The 2024 CS2 competition schedule is divided into two seasons, with the first season running from January through June and the second – from July through December. In addition, 2024 will likely be the last time the tournament system exists in a familiar form. Back in mid-2023, Valve announced that they wanted to make the tournament system more open. In practice, this means that large organizers like ESL and BLAST will have to rethink their business models. However, in 2024 the competition will still continue with the same format.
First half of the year
- The season kicked off with the CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 qualification games, which took place in January. The best teams
- will qualify for the regional tournaments, which will be held in March and will be a stage on the way to the majors.
- In addition, BLAST Premier Spring Groups are held on January 22-28, in which 12 partner teams will take part.
- The main event
- in February will be the famous IEM Katowice tournament
- . It will be held Jan. 31 through Feb. 11 at «Spodek Arena», with a prize pool of $1 million.
- The BLAST Premier Spring Showdown will be held in early March. Unlike past years, the tournament will not be divided by region. 16 teams from around the world will meet in an online format.
- PGL Copenhagen Major 2024 will take place in the second half of March. This tournament will be the first major to utilize the new version of the game. Participants will have to test first-hand how well the format changes work under competitive conditions.
- In April, the IEM China tournament will be held, the winner of which will be able to claim a place among the participants of IEM Cologne. The exact location of the event and details of its format are not yet known.
- Also in April, two ESL tournaments will be held
- – ESL Challenger and ESL Pro League Season 19.
- The main event of May will be IEM Dallas, which will be held at the end of the month.
- In addition, May will also see the CCT Global Finals – the final tournament of the series, which usually features tier-2 teams.
- In mid-June, the next ESL Challenger Series tournament
- will be held
- in Jonköping, Sweden.
- The final event of the season will be the BLAST Premier Spring Finals, which will be held at the Ovo Wembley Arena in London
- .
Second half of the year
- After the summer break, the new season will kick off with the BLAST Premier Fall group stage, which will take place in late July/early August.
- The main event of the summer will be the IEM Cologne 2024 tournament, which will take place from August 7-18 in Cologne. 24 teams will compete for a $1 million prize pool.
- The BLAST Fall Showdown will
- also take place in August, with the results determining several participants in the final stage.
- BLAST Premier Fall Finals will
- be
- held from December 25 to 29 in Katowice, Poland.
- It will be followed by two ESL tournaments – ESL Pro League Season 20, which will be held for the third consecutive time in Malta, and the American ESL Challenger Atlanta.
- The location of IEM Fall, which is scheduled for October, is not yet known, but there is a possibility that it will be Australia.
- The centerpiece of November will be BLAST Premier Global Finals 2024. Its location has not been announced yet either, but there is a possibility that it will be one of the venues in the UAE, as it has been in previous years.
- The first Asian CS2 major will round off the year. Perfect World Shanghai 2024 tournament will be held in China from December 1 to 15, and its prize pool will be the largest among all events this year – 1.25 million dollars. An event of this magnitude is expected to be a step forward for the cybersports scene as a whole .
