ESL Pro League Season 23 — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by Natus Vincere, runner-up Aurora Gaming.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Mar 13 – Mar 15 2026
tier: 1
location: Stockholm, Sweden
teams: 8

Against the season

1 of 4

favourites in top four

table’s top four: Team Spirit — 5–8, MOUZ — 5–8, FUT Esports — 4, Legacy — 5–8

average season-table rank of Natus Vincere’s opponents

the 8th hardest path of 40 season events; 3 of 3 series against table clubs

table favourite Team Spirit (2nd): finished 5–8

Natus Vincere: 5th in the field by the table, finished 1

biggest climb of 8 field clubs

−22.4%

prize pool vs ESL Pro League Season 22

$1,000,000 → $776,000

Season-table ranks of 8 of 8 field clubs, of 50median 9.5

The thick mark is Natus Vincere, 10th in the table.

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 Natus Vincere $100,000

2 Aurora Gaming $55,000

3 Astralis $37,500

4 FUT Esports $22,500

5-8 Legacy $15,000

5-8 MOUZ $15,000

5-8 Team Spirit $15,000

5-8 The MongolZ $15,000

Champion

Natus Vincere

$100,000

first-place prize

7–2

Natus Vincere maps in our data, won–lost

series 3–0; 77.8% of maps here, 55.2% over the season

6.0% of Natus Vincere’s season prize money: its 7th-largest payout of 22; the biggest: Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta 2026 ($285,000)

On the roster at the start: Aleksib, B1ad3, b1t, iM, makazze, w0nderful

How the pool is split

$275,000 paid out by place, −$501,000 under the announced pool

36.4%

first place

$100,000 of the $275,000 allocated

78.2%

top half of the rows

top 4 rows of 8 · $215,000

×1.8

first place to second

$100,000 against $55,000

Against the season: a larger first-place share than 33 of 69 events; median 36.8%.

what this means

Shares are taken from the sum by place, $275,000, not from the announced $776,000 pool: part of the pool is not allocated by place.

Nearby in the season

neighbours by start date

Calendar

beforeESL Pro League Season 23: Online Stage
afterBLAST Open Spring 2026

Facts and records

titles this season for Natus Vincere; this is the 2nd

This was Natus Vincere’s 2nd of 3 titles this season, between StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2025 and Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta 2026. The final was another win for the club over Aurora Gaming: before it, the winner had won all 2 of their series this season. The club went 8 tournaments without a title between its previous title and this one — the 8th-longest wait among the season’s 59 titles.

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

maps

8 of 8

placement-table teams in these matches

71.4%

bo3 to a third map: 5 of 7

more than 59 of 61 season events; median 44.4%

maps of this tournament — the number beside each map is how many times it was played at this tournament Dust II · 7Ancient · 4Mirage · 4Overpass · 3Inferno · 2Nuke · 2Anubis · 1

date teams score maps

Mar 15 Aurora Gaming Natus Vincere 1:3 bo5Mirage, Anubis, Nuke, Dust II

Mar 15 Astralis FUT Esports 2:1 bo3Dust II, Ancient, Overpass

Mar 14 Astralis Aurora Gaming 1:2 bo3Nuke, Dust II, Inferno

Mar 14 Natus Vincere FUT Esports 2:1 bo3Mirage, Ancient, Dust II

Mar 13 Team Spirit Astralis 0:2 bo3Dust II, Ancient

Mar 13 Legacy Aurora Gaming 1:2 bo3Dust II, Overpass, Inferno

Mar 13 The MongolZ Natus Vincere 0:2 bo3Ancient, Mirage

Mar 13 FUT Esports MOUZ 2:1 bo3Dust II, Overpass, Mirage

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Natus Vincere won the Stockholm playoffs of ESL Pro League Season 23 in three matches over three days: a 2–0 against The MongolZ, a 2–1 against FUT Esports and a 3–1 against Aurora Gaming in the final. It was the second of NaVi’s three titles this season, after StarSeries Fall 2025 and before IEM Atlanta.

The surprise of the first day came early, when Astralis swept Team Spirit 2–0. Astralis then lost to Aurora in the semifinal and finished third. The $100,000 first prize is only a small part of the $776,000 pool.