BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Team Vitality, runner-up The MongolZ.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- Jun 3 – Jun 22 2025
- tier
- 1
- location
- Austin, United States
- teams
- 32
Against the season
1 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 1, Team Spirit — 5–8, Team Falcons — 20–22, FURIA — 5–8
+14
PaiN Gaming: 17th in the field by the table, finished 3–4
biggest climb of 23 field clubs
−16
Team Falcons: 3rd in the field by the table, but finished 20–22
biggest drop of 23 field clubs
57.1%
bo3 to a third map: 4 of 7
more than 50 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
Season-table ranks of 23 of 32 field clubs, of 50median 18
The thick mark is Team Vitality, 1st in the table.
Record places
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Team names follow the form used across the site: paiN Gaming → PaiN Gaming.
Champion
6–2
Team Vitality maps in our data, won–lost
series 3–0; 75.0% of maps here, 71.7% over the season
12.3% of Team Vitality’s season prize money: its biggest payout of 22; the same at StarLadder Budapest Major 2025
On the roster at the start: apEX, flameZ, mezii, ropz, XTQZZZ, ZywOo
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
40.0%
first place
$500,000 of the $1,250,000 allocated
90.4%
top half of the rows
top 16 rows of 32 · $1,130,000
×2.9
first place to second
$500,000 against $170,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 39 of 69 events; median 36.8%.
The same pool is announced for 12 other events this season, so all 13 share rank 4.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
- beforethis is the first event of the season for this game
- afterExort The Proving Grounds Season 1
Facts and records
This began Team Vitality’s run of 10 titles this season: the next came at ESL Pro League Season 22, the latest so far at ESL Pro League Season 24; no club has won more this season. The biggest upset by our season table: PaiN Gaming (40th, 43.7%) beat FURIA (4th, 59.1%), a gap of 15.4 points. The winner of that series finished 3rd–4th at the event. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks first by share of maps won: no one in this field ranked higher.
Matches played
7
matches
18
maps
8 of 32
placement-table teams in these matches
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The Austin Major was the first of Team Vitality’s ten titles this season. Its playoff run went 2–0 over Natus Vincere, 2–1 over MOUZ and a three-map final against The MongolZ on June 22, 2025, on Mirage, Dust II and Inferno.
The $500,000 first prize is Vitality’s largest single payout of the season, matched only by its win at the StarLadder Budapest Major later in 2025.
The deepest run from outside the favourites belonged to PaiN Gaming, 17th of the field by our table, which knocked out FURIA in a three-map quarterfinal before The MongolZ stopped it 2–0. Team Falcons went the other way, entering third of the field and leaving in 20th to 22nd.