Astralis are the champions of StarLadder Major 2019

StarLadder Major 2019 started on August 23 and has finished today, September 8, at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin. CS:GO's 15th major took place in three stages, where New Challengers Stage and New Legends Stage were played in the Swiss system, and the eight participants of the New Champions Stage fought in the Single Elimination BO3 format.

The champions of the previous major Astralis started their way to the next title with the stage of New Legends Stage, where they fought with the other legends of IEM Katowice 2019, as well as the eight strongest teams of New Challengers Stage, including North, mousesports, G2, NRG, CR4ZY, Vitality, AVANGAR and DreamEaters.

As part of the New Legends Stage Denmark Astralis won three times, only once stumbling across the match against NRG. In addition to the future champion, ENCE, NRG, Vitality, AVANGAR, Liquid, Natus Vincere and Renegades are also on the legend list.

On their way to the Grand Final, StarLadder Major 2019 Astralis confidently beat Liquid and NRG, and the decisive BO3 match pushed the Danish Grand with AVANGAR, which in turn defeated Vitality and Renegades in the quarterfinals and semi-finals respectively. In the match for the title of world champion in CS:GO Astralis in the class dealt with the team Ali "Jame" Jami - Inferno 16:6 and Dust2 16:6.

Prize pool distribution:

1. Denmark Astralis – $500 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
2. Kazakhstan AVANGAR – $150 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
3-4. Australia Renegades – $70 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
3-4. USA NRG – $70 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
5-8. Finland ENCE – $35 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
5-8. France Vitality – $35 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
5-8. Russia Natus Vincere – $35 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
5-8. USA Liquid – $35 000 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Legends Stage
9-11. Europe mousesports – $8 750 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Challengers Stage
9-11. France G2 – $8 750  + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Challengers Stage
9-11. Serbia CR4ZY – $8 750 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Challengers Stage
12-14. Brazil MiBR – $8 750 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Challengers Stage
12-14. Europe FaZe – $8 750 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Challengers Stage
12-14. Denmark North – $8 750 + invite to Major Spring 2020: New Challengers Stage
15-16. Sweden NiP – $8 750
15-16. Russia DreamEaters – $8 750