Counter-Strike
Video game series by Valve
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 2025 | Mira officially departed from Team Spirit after signing with Aurora Gaming. |
| 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 | Team Spirit finished 4th at the M6 World Championship, losing to Selangor Red Giants in the lower bracket semifinals. |
| 2024 | Team Spirit defeated Xtreme Gaming 3–2 in the final of PGL Wallachia Season 1, demonstrating a strong performance after earlier inconsistent results. |
| 2024 | Team Spirit received a direct invite to The International 2024, but were unable to defend their previous title, ultimately placing 9th–12th at the event. |
| 2024 | Dominated RLCS scene, making all 6 regional finals and winning 4 of them. |
| 2024 | Reached their 3rd World Championship final, losing 4-2 to BDS. |
| 2024 | G2 completed the first LEC Grand Slam in the new LEC format by winning both Spring and Summer events. |
| 2024 | Won their first LAN title in 2 years at the London major by beating Team Falcons. |
| 2024 | OpTic Texas wins Major 3 and the Call of Duty Championship in the Modern Warfare III competitive season, demonstrating ongoing competitive excellence. |
| 2024 |
Counter-Strike in esports
Valve unveiled detailed specifications of the new tournament system, introducing a tiered structure that categorizes non-Major tournaments into Tier 1, Tier 2, Wildcard, and Unranked tournaments.
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| 2024 | Team Falcons finishes as second runners-up in MPL Philippines Season 14, failing to qualify for the M6 tournament. |
| 2024 | Team Falcons' Apex Legends roster won the North American Pro League during ALGS Year 4 Split 2's Pro League competitive campaign. |
| 2024 | Team Falcons qualified for the Six Invitational 2024 but were eliminated by Team Liquid in the tournament. |
| 2024 | Continued expansion of Team Falcons across multiple esports, with ongoing efforts to recruit top-tier players and coaches. |
| 2024 | Roster changes occurred after the Playoffs LAN tournament, with Genburten departing the team and being replaced by Wxltzy. Draugr was simultaneously signed as the team's head coach. |
| 2024 | Draugr was signed as the team's head coach. |
| 2024 | Team Falcons won the silver medal at the 2024 Esports World Cup. |
| 2024 |
Counter-Strike Major Championships
Natus Vincere wins Major Championship in Copenhagen, with player b1t again part of the winning team.
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| 2024 | FaZe Clan was nominated for Best Marathon Stream at The Streamer Awards |
| 2024 | FaZe Clan won Best Content Organization at The Streamer Awards |
| 2024 | After placing 9th in Stage 2 and failing to qualify for international tournaments, Evil Geniuses parted ways with jawgemo and Apoth. |
| December 2024 | FaZe wins Best Content Organization at The Streamer Awards. |
| December 20 2024 | NRG announced the acquisition of Beastmode, Daniel, and Atomic from G2 Esports, with Satthew as coach. |
| December 15 2024 |
Counter-Strike Major Championships
Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 tournament held in Shanghai, with Team Spirit winning and FaZe Clan as runners-up
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| December 11 2024 | Crashies is announced as Leo's temporary replacement while he fights an unknown illness. |
| December 5 2024 | M80 bought beastcoast, resulting in the release of the Cloud9 Beastcoast roster just before the Six Invitational (SI), with the team subsequently playing as 'Unwanted' and finishing fourth. |
| November 2024 | NRG announced that retired player GarrettG will continue with the organization as a Co-Owner and Content Creator. |
| November 7 2024 | Released entire Rocket League roster after 8 years in the North American Rocket League scene. |
| October 2024 | NRG announced a multi-year partnership with Spectrum, extending naming rights for the NRG Spectrum Castle in Los Angeles and including jersey branding and an event series. |
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