CS2’s 2025 calendar is busier than ever. There are nonetheless a number of months to go till subsequent 12 months, however dates are already being introduced. It’s not simply BLAST and ESL doing aggressive circuits; PGL and StarLadder have additionally revealed the dates for his or her 2025 occasions, too.
In contrast to different aggressive video games, gamers and groups have already got entry to the 2025 CS2 calendar a number of months prematurely.
Why the adjustments within the calendar?
CS2’s aggressive calendar for 2025 will mark some adjustments within the panorama of the scene. On Aug. 3, 2023, Valve introduced that from 2025, circuits with franchised groups is not going to be allowed. The CS2 developer additionally laid out some guidelines beginning at first of subsequent 12 months:
” – Match organizers might not have unique industrial relationships or different conflicts of curiosity with groups collaborating of their respective occasions.– Invites to all tournaments will use our rankings system or shall be decided by means of open qualifiers.– Any compensation to collaborating groups (comparable to complete prize cash) shall be revealed to the general public and funded based mostly on goal standards that may be verified by the neighborhood.”
These guidelines goal to attain larger equality between everybody within the CS2 aggressive situation and equal alternatives for everybody. The format or different particulars in regards to the competitions for 2025 haven’t but been revealed.
The subsequent CS2 Main this 12 months shall be within the U.S. in Austin, Texas. The final Main in North America was the ELEAGUE Boston Main and, after a number of in Europe with one in Brazil in between, we will count on some noise from the neighborhood for the Main to return to that area.
CS2 2025 calendar
BLAST Bounty: Jan. 13-26
IEM Katowice: Jan. 29-Feb. 9
PGL Cluj-Napoca: Feb. 13-23
ESL Professional League S21: Feb. 25-March 16
BLAST Open Spring (Lisbon, Copenhagen): March 17-30
PGL Bucharest: April 3-13
YaLLa Compass Qatar: April 15-20
IEM Spring (Location TBA): April 21-27
BLAST Rivals Spring (Location TBA): April 28-Could 4
PGL Astana: Could 8-Could 18
IEM Dallas: Could 19-25
Skyesports Masters: Could 26-June 1
StarLadder Season 19: Could 26-June 1
BLAST Austin Main: June 9-22
FISSURE Playground 1: July 15-20
IEM Cologne: July 23-Aug. 3
BLAST Bounty Fall: Aug. 4-17
Esports World Cup: Aug. 20-24
BLAST Open Fall (London): Aug. 25-Sep. 7
FISSURE Playground 2: Sep. 9-21
Skyesports Championship: Sep. 15-21
StarLadder Season 20: Sep. 12-21
ESL Professional League S22: Sep. 23-Oct. 12
Good World CS Asia Championships: Oct. 1-23
Thunderpick World Championship: Oct. 15-19
PGL Belgrade: Oct. 23-Nov. 2
IEM Chengdu: Nov. 3-9
Skyesports World Tour: Nov. 10-16
BLAST Rivals Fall (Location TBA): Nov. 12-16
YaLLa Compass UAE: Dec. 1-14
Second 2025 CS2 Main: Dec. 1-14
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