Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen is the only CS: GO player to qualify for all 18 Majors after Team Vitality qualified for Rio.
The path of qualifying for CS: GO Majors has been more difficult after the switch to single RMR tournaments. With all the roster moves over the past year, the top clubs and greatest players are no longer guaranteed a Major spot.
Three players had attended all 17 Majors from DreamHack Winter 2013 to PGL Antwerp 2022 until this week’s Road to Rio RMR events. Only one of the three players was successful in the Europe RMR event for Rio, which was their attempt to get their 18th.
Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen is the only CS: GO player to qualify for all 18 Majors after Team Vitality qualified for Rio. The other two players with 17 appearances, Richard “shox” Papillon and Andreas “Xyp9x” Hjsleth, missed Rio.
After leaving Liquid in August, Shox immediately joined the European roster for Apeks, however, he could not reach the RMR through the open qualifiers. After dupreeh, magisk, and coach zonic left Astralis to join Vitality, Xyp9x decided to stay behind with the team and gla1ve.
As a result of having to compete with a last-minute replacement for their injured player, k0nfig, Astralis was knocked out of the RMR with a record of 1-3. G2 was another team that did not make it past the round of three in the RMR; they were eliminated in the same method as Astralis.
Dupreeh will have won four Majors with Astralis, including three straight from 2018 to 2019. Currently, he is tied for first place with xyp9x, dev1ce, and gla1ve for the most Major wins, which is four.
The vast majority of dupreeh’s appearances have been with either Astralis or the organization that came before it, Team SoloMid. Despite this, he was a part of the Copenhagen Wolves team that competed at the very first CS: GO major in Jonkoping, Sweden.
Additionally, he went to DreamHack Winter 2014 with Dignitas, which was essentially an early version of TeamSoloMid. From 2017 to 2019, dupreeh was an integral part of Astralis’ run to victory in all four Major titles.
Team Vitality qualified for the Rio Major RMR with a 3-1 record, preventing dupreeh’s run from being broken. Its run included victories over Fantasy and Monte, and then ultimately Mouz in a series that ended in a nail-biting 2-1 score.
The only time Vitality lost during the RMR event was when they faced BIG, but they have more than made up for that loss with their current score of 3-1. An impressive MOUZ may be defeated in a best-of-three series, which is no easy task, and the manner in which the defeat was accomplished speaks much.
Following this victory, Vitality has successfully secured a spot at the IEM Rio Major.
