Important Update: MRQ Cancelled for StarLadder Budapest Major

Valve has issued an important update which impacts the entire CS2 competitive ecosystem this season, including the path to StarLadder Budapest Major 2025. The Fall 2025 Major Regional Qualifiers (MRQs) will be officially cancelled, which means that 32 teams will get direct invites to the Budapest Major based on VRS (Valve Regional Standings). The Invite Date remain unchanged: October 8, 2025.

Valve shared a brief explanation on the changes:    

"One of the goals of the VRS is to standardize community events so that they can be integrated with the Majors. At this point we believe that a separate qualification process for the Major is both unnecessary and disruptive. Therefore, we’ve made the decision to cancel the Fall 2025 MRQs. Instead, the 32 teams participating in the Budapest Major will be invited directly from the VRS."

We support this change and believe that every official ranking tournament will be even more important and the tournament schedule will be more consistent.

More information about the next major invite distribution will be released after the end of the Blast.tv Austin Major.