Intel Extreme Masters Kraków 2026 — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by Team Vitality, runner-up FURIA.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Jan 28 – Feb 8 2026
tier: 1
location: Kraków, Poland
teams: 24

Against the season

3 of 4

favourites in top four

table’s top four: Team Vitality — 1, Team Spirit — 3, Team Falcons — 7–8, FURIA — 2

18.4

average season-table rank of Team Vitality’s opponents

the 20th hardest path of 40 season events; 5 of 5 series against table clubs

table favourite Team Vitality (1st): won the event

+11

3DMAX: 20th in the field by the table, finished 9–12

biggest climb of 23 field clubs

−14

Legacy: 7th in the field by the table, but finished 21–24

biggest drop of 23 field clubs

Season-table ranks of 23 of 24 field clubs, of 50median 15

The thick mark is Team Vitality, 1st in the table.

Record places

4th

of 80 by prize pool, shared by 13

8th

of 59 by winner’s prize, shared by 2

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 Team Vitality $460,000

2 FURIA $216,000

3 Team Spirit $131,000

4 MOUZ $85,000

5-6 Aurora Gaming $61,000

5-6 G2 Esports $61,000

7-8 Astralis $38,000

7-8 Team Falcons $38,000

9-12 3DMAX $23,000

9-12 FaZe Clan $23,000

9-12 FUT Esports $23,000

9-12 Natus Vincere $23,000

13-16 BC.Game Esports $10,000

13-16 NRG $10,000

13-16 PARIVISION $10,000

13-16 The MongolZ $10,000

17-20 GamerLegion $4,500

17-20 Ninjas in Pyjamas $4,500

17-20 PaiN Gaming $4,500

17-20 Team Liquid $4,500

21-24 B8 $2,500

21-24 HEROIC $2,500

21-24 Legacy $2,500

21-24 Passion UA $2,500

what this means

Team names follow the form used across the site: paiN Gaming → PaiN Gaming.

Champion

Team Vitality

$460,000

first-place prize

11–1

Team Vitality maps in our data, won–lost

series 5–0; 91.7% of maps here, 71.7% over the season

11.3% of Team Vitality’s season prize money: its 3rd-largest payout of 22; bigger: BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 ($500,000) and StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 ($500,000)

On the roster at the start: apEX, flameZ, mezii, ropz, XTQZZZ, ZywOo

How the pool is split

the pool is allocated by place in full

36.8%

first place

$460,000 of the $1,250,000 allocated

94.6%

top half of the rows

top 12 rows of 24 · $1,182,000

×2.1

first place to second

$460,000 against $216,000

Against the season: a larger first-place share than 34 of 69 events; median 36.8%.

what this means

The same pool is announced for 12 other events this season, so all 13 share rank 4.

Nearby in the season

neighbours by start date

Calendar

beforeBLAST Bounty Winter 2026
afterPGL Cluj-Napoca 2026

Facts and records

titles this season for Team Vitality; this is the 4th

most this season

of the top 10 in the season table

strongest field of 73 this season, shared by 5

This was Team Vitality’s 4th of 10 titles this season, between StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 and PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026; no club has won more this season. This was the 2nd final between the club and FURIA this season. The final was a turnaround: before it, the club had won only 1 of 3 series against this opponent this season. 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, and the table leader won.

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

122

maps

24 of 24

placement-table teams in these matches

40.8%

bo3 to a third map: 20 of 49

more than 17 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 · 32Mirage · 22Overpass · 18Inferno · 16Nuke · 13Ancient · 12Anubis · 9

date teams score maps

Feb 8 FURIA Team Vitality 1:3 bo5Mirage, Inferno, Nuke, Overpass

Feb 8 Team Spirit MOUZ 2:0 bo3Dust II, Mirage

Feb 7 Team Spirit FURIA 1:2 bo3Mirage, Dust II, Nuke

Feb 7 Team Vitality MOUZ 2:0 bo3Nuke, Dust II

Feb 6 Aurora Gaming FURIA 0:2 bo3Dust II, Mirage

Feb 6 G2 Esports MOUZ 0:2 bo3Overpass, Dust II

Feb 3 G2 Esports Team Spirit 1:2 bo3Anubis, Overpass, Dust II

Feb 3 FURIA Astralis 2:1 bo3Overpass, Mirage, Nuke

Feb 3 MOUZ FaZe Clan 2:0 bo3Mirage, Inferno

Feb 3 3DMAX Team Falcons 0:2 bo3Anubis, Dust II

The 10 latest of 50 series are shown.

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IEM Kraków 2026 had one of the strongest fields of the season, with 8 of the top 10 clubs of our table, and the table leader won it. Team Vitality went 5–0 in series and 11–1 in maps, beating FURIA 3–1 in the final on February 8 on Mirage, Inferno, Nuke and Overpass.

The final turned a trend around: before it Vitality had won only one of its three series against FURIA that season. The $460,000 first prize is its third-largest payout of the season, behind the two Majors of 2025, and the title was the fourth of its ten.

Legacy had the worst event relative to the table, seventh of the field and out in 21st to 24th, while 3DMAX, 20th of the field, climbed to ninth to 12th.