Intel Extreme Masters Atlanta 2026 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Natus Vincere, runner-up GamerLegion.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- May 11 – May 17 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Atlanta, United States
- teams
- 16
Against the season
2 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 5–6, FUT Esports — 9–12, Legacy — 3, Natus Vincere — 1
15.6
average season-table rank of Natus Vincere’s opponents
the 15th hardest path of 40 season events; 5 of 6 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Vitality (1st): finished 5–6
+8
PaiN Gaming: 13th in the field by the table, finished 5–6
biggest climb of 15 field clubs
−7
FUT Esports: 2nd in the field by the table, but finished 9–12
biggest drop of 15 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 15 of 16 field clubs, of 50median 28
The thick mark is Natus Vincere, 10th in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Team names follow the form used across the site: paiN Gaming → PaiN Gaming.
Champion
$285,000
first-place prize
12–4
Natus Vincere maps in our data, won–lost
series 5–1; 75.0% of maps here, 55.2% over the season
17.1% of Natus Vincere’s season prize money: its biggest payout of 22
On the roster at the start: Aleksib, B1ad3, b1t, iM, makazze, w0nderful
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
28.5%
first place
$285,000 of the $1,000,000 allocated
88.4%
top half of the rows
top 8 rows of 16 · $884,000
×1.9
first place to second
$285,000 against $150,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 14 of 69 events; median 36.8%.
The same pool is announced for 13 other events this season, so all 14 share rank 19.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
Facts and records
3
titles this season for Natus Vincere; this is the 3rd
This was Natus Vincere’s 3rd title of the season; the one before came at ESL Pro League Season 23. The final was another win for the club over GamerLegion: before it, the winner had won all 2 of their series this season, including earlier at this event. The leader of our season table, Team Vitality (71.7%), lost a series here to BetBoom Team, ranked 16th at 52.6%, which went on to finish 4th.
Matches played
30
matches
73
maps
16 of 16
placement-table teams in these matches
41.4%
bo3 to a third map: 12 of 29
more than 19 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
The 10 latest of 30 series are shown.
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Natus Vincere won Atlanta through the club at the top of our season table: a 2–1 quarterfinal over Team Vitality on May 15, then 2–0 over BetBoom Team and a 3–0 final over GamerLegion on May 17, on Mirage, Anubis and Nuke. The $285,000 for first place is the largest single payout of NaVi’s season.
Vitality, the season leader, lost two series in Atlanta. BetBoom Team, 17th in our table, beat it 2–1 on May 12, and NaVi knocked it out three days later, leaving it fifth to sixth.
GamerLegion reached the final through two three-map series, against PaiN Gaming and Legacy, but met NaVi twice at the event and lost both times. Legacy took third place and $120,000 by beating BetBoom 2–0 on the final day.