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Romanian tournament organiser PGL has announced the opening eight matches of PGL Bucharest 2025, set to begin on April 6.
The sixth S-Tier Counter-Strike 2 tournament of the year and PGL’s second LAN event, following PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, kicks off on Thursday with the first six fixtures of the Swiss stage.
The first-round games will run between 10:00 and 19:00 local time (EEST), with pairs of games played at the same time.
PGL Bucharest 2025 Round 1 fixtures
- The MongolZ vs 3DMAX @ 10:00 EEST
- Virtus.pro vs Rare Atom @ 10:00 EEST
- Team Falcons vs Complexity @ 13:00 EEST
- G2 Esports vs GamerLegion @ 13:00 EEST
- Eternal Fire vs pain Gaming @ 16:00 EEST
- Team Liquid vs Legacy @ 16:00 EEST
- FaZe Clan vs Astralis @ 19:00 EEST
- FURIA Esports vs Apogee @ 19:00 EEST
Day one features a few exciting clashes between teams who travel to Romania with a point to prove following slow starts to the season.
That includes Astralis and FaZe Clan, who have yet to taste a LAN victory in 2025, but both came close to hoisting a trophy in PGL’s last event in Romania, where they clashed in a third-place decider.
The tournament will be missing some of the world’s top Counter-Strike teams — namely MOUZ, Natus Vincere, Team Spirit, and the recently crowned BLAST Spring Open 2025 champions, Team Vitality.
However, it will welcome eight of the top 12 teams on the Valve Regional Standings (VRS), including The MongolZ (No.4), Eternal Fire (No.5), G2 Esports (No.7), FaZe Clan (No.8), Team Falcons (No.9), and 3DMAX (No.10).
As the highest-rated team, The MongolZ are favourites to win PGL Bucharest 2025, priced at +300 on the outright betting markets.
G2 Esports are next at +400 on the best Counter-Strike 2 betting sites, ahead of Eternal Fire and FaZe Clan at +450 apiece.
Team Falcons (+600) and Team Liquid (+700) are the only remaining teams priced at single digits, with Astralis (+900) and Virtus.pro (+1000) rounding up the list of live outsiders to contest the trophy.
PGL Bucharest 2025 games will be streamed on Twitch, on PGL’s Stream A and B. Playoffs will be broadcast on PGL Stream A.
