Stake Ranked Episode 4 — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by Astralis, runner-up Nemiga Gaming.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Oct 1 – Oct 4 2026
tier: 2
location: Barcelona, Spain
teams: 8

Against the season

average season-table rank of Astralis’s opponents

the 32nd hardest path of 40 season events; 4 of 6 series against table clubs

table favourite Fnatic (8th): finished 4

Alliance: 6th in the field by the table, finished 5–6

biggest climb of 6 field clubs

same

prize pool vs Stake Ranked Episode 3

$100,000 → $100,000

46.2%

bo3 to a third map: 6 of 13

more than 33 of 61 season events; median 44.4%

Season-table ranks of 6 of 8 field clubs, of 50median 31

The thick mark is Astralis, 14th in the table.

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 Astralis $25,000

2 Nemiga Gaming $17,500

3 Luminosity Gaming $13,500

4 Fnatic $11,000

5-6 Alliance $9,000

5-6 BIG $9,000

7-8 B8 $7,500

7-8 FaZe Clan $7,500

Champion

Astralis

$25,000

first-place prize

12–6

Astralis maps in our data, won–lost

series 5–1; 66.7% of maps here, 53.8% over the season

2.3% of Astralis’ season prize money: its 14th-largest payout of 22; the biggest: FISSURE Playground #1 ($220,000)

On the roster at the start: HooXi, jabbi, NEO, phzy, ryu, Staehr

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

before1win Private Club #1
afterESL Pro League Season 24

Facts and records

tournaments without a title before this

longest of the season’s 59 titles

14th

Astralis’ rank by share of maps won

of 50 · 1 from this field above

It is Astralis’ only title of the season, after 23 tournaments without one — no champion this season waited longer, and 1 waited as long. In our season table of 50 clubs with at least 40 maps in our data, it ranks only 14th by share of maps won; the one club in this field above it was Fnatic (8th), and it finished 4th here. The next edition, Stake Ranked Episode 5, starts on Oct 27, 2026: Astralis will defend the title, and BIG and Fnatic from this field are entered too.

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

maps

8 of 8

placement-table teams in these matches

maps of this tournament — the number beside each map is how many times it was played at this tournament Cache · 10Mirage · 8Ancient · 6Inferno · 6Nuke · 4Dust II · 2

date teams score maps

Oct 4 Luminosity Gaming Astralis 1:2 bo3Mirage, Cache, Nuke

Oct 4 Nemiga Gaming Astralis 1:3 bo5Mirage, Ancient, Nuke, Cache

Oct 3 BIG Astralis 1:2 bo3Cache, Inferno, Mirage

Oct 3 Alliance Fnatic 0:2 bo3Cache, Inferno

Oct 3 Astralis Fnatic 2:0 bo3Dust II, Ancient

Oct 3 Nemiga Gaming Luminosity Gaming 2:0 bo3Cache, Dust II

Oct 2 FaZe Clan Astralis 1:2 bo3Ancient, Nuke, Cache

Oct 2 Fnatic B8 2:0 bo3Cache, Mirage

Oct 2 Nemiga Gaming Alliance 2:0 bo3Cache, Ancient

Oct 2 BIG Luminosity Gaming 1:2 bo3Inferno, Cache, Mirage

The 10 latest of 14 series are shown.

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Astralis won Stake Ranked Episode 4 in Barcelona after losing its opening series, 2–1 to Alliance on October 1. It then won five in a row, ending with a 3–1 over Nemiga Gaming in the final on October 4, on Mirage, Ancient, Nuke and Cache.

It was Astralis’ only title of the season and ended a run of 23 tournaments without one, the longest wait of any champion this season, shared with one other club. Five days later the club moved HooXi and jabbi, both in this lineup, to its inactive list.

The favourite by our table, Fnatic, eighth of 50, finished fourth. The flat prize split gave the winner only $25,000, a quarter of the pool and 2.3% of Astralis’ season earnings.