StarLadder names ZOWIE as monitor partner for Budapest Major

StarLadder has partnered with gaming peripherals model ZOWIE for the StarLadder Budapest Main 2025 Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) occasion.

On account of the deal, the model will turn out to be the official monitor accomplice of the Valve-sanctioned CS2 event.

ZOWIE will present its XL2586X+ gaming screens for all three levels of the occasion and the playoffs, providing gamers constant efficiency all through the length of the Main. According to ZOWIE, 88% {of professional} gamers are utilizing its screens in on-line and offline competitions.

Happening from November twenty fourth to December 14th, 2025, the Budapest Main sees the world’s high 32 groups competing for a share of a $1.25m (~£953,937) prize pool and an opportunity to etch their names in Counter-Strike historical past.

The Budapest Main isn’t the primary time ZOWIE and StarLadder have collaborated. The 2 events joined forces in 2019 when the event organiser hosted the Berlin Main.

ZOWIE turns into the second accomplice of the Budapest Main. It joins Esports Charts on its event portfolio after the esports information platform grew to become the official analytics accomplice of the occasion in July 2025.

The peripherals model can also be no stranger to Counter-Strike esports, having supported a number of Tier 1 occasions over the previous decade. Forward of the Main, it joined forces with ESL FACEIT Group because the monitor accomplice of IEM Chengdu 2025, the ultimate Tier 1 event earlier than groups head to Hungary for the Main.

The Budapest Main is shaping as much as be some of the aggressive Counter-Strike occasions in historical past, with a number of groups hitting kind earlier than the ultimate occasion of the yr.

Forward of the occasion, StarLadder has unveiled the first Stage 1 matches starting on November twenty fourth, with the likes of FaZe Clan and Fnatic trying to start the event with a win.

The occasion marks a brand new period for Counter-Strike Majors. The Budapest Main would be the first in historical past to make use of a best-of-five format within the Grand Last to find out the winner.