StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Team Vitality, runner-up FaZe Clan.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- Nov 24 – Dec 14 2025
- tier
- 1
- location
- Budapest, Hungary
- teams
- 32
Against the season
2 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 1, Team Spirit — 3–4, Team Falcons — 5–8, FURIA — 5–8
+15
FaZe Clan: 17th in the field by the table, finished 2
biggest climb of 25 field clubs
−15
Legacy: 7th in the field by the table, but finished 25–27
biggest drop of 25 field clubs
33.3%
bo3 to a third map: 2 of 6
more than 9 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
Season-table ranks of 25 of 32 field clubs, of 50median 20
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. $0 — the place pays nothing: 8 rows of 32.
Champion
7–1
Team Vitality maps in our data, won–lost
series 3–0; 87.5% 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 BLAST.tv Austin 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
93.6%
top half of the rows
top 16 rows of 32 · $1,170,000
×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
- beforeBLAST Rivals Fall 2025
- afterMČR 2025
Facts and records
This was Team Vitality’s 3rd of 10 titles this season, between ESL Pro League Season 22 and Intel Extreme Masters Kraków 2026; no club has won more this season. The final was another win for the club over FaZe Clan: before it, the winner had won all 2 of their series this season. The field had 8 of the top 10 clubs of our season table by share of maps won, as many as any tournament this season, and the table leader won.
Matches played
7
matches
18
maps
8 of 32
placement-table teams in these matches
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Team Vitality closed 2025 by winning its second Major of the year, after Austin in June: both Majors held in 2025 went to the same club. In Budapest it lost one map in the whole playoff, beating The MongolZ and Team Spirit 2–0 each and FaZe Clan 3–1 in the final on December 14, on Nuke, Dust II, Inferno and Overpass.
FaZe’s run to that final was the biggest climb of the event: 17th of the field by our season table, it beat MOUZ 2–0 in the quarterfinal and Natus Vincere 2–1 in the semifinal. It had already lost both of its earlier series against Vitality this season, and the final made it three.
The field was among the strongest of the season, with eight of the top ten clubs of our table, and the playoff was unusually one-sided: only two of its six best-of-three series went to a third map. Legacy, seventh of the field by the table, finished 25th to 27th.