We are less than two weeks away from the start of BLAST.tv Major in Paris. To ease the waiting time, we have created a countdown series, where we dive into the history of all the previous 18 Majors.

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MVP: Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski

Map pool: Dust2, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, and Train.

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The second Major in history took place in March 2014. The venue was the now legendary Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland. Once again 16 teams were gathered to determine, who was the best team in Counter-Strike right now? Since the first Major in Jönköping, VeryGames (Now Titan) had only improved. The roster (Ex6TenZ, NBK, ScreaM, shox, SmithZz) was dubbed tournament favorites going into the Major. The Swedish Ninjas were also among the top favorites while reigning champions from Fnatic were once again considered underdogs compared to Titan and NIP.

Group A delivered the first upset with tournament favorites Titan's exit. A 16-7 loss to Virtus.pro shocked the French/Belgian roster, who had to win the elimination match against HellRaisers to survive. But another loss forced the star-studded roster to be eliminated before the playoffs. Instead the only Polish team in the tournament, Virtus.pro made it through in first place. The roster (TaZ, NEO, pashaBiceps, byali, Snax) had only recently been assembled, but everything seemed to be clicking on home turf.

In the playoffs Virtus.pro annihilated Team LDLC 16-3, 16-8. Now all eyes were on the home crowd's favorites. Fnatic was eliminated in the Quarter-Finals, while Ninjas in Pyjamas once again had qualified for the Grand Final. This time by beating Team Dignitas with three of the legendary Astralis core (Xyp9x, dupreeh, device) on the roster.

Virtus.pro lost their first and only map in the whole event in the Semi-Final against LGB esports (with Olofmeister on the roster), but managed to win the match 2-1 to make it to the Grand Final.

You can watch the entire Grand Final between NIP vs Virtus.pro here.

The Grand Final ended with total Polish domination. The underdogs continued their miracle run in front of an ecstatic crowd. 16-9 and 16-10 were the stone-cold facts for Ninjas in Pyjamas, who lost their second consecutive Major final. Jarosław "pashaBiceps" Jarząbkowski was awarded the tournament MVP with an immense 1.38 HLTV rating.

Virtus.pro continued to dominate CS:GO in the years to come. They earned themselves the nickname of "The Plow". They never won a Major again though.

Highest rated players at EMS One Katowice 2014:

1. {cflag:PL} Jarosław 'pashaBiceps' Jarząbkowski (Virtus.pro) - 1.38 rating

2. {cflag:SE} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/get-right","isNewTab":true,"text":"Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund"}] (Ninjas in Pyjamas) - 1.33 rating

3. {cflag:PL} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/byali","isNewTab":true,"text":"Paweł 'byali' Bieliński"}] (Virtus.pro) - 1.31 rating

4. {cflag:DK} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/cajunb","isNewTab":true,"text":"René 'cajunb' Borg"}] (Dignitas) - 1.27 rating

5. {cflag:FR} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/shox","isNewTab":true,"text":"Richard 'shox' Papillon"}] (Titan) - 1.26 rating

6. {cflag:SE} Andreas 'znajder' Lindberg (Fnatic) - 1.25 rating

7. {cflag:SE} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/flusha","isNewTab":true,"text":"Robin 'flusha' Rönnquist"}] (Fnatic) - 1.25 rating

8. {cflag:PL} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/snax","isNewTab":true,"text":"Janusz 'Snax' Pogorzelski"}] (Virtus.pro) - 1.20 rating

9. {cflag:RU} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/dosia","isNewTab":true,"text":"Mikhail 'Dosia' Stolyarov"}] (HellRaisers) - 1.18 rating

10. {cflag:PL} [link:{"url":"https://pley.gg/players/neo","isNewTab":true,"text":"Filip 'NEO' Kubski"}] (Virtus.pro) - 1.16 rating

Tomorrow we will be back with ESL Cologne 2014!

GeT_RiGhT

byali

cajunb

shox

flusha

Dosia

Snax

Virtus.pro

Ninjas in Pyjamas

Team Dignitas

Fnatic

MistR will be stepping in on the main roster for the RMR qualifier as k0nfig is out with a foot injury that he got shortly after Astralis failed to qualify for the ESL Pro League Season 16 playoffs. This will be a very tough challenge for the Astralis team, but they are hopeful and believes that MistR can get the job done.

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MistR is an 18-year-old Dane who plays for the Astralis Talent, For the past 3 months, he has had a 0.95 rating 2.0.

As MistR joins the Astralis first team, the 32-year-old cajunb will replace MistR on the Astralis Talent roster until k0nfig is back in action for the first team. Cajunb played under the Astralis banner doing the 2016 MLG Columbus where he and his old team members device, dupreeh, Xyp9x, and karrigan got 3-4th place.

MistR

Astralis

Astralis Talent

Major roster changes have been made within the Danish organization of AGF. It has just been announced that Thomas "Ryxxo" Nielsen and Martin "PERCY" Wessel is being moved to the team's bench with Lucas "Lukki" Pilheden taking a break on medical leave. To replace the three above-mentioned players are Kristoffer "Kristou" Aamand, Magnus "Nodios" Olsen, and René "cajunb" Borg. 

The most experienced out of the three new signings is, without any doubt, "cajunb" at the age of 31. With age and experience comes responsibility and he is also said to be tasked with the job of being the roster's new in-game leader. AGF is currently ranked as the 106th. team in the world but will seek to further climb the rankings with their newly strengthened roster, lead by a CS:GO veteran in "cajunb". 

The starting AGF roster currently looks as follows: 

Kristou

Nodios

Ex-North

René "cajunb" Borg has been submitted to the roster list for HYENAS for Flashpoint 3, HLTV.org confirms.

The former North-player has joined the roster for the RMR-tournament in order for the team to be able to attend with three out of the five orignal North roster members on the team.

According to HLTV, cajunb will most likely be substituted with Frederik "⁠Fessor⁠" Sørensen, who is part of the new Danish project, that includes these names.

On paper a strong lineup for the Flashpoint 3 tournament, where they will face FunPlus Phoenix in the first round.

gade

Kjaerbye

aizy

b0RUP

Fessor

HYENAS

North made it through qualifier-hell with tonight’s win against Sprout. The Danes have now qualified two times in a row to big tournaments and just need to perform against the big guys.

The game ended 16-13 on Train and 16-4 on Dust2. Rene “cajunb” delivered the best performance on the server with 45-20 K-D, 97.8 ADR, and a rating of 1.56.

North

Sprout

The lions from North are now ready for the lower bracket final tomorrow against Sprout for a spot at IEM Beijing.

North comfortably won on the last 2 maps Nuke (16-8) and Inferno (16-6), after a slow start on Dust2 where they lost 10-16. Rene “cajunb” Borg delivered the best performance on the server with a 1.30 rating, 85.1 ADR, and 57-39 K-D.

Tomorrow's consolidation final between Sprout and North will begin at 19:00 (CEST)

Endpoint

The 9-12th placement match between GODSENT and North ended quickly, with a decisive 2-0 win to the Danes. Philip "aizy" Aistrup was controlling the server on the first map. On Nuke he managed a 1.70-rating with a 22-13 K/D-ratio. North won the map 16-6.

On Vertigo the Danish team was on fire again. They quickly won the first half with 12-3 and repeated the score from the first map with a 16-6 victory. It was veteran René "cajunB" Borg, who with a 1 vs 2 clutch in the last round secured the impressive victory.

On Friday North will play the winner of G2 and FaZe for the 9th place at DreamHack Fall.

A 9th place pays $3250 and 1250 RMR points.

GODSENT

- I Think we have to react better and faster, sometimes we doubt us self and that might have been a problem at least In the game against fnatic. This time we have to believe in what we are going to do and not second guess ourself. [twitter:1318605936655798276?s=20]

The Danish matchup is being streamed on DreamHackCS twitch channel.

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