FURIA won PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 on Saturday 31 October, beating Nemiga Gaming 3-2 in the best-of-five grand final and taking $450,000 across PGL's prize money and club reward. It was their second straight title after the Thunderpick World Championship on 18 October. MOUZ finished third at the 16-team event, which ran 24-31 October at PGL Studio in Bucharest and was the last S-Tier tournament to finish before the Valve Regional Standings snapshot that sets the PGL Major Singapore field.
Grand final: FURIA 3-2 Nemiga Gaming
- Ancient — Nemiga 13-2
- Dust II — FURIA 13-5
- Cache — FURIA 13-2
- Mirage — Nemiga 13-11
- Nuke — FURIA 13-6
Nemiga led Ancient 10-2 at half-time, and that map was their ninth straight map win since Round 4 before FURIA ended the run on Dust II. Mirage was the closest of the five: Nemiga led 9-3 at the break, FURIA levelled at 10-10, and Nemiga took three of the last four rounds to force a decider. On Nuke, FURIA led 7-5 at half-time and took six of the next seven rounds.
HLTV named YEKINDAR its event MVP, the first of his career. Bucharest was also the first of four events FURIA have billed as FalleN's final tour before he retires at the end of 2026, Pley.gg reported; the tour also lists IEM Beijing, BLAST Rivals in Hong Kong and the PGL Major Singapore.
Third place: MOUZ 2-0 Team Vitality
MOUZ won Nuke 13-7 and Inferno 13-7 earlier on Saturday. The match repeated the ESL Pro League Season 24 final, which Vitality won 3-0 on 11 October. Vitality played Bucharest without apEX, with jL standing in; Liquipedia gives the birth of apEX's child as the reason.
Final standings and prize money
PGL's event page splits the $1,250,000 pool into two equal halves of $625,000, labelled Prize Money and Club Reward. Totals across both halves, by our addition:
- 1st — FURIA, $450,000 ($225,000 from each half)
- 2nd — Nemiga Gaming, $200,000
- 3rd — MOUZ, $137,500
- 4th — Team Vitality, $87,500
- 5th-8th — FUT Esports, Natus Vincere, Aurora Gaming, BetBoom Team, $50,000 each
- 9th-11th — Team Spirit, Team Liquid, The MongolZ, $31,250 each
- 12th-14th — DENDELE CS, Legacy, TYLOO, $18,750 each
- 15th-16th — G2 Esports, 9z Team, $12,500 each
Playoff results
Semi-finals (Friday 30 October)
- Nemiga Gaming 2-0 Team Vitality — Cache 13-8, Dust II 13-11
- FURIA 2-1 MOUZ — Dust II 13-6, Mirage 9-13, Cache 13-9
Quarter-finals (Thursday 29 October)
- Nemiga Gaming 2-0 FUT Esports — Nuke 13-11, Dust II 13-9
- Team Vitality 2-1 Natus Vincere — Cache 5-13, Mirage 13-9, Dust II 13-6
- MOUZ 2-0 Aurora Gaming — Mirage 13-6, Cache 13-2
- FURIA 2-0 BetBoom Team — Dust II 16-12, Cache 13-7
Swiss results by round
Both finalists were 1-2 after Round 3 and needed all five Swiss rounds to qualify. Nemiga entered through a qualifier rather than a direct invite, and Hotspawn and TalkEsport both described the grand final as the team's first Tier 1 final.
Round 5 (28 October): Nemiga Gaming 2-0 The MongolZ, FURIA 2-0 Team Liquid, Natus Vincere 2-1 Team Spirit.
Round 4 (27 October): Aurora Gaming 2-1 Team Liquid, MOUZ 2-1 Team Spirit, Team Vitality 2-0 Natus Vincere, Nemiga Gaming 2-0 DENDELE CS, The MongolZ 2-0 Legacy, FURIA 2-0 TYLOO.
Round 3 (26 October): FUT Esports 2-1 Team Vitality, BetBoom Team 2-0 Natus Vincere, MOUZ 2-0 The MongolZ, Aurora Gaming 2-0 Nemiga Gaming, Team Spirit 2-1 FURIA, Team Liquid 2-0 Legacy, TYLOO 2-1 9z Team, DENDELE CS 2-1 G2 Esports.
Round 2 (25 October): FUT Esports 2-0 Team Liquid, Team Vitality 2-0 The MongolZ, BetBoom Team 2-0 Nemiga Gaming, Natus Vincere 2-0 FURIA, Team Spirit 2-0 TYLOO, Aurora Gaming 2-0 G2 Esports, MOUZ 2-0 9z Team, Legacy 2-0 DENDELE CS.
Round 1 (24 October): FUT Esports 2-0 TYLOO, The MongolZ 2-1 Aurora Gaming, BetBoom Team 2-1 Team Spirit, Team Liquid 2-1 MOUZ, Nemiga Gaming 2-0 Legacy, Team Vitality 2-0 9z Team, Natus Vincere 2-0 G2 Esports, FURIA 2-0 DENDELE CS.
When the Major field is set
All 32 invitations to the PGL Major Singapore 2026 come from one Valve Regional Standings snapshot, listed by Liquipedia for Monday 2 November. On 1 November the newest file in Valve's public standings repository was still dated 5 October, so any post-Bucharest table in circulation at that point was a projection, not Valve's list. IEM Beijing, the next S-Tier event after Bucharest, runs 2-8 November and so starts on snapshot day. The rest of the calendar is in our remaining CS2 tournaments guide.
FAQ
Who won PGL Masters Bucharest 2026? FURIA, beating Nemiga Gaming 3-2 in the grand final on 31 October.
What was the PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 grand final score? FURIA 3-2 Nemiga Gaming: Ancient 2-13, Dust II 13-5, Cache 13-2, Mirage 11-13, Nuke 13-6.
How much did FURIA win at PGL Masters Bucharest? $450,000 by our addition of PGL's two lines: $225,000 of prize money and a $225,000 club reward. Nemiga's two lines total $200,000.
Who was the PGL Masters Bucharest 2026 MVP? HLTV named FURIA's YEKINDAR its event MVP, the first of his career.
Who finished third at PGL Masters Bucharest 2026? MOUZ, beating Team Vitality 2-0 on Nuke and Inferno.
Sources: PGL's event page and playoff API for series results, map scores and the prize breakdown; Liquipedia (PGL/2026/Masters, PGL/2026/Singapore, Intel Extreme Masters/2026/Beijing, S-Tier Tournaments) for half scores, Swiss results, the Vitality stand-in, the Major snapshot date, IEM Beijing's dates and the S-Tier calendar; HLTV for the grand final scoreline, the back-to-back titles and the MVP; RG.org for the Mirage and Nuke round runs; Hotspawn and TalkEsport for the first-final description; Pley.gg for FalleN's final tour; Valve's counter-strike_regional_standings repository for the latest published file. Retrieved 1 November 2026.
