PGL Masters Bucharest 2025 — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by Aurora Gaming, runner-up Legacy.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Oct 26 – Nov 1 2025
tier: 2
location: Bucharest, Romania
teams: 16

Against the season

2 of 4

favourites in top four

table’s top four: Fnatic — 12–14, Legacy — 2, Aurora Gaming — 1, Astralis — 9–11

19.9

average season-table rank of Aurora Gaming’s opponents

the 23rd hardest path of 40 season events; 8 of 8 series against table clubs

table favourite Fnatic (8th): finished 12–14

PaiN Gaming: 13th in the field by the table, finished 5–8

biggest climb of 15 field clubs

−10

Fnatic: 1st in the field by the table, but finished 12–14

biggest drop of 15 field clubs

Season-table ranks of 15 of 16 field clubs, of 50median 23

The thick mark is Aurora Gaming, 11th in the table.

Record places

4th

of 80 by prize pool, shared by 13

10th

of 59 by winner’s prize, shared by 4

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 Aurora Gaming $400,000

2 Legacy $187,500

3 SAW $150,000

4 GamerLegion $87,500

5-8 B8 $62,500

5-8 HEROIC $62,500

5-8 PaiN Gaming $62,500

5-8 Team Liquid $62,500

9-11 Astralis $31,250

9-11 FlyQuest $31,250

9-11 Gentle Mates $31,250

12-14 3DMAX $18,750

12-14 BetBoom Team $18,750

12-14 Fnatic $18,750

15-16 MIBR $12,500

15-16 Ninjas in Pyjamas $12,500

what this means

Team names follow the form used across the site: paiN Gaming → PaiN Gaming.

Champion

Aurora Gaming

$400,000

first-place prize

14–9

Aurora Gaming maps in our data, won–lost

series 6–2; 60.9% of maps here, 55.1% over the season

23.6% of Aurora Gaming’s season prize money: its biggest payout of 22

How the pool is split

the pool is allocated by place in full

32.0%

first place

$400,000 of the $1,250,000 allocated

86.0%

top half of the rows

top 8 rows of 16 · $1,075,000

×2.1

first place to second

$400,000 against $187,500

Against the season: a larger first-place share than 24 of 69 events; median 36.8%.

what this means

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

Calendar

beforeThunderpick World Championship 2025
afterIntel Extreme Masters Chengdu 2025

Facts and records

11th

Aurora Gaming’s rank by share of maps won

of 50 · 2 from this field above

In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, Aurora Gaming ranks only 11th by share of maps won; the clubs in this field above it were Fnatic and Legacy, and they finished 12th–14th and 2nd here. It is the club’s only title of the season, after 7 tournaments without one — the 10th-longest wait among the season’s 59 titles. The next edition, PGL Masters Bucharest 2026, starts on Oct 24, 2026: Aurora Gaming will defend the title, and BetBoom Team, Legacy and Team Liquid from this field are entered too.

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

104

maps

16 of 16

placement-table teams in these matches

47.5%

bo3 to a third map: 19 of 40

more than 37 of 61 season events; median 44.4%

maps of this tournament — the number beside each map is how many times it was played at this tournament Inferno · 19Nuke · 19Ancient · 16Mirage · 16Dust II · 14Train · 12Overpass · 8

date teams score maps

Nov 1 Legacy Aurora Gaming 2:3 bo5Dust II, Mirage, Train, Inferno, Nuke

Nov 1 SAW GamerLegion 2:1 bo3Overpass, Inferno, Nuke

Oct 31 PaiN Gaming Legacy 1:2 bo3Inferno, Dust II, Nuke

Oct 31 SAW Team Liquid 2:1 bo3Ancient, Train, Inferno

Oct 31 B8 Aurora Gaming 1:2 bo3Dust II, Mirage, Overpass

Oct 31 GamerLegion HEROIC 2:1 bo3Ancient, Dust II, Nuke

Oct 31 Legacy SAW 2:1 bo3Inferno, Nuke, Ancient

Oct 31 Aurora Gaming GamerLegion 2:0 bo3Overpass, Dust II

Oct 30 GamerLegion Gentle Mates 2:0 bo3Train, Inferno

Oct 30 Legacy FlyQuest 2:0 bo3Overpass, Dust II

The 10 latest of 41 series are shown.

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Aurora Gaming’s title in Bucharest nearly came apart midway: it lost 2–0 to HEROIC on October 28 and 2–1 to SAW the next day. It then won four series in a row, Astralis, GamerLegion and B8, and a final against Legacy on November 1 that went the distance.

Aurora took the first two maps of that final, Dust II and Mirage, Legacy levelled on Train and Inferno, and Aurora won the decider on Nuke. It was the club’s only title of the season, after seven events without one, and the $400,000 is by far its biggest payout.

Fnatic, the strongest club of the field by our table, lost to Aurora on the opening day and went out in 12th to 14th, while PaiN Gaming, 13th of the field, reached the last eight.