Staff Spirit tops September CS2 VRS, Staff Vitality drops to second

Staff Spirit has moved to first place within the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) for September 2025, climbing up from second place.

The September VRS might be used to find out which groups obtain invites to approaching Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) tournaments, together with PGL Masters Bucharest 2025.

Staff Spirit topping the VRS comes after it achieved victory at BLAST Bounty Season 2, besting The MongolZ within the Grand Last.

On account of Staff Spirit securing victory and Staff Vitality‘s elimination within the semi-finals, the French esports organisation has dropped to second. Staff Vitality has dropped off the highest spot in CS2’s VRS for the primary time since March 2025.

Elsewhere within the rankings, Aurora Gaming has returned to the highest ten after showing within the finals of the Esports World Cup whereas 3DMAX has jumped from thirteenth to eighth after successful Excellent World Problem Sequence 1.

The MongolZ continues to cement itself among the many high 5 groups in international Counter-Strike, climbing from fourth to 3rd after successful the Esports World Cup in August.

With a number of groups transferring up the rankings, many went the opposite approach. Ardour UA dropped from twentieth to thirty third after elimination from DraculaN Season 1 with out scoring a victory.

The September VRS will resolve the groups competing at PGL Masters Bucharest 2025, happening from October twenty fifth to November 2nd, 2025. 16 groups will head to Romania to compete for a share of its $1.25m (~£933,759) prize pool.

The occasion is likely one of the remaining Tier 1 tournaments to happen earlier than consideration turns in the direction of the StarLadder Budapest Main. Notably, the event happens after the October fifth VRS cut-off for Counter-Strike’s largest occasion.

Beneath is an inventory of the highest 20 groups from the September 2025 VRS, together with the entire actions from August’s standings: