Stake Pulse Beat II — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by HEROIC, runner-up 100 Thieves.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Sep 21 – Sep 26 2026
tier: 3
location: Stockholm, Sweden
teams: 16

Against the season

3 of 4

favourites in top four

table’s top four: Sangal Esports — 3–4, Fnatic — 5–8, Astralis — 3–4, HEROIC — 1

6.5

average season-table rank of HEROIC’s opponents

the 3rd hardest path of 40 season events; 2 of 5 series against table clubs

table favourite Sangal Esports (5th): finished 3–4

HEROIC: 4th in the field by the table, finished 1

biggest climb of 8 field clubs

same

prize pool vs Stake Pulse Beat I

$60,000 → $60,000

Season-table ranks of 8 of 16 field clubs, of 50median 19.5

The thick mark is HEROIC, 18th in the table.

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 HEROIC $20,000

2 100 Thieves $8,000

3-4 Astralis $6,000

3-4 Sangal Esports $6,000

5-8 BBL Esports $4,000

5-8 Betclic Apogee Esports $4,000

5-8 Fnatic $4,000

5-8 JiJieHao $4,000

9-12 Eternal Fire $1,000

9-12 FOKUS $1,000

9-12 Johnny Speeds $1,000

9-12 Phantom Esports $1,000

13-16 ASTRAL Esports $0

13-16 Esport Academy Copenhagen $0

13-16 Sashi Esport $0

13-16 Virtus.pro $0

what this means

$0 — the place pays nothing: 4 rows of 16.

Champion

HEROIC

$20,000

first-place prize

10–3

HEROIC maps in our data, won–lost

series 5–0; 76.9% of maps here, 52.0% over the season

4.9% of HEROIC’s season prize money: its 8th-largest payout of 21; the biggest: PGL Masters Bucharest 2025 ($62,500)

How the pool is split

the pool is allocated by place in full

33.3%

first place

$20,000 of the $60,000 allocated

93.3%

top half of the rows

top 8 rows of 16 · $56,000

×2.5

first place to second

$20,000 against $8,000

Against the season: a larger first-place share than 29 of 69 events; median 36.8%.

what this means

The same pool is announced for 1 other event this season, so the two share rank 76.

Nearby in the season

neighbours by start date

Calendar

beforeLogitech G Play Connect 2026
after1win Private Club #1

Facts and records

titles this season for HEROIC; this is the 2nd

18th

HEROIC’s rank by share of maps won

of 50 · 3 from this field above

This was HEROIC’s 2nd title of the season; the one before came at Stake Ranked Episode 3. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks only 18th by share of maps won; the clubs in this field above it were Sangal Esports, Fnatic and Astralis, and they finished 3rd–4th, 5th–8th and 3rd–4th here. Betclic Apogee Esports, winner of the previous edition (Stake Pulse Beat I), finished 5th–8th this time.

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

maps

16 of 16

placement-table teams in these matches

44.4%

bo3 to a third map: 12 of 27

more than 30 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 Mirage · 13Cache · 11Ancient · 10Nuke · 10Dust II · 8Inferno · 8Anubis · 6

date teams score maps

Sep 26 Astralis 100 Thieves 1:2 bo3Anubis, Ancient, Inferno

Sep 26 HEROIC Sangal Esports 2:1 bo3Cache, Dust II, Mirage

Sep 26 100 Thieves HEROIC 1:2 bo3Dust II, Ancient, Inferno

Sep 25 Astralis Betclic Apogee Esports 2:1 bo3Nuke, Ancient, Cache

Sep 25 100 Thieves BBL Esports 2:0 bo3Cache, Mirage

Sep 25 HEROIC Fnatic 2:1 bo3Cache, Mirage, Inferno

Sep 25 JiJieHao Sangal Esports 0:2 bo3Cache, Ancient

Sep 24 Betclic Apogee Esports ASTRAL Esports 2:1 bo3Nuke, Ancient, Mirage

Sep 24 JiJieHao Eternal Fire 2:0 bo3Anubis, Mirage

Sep 24 Betclic Apogee Esports JiJieHao 0:2 bo3Mirage, Anubis

The 10 latest of 27 series are shown.

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HEROIC won Stake Pulse Beat II in Stockholm without losing a series, 5–0, but its last three were all decided on a third map: 2–1 over Fnatic on September 25, then 2–1 over Sangal Esports and 2–1 over 100 Thieves in the final on September 26.

By our table it was one of the hardest paths of the season to a title: its opponents averaged 6.5th in the season table, third-hardest of the 40 events we rank. HEROIC itself entered fifth of the field and climbed further than anyone.

The $20,000 first prize was a third of the $60,000 pool; Astralis and Sangal Esports shared third place, and four clubs, Virtus.pro among them, left without prize money.