Budapest 2025 Challengers Sticker Capsule

The Budapest 2025 Challengers Sticker Capsule is a tournament capsule with the logos of nine participants from the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025. Inside is a single random sticker, drawn from a list of 36.

What's inside the capsule

The list covers Aurora, Natus Vincere, Team Liquid, 3DMAX, Astralis, TYLOO, MIBR and Passion UA, plus the logo of the organizer, StarLadder. That makes nine logos in all.

A word on looks: Aurora has a turquoise mark, Natus Vincere yellow letters, Astralis a red star and Team Liquid a dark blue horse.

Each logo has four varieties: paper, Embroidered, Holo and Gold. Nine times four gives 36 items.

Exactly one sticker drops. Valve does not reveal how the odds are split between the varieties.

Where the Budapest 2025 Challengers Sticker Capsule came from

The capsule came out for the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 and carries the event's emblem. Challengers is one of the team seeding tiers, not a special mechanic. Each of the remaining tiers received its own capsule.

Valve gave half of the proceeds to the organizers, teams and players. After the Cologne 2026 major, major tournament capsules stopped coming out, and stickers are now sold in a store for tokens. Capsules released earlier remain in circulation.

Opening the capsule

The field mixes teams with vivid, colorful marks, such as Aurora or TYLOO, and monochrome ones, such as MIBR. What a sticker looks like depends on what drops.

Unlike a CS2 case, this capsule needs no weapon key. The capsule alone is enough, and it holds one random sticker.

A sticker goes on a firearm of any type. There are five slots, with free placement and free rotation angle. Knives and gloves have no sticker slots.

Wear is applied by hand and runs in one direction only. The sticker rubs away step by step, and the final step removes it entirely. The weapon's float is untouched by this process.

The capsule comes with no StatTrak, no Souvenir version and no trade-up contract.

What the Budapest 2025 Challengers Sticker Capsule costs

The cost is set by what is inside. Paper and Embroidered stickers are worth little, while Holo and Gold ones are noticeably more. All nine logos share one set of varieties, so by makeup this capsule resembles the Legends capsule.

A pool of 36 items is narrower than the Contenders capsule's, though Valve does not publish the odds. Opening one is still a draw with no guarantees.

A sealed capsule holds up better than a single sticker: the release has stopped, and each opening gradually thins out the sealed copies. You can buy this capsule for the chance at one of nine logos. In CS2, stickers give no gameplay advantage.

Who it suits

• You need the logo of a Challengers team from Budapest 2025.


• You are collecting sealed major capsules.


• You enjoy a draw with a chance at a Holo or Gold mark.


• You want a present inside the game that needs no key.