The Year of the Bees
CS2 update · Community Announcements ·
Valve published "The Year of the Bees" on 18 December 2025 in Community Announcements. The PatinaAI market index's median read 57.14 points in the seven days after against 57.12 before, +0.0 %. A typical week moves under 0.1 % either way on the same measure. A read is a comparison with a date, not a cause.
What this update did to prices
No measured move: the venues' daily prices don't cover the days around this post.
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The PatinaAI market index's median over the seven days after the post was 57.14 points against 57.12 over the seven days before: +0.0 %. A typical week moves under 0.1 % either way on the same measure, the drift this read has to beat. The post's own day is left out. A comparison with a date, not causation.
The item types and weapons the post names, in the order it names them. A word match, not a reading of the post.
The StarLadder Budapest Major capped off an incredible 2025 for Team Vitality, who won their second consecutive Major Championship and the organization's third overall.
Coming into the Grand Finals against FaZe Clan, Team Vitality had not lost a map in the Playoffs, defeating The MongolZ and Team Spirit 2-0.
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After losing the opening map, Team Vitality won the next three on Dust II, Inferno, and Overpass to take the series 3-1 in Counter-Strike's first ever best of five Grand Finals.
Today we are releasing the Budapest Champions Autograph Capsule, featuring Paper, Embroidered, Holo, and Gold stickers autographed by one of the players from Team Vitality.
Congratulations again to Team Vitality, champions of the StarLadder Budapest Major and both Major Championships in 2025!
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The read compares the market index's median over the seven UTC days after the post with the seven days before it, the post's own day left out, and needs at least three published days on each side. The same measure taken on every day of the series is the drift a typical week shows; a read inside that drift is the market doing what it was doing. Neither is proof the post moved anything. The composite is on the market report, every basket under the indexes, and every update is on one list.