Last month the CPL announced all past CPL one-versus-one World Champions. Now, the CPL is pleased to announce all of the Counter-Strike World Champions. The list of Counter-Strike Champions dates back to 2000, when the CPL officially began hosting team-based tournaments with Counter-Strike.
The CPL’s first official Counter-Strike tournament was hosted at the Babbage’s CPL Event in 2000. The Swedish team e9 won this first and only CS event of the year, crowning them the 2000 CPL Counter-Strike Champions.
In 2001, Team X3 won the $30,000 Speakeasy CPL Event and the Counter-Strike Invitational, however Ninjas in Pyjamas from Sweden, in what is regarded today as one of the greatest Counter-Strike matches of all time, defeated Team X3 in the $150,000 CPL World Championship Event and were crowned the 2001 CPL Counter-Strike Champions.
Starting in 2002 team Schroet Kommando, won the CPL World Championship Event in 2001 and began an impressive win streak. The Swedish powerhouse won three events in two years to become the CPL Counter-Strike Champions for 2002 and 2003.
At the Extreme Winter Championships in 2004, Team NoA won the Counter-Strike tournament securing their role as the Champions for 2004. In 2005, SK Gaming reclaimed the title by winning both the CPL Extreme Summer Championships and the CPL Winter Championships, and became the CPL Counter-Strike Champions for 2005.
At the upcoming Championship Finals, which take place December 16-20, the CPL will once again crown another Counter-Strike World Champion.
| CPL Counter-Strike (CS) World Champions | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Counter-Strike  |
e9  |
| 2001 | Counter-Strike |
Ninjas in Pyjamas |
| 2002 | Counter-Strike |
Schroet Kommando |
| 2003 | Counter-Strike |
Schroet Kommando |
| 2004 | Counter-Strike |
NoA  |
| 2005 | Counter-Strike |
Schroet Kommando |
| 2005 | Counter-Strike: Source  |
PowersGaming  |
| 2006 | Counter-Strike |
Fnatic |