PGL has officially confirmed the full list of invited teams heading to Bucharest for the upcoming PGL Bucharest Masters 2026 Counter-Strike 2 event.
For the uninitiated, the upcoming tournament will see 16 elite teams battling it out on LAN in Bucharest, Romania, across 8 days of intense, competitive CS. Running from October 24-31, PGL Bucharest Masters 2026 will feature a whopping $1,250,000 USD prize pool split evenly between players and organizations.
In this article, we’ll go through the full list of confirmed teams so far for PGL Bucharest Masters 2026.
PGL Bucharest Masters 2026 CS2: All Invited Teams
Based on the July 6 Valve Ranking (VRS), PGL handed out 12 direct invites for Bucharest Masters 2026:
- Vitality (#2)
- Spirit (#3)
- FURIA (#4)
- Natus Vincere (#5)
- 9z (#6)
- Aurora (#7)
- G2 (#8)
- BetBoom (#9)
- MOUZ (#10)
- Legacy (#11)
- FUT (#12)
- The MongolZ (#16)
Note that Team Falcons, the current world #1 team in competitive CS2 and reigning IEM Cologne Major 2026 champions, turned down an invite possibly due to a packed fall schedule. As a result, The MongolZ were able to claim the 12th spot.
The remaining four spots for the event will be decided by regional closed qualifiers running in the second week of September, covering:
- Europe
- South America
- North America
- Asia
PGL Bucharest Masters 2026 will wrap up just before the November 2 VRS cutoff for the PGL Singapore Major, so fans can expect to see some high-stakes gameplay over the course of the event.
