Oh, hell yeah.

The Major is back today.

Well, sort of. It’s like when weirdo football fans tell you that ‘the FA Cup starts today’ in like July, and they’re talking about Nowhereville Town vs Low Elo FC in the first preliminary round.

Except much better, obviously.

It’s better largely because there’s a real, palpable chance that teams like TSM can get exposed by random Russian children and tryhard Danish teenagers in Open Qualifiers and start complaining about how unfair online qualifiers are.

And they’re right, obviously — but we won’t feel sorry for a team that has spent that much to be such a failure.

The Major cycle exposes fraudulent big teams and begins some of the greatest underdog stories in Counter-Strike. From Vega Squadron, to QBF, to even GamerLegion in Paris — the Major changes lives, ruins dreams and changes the history of Counter-Strike in ways nothing else does.

For most of the teams in the cycle, it begins today; and some of them will make it through to the big boy qualifiers.

There’s going to be a big story this Major — maybe that story begins today.

Get all your info on the games going on here, or get on HLTV’s live post - and strap in for the start of CS2’s first Major.

Oh, hell yeah.