Richard Lewis hints at RMR’s removal

On his Twitch stream yesterday, Richard Lewis claimed that the RMR system could soon be disbarred amidst various massive changes that are set to take effect in the upcoming 2025 circuit.

With ESL and BLAST’s partner leagues coming to an end and PGL and StarLadder returning to Counter-Strike with a handful of events in 2025, Richard Lewis mentioned that based on what he had heard, these tournaments could serve as the road to the Majors.

Partner leagues are dead in 2025 and suddenly we have a major esports tournament every week. StarLadder are back, PGL are back, BLAST, ESL, all the partner leagues are dead. From what I'm hearing, RMRs might be gone.

The RMRs were first introduced by Valve in 2020 as a series a tournaments that would lead teams to the Major but after Stockholm 2021, Valve pulled back on the concept and reverted to smaller and more direct tournaments serving as qualifiers.

In the clip, Richard Lewis does not go into detail regarding the future of Major qualifiers but hinted at a “Ranking points” system based on these other tournaments. He went on to state that the first Major of 2025 might still feature an RMR circuit.

Nearly 23 S-tier Counter-Strike tournaments are set to run in 2025 as of now and going off of what Richard Lewis has mentioned, these events could serve as a direct path to the Major.

Source: RichardLewisReports, Twitch