Esports World Cup 2026 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Team Spirit, runner-up FUT Esports.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- Aug 12 – Aug 23 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Paris, France
- teams
- 32
Against the season
2 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 5–8, Team Spirit — 1, Team Falcons — 5–8, FURIA — 4
17.7
average season-table rank of Team Spirit’s opponents
the 18th hardest path of 40 season events; 6 of 7 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Vitality (1st): finished 5–8
+14
B8: 23rd in the field by the table, finished 9–16
biggest climb of 28 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 28 of 32 field clubs, of 50median 20.5
The thick mark is Team Spirit, 2nd in the table.
Record places
of 80 by prize pool, shared by 2
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Team names follow the form used across the site: magic → Magic, paiN Gaming → PaiN Gaming.
Champion
13–4
Team Spirit maps in our data, won–lost
series 6–1; 76.5% of maps here, 65.1% over the season
19.9% of Team Spirit’s season prize money: its biggest payout of 20
On the roster at the start: donk, hally, magixx, sh1ro, tN1R, zont1x
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
30.0%
first place
$600,000 of the $2,000,000 allocated
88.0%
top half of the rows
top 16 rows of 32 · $1,760,000
×1.8
first place to second
$600,000 against $340,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 21 of 69 events; median 36.8%.
The same pool is announced for 1 other event this season, so the two share rank 1.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
Facts and records
5
titles this season for Team Spirit; this is the 4th
This was Team Spirit’s 4th of 5 titles this season, between PGL Astana 2026 and BLAST Open Fall 2026; only Team Vitality has more (10). The field had 8 of the top 10 clubs of our season table by share of maps won, as many as any tournament this season; the club ranks 2nd among them, behind Team Vitality; it finished 5th–8th here. The leader of our season table, Team Vitality (71.7%), lost a series here to B8, ranked 39th at 44.3%, which went on to finish 9th–16th.
Matches played
56
matches
115
maps
32 of 32
placement-table teams in these matches
43.6%
bo3 to a third map: 17 of 39
more than 29 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
The 10 latest of 56 series are shown.
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Team Spirit’s only defeat in Paris came on the first day, a single map lost to JiJieHao on Mirage. After that it won six series in a row, among them Team Vitality, the leader of our season table, 2–1 in the quarter-final, Legacy 2–0, and FUT Esports 3–1 in the final on August 23 after dropping the opening map, Cache.
FUT reached that final by beating MOUZ twice and FURIA 2–1 in the semi-final. The field was the strongest of the CS2 season, with 8 of the top 10 clubs of our table, and still Vitality had already lost a series to B8, 39th in the table, before Spirit knocked it out.
The pool grew by 60% from the 2025 edition to $2,000,000, the joint largest of the season, and the $600,000 first prize is Spirit’s biggest payout of the year, about a fifth of everything it earned.