 for the Starladder Budapest Major 2025. Teams will now be directly invited based on Valve Regional Standings (VRS) as the only qualification path.){kind=link}
Valve has confirmed that they’re cancelling all Major Regional Qualifiers (MRQs) for the Starladder Budapest Major 2025.
The surprise announcement from the Counter-Strike 2 devs came less than a week after the dates for the MRQs were first revealed, catching the entire CS2 community off guard.
Teams will now have to rely on their Valve Regional Standings (VRS) instead, which will now be the only metric used to determine the 32 direct invites for the upcoming Budapest Major.
“One of the goals of the VRS is to standardize community events so that they can be integrated with the Majors,” Valve said in a statement. “At this point, we believe that a separate qualification process for the Major is both unnecessary and disruptive. Therefore, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Fall 2025 MRQs. Instead, the 32 teams participating in the Budapest Major will be invited directly from the VRS.”
The 32 qualifying teams will receive direct invites to the Budapest Major based on the VRS on October 8, 2025.
StarLadder, the tournament organizer behind the Budapest Major, has stated that they will reveal further details after the conclusion of the Austin Major on June 22nd.