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PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-Off Season Finals

Four teams played the PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-Off Season finals at Polyvalent Hall in Bucharest from April 24–26, 2015. Team SoloMid defeated fnatic.

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Updated October 24, 2026

Competition snapshot

Combined prize pool

USD 75,000[1][2]

Participant scale

Four teams[1][2]

Category

Organizer

Partner

PGL

Commercial note

Tournament organizer · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[1]

Category

Official Partner

Partner

Twitch

Commercial note

Experimental partnership directing 50% of eligible PGL channel subscription revenue to the CCS prize fund · Recorded in the 2015 edition.[5]

PTG Database Analysis

PGL organized the Kick-Off Season finals of its CS:GO Championship Series at Polyvalent Hall during DreamHack Bucharest 2015. Four teams contested the USD 75,000 final stage from April 24–26. Team SoloMid beat fnatic in the final; Ninjas in Pyjamas placed third and EnVyUs fourth. During the season, Twitch partnered with PGL to direct half of subscriptions to PGL’s Twitch channel to the CCS prize fund.[1][2][3][4][6]

References5
  1. [1]PGL CS:GO Championship Series Kick-Off Season — Liquipedia Counter-Strike Wiki
  2. [2]CCS Kick-off Season Finals overview — HLTV
  3. [3]CCS Kick-off Finals viewer's guide — HLTV
  4. [4]TSM triumph over fnatic with CCS win — HLTV
  5. [5]PGL partners with Twitch for CCS — HLTV.org, reporting PGL's announcement

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Twitch prize-pool partnership

PGL announced an experimental partnership under which 50% of PGL channel subscriptions during the season would be added to the CCS prize fund.[6]

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