Blast Austin Major 2025 is the first Major Counter Strike 2 tournament in 2025. The tournament will be held in Austin, Texas from June 3-22, 2025. It will feature 32 teams competing to win the Major Counter Strike 2 title and a total prize pool of $1,250,000. We will summarize the 3 favorite teams to win the Blast Austin Major 2025 tournament.

1. Team Vitality

Who doesn't know Team Vitality? Team Vitality is the team that is the strongest candidate to win the Major tournament this time. The reason is that Team Vitality managed to get the title as the best team in ESL Grand Slam Season 5 and also became one of the teams holding the record for the most winstreaks in the LAN CS2 tournament, which was 30 times. This achievement cannot be separated from the stunning performance of the players, especially the legendary In-game Leader Dan apEX Madesclaire and also another player named Mathieu ZywOo Herbaut who consistently won the top 3 best CS2 players for 3 consecutive years.

2. Team Spirit

The second team that is also favored to win this tournament is the Spirit team. The team that was initially doubted because it consisted of relatively young players with minimal experience in the international arena showed a stable performance and continued to develop until they finally managed to win PGL Astana 2025. One of the players who made a big impact was the Wonderkid Danil Donk Kryshkovets who became the MVP at PGL Astana and was named the best CS2 player in 2024.

3. Team Falcons

The last team we include in this list is the falcons team. The Falcons team has shown good and stable performance for the past few months and has won PGL Bucharest 2025. This achievement cannot be separated from the joining of the Superstar Nikola NiKo Kovač and their new AWPer Ilya m0NESY Osipov who showed extraordinary performance in the previous tournament.

In addition to the 3 teams above, there are still teams that have the potential to be dark horses, including MOUZ, The MongolZ, and Aurora Gaming. These teams showed quite good performance in the previous tournament but were not enough to win the title.

Don't forget also the legendary teams like Natus Vincere, FaZe Clan, and Team Liquid who even though they haven't been able to show good performance for now, but maybe in this tournament they will finally rise and return to the glory they once had.