PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 – Teams, Format, & Watch Live

For a few years now, PGL’s only contribution to the Counter-Strike scene has been via Majors. Now, with the new CS2 circuit active in 2025, PGL is back with Cluj-Napoca 2025, offering a massive $1,250,000 prize pool for teams to take home in the struggle for VRS points. Running from February 14th – 23rd, the event takes Tier 1 Counter-Strike back to Romania’s Cluj-Napoca for the first time since 2015’s DreamHack Major. Read on for all the information you need about the tournament!

Watch PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 Live

You’ll be able to catch all of the action from PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 on the official PGL Twitch channel, which you can find below.

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 Format and Teams

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 is separated into two different stages: the Group Stage and the Playoffs. Here is the format used for both!

Group Stage (February 14th – 18th)

  • 16 Team Swiss System Format
    • All matches are best-of-three
    • Top 8 teams proceed to Playoffs

Playoffs (February 21st – 23rd)

  • Single-Elimination bracket
  • All matches (excl. Grand Final) are best-of-three
  • The Grand Final is best-of-five

Overall, the format for PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 is fairly standard fare for a Counter-Strike tournament, but if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 Teams

Considering the grueling CS2 tournament schedule for 2025, it’s no surprise that most of the top teams chose to skip PGL Cluj-Napoca. You can see the full list of the 16 teams who accepted their invites below.

  • FaZe Clan
  • The MongolZ
  • MOUZ
  • Team Falcons
  • paiN Gaming
  • Eternal Fire
  • 3DMAX
  • MIBR
  • Complexity
  • SAW
  • BIG
  • FlyQuest
  • Astralis
  • Wildcard
  • Virtus.pro
  • Imperial fe

It should be noted that FURIA originally accepted an invite to PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, but later pulled out and were replaced by the team next in line via the VRS: Imperial fe.

PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 Predictions

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Because many of the best CS2 teams decided to skip PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, we could be in for an interesting winner. Overall, FaZe Clan stand as favorites overall. Despite a rocky start to life with EliGE, there’s so much individual quality on this team that it’s hard to look past them. The teams attending PGL Cluj-Napoca may not have the tactical nous to expose any flaws in FaZe’s game plan.

Closely following FaZe Clan as favorites are The MongolZ. They’ve been slowly getting better over the last 12 months, and now look like they can beat anyone on any given day. Considering the lower level of competition, don’t be surprised to see The MongolZ in the mix for the trophy at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025.