Tournament schedule for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in 2022

William Davis Published 26/05/2022

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the favorite game of millions of people worldwide. Players show off their skills and compete for huge prize pools in local and international matches.

Even if you are a fan of the old-school Counter-Strike 1.6, you will be fascinated to watch the spectacular CSGO tournaments that will take place this year that can be viewed for free at this link. It’s worth exploring the biggest CSGO tournaments set to take place in 2022 to make sure you know what’s coming.

PGL Major Antwerp

PGL Major Antwerp 2022 is part of the major series supported by CSGO publisher Valve. The champion of the last CSGO Major was Ukrainian team Natus Vincere.

• Date: May 9 – May 22
• Prize pool: $1,000,000
• Teams: Heroic, BIG Clan, FaZe Clan, Natus Vincere, Copenhagen Flames, Cloud9, Ninjas in Pyjamas, FURIA Esports, G2 Esports, Astralis, Bad News Eagles, Imperial Esports, ENCE, forZe, Team Vitality, MIBR, Eternal Fire, Outsiders, Team Liquid, IHC Esports, Team Spirit, Complexity Gaming, 9z Team, Renegades

IEM Dallas 2022

Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2022 is a prominent CSGO tournament hosted by ESL. The event will be held at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Texas.

• Date: May 31 – June 5
• Prize pool: $250,000
• Teams: Complexity Gaming, Ninjas in Pyjamas, mousesports, Cloud9, Heroic, Entropiq, Astralis, FURIA, Team Liquid, G2 Esports, LookingForOrg, FaZe Clan, Imperial, Natus Vincere, Vitality, ENCE

Blast Premier Spring Final 2022

The organizer of this tournament in Portugal is BLAST. Participants will compete for $425,000 and a ticket to the BLAST World Finals.

• Date: June 14 – June 19
• Prize pool: $425,000
• Teams: OG, Natus Vincere, BIG, FaZe Clan, Vitality, G2 Esports, and two TBA

IEM Cologne 2022

ESL’s annual Cologne tournament is one of the most prestigious each year. It’s set to return once again in July and will attract all the top CSGO organizations in the world.

• Date: July 5-July 17
• Prize pool: $972,000
• Teams: TBA

LAN Sweet LAN 2022

LAN Sweet LAN tournament will take place in Serbia and will be hosted by Relog Media.

• Date: August 15
• Prize pool: $250,000
• Teams: Virtus.pro, Entropiq, OG, K23, Ecstatic, Forze, mousesports, Havu, Ex-FunPlus Phoenix, and eight TBA

Blast Premier Fall Groups 2022

This is the second regular tournament from the BLAST organizer in 2022. The best teams will participate in the BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 and BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2022.

• Date: August 19-August 29
• Prize pool: $177,500
• Teams: Natus Vincere, G2 Esports, Vitality, NIP, Astralis, FaZe Clan, BIG, OG, MIBR, Liquid, Complexity, Evil Geniuses

ESL Pro League Season 16

ESL Pro League is a series of major tournaments from ESL and ESEA, in which 24 top teams compete for a huge prize pool.

• Date: August 31-October 2
• Prize pool: $835,000
• Teams: Natus Vincere, G2 Esports, Vitality, FaZe Clan, Astralis, NIP, Furia, Liquid, BIG, Fnatic, Ence, Mouz, Complexity, Evil Geniuses, and 10 TBA

Blast Premier Fall Showdown 2022

BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2022 is an intermediate tournament based in North America and Europe.

• Date: October 19-October 23
• Prize pool: $135,000
• Teams: 16 TBA

Blast Premier Fall Final 2022

BLAST Fall Finals 2022 is the final of the fall season from BLAST. The winner of the previous season was Natus Vincere.

• Date: November 22-November 27
• Prize pool: $425,000
• Teams: 8 TBA

Blast Premier World Final 2022

BLAST has been looking to establish itself as the biggest tournament organizer in CSGO and as part of that, it has been putting together splashy world finals events. 8 teams will compete for a $1,000,000 prize pool.

• Date: December 14-December 18
• Prize pool: $1,000,000
• Teams: TBA

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