Skyesports Unveils 2025 CS2 Roadmap Featuring $1.75M Prize Pool

A few weeks after the Skyesports Championship 2024, the TO has announced the roadmap for 2025 as well for Counter-Strike 2. The whole season will feature four events, including three Tier 1 and one Tier 2 tournaments, offering a total prize pool worth $1.75 Million.

All of these events will take place in a LAN setting in India and you can check out the schedule below, along with their individual prize pools:

• Skyesports Souvenir 2025 (Tier 2) — February 17 to 23 with $250000 prize pool
• Skyesports Masters 2025 (Tier 2) — May 26 to June 1 with $500000 prize pool
• Skyesports Championship 2025 (Tier 2) — September 15 to 21 with $500000 prize pool
• Skyesports World Tour 2025 (Tier 2) — November 10 to 16 with $500000 prize pool

Open Qualifiers will be held for each event listed above except Skyesports Souvenir 2025 across multiple regions including,  India, Europe, Americas, and the Rest of Asia. 

The Skyesports Souvenir 2025 will feature 12 teams competing across two stages— Online Closed Qualifiers (January 20 to 26) and the Main Event. Four top-ranked teams as per the Global VRS Rankings will be directly seeded into the Main Event, while the other eight teams will compete in the Closed Qualifier for the remaining four slots.

The Closed Qualifier will use a GSL-style format with best-of-three matches, and the Main Event will follow a double-elimination bracket to crown the champions.

Prize Pool Split

• 1st Place — $100000
• 2nd Place — $50000
• 3rd Place — $35000
• 4th Place — $25000
• 5th-6th Place — $12500 each
• 7th-8th Place — $7500 each

On the other hand, Tier 1 events featuring the Open Qualifiers, played online, will put 256 teams in a single-elimination bracket. Matches up to the Round of 16 will be best-of-one, while the Round of 16 onwards will be best-of-three. The winner of each region's Open Qualifier will advance to the Closed Qualifier as the bottom seed.

Sixteen teams (Global VRS Ranks 1 to 16) will be invited to the Tier 1 events, with the top four teams automatically advancing to the Main Event. The remaining 12 teams, joined by 4 from the Open Qualifiers, will compete in the Closed Qualifier.

These 16 teams will be divided into two groups of 8, based on their VRS Rankings, and will play in a double-elimination bracket with best-of-three matches. 

Closed Qualifiers Schedule 

• Skyesports Masters CQ 2025 — April 14 to 20
• Skyesports Championship CQ 2025 — August 11 to 17
• Skyesports World Tour CQ 2025 — October 13 to 19

The four teams from the Closed Qualifier will join the four directly seeded teams in the LAN Main Event, consisting of two stages—the League Stage and the Playoffs. In the League Stage, the eight teams will compete in a single-round robin, best-of-three format.

Prize Pool Split

• 1st Place — $200000
• 2nd Place — $100000
• 3rd-4th Place — $60000 each
• 5th-8th Place — $20000 each

The top four teams will then advance to the Playoffs, which will be a single-elimination bracket. The semifinals will be best-of-three, and the grand finals will be a best-of-five to determine the champions.