Thirteen years after DreamHack Winter 2013, three of the 16 organisations are still in Counter-Strike, and one of the others closed for good in September.
Sixteen teams travelled to Jönköping for DreamHack Winter 2013, the first Valve-sponsored CS:GO Major, from 28 to 30 November 2013. Fnatic beat Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-1 in the final of the $250,000 event and became the first CS:GO Major winners. Thirteen years on, Fnatic, NIP and NAVI are the only organisations from that field with a team in Valve’s latest Regional Standings, published on 2 November.
| Organisation | DreamHack Winter 2013 | VRS, 2 November 2026 |
|---|---|---|
 NAVI | 13th-16th | 13th |
 NIP | 2nd | 15th |
 Fnatic | 1st | 27th |
NAVI, now the highest ranked of the three, lost both of their group matches in Jönköping and went home in the bottom four.
A fourth name is back on a server too. Copenhagen Wolves, who reached the quarter-finals with dupreeh, Xyp9x and device, returned to CS with a new roster on 28 September. The original Danish club closed in 2016, though, and the current team belongs to an American owner who revived the brand in 2023.
Complexity, semi-finalists in 2013, will not be joining them. They left CS2 in August 2025, and founder Jason Lake confirmed on 23 September that the organisation had ceased operations after 23 years, Strafe reported.
Several of the players are still around. apEX, who played for Clan-Mystik in Jönköping, captains Vitality into the PGL Major Singapore next month, and karrigan, then with n!faculty, is on the Falcons side that lost 2-0 to FURIA in the BLAST Rivals semi-finals on Saturday.
