PGL Bucharest teams, format, schedule, prizes, talent, fantasy

A total of six top-ten teams will attend the Romanian studio event.

PGL Bucharest will begin on April 6

Teams and format

PGL Bucharest will feature 16 teams, six of which reside in the top ten of the HLTV and Valve rankings. Notable omissions are Vitality, Spirit, Natus Vincere, and MOUZ, which means we will get a new tier-one tournament winner in 2025.

Eternal Fire, The MongolZ, and G2 come into the event as the biggest favorites, with the former two not required to quell their arena-performance demons due to the event being held in a studio setting. The event could also kickstart FaZe's season if Finn "⁠karrigan⁠" Andersen's troops find some form after their slow start to the year with Jonathan "⁠EliGE⁠" Jablonowski.

The tournament's format will be the same as PGL Cluj-Napoca, as the group stage will be played in a Swiss system. The eight advancing teams will all start their playoff run in the quarter-finals, with the two finalists set to meet in a best-of-five trophy clash after a third-place decider opens up proceedings on Sunday.

The following teams are set to attend the tournament:

Eternal Fire
G2
The MongolZ
FaZe
Falcons
Liquid
Virtus.pro
Astralis

GamerLegion
3DMAX
FURIA
paiN
Complexity
Rare Atom
Legacy
Betclic

Schedule

The group stage will begin with a dual-stream setup with eight best-of-threes per day, which is set to decide the eight playoff teams across five days of play. Given the entire event will be played in PGL's studios, there will be no day off between the group stage and the playoffs, with the latter beginning on Friday, April 11.

The opening matchups are as follows:

Date	Matches
PGL Bucharest 2025
06/04/2025	The MongolZ 09:00 3DMAX	Match
06/04/2025	Virtus.pro 09:00 Rare Atom	Match
06/04/2025	G2 10:55 GamerLegion	Match
06/04/2025	Falcons 12:10 Complexity	Match
06/04/2025	Aurora 13:25 paiN	Match
06/04/2025	Liquid 14:05 Legacy	Match
06/04/2025	FaZe 16:00 Astralis	Match
06/04/2025	FURIA 17:35 Betclic	Match

See the full schedule on the event page here.

Prizes

PGL will once again offer a $1,250,000 prize pool for their event, but have joined other tournament organizers in attributing 50% of the prize pool to the organizations after several big teams boycotted their tournaments due to not getting any revenue share.

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PGL announce new prize pool split for Bucharest 2025

1. $400,000
2. $187,500
3. $150,000
4. $87,500
5-8. $62,500
9-11. $31,250
12-14. $18,750
15-16. $12,500

Talent

The PGL Bucharest talent list features a new casting duo of Anders "⁠Anders⁠" Blume and Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado, as well as an analyst return for HLTV's Zvonimir "⁠Professeur⁠" Burazin and a studio host lineup of Richard "⁠Richard Lewis⁠" Lewis and Sam "⁠Tech Girl⁠" Wright, alongside several other familiar names.

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Anders returns on PGL Bucharest talent list

The full talent list is:

Studio hosts

Richard "⁠Richard Lewis⁠" Lewis
Sam "⁠Tech Girl⁠" Wright

Analysts

Alex "⁠Mauisnake⁠" Ellenberg
Zvonimir "⁠Professeur⁠" Burazin
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović
Dustin "⁠dusT⁠" Mouret

Commentators

Adam "⁠Dinko⁠" Hawthorne
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole
Conner "⁠Scrawny⁠" Girvan
Mohan "⁠launders⁠" Govindasamy
Harry "⁠JustHarry⁠" Russell (remote)
Hugo "⁠Hugo⁠" Byron (remote)
Anders "⁠Anders⁠" Blume (remote)
Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado (remote)

Interviewer/Content

James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks

Fantasy

Fantasy is open for groups now, and users are placing more faith in players from Eternal Fire and The MongolZ compared to G2 and FaZe.

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The MongolZ, Eternal Fire more popular than G2, FaZe in PGL Bucharest fantasy

The game is set to award the following skin prizes:

1. Driver Gloves | Racing Green (Field-Tested)
2. AWP | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)
3. M4A1-S | Hyper Beast (Field-Tested)