Welcome to the North American PGL Major Open Qualifiers.

Download the Anti-Cheat client here: https://akros.ac/setup.exe

You will have to install it and have it running and start CS2 through it to be able to join the server.

Quick Rule Overview

CSTV

CSTV access is limited to approved community casters for the open qualifiers. Application process will be handled in tournament's official Discord server, join there and follow instructions. CSTV+ access will be open to the public for Closed Qualifiers and onward.

Format

• The qualifier is played as a maximum 1024-slot, single elimination tournament.
• All matches inside the tournament will be played as best-of-one (BO1) until top 8 where the tournament will have one round of best-of-three (BO3) for qualification. The tournament then resumes to BO1 for seeding purposes.
• The qualifier is played with the active duty map pool.

Veto

The veto order per the VALVE Major ruleset is:

• Coin toss to decide which team is higher seed

Best of 1

• The higher seed team chooses to be Team A or Team B
• Team A removes 2 maps
• Team B removes 3 maps
• Team A removes 1 map -Team B chooses starting side

Best of 3

• The higher seed team chooses to be Team A or Team B
• Team A removes 1 map
• Team B removes 1 map
• Team A picks the map 1
• Team B chooses starting side on map 1
• Team B picks map 2
• Team A chooses starting side on map 2
• Team B removes one map
• Team A removes one map
• Team B chooses starting side on map 3

Server locations

• Dallas
• Denver
• Chicago

Side Rules

• Participants must be at least 14 years old when playing in the tournament.
• Participants must not be VAC-banned. Any player who is VAC Banned on any of their accounts must be approved in writing by Valve in order to be eligible to participate in the event.

Admin support

All official tournament support will be conducted via the RMR Qualifiers Discord Server found here.