All 14 of the highest-ranked Counter-Strike 2 teams in October's invitational ranking have accepted invitations to PGL Bucharest 2027, PGL's first event of next season, HLTV reported.
The tournament runs from January 17 to 24 in PGL's studio and carries a $1 million prize pool, with a further $400,000 in VRS bonuses. The last two teams attending the Romanian LAN will come from an eight-team closed qualifier scheduled for October 16 to 20.
The dates place Bucharest alongside BLAST Bounty, the season's opening tournament, which takes place in Malta over two weeks from January 11 to 24. The second week of Bounty overlaps with the PGL event, and HLTV wrote that the strength of the Bucharest field shows top teams prioritized it over Bounty. BLAST will announce its Bounty invites next month, as that event uses November's invitational ranking. In March, BLAST removed Bounty's online portion and cut its field from 32 teams to 16 for 2027.
