StarLadder StarSeries Fall 2026 — Counter-Strike 2
finishedWon by Team Vitality, runner-up Aurora Gaming.
- game
Counter-Strike 2- dates
- Sep 17 – Sep 20 2026
- tier
- 1
- location
- Barcelona, Spain
- teams
- 8
Against the season
2 of 4
favourites in top four
table’s top four: Team Vitality — 1, FURIA — 3, MOUZ — 5–6, Natus Vincere — 7–8
10.8
average season-table rank of Team Vitality’s opponents
the 7th hardest path of 40 season events; 5 of 5 series against table clubs
table favourite Team Vitality (1st): won the event
+3
Aurora Gaming: 5th in the field by the table, finished 2
biggest climb of 8 field clubs
Season-table ranks of 8 of 8 field clubs, of 50median 10.5
The thick mark is Team Vitality, 1st in the table.
Record places
of 53 by winner’s share of the pool, shared by 10
Placements and prize money
places and prize money
Team names follow the form used across the site: magic → Magic.
Champion
$200,000
first-place prize
10–3
Team Vitality maps in our data, won–lost
series 4–1; 76.9% of maps here, 71.7% over the season
4.9% of Team Vitality’s season prize money: its 9th-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
40.0%
first place
$200,000 of the $500,000 allocated
88.0%
top half of the rows
top 4 rows of 8 · $440,000
×1.5
first place to second
$200,000 against $130,000
Against the season: a larger first-place share than 39 of 69 events; median 36.8%.
The same pool is announced for 2 other events this season, so all 3 share rank 37.
Nearby in the season
neighbours by start date
Facts and records
This was Team Vitality’s 9th of 10 titles this season, between BLAST Rivals Spring 2026 and ESL Pro League Season 24; no club has won more this season. Before the final, the club and Aurora Gaming had met 4 times this season, including earlier at this event, with the winner ahead 3–1. The biggest upset by our season table: NRG (50th, 31.8%) beat MOUZ (6th, 58.5%), a gap of 26.7 points. The winner of that series finished 5th–6th at the event.
Matches played
14
matches
36
maps
8 of 8
placement-table teams in these matches
46.2%
bo3 to a third map: 6 of 13
more than 33 of 61 season events; median 44.4%
The 10 latest of 14 series are shown.
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Team Vitality won StarSeries Fall 2026 in Barcelona, though not cleanly. It lost 2–1 to Aurora Gaming on September 19 on Anubis, Inferno and Nuke, then on September 20 beat FURIA for the second time at the event and met Aurora again in the best-of-five final, winning it 3–1.
That made it 3–1 between the two clubs this season before the final and 4–1 after it. The title was Vitality’s ninth of the season, and at $200,000 one of its smaller ones, less than 5% of what the club earned over the year.
The biggest upset came on the first day: NRG, last of the 50 clubs in our table, beat MOUZ, sixth, 2–1 on September 17, and then went on to finish fifth to sixth. Six of the 13 best-of-three series went to a third map, and Mirage was played most, nine times in 36.