StarLadder reveals Budapest Major MRQ and invite dates

6-6-2025 15:23

The MRQs will continue to be held online in all regions.

StarLadder has revealed the dates for the MRQs for Budapest Major 2025, with the MRQs to be held online from October 16-19. The tournament organizer also stated the VRS invites, both for the Major itself and the MRQs, will go out on October 8.

StarLadder announces Budapest Major

The dates for the MRQs would clash with three significant LAN events, CS Asia Championships, Thunderpick World Championship, and MESA Nomadic Masters Fall. YaLLa Compass Spring suffered from significant team withdrawals earlier this year due to clashing with the BLAST.tv Austin Major qualifiers.

Seven teams replaced at YaLLa Compass despite move to online

The regional breakdown for the MRQs was also provided, which is as follows: Europe, North America, South America, West Asia, East Asia, and China.

StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 is set to run November 24-December 14, and will continue the 32-team, three-stage format currently being used in Austin.

One significant difference from the Austin Major will be that all stages of the event will feature a live audience. The first three will take place at the MTK Sportpark with seating for up to 2,000 spectators, whilst the playoffs will be held in the MVM Dome, a 20,000-seater indoor arena.

Tickets for the Major are already available for all stages, and can be purchased via StarLadder's Major website.

Faze will win this s1mple mvp

2025-06-06 15:24

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mrq has no mvp

2025-06-06 15:30

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you understood the essence of his statement stop being pedantic

2025-06-06 16:05

braindead

2025-06-06 15:50

Falcons will win this major in Budapest. I called it before they signed monesy

2025-06-06 18:09

flag checks out

2025-06-06 21:15

gonna be there

same

2025-06-22 00:00

nice

Online MRQs GG orange dog staring at sun emoji i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000..

2025-06-06 15:25

as long as asstralis don't qualify, we should be alright

2025-06-06 15:29

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if astralis exist at that point they probably get in directly from VRS invites.

nope, no fluke runs can save them up to this point

2025-06-06 15:31

That dog isn't orange wtf

2025-06-06 15:40

LET ME KNOOOOW LET ME KNOW *unintelligible mumbling*

2025-06-06 18:21

Online again. Fuck this.

2025-06-06 15:27

The first three will take place at the MTK Sportpark with seating for up to 2,000 spectators W

Major W

Asian MRQs split into 3 and online again zzzzz

MRQ is online and clashing with like 5 other events, great.

2025-06-06 15:35

It reflects poorly on Valve, especially because they require TOs to pick these event dates so far in advance now, but the majors are still announced in a much shorter window.

2025-06-06 18:14

Maybe the worst possible week they could've chose to do these. So stupid.

When valve improves their major format?

2025-06-06 15:37

do we ever wonder how grateful we are to have such an active esports scene of a game we all love to play and follow ? current Major is barely 30th of its way there and there's rumblings about invite cuttoff for the next Major already thats like half a year away i know its disappointing but somehow we will still bitch about MRQs being online while only a few will rejoice in the fact that the whole Major will be played in front of the crowd how spoiled are we

2025-06-06 15:41

actually true, we are just used to it

2025-06-06 15:53

I don't like this online aspect especially for APAC. Of course holding it ok LAN eill be far more expensive, but it will lead to a lot more hype and better competition. Stage 1 will always have 6 EU teams, 3 NA, 3 SA, and 4 APAC teams unless valve changes the rules. EU and AM are fine online I guess, its not great, but it suffices. But Asia should 100% be on LAN, invite the 4 best teams from all 3 regions, a 12 team LAN that gets funneled down to 4. Having these 4 team mini qualifiers is boring, for matchups we see all too often.

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If only there was a billion dollar company that could help with running of the major.

2025-06-06 15:58

If only they could allocate a couple hundred thousand dollars to rent out a venue, fly out every player and coach, and setup a LAN event that will take 2-3 days. Its not cheap, but valve is for not paying that out of pocket when that LAN is a drop in the bucket for them.

2025-06-06 16:13

Even Mesa,the mongolian event helder could easily hold an LAN event with 12 teams, then I think Chinese platform like perfect world(5e may not be able to do it because its shareholder's connection with tyloo) could do it(PW holds CAC around that time)

2025-06-07 02:40

can a TO just work with one of the asian TOs to host the mrq? a CN TO can do it or even those biased mongolian TOs can.

2025-06-06 15:55

Three sub regions for Asia? wtf?

Its too big bro we get like 120 ping in china/au/singapore

2025-06-06 16:34

ahh true, didn't think about that online portion of it. good call

2025-06-06 19:37

So make it 1 more for SA, chile have +100ms playing in brazil servers. Peru 140ms. Stop crying with the Ping issue is the same region Peru players actually play on NA faceit being SA

2025-06-07 02:38

Mrq online is a fault of all cs community

2025-06-06 16:03

It's unfortunate that sl3nd probably won't be there, but I hope torzsi will win a Major in Budapest. I really hope Mouz will be in good shape by then.

2025-06-06 16:16

West Asia, East Asia, and China? So JiJieHao get a free major slot while OCE and Mongolian teams have to compete against each other? Or is Mongolia "West Asia" again and "East Asia" is actually OCE and SEA?

2025-06-06 17:39

It's a good question and StarLadder aren't offering any official details yet, but it's interesting to note that their names do not lineup with Valve's official subregions: hltv.org/news/41042/valve-redefines-tour.. (last paragraph) This was also the case with BLAST's MRQ divisions.