CSGO Fall Major canceled as Valve plans transition to Counter-Strike 2 after Paris event Helena KristianssonValve officially announced CSGO will be retired for official events after over a decade of being one of the world\u2019s biggest esports. The upcoming Paris Major will be the last dance for CSGO\u2019s best competitors on the big stage before the swap to the new and improved Counter-Strike 2. Counter-Strike is one of the original greats within esports. Maps from the original 1999 release are still being used today, and the sport has gone from LAN parties on 480p monitors to being broadcast from some of the biggest arenas in the world to millions of live viewers. Through its long and prosperous life cycle, CSGO has created some fantastic storylines and built up players like Oleksandr \u2018s1mple\u2019 Kostyliev and Nicolai \u201cdev1ce\u201d Reedtz as some of the greatest competitors in esports. Though this day had to come eventually, the announcement that CSGO will be retired soon in favor of Counter-Strike 2 still makes it hard not to reminisce on the massive influence CSGO has had. To cap off CSGO\u2019s incredibly long life cycle, the upcoming Paris Major will be the last for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. The Fall Major is being skipped over entirely, with Counter-Strike 2 having its debut Major in March 2024. Counter-Strike 2 set to replace CSGO at Majors after Paris With Counter-Strike 2 having such a sudden announcement, questions about what that means for the future of CSGO started to arise. Valve hasn\u2019t made fans wait long to get news on the future of the decade-old title. Counter-Strike 2\u2019s debut Major was announced to be taking place in March 2024, which has fans excited to see what the future holds for a new generation of Counter-Strike. Unfortunately, this announcement has also come with the news that the upcoming Paris Major will be the last CSGO Major ever. While fans were initially excited by the news, they then realized this would mean the Fall Major won\u2019t come this year. It\u2019ll take almost an entire year for us to get the next Counter-Strike Major. Though fans are excited to see what Counter-Strike 2 has in store, this has stunted excitement a bit for fans and organizations within the scene. But what about second Major in 2023? pic.twitter.com\/GQdzC8z4GT \u2014 Cloud9 CS:GO (@C9CSGO) March 24, 2023 It remains to be seen whether or not Valve has more in store for fans anxiously awaiting Counter-Strike 2\u2019s pro debut or if we\u2019ll really have to wait almost 12 months to get more of one of the world\u2019s biggest esports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
CSGO Fall Major canceled as Valve plans transition to Counter-Strike 2 after Paris event Helena KristianssonValve officially announced CSGO will be retired for official events after over a decade of being one of the world\u2019s biggest esports. The upcoming Paris Major will be the last dance for CSGO\u2019s best competitors on the big stage before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}