ESL Counter Strike 2 Pro Tour 2025 COMPLETE Details

Lights, camera, action! ESL Counter-Strike 2 Pro Tour 2025: all this waiting is finally over; a fantastic season of esports fun bursts with nothing but excitement and opportunities. Fasten your seatbelts as you get ready to get all the scoop there is to know about this unforgettable season!

EFG’s Financial Commitment

EFG will invest over $22 million in the Counter-Strike 2 ecosystem during 2025 and 2026, committing a total of $11 million yearly. This type of mass investment is meant to fuel the competitive environment so that teams and players are able to grow with this support. The funding will be spread across prize pools, operational costs, and infrastructure improvements-all of which play an important role in hosting good events.

The financial support also stretches into hospitality provisions, such as accommodations, flights, and practice facilities for events. EFG is also helping to free up teams’ resources, creating a better all-around atmosphere where players can concentrate more on performance.

Tournament Schedule

In total, seven major tournaments comprise the 2025 ESL Pro Tour: two Championship events and five Masters events. The overall combination of tournaments is structured such that maximum peak dates when top teams around the globe are likely to be engaged are maximized, while engaging the crowds with exciting matches throughout the year.

Date	Tournament	Location
January 29 – February 9	IEM Katowice 2025	Katowice, Poland
February 25 – March 16	ESL Pro League Season 21	Europe (TBA)
April 21 – April 27	IEM Spring 2025	Location TBA
May 19 – May 25	IEM Dallas 2025	Dallas, Texas, USA
July 23 – August 3	IEM Cologne 2025	Cologne, Germany
September 23 – October 12	ESL Pro League Season 22	Europe (TBA)
November 3 – November 9	IEM Chengdu 2025	Chengdu, China

Regional Tournaments

In addition to the above mentioned ‘major events’, regional qualifiers will serve as an avenue through which lesser-known teams stand a better chance of qualifying for large tournaments; this makes it possible for new talents to emerge in larger stages, while established teams do maintain a competitive edge.

Date	Tournament
January 13 – 26	BLAST Bounty
January 29 – February 9	IEM Katowice
February 13 – 23	PGL Buenos Aires
February 13 – 23	Skyesports Souvenir
February 25 – March 16	ESL Pro League 21
March 17 – 30	BLAST Open Lisbon
April 3 – 13	PGL Bucharest
April 15 – 20	YaLLa Compass Spring
April 21 – 27	IEM Spring
April 28 – May 4	BLAST Rivals
May 8 – 18	PGL Astana
May 19 – 25	IEM Dallas
May 26 – June 1	StarLadder StarSeries S19
May 26 – June 1	Skyesports Masters
June 9 – 22	BLAST Austin Major

July 15 – 20	FISSURE July
July 23 – August 3	IEM Cologne
August 4 – 17	BLAST Bounty
August 20 – 24	Unannounced ESL event
August 25 – September 7	BLAST Open London
September 9 – 21	FISSURE September
September 13 – 21	StarLadder StarSeries S20
September 15 – 21	Skyesports Championship
September 23 – October 12	ESL Pro League 22
October 1 – October 13	CS Asia Championships
October 23 – November 2	PGL Belgrade
November 3 – 9	IEM Chengdu
November 10 – 13	Skyesports World Tour
November 10 – 16	BLAST Rivals
November 18 – 23	YaLLa Compass Fall
December 1 – 14	Second Major

Tournament Structure Changes

There are several changes for the 2025 season, some of which are as follows:

All the matches in the Grand Finals will be best-of-fives (Bo5) instead of best-of-three (Bo3) to make competitions more aggressive.
The removal of the best-of-one (Bo1) opening matches is up for consideration as a means to give teams the best opportunity to put their skills in play.
Teams will qualify by means of Valve’s new Regional Standings, which will replace the existing ranking systems.

Conclusion

Ultimately, we can’t but wait for more from ESL regarding what’s going to happen with the competitive scene of Counter-Strike 2 and what this news did add to the hype about it: it is indeed an era wherein something special is happening, something that remains to be something which esports could truly call progress.