Stake Ranked Episode 3 — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by HEROIC, runner-up K27.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Jul 15 – Jul 18 2026
tier: 2
location: Barcelona, Spain
teams: 8

Against the season

average season-table rank of HEROIC’s opponents

the 36th hardest path of 40 season events; 2 of 4 series against table clubs

table favourite HEROIC (18th): won the event

1st

HEROIC by the table among 5 field clubs

no one in the field ranked higher

same

prize pool vs Stake Ranked Episode 2

$100,000 → $100,000

3 of 8

clubs also played Stake Ranked Episode 2

up: HEROIC 7–8 → 1; down: Ninjas in Pyjamas 1 → 3

Season-table ranks of 5 of 8 field clubs, of 50median 37

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

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 HEROIC $25,000

2 K27 $17,500

3 Ninjas in Pyjamas $13,500

4 3DMAX $11,000

5-6 Gentle Mates $9,000

5-6 Phantom Esports $9,000

7-8 PaiN Gaming $7,500

7-8 Wildcard $7,500

what this means

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

Champion

HEROIC

$25,000

first-place prize

9–3

HEROIC maps in our data, won–lost

series 4–0; 75.0% of maps here, 52.0% over the season

6.1% of HEROIC’s season prize money: its 5th-largest payout of 21; the biggest: PGL Masters Bucharest 2025 ($62,500); the same at Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 2025

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%.

what this means

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

Calendar

beforeXSE Pro League 2026
afterBLAST Bounty Summer 2026: Closed Qualifier

Facts and records

titles this season for HEROIC; this is the 1st

tournaments without a title before this

3rd-longest of the season’s 59 titles

This was the first of HEROIC’s 2 titles this season; the other came at Stake Pulse Beat II. The club went 19 tournaments without a title before its first of the season — the 3rd-longest wait among the season’s 59 titles. Ninjas in Pyjamas, winner of the previous edition (Stake Ranked Episode 2), missed out on the title this time but stayed in the top four — 3rd.

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

maps

8 of 8

placement-table teams in these matches

38.5%

bo3 to a third map: 5 of 13

more than 12 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 Nuke · 10Ancient · 6Cache · 5Dust II · 4Inferno · 4Mirage · 4Anubis · 1

date teams score maps

Jul 18 Ninjas in Pyjamas K27 1:2 bo3Mirage, Nuke, Cache

Jul 18 HEROIC K27 3:0 bo5Nuke, Mirage, Dust II

Jul 17 Gentle Mates 3DMAX 0:2 bo3Ancient, Cache

Jul 17 Phantom Esports K27 0:2 bo3Nuke, Ancient

Jul 17 3DMAX K27 0:2 bo3Ancient, Cache

Jul 17 HEROIC Ninjas in Pyjamas 2:1 bo3Inferno, Nuke, Mirage

Jul 16 PaiN Gaming 3DMAX 0:2 bo3Cache, Inferno

Jul 16 Wildcard K27 0:2 bo3Mirage, Dust II

Jul 16 Phantom Esports HEROIC 1:2 bo3Ancient, Nuke, Dust II

Jul 16 Gentle Mates Ninjas in Pyjamas 0:2 bo3Ancient, Nuke

The 10 latest of 14 series are shown.

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HEROIC came to Barcelona after 19 events without a title, one of the longest waits of any champion this season, and left without losing a series: four wins, nine maps to three, and a 3–0 final over K27 on July 18 on Nuke, Mirage and Dust II.

K27 had a long last day: before the final it beat Ninjas in Pyjamas, the Episode 2 champion, 2–1 the same day. NiP finished third. HEROIC turned its own Episode 2 result round completely, from seventh to eighth to first.

The pool was split flatly, first place taking a quarter of the $100,000, a winner’s share larger than at only two CS2 events of the season. Nuke was the most played map, ten times in 34.