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PGL CS:GO Championship Series Season 1 Finals
Four teams competed in the PGL CS:GO Championship Series Season 1 LAN finals at Grand Cinema & More in Bucharest on October 2–4, 2015. Team SoloMid won the event.
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Updated October 23, 2026Competition snapshot
Host and dates
Season Finals: Grand Cinema & More, Bucharest, Romania · Oct 2–4, 2015[1][2]
Champion
Combined prize pool
USD 85,000, including USD 10,000 travel support[2][4]
The placement table totals USD 75,000; the separate USD 10,000 was travel support. The broader online-and-LAN Season 1 prize pot was USD 110,000.[3][4]
Games
Participant scale
PTG Database Analysis
The Season 1 finals closed PGL’s 2015 online-and-LAN Counter-Strike competition with a four-team double-elimination bracket. Matches were best of three except for the best-of-five grand final, which Team SoloMid Counter-Strike won 3–0 against Virtus.pro Counter-Strike. fnatic Counter-Strike placed third and Team Liquid Counter-Strike fourth.[1][2][5]
PGL’s announcement placed the finals at Epika Hall inside Grand Cinema & More in Bucharest. It listed an USD 85,000 finals pool, including travel support; HLTV’s placement values total USD 75,000. The wider season also awarded money during online play, bringing its overall pool to USD 110,000. Liquipedia’s entry does not list partner brands, and the sources reviewed for this record did not establish specific finals partnerships.[1][2][4]
References5
- [1]PGL CS:GO Championship Series Season 1 — Liquipedia
- [2]PGL Season 1 finals announced — HLTV.org, reporting PGL's announcement
- [3]PGL Season 1 Finals overview — HLTV.org
- [4]PGL S1 group stage schedule — HLTV.org
- [5]TSM beat Virtus to win PGL S1 — HLTV.org
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