StarLadder cancel StarSeries S19 due to extended Major timeline

23-1-2025 20:21

The tournament organizer released an update for its 2025 events.

StarLadder will host one event in 2025

StarLadder have announced the invite and qualifier details for StarSeries S20 as well as the cancellation of StarSeries S19 due to the extended timeline for the Austin Major.

StarLadder announces plans to return to CS

The tournament organizer was expected to host four events across 2025 and 2026, but will now hold only one event in 2025, namely StarSeries S20. The 16-team event will be held in Budapest, Hungary from September 13-21, with StarLadder now announcing the dates for the regional qualifiers:

North America: Eight teams, July 15–21, one team qualifies for the main event.

South America: Eight teams, July 15–21, one team qualifies for the main event.

Europe: 16 teams, August 12–17, two teams qualify for the main event.

StarLadder shares details of second 2025 event

StarLadder also stated that the invitations for all qualifiers will be distributed based on the VRS ranking and that all matches will be played in a best-of-three format. The invite date for the event and its qualifiers has been chosen as July 4.

The Ukrainian tournament organizer has also canceled their first event of the year, StarSeries S19, due to the extended timeline for the Austin Major.

Valve's decision to expand the Major from 24 to 32 teams means that Majors will last longer to create space for the additional stage, which would clash with the proposed dates for StarLadder's event (May 26-June 1).

Valve confirm move to 32-team Majors

"Unfortunately, we have to cancel the event in the first half of the year due to the extended timeline for the Major in June. We also found that rescheduling the tournament is impossible because there are no free weekends left in the first half of the year," they stated in their press release.

well that sucks :/

2025-01-23 20:21

sadge

2025-01-23 20:22

Sad, Starladder always delivered

gonna StartLater

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well done

2025-01-24 22:18

:d, sad

lmao

Damn it :(

2025-01-23 20:24

StarLadder comeback gonna have to wait a little later :(

2025-01-23 20:25

Edit: nvm

2025-01-24 03:41

Yo what, im alive?

StarLagger scammed by volvo

2025-01-23 20:29

no asia qual LLLLLLLLLLLLLL

2025-01-23 20:31

Volvo demands tournament organisers to announce their schedule for 2 years in advance. Also Volvo, changing duration of the Major after the events for 2025 were announced.

2025-01-23 20:34

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What I cannot understand is why they want to have so much control, when they obviously does not care or do the work themselfs. Like the game has been out for the longest, but rip all game modes. Rip open qualifiers, just cash casino for valve, gamers should go on strike.

2025-01-23 21:52

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If those game modes were worth anything (aka just flying scoutsman and danger zone), Valve would've brought them back. The equivalent of nobody played those modes. They have continually month after month updated the game and it has never been better. They do the work, but you don't care because you have your pet issues you want to rage about. Open qualifiers were ended because of the "gamers" you're talking btw. The community continually complained since Rio 2022 about how random the results at the majors seemed to be. Now that qualifiers are gone, people have been really positive about the major results. Even the whole "Navi fluke run" thing ended once they showed that it wasn't a one-off thing. Objectively people have been the most positive about the state of the game in a long time.

2025-01-24 00:00

hi gaben

2025-01-24 05:27

HUNGRY

2025-01-23 20:54

Extraordinarily common valve L

2025-01-23 21:35

> due to the extended timeline for the Austin Major. gross!

2025-01-23 21:49

Ngl Starladder has a bad history of paying out teams (in multiple e-sport scenes, alreasy since 2019), but the events were kinda okay. Sad they host 1 event less.

2025-01-23 21:54

so the budapest event isn't a major as the leaks suggested? when are they going to announce where the second major of the year will be?

2025-01-23 22:16

Oh yeah wtf, I wonder if something fell through

2025-01-24 03:42

Valve on their bullshit. Maybe starladder arent guaranteed the event yet so it hasnt been announced. Who really knows with Valve.

2025-01-24 14:52

Sad

2025-01-24 00:03

oh look, valve not following their own rules leading to consequences, wow

2025-01-24 00:34

No asian qualifier wowwww. Even give two spots to america and europe instead.

2025-01-24 03:37

2025-01-24 05:34

Ironic that valve wants to impose sanctions on orgs late announcements, while themselves causing them to have to cancel their events. But they are valve after all

2025-01-25 00:36