The BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025, which is the first CS2 Major of the year, will run from June 3 to 22, seeing 32 teams clashing for their share of the $1.25 million prize pool and, most importantly, writing their name forever in Counter-Strike history.
As expected, almost all of the best CS2 teams in the world qualified for it, so this means that fans from all over the world will tune in to follow their favorite team in the most important Counter-Strike tournament of the year.
Fans can watch the BLAST.tv Austin Major via BLAST’s official Twitch channel, which is embedded below . On top of these, you can look for co-streams on your language, since BLAST has partnered up with streamers from plenty of countries.
This Major is the first to feature the expanded format. Credit: © BLAST
First and foremost, the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 is the first Counter-Strike Major ever to feature 32 teams . This expansion means we’ll have a longer group stage as teams enter the competition in three different stages before the playoffs. Teams that were higher in the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) enter the tournament in the final stage of the group phase.
The top eight teams of Stage 3 will advance to the playoffs at Moody Center. Credit: © BLAST
This Major is the first to use the VRS system. The tournament invited 16 teams based on how high they were on VRS in their respective region (Europe, Americas, and Asia) in April, and the other qualified half via the Major Regional Qualifiers (MRQ), which invited teams also based on their VRS rank.
Here are all the teams attending the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025:
It doesn’t look like anyone can topple Vitality at the moment. Credit: Stephanie Lindgren | © BLAST
Vitality are the undisputed best CS2 team in the world ahead of the BLAST.tv Austin Major as they’ve just won their sixth trophy in a row at IEM Dallas 2025. They’re simply two steps ahead of every other team right now.
So, it’s impossible not to pick Vitality as the favorite to win the BLAST.tv Austin Major. Besides them, Falcons, MOUZ, and Spirit are the only other teams that won tier-one trophies in 2025, but all of those spectacular happened at tournaments Vitality skipped.
Of course, we’ve seen underdogs make Cinderella runs at Majors before, but it’s highly unlikely that we’ll have a dark horse going deep this time around. Review match winner odds for the Austin Major here.
The winner will take home nearly half of the $1.25 million prize pool. While that may look much, all the other teams, including those that finish last place, will earn some prize pool money too.
The BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 prize pool distribution is as follows:
In most cases, teams will make far more money from the sticker capsules. Credit: © Valve
The prize pool is far from being the only thing teams will chase at the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025. In fact, since the teams will make plenty of money due to the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 stickers, the prize pool doesn’t play a huge factor.
Whoever wins the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 will get the special in-game trophy added to their Steam accounts, forever cementing themselves as a Counter-Strike champion. They will also earn more sticker money because of the Champions’ sticker capsule.
Additionally, if anybody but Vitality wins, they’ll be putting a stop to Vitality’s reign as their tournament win streak will end and head to the player break with all the confidence in the world for the second half of 2025.
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