PGL Astana playoff bracket set

14-5-2025 14:31

The MongolZ vs. Aurora and FURIA vs. MIBR are two of the quarter-final match-ups.

molodoy will get his arena debut in front of his home crowd

The PGL Astana playoff bracket is set with the top eight teams that made it through the Swiss group stage now seeded against each other to play the quarter-finals at the Barys Arena.

The single-elimination bracket will kick off on Friday, May 16, at 07:00 , with The MongolZ taking on Aurora for the first time since IEM Katowice, where the Mongolian squad prevailed, although the two teams have met six times since the beginning of 2024.

Natus Vincere vs. Astralis will follow at 10:00 , before local player and FURIA's latest addition, AWPer Danil "⁠molodoy⁠" Golubenko, gets to make his arena debut in his home city in front of his home crowd at 13:00 against MIBR.

International lineup secures FURIA their first playoffs in 213 days

To round out the quarter-finals, the tournament's favorites, Spirit, will play at 16:00 , going up against Ninjas in Pyjamas, who recently made it into the top 30 positions in both the HLTV World Ranking and the VRS Global Ranking.

The semi-finals will follow on Saturday, with the third-place decider and best-of-five grand final bookending the tournament on championship Sunday.

Date	Matches
PGL Astana 2025
16/05/2025	The MongolZ 07:00 Aurora	Match
16/05/2025	Natus Vincere 10:00 Astralis	Match
16/05/2025	FURIA 14:00 MIBR	Match
16/05/2025	Spirit 17:00 Ninjas in Pyjamas	Match

donk probably gonna break his Katowice record with this bracket imagine making to finals playing against NiP & FURIA, ez farm

2025-05-14 14:33

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NIP will beat Spirit btw, Snappi crowd buff is crazy

2025-05-14 14:35

132

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NIP 1# 2025, new record incomming and ending vita streak at austin final

2025-05-14 14:39

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NIP 1# is real :o

2025-05-14 14:44

People be dreaming anything to stop vitality 😭

2025-05-14 14:56

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Whatever it takes

2025-05-14 15:34

People who doest dream are sad bro

2025-05-14 16:26

They smoke most teams in the playoffs but their side of the bracket is a "passeio" for sure.

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You're a passeio

2025-05-14 15:07

hes not gonna break it cuz its not a tier 1 tournament

2025-05-14 14:40

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by all means it is a t1 tournament, the only top teams skipping it are Vitality and MOUZ, it is on LAN and with an Arena and has a prize pool of over 500k. This is T1 no doubt edit: Oh yeah and Falcons too ig. Point still stands

2025-05-14 14:50

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Nop sorry we are top28 rating doesnt count

2025-05-14 16:36

Winning a tournament where out of the top4 only 1 team is attending (be it the fourth ranked)...sorry but it feels a bit like a banana cup. Is there any team out the other 7 that stand a chance to beat spirit in your opinion ...? Draw your own opinion

2025-05-14 18:48

Considering the two 13-11s against GL, anyone has a chance of beating Spirit in this group.

2025-05-15 09:49

Navi got a chance on a good day

2025-05-15 15:42

you can't convince me that a tournament with furia mibr and NIP in the playoffs bracket is t1

2025-05-15 03:08

3 teams missing from top5, that is huge.

2025-05-15 20:08

why always BR vs BR in this tournament

fear! are cowards

2025-05-14 17:10

Statistics. 4 BR in 16 Teams

2025-05-14 18:02

playoffs only 2 BR and they still meet?

scriptwriters think it would get more viewers

2025-05-15 08:52

Donk price set to be 300k or something no way I wouldn't pick him for fantasy.

2025-05-14 15:02

ez for astralis

2025-05-14 14:32

#ToTheStars!

2025-05-14 14:36

2025-05-14 14:51

ez for the GIGACHAD*

2025-05-14 14:54

EZ early departure home xD

2025-05-14 15:01

tier3 teams

Only NIP is tier 3 there Or maybe it's tier 2 too

2025-05-15 18:20

ez4spirit

Lmao

goofy ahh playoff

Furia wins the trophy!!!

EZ for NIP, we let them win in the groups

br team vs br team again lol

2025-05-14 14:34

it's the only way BR teams can win a match xD

2025-05-14 14:37

ONE way :D

lucky that VP is BR too... to keep all these BR vs BR matches going 🤓

2025-05-14 14:46

They play like one tbf

2025-05-14 16:50

oh yes, G2, GL, VP, all brazilian teams. at this point just call it Brazillian National CS Cup

2025-05-14 15:06

br derby wtf

only a week before dallas and the end of this mickey mouz event

yes inject more of Spirit and easy brackets into my veins

they are the most high rated team in this tourney wym

2025-05-14 16:35

what do YOU mean. spirit and mongolz went both 3-0 why did spirit get 2 brazilian teams and nip. Mongolz got navi, aurora and astralis.

2025-05-14 17:02

TheMongolz vs Aurora is gonna be an interesting match-up. I feel these two teams are competing at the same level.

I want some of what you're smoking

2025-05-14 14:41

The teams are very close in both hltv and valve rankins, wdym ? Aurora has underperformed a bit since they left Eternal Fire, but so does TheMongolz, they haven't impressed last 2 events. 2 teams i like, btw.

2025-05-14 14:43

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MongolZ looked meh before this event, but comparing them to Aurora's current form is wild lmao

2025-05-14 15:10

I want some of what you're smoking jk

2025-05-16 09:08

got bashed by aurora

2025-05-16 15:58

NIP 3:1 Astralis in the PGL finals

NiP hater bracket setter

just play better lol

2025-05-14 15:12

What a trash bracket. 2 br teams facing each other so they can get the br viewership again in the semis, and forcing nip and spirit face each other again

2025-05-14 14:47

Oh yes, those damn Buchholz seeding clearly created to raise brazilian viewership and antagonize NIP and portuguese fans, how shameless...

2025-05-14 15:11

Not even thought about the pt players on nip lol. I just think its strange spirit and nip are facing each other again, when both mibr and nip ended up 3-2, so they both could play vs spirit. But yeah im just dumb cuz i dont know how the buchholz system works

2025-05-14 15:13

its seeding bro, its not manual...

who tf came up with this bracket?

It's based on performance of last 3 moths I believe. But it would be better if they played different teams. Furia will play MIBR btw. Navi are also on the same bracket as Mongolz and Aurora. Free pass to the finals for Spirit.

2025-05-14 14:53

No, see #44

2025-05-14 15:09

It's based on the swiss stage results, it's easier to see on Liquipedia: liquipedia.net/counterstrike/PGL/2025/As.. The team with the best Buchholz score (The Mongolz) was matched up with the 3-2 team with the worst Buchholz score. Ending with Navi and Astralis paired up in the middle of the pack.

i figured some kind of first-last seeding was in place, thank you.

2025-05-14 15:17

furia vs. mibr, only one brazilian team allowed in semis is this happens because they from brasìl?

Yes cuz if they face an eu they would lose, so with them facing each other, they guarantee a br team in the semis

pretty sure they both can win against low tier teams like aurora and nip

Furia take easily NiP and Aurora lol what u yapping about? Also flag checkout :)

2025-05-14 15:51

Brazilul delusion, Aurora 13-0 Furia ez

If it was one month ago i would agree with u

2025-05-14 19:53

it's seed system bro

2025-05-15 20:26

TS have an easy bracket lmao

2025-05-14 14:57

Spirit got an easiest bracket. LOL

2025-05-14 14:59

Navi vs spirit final

ok donk 100000% mvp

2025-05-14 15:14

Again BR vs BR?????? easiest game for FURIA tho

2025-05-14 15:20

Totally biased brackets in favour of spirit lmao Ain't no way they fumble this

2025-05-14 15:22

No vita/falcons so they have to win or be a laughing stock

2025-05-14 15:25

Are you so desperate for attention that after #26 you had to come back and write another comment like that? I'm pretty sure you know that brackets can't be biased in favor of anyone since there is no "bracket setter", but if you don't, #44 explained how it works.

2025-05-14 17:14

So Sorry for you the sarcasm part is totally missing in your life Try not to sulclde!

2025-05-14 17:18

I'm fine, don't worry. To be clear: since it was sarcasm, your point was that Spirit should fumble this and the lucky bracket will not help them?

2025-05-14 17:23

Looking at this competition you realize that the gap between T1 (vita, flacons, mouz, spirit) and the rest is currently abyssal. Looking at this match-up and the groupstage it's like the T2 starts at HLTV top 5 now.

2025-05-14 15:27

That’s how its being for years now, the only thing that changes are the teams who takes these 4 spots, a few time ago was Navi and g2. And yeah the difference between tier S and tier1-2 its abyssal, i hope that in the future we have more teams to contender trophies and not vitallity in every grand final possible (nothing againt Vit tho)

2025-05-14 15:48

as long as the tier S(top 2-3) teams changes in periods it is ok for me as a fan. just look at the last 12 months. it is not an exact math but to getting my point it was give or take something like : we had g2-navi time, navi-spirit time, navi-spirit-mouz time, vitality-spirit-mouz time, vitality alone time and now it seems vitality-falcons time. each of the periods it seems that the tier-S teams were invincible and dominate the scene for years but it wasnt the case. who knows what is next??

2025-05-14 16:11