The season concluded with Team Liquid defeating G2 Esports three games to one to earn its inaugural Pro League title.
[2] The biggest change came with Europe's and the America's leagues featuring offline regular season play.
[3][4] Due to Europe's league expanding to sixteen teams, Ninjas in Pyjamas and Fnatic were automatically invited to this season rather than playing in this relegation phase and AGO Esports played in the relegation phase instead of being automatically sent down to the Premier Division.
In addition, Epsilon eSports was unable to play in relegation, so OpTic, which had the best record in Premier, took its place.
North struggled throughout the group stage, but two close map wins against the former players of Space Soldiers allowed the Danes to stay alive.
The very close loss to devils.one would come back to haunt Ninjas in Pyjamas as the Swedes were placed last in the group as Heroic and devils.one beat out the tiebreaker.
Fnatic, arguably the most decorated team in CS:GO, struggled, but defeating Windigo Gaming allowed the Swedes to stay alive.
Windigo had strong performances prior, but the Bulgarians struggled to take the game to the finish line, as four of its losses were within four rounds of victory.
Fnatic turned things around after losing to OpTic Gaming in Group E, defeating HellRaisers and sweeping Aristocracy.
Like Fnatic, North also completely turned things around as it topped Group F, going 3–0, including defeating Na`Vi.
The newly formed Lazarus Esports gained good experience against some notable North American teams, but the inexperience proved to be too much to overcome.
Luminosity Gaming topped group C in a huge surprise, as the team was not even supposed to be in Pro League to begin with.
DETONA Gaming went straight into the Finals after taking down every team it faced while Isurus Gaming and Infinity Esports would go on to face a tough task in going against experienced North American teams.` MIBR readjusted and took down every one in Group E, with only a slip up against coL. Renegades nearly made the Finals, but the loss to MIBR on the last day was the decider.
TyLoo and MVP PK would lock their spots for the Asia finals after taking down ViCi and 5Power, respectively.
Entity Gaming from India struggled as it only garnered eleven rounds in four maps before eventually forfeiting its last match to ALPHA Red.
As expected, Grayhound topped the group and booked a Finals spot without dropping a map as Chiefs and ORDER were sent home.
NRG upset Astralis in the winner's finals to top group A and earn a bye for the playoffs.
FaZe Clan edged out TyLoo in the group B opener while North upset Team Liquid on Dust II.
North fought hard, but FaZe managed to take the series over the Danes in a third map overtime victory.
Nikola "NiKo" Kovač had a very strong game for FaZe Clan, but the rest of his team could not get anything going, as G2 Esports took advantage of that, led by Lucas "Lucky" Chastang's 21 kills and 6 assists.
FaZe's star players Håvard "rain" Nygaard and Ladislav "GuardiaN" Kovács struggled massively as they had the fewest kills on the server.
However, vintage performances from Richard "shox" Papillon and kennyS spurred G2 to running away with the second half and eliminating FaZe.
The third map saw Astralis take an 11–4 halftime lead, but nine unanswered rounds by Liquid suddenly put the Americans up 13–11.
Astralis would take two more rounds, but Liquid took out the Danes to headed to the semifinals, as Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski lead the way with 28 kills.
However, NRG managed to win the last 6 rounds in the half due to back-to-back 1v1s by Vincent "Brehze" Cayonte to end up with an 8–7 scoreline favoring G2.
On the second map, Train, NRG had a dominant T-side and ended up continuing this into the 2nd half, despite an Ace by kennyS on the 2nd pistol round.
Mousesports started out Overpass by chaining some rounds off the back of Finn "karrigan" Andersen's quad-kill on the CT-side.
However, Team Liquid would eventually run away with a dominant 10–5 T-half, which included a last second knife kill on the defuser on the last round by Nicholas "nitr0" Cannella.
On Nuke, Liquid looked poised to close out the series with a 12–3 CT half, but Mousesports ended up draggin the map to Overtime off of an impressive performance from Özgür "woxic" Eker who managed to keep Mouz in contention with a quad kill.
[6] TyLoo release Kevin "xccurate" Susanto from the team and acquire Wing Hei "Freeman" Cheung from ViCi Gaming.