Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2026 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Team Vitality, runner-up Team Spirit.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- Apr 13 – Apr 19 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- teams
- 16
Against the season
4 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 1, Team Spirit — 2, Team Falcons — 3, FURIA — 4
6.2
average season-table rank of Team Vitality’s opponents
the 2nd hardest path of 40 season events; 5 of 6 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Vitality (1st): won the event
+4
B8: 13th in the field by the table, finished 9–12
biggest climb of 14 field clubs
−6
Legacy: 6th in the field by the table, but finished 13–16
biggest drop of 14 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 14 of 16 field clubs, of 50median 10.5
The thick mark is Team Vitality, 1st in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Champion
$285,000
first-place prize
12–3
Team Vitality maps in our data, won–lost
series 5–1; 80.0% of maps here, 71.7% over the season
7.0% of Team Vitality’s season prize money: its 6th-largest payout of 22; the biggest: BLAST.tv Austin 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
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
- beforePGL Bucharest 2026
- after1win Streamers League #1
Facts and records
This was Team Vitality’s 7th of 10 titles this season and its 4th in a row; the next came at BLAST Rivals Spring 2026; no club has won more this season. The final was another win for the club over Team Spirit: before it, the winner had won all 2 of their series this season. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks first by share of maps won: no one in this field ranked higher.
Matches played
30
matches
70
maps
16 of 16
placement-table teams in these matches
31.0%
bo3 to a third map: 9 of 29
more than 5 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
The 10 latest of 30 series are shown.
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At IEM Rio 2026 our season table held completely: the four best clubs of the field finished first to fourth in exactly that order, Team Vitality, Team Spirit, Team Falcons and FURIA.
Vitality’s only lost series came on April 15, 2–1 to Falcons. From April 17 on it did not drop a map, beating Natus Vincere 2–0, FURIA 2–0 and Spirit 3–0 in the final on April 19, on Mirage, Nuke and Dust II. It was its seventh title of the season and the fourth in a row.
Legacy, sixth of the field by the table, made the biggest drop, out in 13th to 16th. Close series were rare: only 9 of the 29 best-of-three series went to a third map, fewer than at most events this season, and Mirage was played 21 times, more than any other map.