Counter-Strike
Video game series by Valve
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| 2025 | G2 FC competed in the 2025 Spring Split of Kings League Germany, finishing 3rd place and losing to ERA Colonia 2-14 in the Second Ticket Kings World Cup Clubs (KWC) Match. |
| 2025 | In the Kings World Cup Clubs tournament, G2 FC was eliminated in the 2nd Round after losing 2-9 to Miami 7. |
| May 19 2025 | Honda terminated its sponsorship of Team Liquid after Lucas 'DiasLucasBr' Dias posted an inappropriate image of an atomic bomb on X, which was deemed incompatible with Honda's corporate values. |
| 2025 | Won VCT China Kickoff 2025 by defeating Trace Esports 3-1, with a dominant 13-2 final map victory. |
| 2025 | EDG started their 2025 Kickoff event by beating Nova Esports 2-0 in their initial match. |
| 2025 | Won against Bilibili Gaming 3-0 in the lower bracket finals, securing qualification for 2025 Masters Bangkok. |
| 2025 | Defeated Dragon Ranger Gaming 2-0, starting the match with a 13-0 round streak. |
| 2025 | Won against XLG Esports 2-1 in the lower bracket, achieving a remarkable 13-0 victory on the third map. |
| 2025 | Lost to Trace Esports 2-1, which knocked them into the lower bracket of the tournament. |
| May 14 2025 | Team Liquid's Rainbow Six Siege team, including Lucas 'DiasLucasBr' Dias, lost to the Japanese team CAG Osaka in the group stage of the RE:L0:AD 2025 tournament. |
| May 14 2025 | NAVI signs two women's Mobile Legends rosters - one based in Malaysia and another in the Philippines. The Filipino roster is the former Smart Omega Empress roster that won the previous year's Women's Invitational. |
| May 9 2025 | Team Liquid acquired EA Sports FC organization Team Gullit, owned by former Dutch football player and manager Ruud Gullit, following a previous partnership during the 2024 Esports World Cup. |
| May 2025 |
Counter-Strike in esports
Multiple players and staff from ATOX Esports' Counter-Strike 2 team were banned for match-fixing after ESIC investigated suspicious betting patterns and uncovered evidence of coordinated manipulation, resulting in multi-year suspensions.
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| 2025 | TSM dropped player Youssef 'Cherished' Shaaban from the Halo Infinite roster following a disappointing performance at HCS Arlington 2025. |
| 2025 | OpTic competes in Halo Championship Series Arlington Major in Halo: Infinite |
| 2025 | Falcons won their first Counter-Strike 2 trophy by defeating G2 Esports at PGL Bucharest 2025, with degster achieving his first HLTV MVP in his final event before being replaced by Ilya 'm0NESY' Osipov. |
| April 2025 | Team Spirit signed Grandmasters Daniil Dubov and Vladislav Artemiev to represent the organization in the Champions Chess Tour 2025 and 2025 Esports World Cup. |
| April 2025 | Falcons reached the final in IEM Melbourne in their debut event with m0NESY. |
| 2025 | G2 released Mikyx and Yike, and announced the additions of Rudy 'Skewmond' Semaan and Labros 'Labrov' Papoutsakis as Jungler and Support respectively. |
| April 2 2025 | G2 Esports announced G2 Football Club (G2 FC), a seven-a-side football team to participate in the German division of Kings League, a new football league founded by Gerard Piqué. |
| March 31 2025 | GameSquare announced divestiture of its remaining 25.5% stake in FaZe Media, while retaining full ownership of FaZe Esports. |
| 2025 | NRG won the 1st Open Qualifier for the 2025 season with their newly acquired roster. |
| March 2025 | Team Falcons signed six former Team BDS players: Loïc 'BriD' Chongthep, Théo 'LikEfac' Mariano, Stéphane 'Shaiiko' Lebleu, Fatih 'Solotov' Türker, Josh 'Yuzus' Pritchard, and coach Samy 'Stooflex' Smail. |
| 2025 |
Counter-Strike in esports
ESL and HLTV team ranking system changes, with tournament organizers no longer directly inviting teams based solely on their rankings.
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| 2025 |
Counter-Strike in esports
HLTV and ESL continue to publish team rankings, which tournament organizers use to determine team invitations to competitive events.
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| 2025 |
Counter-Strike in esports
The new Valve tournament system officially goes into effect, with tournament invitations generated exclusively through the official Valve ranking system.
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| 2025 | Evil Geniuses signed Jacob 'icy' Lange from G2 Esports and Jaccob 'yay' Whiteaker to their roster. |
| February 15 2025 | Ubisoft announced Cloud9's inclusion in the 'R6 Share' partner program for the 2025 competitive season, with an invitation to the North American League. |
| February 14 2025 | Team Liquid signed Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen to represent the team during the Champions Chess Tour 2025. |
| February 13 2025 | Team Liquid entered chess by signing American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana. |
| February 2025 | Mira officially departed from Team Spirit after signing with Aurora Gaming. |
| February 8 2025 | NAVI announces their return to Mobile Legends by acquiring Rebellion Esports, including franchise slots in the MLBB Professional League Indonesia and MLBB Development League Indonesia. |
| February 2025 | Team BDS announced their Rainbow Six Siege roster could explore opportunities with other teams for the 2025 season. |
| February 1 2025 | Team Falcons Philippines announces roster for Snapdragon Pro Series Season 6 Challenge Finals, featuring M5 World Champions from AP.Bren, including KyleTzy, Super Marco, Owgwen, Pandora, FlapTzy, and Pheww. The roster is also confirmed for MPL-PH Season 15. |
| January 31 2025 | Team SoloMid signed a Halo Infinite roster consisting of players Roman 'Druk' Nasirudin, Hunter 'Taulek' Davis, Michael 'SoulSnipe' Girgis, and Youssef 'Cherished' Shaaban, with coach 'Trey'. The team officially partnered with the Halo Championship Series (HCS) for Year 4 in 2025. |
| January 24 2025 | Team Falcons announced their partnership with Twisted Minds to enter MPL Philippines for Season 15, replacing Blacklist International and RSG Philippines. |
| January 15 2025 | Soniqs announced the departure of their PUBG roster in the morning, with the same players subsequently being announced as the new Falcons PUBG lineup later that same day. |
| January 11 2025 | G2 unveiled Nikita 'HeavyGod' Martynenko as part of the main roster. |
| January 4 2025 | ONIC Esports announced the termination of the partnership with Fnatic, ending Fnatic's representation in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang and returning both teams to their original branding. |
| January 4 2025 | Team Falcons completed their roster by acquiring the HEROIC core of Damjan 'kyxsan' Stoilkovski, René 'TeSeS' Madsen, and Abdul 'degster' Gasanov. |
| January 3 2025 | Nikola 'NiKo' Kovac departed the team in an expected move to Falcons Esports. |
| January 3 2025 | Team Falcons signed Nikola 'NiKo' Kovač to the roster. |
| January 3 2025 |
Counter-Strike Major Championships
Valve announces a second expansion of Major tournament teams to thirty-two, starting with the BLAST Austin Major.
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| 2024 | NAVI was named the HLTV Team of the Year for 2024. |
| 2024 | NAVI achieved multiple grand final appearances, winning three major events: Esports World Cup 2024 (beating G2 2-1), ESL Pro League Season 20 (beating Eternal Fire 3-2), and IEM Rio 2024 (beating MOUZ 3-1). |
| 2024 | Na'Vi donated US$125,000 of their prize money from winning the PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 to support unmanned ground vehicles for Ukrainian armed forces during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2024 | EDG won matches against Trace Esports (2-0) and Sentinels (2-1) in the playoffs, defeated Leviatán 2-1 in the Upper Bracket Final, and reached their first Valorant championship grand final. |
| 2024 | Edward Gaming's VALORANT team wins the Valorant Champions tournament, defeating Team Heretics 3-2 in the final match. |
| 2024 | Edward Gaming won the VALORANT Champions Tour 2024: China Kickoff event and qualified for VALORANT Champions Tour 2024: Masters Madrid, where they placed 5th-6th. |
| 2024 | At Valorant Champions in Seoul, EDG won their opening group stage match, defeated Paper Rex 2-1, and advanced to the playoffs. |
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