Skyesports downscale plans for 2025 circuit

10-2-2025 15:30

The tournament organizer has moved from three planned tier-one events to only one.

Skyesports has significantly downscaled their plans

Skyesports has unveiled an updated set of plans for their 2025 circuit, which see the organizer move from three planned tier-one events to only one and reduce the prize pool for said event from $500,000 to $350,000. Valve added the event to their "exception list," allowing Skyesports to change the prize pool and format.

Furthermore, Skyesports Souvenir will become an "open-for-all India-only ranked event." The event was previously cancelled by Skyesports. The announcement also stated they would host another, as of yet unannounced, tier-two event later in the year.

Skyesports Souvenir 2025 cancelled

The single tier-one event hosted will be Skyesports Masters, and will take place November 10-16. 18 teams will receive invites via VRS, with two wildcard invites. The top four VRS teams head straight to the main event, whilst the remaining 16 compete in an online closed qualifier.

The closed qualifier will see teams compete in a Swiss-style format, with the top four teams proceeding to the main event. The main event will split the eight teams into two groups, where a league-style group stage will send the top two teams from each group to a double-elimination playoff bracket.

Skyesports pointed to long-term sustainability as the main reason for the changes to their circuit. "These changes, while scaled back from our original announcement, reflect our strategic re-alignment to long-term sustainability at Skyesports, while ensuring we continue hosting large-scale, global events."

This is not the first time the organizer has experienced issues hosting events. Skyesports Masters 2024 was moved from LAN to online due to the Indian General Election making it "extremely challenging to obtain the necessary approvals for hosting a large-scale on-ground event."

BetBoom withdraw from Skyesports Championship over conditions, fairness concerns

Later in 2024, Skyesports Championship was plagued by technical problems, and BetBoom ultimately withdrew from the competition citing "unmet promised conditions."

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2025-02-10 15:30

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Kurla Major coming in

2025-02-10 17:07

6 replies

how do u know about kurla if not fake flagging lmao

2025-02-10 18:14

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exactly lmao, being an Indian even i know its not a popular place and most people outside of mumbai wont be able to identify it

2025-02-10 19:12

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hjahhaha exactly

2025-02-10 20:03

when i visited kurla my mobile got stolen

2025-02-11 02:39

At least you had an authentic experience

2025-02-11 05:53

kurwa major pog

2025-02-10 21:38

hope there is no election this year

2025-02-10 17:25

thank god

2025-02-10 15:31

:skull: oh no

Nothing new. No Tier one team is going to attend this tournament unless you prove that you can hold tier 2 tournaments properly.

xd i will never forget the 1st event

2025-02-10 15:32

good, focus on quality this time

skyesports when they realise nobody will choose them over Blast, PGL or ESL

surely it was obvious

2025-02-10 18:47

Actually good they are biting the Bullet and downscaling, I still think they can be beneficial to the ecosystem with T2 and asian/indian events but them thinking they can attract T1 teams after all their fuck ups is just dumb. I hope they are not expecting big names at their only T1 event, may as well have made it T2 as well but these are good changes

2025-02-10 15:35

Agreed they cant expect that unless they do few successful no fuckup t2 events

2025-02-10 16:02

HERE WE GO AGAIN

2025-02-10 15:38

2025-02-10 15:44

F to my indian brothers

2025-02-10 15:48

Should have hosted a event for the Asia region like ACL.

2025-02-10 15:58

Expected from this clownfiesta

2025-02-10 16:00

Has Skyesports ever hosted any successful events?

2025-02-10 16:03

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Their original partner team event was fairly successful: hltv.org/events/7266/skyesports-masters-.. But news articles later on revealed that several teams and players remained unpaid for a long time after the event ended. I'm not sure what the current status is.

2025-02-10 16:58

p sure they got paid

2025-02-10 18:48

Only good thing was the trophy it was mad nice

pls remove this event from hltv

2025-02-10 16:11

What we will have this time stone desks ? Huawei monitors? GTX 1080 Tis XD

2025-02-10 16:13

this does not deserve to be news, not even shorts. when has a single indian event ever not been met with scandals?

2025-02-10 16:29

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who are u cheering for in champions trophy?

2025-02-11 09:49

I see you hating in every India thread. When's the last time Pakistan CS was relevant (other than in real life lmao)? Also this isn't something you should be cheering about, Asia is a developing scene so any country taking an L is an L for the entire scene.

2025-02-11 11:08

scandals are more L than not having events. we play only CT irl... there are usually T's that come from elsewhere. These T's are predominantly from the atlantic region. They come to this region and cause problems of all sorts. Sometimes I wonder why its so difficult for them to just stay at home, why must they go to every region in the world ........... truly strange.

2025-02-11 11:53

what make a tournament a "Tier 1"? is it the money prize?

2025-02-10 16:41

no, s-tier event should be considered t1 even thunderpick with 850k prize pool was a-tier

2025-02-10 18:49

As far as Valve's classification goes it mainly has to do with invites and the timeline for announcing details: Tier 1 events invite the highest ranked teams and can only filter invites by the 3 official regions (AMER, ASIA, EURO). The event also has to be announced at least a year in advance. Tier 2 events can select a lower ranking to start invites at (no higher than rank 9 though) to invite teams and can add other criteria to invites, such as countries and regions. Tier 2 events only have to announce 2 months in advance. Source: github.com/ValveSoftware/counter-strike_..

2025-02-10 19:06

Everytime i see a skysports news pannel its always about cancelling events or something along those lines

2025-02-10 17:22

They should just remove themselves out of existance, embarrassing orgs.

2025-02-10 17:40

Look up the sky...eeeesports

Finally they did something actually good, focus on this one event only. Have been saying this since a long time

2025-02-10 19:38

No top 8 teams attending

2025-02-10 20:34

Mumbai major inc?

2025-02-10 20:35

Asking as an indian., Please for godsake dont organise any events just to ruin countries name., just last year with tables with nails and technical issues … its good enough we have name of forsaken.. as black mark in indian counterstrike dont want to add another with this event

2025-02-10 21:02