL1T' LebedevAlexey 'Qikert' GolubevDzhami 'Jame' Ali
Mareks 'YEKINDAR' Ga?inskis 
GODSENT #12 Epitacio 'TACO' de MeloJo?o 'felps' VasconcellosEduardo 'dumau' WolkmerBruno 'b4rtiN' CamaraBruno 'latto' Rebelatto 
FaZe #10 Finn 'karrigan' Andersen
H?vard 'rain' NygaardRussel 'Twistzz' Van Dulken
Robin 'ropz' KoolHelvijs 'broky' Saukants 
Natus Vincere #1 
Oleksandr 's1mple' KostylievDenis 'electroNic' SharipovKirill 'Boombl4' MikhailovIlya 'Perfecto' ZalutskiyValeriy 'b1t' Vakhovskiy 
paiN #35 Vinicios 'PKL' CoelhoGabriel 'NEKIZ' SchenatoWesley 'hardzao' LopesRodrigo 'biguzera' Bittencourt 
Ninjas in Pyjamas #7 Patrick 'es3tag' HansenFredrik 'REZ' SternerHampus 'hampus' PoserNicolas 'Plopski' Gonzalez ZamoraLove 'phzy' Smidebrant 
ENCE #23 Marco 'Snappi' Pfeiffer
Pavle 'Maden' Bo?kovi?
Pawe? 'dycha' DychaOlek 'hades' Miskiewicz
Lotan 'Spinx' Giladi