It featured sixteen professional CS:GO teams from around the world.

FaZe Clan and Natus Vincere lost their Legends status after failing to advance from the group stage.

[3] The top eight teams from Atlanta 2017 ("Legends") were automatically invited to Kraków 2017.

The remaining eight spots were filled by teams that advanced from the PGL Major Krakow 2017 Main Qualifier.

Teams with three losses were eliminated, but earned an invite to the next Major's offline qualifier.

[5] A total of eight teams will compete in the Commonwealth of Independent States Minor.

All teams in the European Minor were required to compete in a closed qualifier.

One team out of a pool of 512 from South America qualified for the minor.

The Ninjas in Pyjamas, after missing its first ever major at ELEAGUE and failed to be Legends for the first time at ESL One Cologne 2016, failed to qualify for the major qualifier and the European Minor after losing to Finland's iGame.com in the first round, losing to Sweden's Red Reserve in second round, defeating Sweden's Epsilon eSports in the third round, and losing to Turkey's Space Soldiers in the fourth round, failing to attend its second straight major.

Host Interviewer Fluff Commentators Analysts Observers All streams were broadcast on Twitch in various languages.

Arguably the biggest change of the teams in the major was the "French shuffle," which was led by Nathan "NBK-" Schmitt and Richard "shox" Papillon.

Kenny "kennyS" Schrub and, Dan "apEX" Madesclaire left Team EnVyUs for G2 Esports to join shox and Alexandre "bodyy" Pianaro; in addition, former G2 AWPer Édouard "SmithZz" Dubourdeaux moved to the coaching position.

[11] 1Change since July 3, 2017 ranking 2Peak and low since end of ELEAGUE Major.

The group stage and playoffs were played in Kraków, Poland, with group stage played in closed studio and playoffs being held in Tauron Arena Kraków.

The eight teams to win three (out of a possible five) games were granted "Legend" status and an automatic invitation to the next Major.

BIG and Gambit received the top seeds and played a randomly selected opponent among Virtus.pro, Immortals, and Fnatic.