Souvenir skins and packages: where Major skins come from

Where a Souvenir comes from

Souvenir packages used to drop at random to people watching the matches. Since the StarLadder Berlin 2019 Major, you get them with Souvenir tokens sold in the in-game store. A package opens without a key and gives a Souvenir weapon with one or more tournament stickers.

What changed from 2025

At the Budapest 2025 Major, pass holders could earn or buy tokens and redeem them for a Souvenir from the match of their choice.

For IEM Cologne 2026, Valve added another route: you pick a weapon from your inventory, a completed match and a player, and it comes back in Souvenir quality with the team’s gold stickers, the player’s autograph and the map. Any stickers it already had are removed.

Reading a Souvenir price

The table below puts the Souvenir and the normal copy side by side, wear by wear. When only one marketplace lists a Souvenir, its price can sit far from the market, so check how many marketplaces are behind each price.

Sources

• Counter-Strike Wiki — Souvenir
• Counter-Strike Wiki — Container
• Counter-Strike 2 — The Starladder Budapest Major 2025 (12/11/2025)
• Counter-Strike 2 — IEM Cologne 2026 (22/05/2026)
• Counter-Strike 2 — release notes (16/03/2026)