XSE Pro League 2026 — Counter-Strike 2

finished

Won by 9z Team, runner-up PARIVISION.

game: Counter-Strike 2
dates: Jul 1 – Jul 12 2026
tier: 2
location: Guangzhou, China
teams: 16

Against the season

1 of 4

favourites in top four

table’s top four: BetBoom Team — 5–8, PARIVISION — 2, Ninjas in Pyjamas — 12–14, BIG — 5–8

36.4

average season-table rank of 9z Team’s opponents

the 39th hardest path of 40 season events; 8 of 8 series against table clubs

table favourite BetBoom Team (16th): finished 5–8

Alliance: 12th in the field by the table, finished 3–4

biggest climb of 14 field clubs

5th

9z Team by the table among 14 field clubs

4 ranked higher

Season-table ranks of 14 of 16 field clubs, of 50median 35

The thick mark is 9z Team, 30th in the table.

Placements and prize money

places and prize money

1 9z Team $260,000

2 PARIVISION $140,000

3-4 Alliance $90,000

3-4 FaZe Clan $90,000

5-8 BetBoom Team $50,000

5-8 BIG $50,000

5-8 Team Nemesis $50,000

5-8 TYLOO $50,000

9-11 B8 $27,500

9-11 EYEBALLERS $27,500

9-11 MIBR $27,500

12-14 3DMAX $27,500

12-14 Lynn Vision Gaming $27,500

12-14 Ninjas in Pyjamas $27,500

15-16 Luminosity Gaming $27,500

15-16 SINNERS Esports $27,500

Champion

9z Team

$260,000

first-place prize

11–5

9z Team maps in our data, won–lost

series 6–2; 68.8% of maps here, 46.5% over the season

48.8% of 9z Team’s season prize money: its biggest payout of 10

How the pool is split

the pool is allocated by place in full

26.0%

first place

$260,000 of the $1,000,000 allocated

78.0%

top half of the rows

top 8 rows of 16 · $780,000

×1.9

first place to second

$260,000 against $140,000

Against the season: a larger first-place share than 13 of 69 events; median 36.8%.

what this means

The same pool is announced for 13 other events this season, so all 14 share rank 19.

Nearby in the season

neighbours by start date

Calendar

beforeBetBoom Streamers Battle #5
afterStake Ranked Episode 3

Matches played

CS2 match feed

matches

maps

16 of 16

placement-table teams in these matches

57.9%

bo3 to a third map: 11 of 19

more than 55 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 Ancient · 23Inferno · 12Mirage · 12Dust II · 9Nuke · 6Anubis · 5Cache · 5

date teams score maps

Jul 12 9z Team PARIVISION 3:0 bo5Mirage, Inferno, Dust II

Jul 11 9z Team Alliance 2:1 bo3Nuke, Inferno, Ancient

Jul 11 PARIVISION FaZe Clan 2:1 bo3Cache, Dust II, Ancient

Jul 10 PARIVISION BIG 2:1 bo3Cache, Mirage, Ancient

Jul 10 FaZe Clan BetBoom Team 2:0 bo3Cache, Ancient

Jul 9 TYLOO 9z Team 1:2 bo3Nuke, Mirage, Inferno

Jul 9 Team Nemesis Alliance 1:2 bo3Nuke, Inferno, Ancient

Jul 5 MIBR 9z Team 0:2 bo3Nuke, Mirage

Jul 5 B8 BIG 0:2 bo3Inferno, Ancient

Jul 5 EYEBALLERS FaZe Clan 1:2 bo3Ancient, Mirage, Cache

The 10 latest of 40 series are shown.

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9z Team won XSE Pro League 2026 in Guangzhou on one of the easiest paths of the CS2 season by our table, and played far above its usual level: 11 maps of 16 won here against 47% over the season. It beat Alliance 2–1 in the semi-final and PARIVISION 3–0 in the final on July 12, on Mirage, Inferno and Dust II.

The field was open: BetBoom Team, the strongest club in it by our table, went out in fifth to eighth, while Alliance, 11th of the field, reached the semi-finals.

Series were close, 11 of 19 best-of-threes going to a third map, more than at most events of the season, and Ancient was played 23 times in 72 maps. Everyone from ninth place down received the same $27,500.