PGL Bucharest teams, format, schedule, prizes, talent, fantasy
A total of six top-ten teams will attend the Romanian studio event.

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:
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 |
09:00
|
Match |
| 06/04/2025 |
09:00
|
Match |
| 06/04/2025 |
10:55
|
Match |
| 06/04/2025 |
12:10
|
Match |
| 06/04/2025 |
13:25
|
Match |
| 06/04/2025 |
14:05
|
Match |
| 06/04/2025 |
16:00
|
Match |
| 06/04/2025 |
17:35
|
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.

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.

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
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.

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)
Alex 'Mauisnake' Ellenberg
Mohan 'launders' Govindasamy
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