CS Asia Championships 2025 viewer's guide

From October 14th to 19th, Shanghai, China, will host a prestigious Counter-Strike 2 LAN tournament, CS Asia Championships 2025, with $400,000 in prizes on the line.

The event will begin with the group stage in a Double Elimination format (GSL, two groups of eight teams, with BO1 openers, while the remaining matches will be BO3). Three teams from each group will advance to the playoffs: the winners will go straight to the semi-finals, while the teams that place second and third will secure quarter-final spots.

The competition's playoffs will be held in a Single Elimination format, with BO3 matches. The final will be play out in a BO5 format.

Group stage participants are:

Group A

 3DMAX (Nivera, Lucky, bodyy, Ex3rcice, Graviti)
 The Huns (nin9, sk0R, Bart4k, xerolte, cobrazera)
 Legacy (dumau, latto, n1ssim, lux, saadzin)
 Virtus.pro (tO0RO, FL1T, fame, Perfecto, b1st)
 GamerLegion (REZ, ztr, Tauson, hypex, PR)
 Liquid (NAF, EliGE, NertZ, siuhy, ultimate)
 MIBR (exit, Qikert, brnz4n, insani, kl1m)
 Lynn Vision (Westmelon, z4kr, Starry, EmiliaQAQ, C4LLM3SU3)

Group A Bracket

Group B

 TYLOO (Attacker, JamYoung, Jee, Mercury, Moseyuh)
 Fluxo (arT, Lucaozy, zevy, decenty, kye)
 fnatic (KRIMZ, blameF, fear, jambo, jackasmo)
 paiN (dgt, biguzera, dav1deuS, nqz, snow)
 HEROIC (xfl0ud, nilo, LNZ, hades, yxngstxr)
 B8 (headtr1ck, alex666, npl, kRaSnaL, esenthial)
 FUT (dem0n, lauNX, Krabeni, cmtry, dziugss)
 FaZe (karrigan, Twistzz, jcobbb, frozen, broky)

Group B Bracket

The prize pool distribution is:

1. $150,000
2. $70,000
3. $60,000
4. $40,000
5-6. $20,000
7-8. $10,000
9-12. $4,000
13-16. $1,000

The full schedule and live broadcast of CS Asia Championships 2025 can be found on the tournament page via this link.