{"id":26545,"date":"2025-06-11T19:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=26545"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T19:48:53","slug":"valve-removes-regional-qualifiers-ahead-of-starladder-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/valve-removes-regional-qualifiers-ahead-of-starladder-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Removes Regional Qualifiers Ahead of StarLadder Major"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.valvesoftware.com\/ru\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Valve<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>has eliminated the <strong>Major Regional Qualifiers (MRQs)<\/strong> across all regions before the<a href=\"https:\/\/major.starladder.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>StarLadder Budapest Major<\/strong><\/a>, as announced by the event&#8217;s organizer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 32 teams that will take part in the<strong> Budapest Major<\/strong> will be selected directly from the<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ValveSoftware\/counter-strike_regional_standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <strong>Valve Regional Standings (VRS)<\/strong><\/a>, rather than going through a different qualifying process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">To stay in tune and don't miss out on any <strong>CS2 <\/strong>tournaments, check out our complete<a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/cs2-tournament-calendar-2025-upcoming-events-and-key-dates\/\"> CS2 Tournament Schedule for 2025<\/a>.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">StarLadder Announcement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/StarLadder_CS\/status\/1932829191042412832\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>MRQs <\/strong>for the <strong>Budapest Major<\/strong> were scheduled to take place online across Europe, Asia, and the Americas from October 16 to 19. These dates coincided with three major LAN events: <strong>CS Asia Championships<\/strong>, <strong>Thunderpick World Championship<\/strong>, and <strong>MESA Nomadic Masters Fall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>MRQs <\/strong>were launched at the beginning of this year as a new significant qualification event to replace the <strong>RMRs<\/strong>. One major distinction between the <strong>MRQs <\/strong>and their former version is that they could be conducted online, which was true for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blast.tv\/cs\/austin-major-2025\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/blast.tv\/cs\/austin-major-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Austin Major<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impact of this change on the regional allocation of Major slots in the future remains uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the outcomes of the initial two stages of the <strong>Austin Major<\/strong>, Asia was set to receive an additional slot in <strong>Budapest <\/strong>(six slots instead of five) at the cost of the Americas (ten slots instead of eleven), while Europe would keep its 16 slots intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>StarLadder <\/strong>has announced that they will provide more details about how invitations for the <strong>Budapest <\/strong>event will be distributed after the <strong>Austin Major <\/strong>concludes. They also confirmed that the invites for the second Major of 2025 will be released on <strong>October 8<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While waiting for more information and <strong>Austin Major&#8217;s<\/strong> conclusion, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/blast-tv-austin-major-2025-main-stage-overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BLAST.tv Austin Major Main Stage Overview<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keep up with our coverage for more insights on the latest esports news and updates.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has eliminated the Major Regional Qualifiers (MRQs) across all regions before the StarLadder Budapest Major, as announced by the event&#8217;s organizer. The 32 teams that will take part in the Budapest Major will be selected directly from the Valve Regional Standings (VRS), rather than going through a different qualifying process. To stay in tune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":26546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-26545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news","10":"tag-cs2-tournaments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26547,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26545\/revisions\/26547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}