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Liquid seems to be planning a roster shake up, with sources revealing that the team is in talks with MOUZ to bring in Kamil "siuhy" Szkaradek as their new in-game leader. If all goes according to plan, siuhy will join on a three-month trial, staying with the team through the BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025.

Vitality continue their reign of terror, claiming their third consecutive trophy in a thrilling 3-2 grand final against MOUZ at BLAST Open Lisbon 2025. The win extends Vitality’s series streak to 16 in a row, just one shy of Astralis’ legendary 17, making it the fourth-longest in CS history.

On December 31st, 2025 , FaZe announced the departure of Robin ‘ropz’ Kool from its CS2 roster after nearly three years with the team. The Estonian rifler joined the team in January 2022, and has helped FaZe secure major victories, including multiple IEM titles, a PGL Major Antwerp win, an ESL Pro League championship, and the Intel Grand Slam Season 4.

On January 9th, 2025, GamerLegion officially announced the benching of Sebastian “volt” Maloș, marking the team’s second roster shift of the off-season.

Indian esports tournament organizer Skyesports has revised its plan for the 2025 CS2 circuit, scaling back its initial vision of three top-tier tournaments to just one while also cutting the prize pool for the event from $500,000 to $350,000. Valve granted Skyesports an exception, allowing them to adjust both the format and prize structure accordingly.

On December 2nd, 2024, Team Liquid fans rejoiced as their favourite team became the first out of sixteen teams to break out of the Opening Stage and make it to the Elimination Stage. While many were expecting Liquid to put up such a performance, given the teams they had been matched up with, they, nonetheless, delivered on those expectations. They beat Wildcard in their opening best-of-one game 13-10 and then went on to beat Cloud9 with the same scoreline (although they were down 3-9).

On December 7th 2024, fans looked back as Vitality became the first team to break out of the Elimination Stage and reach the Playoffs at the Perfect World Shanghai Major. They had a bit of a scuffle on day one as they could barely beat FURIA 16-13 in their best-of-one, leading many to believe they weren’t in peak form at the tournament. However, they were quick to prove their haters wrong as they destroyed MIBR in their next best-of-three game, outclassing them on both maps, Mirage (13-3) and Anubis (13-5). Vitality certainly felt good about silencing their critics, as William "⁠mezii⁠" Merriman told HLTV.

On January 24, 2025, Natus Vincere secured their place in the BLAST Bounty 2025 finals after a grueling 2-1 victory over paiN in the opening round in Copenhagen. The veto began with paiN removing Ancient and NAVI banning Train. paiN then picked Dust2, while NAVI chose Nuke. In the second phase, paiN removed Anubis, NAVI banned Inferno, leaving Mirage as the decider.

On November 27th, 2024, Passion UA CEO Artemijs Rjabovs said in an interview with Cyber TALK Show that his organization has renewed the contracts it has had with its CS2 players. While the exact details of said contracts are unknown at the moment, such as whether it was signed before the RMR or after the RMR when the team qualified for the Shanghai Major, all we know so far is that they’ll expire in 2027. However, the CEO has explicitly said that he does not intend to stand between opportunities if bigger organizations come to scout for his players after the performance they put up at the Europe RMR this month.

Vitality claimed victory at IEM Katowice 2025 with a commanding 3-0 sweep over Spirit, halting the Russian squad’s momentum as they sought to build on their Shanghai Major and BLAST Bounty triumphs.

On November 11th, 2024, fans are eagerly waiting for the Shanghai Major to commence at the start of December. However, before that, the final qualifiers for the Major will entertain us this month, and among the many teams participating, M80 is a very intriguing contender. Many expected the American team to fall off after G2 Esports snatched their star rifler, Mario "⁠malbsMd⁠" Samayoa, but the remaining team, especially Ethan "⁠reck⁠" Serrano has proven everyone wrong.

On February 2. 2025, NiKo and his new squad, Team Falcons, fell from the IEM Katowice Elimination Bracket at the hands of his former teammates in G2 Esports.

On December 13th 2024, MOUZ became the first team to reach the semi-finals at the Perfect World Shanghai Major. Although the series started off rough with The MongolZ leading with a 9-3 scoreline on Ancient, MOUZ brought it back, winning 16-14 in overtime. Despite the demotivating loss on map one, The MongolZ kept up the fight on the second map, Nuke, securing a short 7-5 lead in the first half. However, MOUZ was high on confidence and won eight rounds in the second half, closing the game out 13-9, and winning the series.

Eternal Fire have booked their place in the PGL Cluj-Napoca playoffs after defeating 3DMAX in a tense three-map series. This marks the Turkish squad’s third playoff appearance of the year, following strong runs at BLAST Bounty and IEM Katowice.

On November 6th, 2024, PARAVISION moved their head coach, Ivan "⁠F_1N⁠" Kochugov, to their inactive roster. Given that the Perfect World Shanghai Major Europe RMR is just a few weeks away, coupled with F_1N’s recent controversy, the reason seems a bit too obvious. Some speculate, including Russian insider Alexey "⁠OverDrive⁠" Birukov, that part of the reason pertains to the fact that former Virtus.pro skipper Dastan "⁠dastan⁠" Akbayev is now available. Even though F_1N was registered as the team’s coach for the RMR, dastan would still be able to assist the team outside of matches.