Stake Ranked Episode 2 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Ninjas in Pyjamas, runner-up Magic.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- May 27 – May 30 2026
- tier
- 2
- location
- Barcelona, Spain
- teams
- 8
Against the season
26.8
average season-table rank of Ninjas in Pyjamas’s opponents
the 31st hardest path of 40 season events; 5 of 5 series against table clubs
table favourite HEROIC (18th): finished 7–8
+3
Alliance: 7th in the field by the table, finished 5–6
biggest climb of 7 field clubs
−5
HEROIC: 1st in the field by the table, but finished 7–8
biggest drop of 7 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 7 of 8 field clubs, of 50median 30
The thick mark is Ninjas in Pyjamas, 23rd in the table.
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Team names follow the form used across the site: magic → Magic.
Champion
$25,000
first-place prize
8–3
Ninjas in Pyjamas maps in our data, won–lost
series 4–1; 72.7% of maps here, 50.7% over the season
6.5% of Ninjas in Pyjamas’ season prize money: its 4th-largest payout of 19; the biggest: StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2025 ($130,000); the same at 1win Private Club #1
How the pool is split
the pool is allocated by place in full
25.0%
first place
$25,000 of the $100,000 allocated
67.0%
top half of the rows
top 4 rows of 8 · $67,000
×1.4
first place to second
$25,000 against $17,500
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 2 of 69 events; median 36.8%.
The same pool is announced for 9 other events this season, so all 10 share rank 55.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
Facts and records
2
titles this season for Ninjas in Pyjamas; this is the 1st
This was the first of Ninjas in Pyjamas’ 2 titles this season; the other came at 1win Private Club #1. The club went 12 tournaments without a title before its first of the season — the 7th-longest wait among the season’s 59 titles. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks 23rd by share of maps won; from this field only HEROIC ranks higher, and it finished 7th–8th here.
Matches played
14
matches
34
maps
7 of 8
placement-table teams in these matches
42.9%
bo3 to a third map: 6 of 14
more than 25 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
The 10 latest of 14 series are shown.
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The second Stake Ranked was played in Barcelona from May 27 to 30, 2026, with the same $100,000 pool and the same split as every one of the series’ four played episodes: $25,000 for first. Ninjas in Pyjamas won it, and not by the direct route.
The day before the final NiP lost 0–2 to Magic, so they began the last day with an elimination match against FaZe Clan. They won that 2–0 as well, then met Magic again, this time in the final, and came out on top 2–1. The final was Magic’s only defeat of the event.
All four Stake Ranked episodes have had different winners: G2 Esports won episode 1, NiP episode 2, HEROIC episode 3 and Astralis episode 4. Two teams have played three of the four, and each has won once: NiP went fifth-to-sixth, champion, then third; HEROIC went fourth, seventh-to-eighth, then champion. In September, in Belgrade, NiP beat Magic once more on the way to winning 1win Private Club #1.