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Use the directory's status filter to switch between ongoing, upcoming and completed events. Tournament schedules can move after publication, so the event page and its match list are the source of truth for the latest tracked dates and start times.
Finding the next CS Major
The CS2 Major Championships page collects Major format, qualification and historical context. Confirmed Major fixtures also appear in this directory and on the match schedule as soon as they enter the tracked feed.
Majors are the only CS2 events Valve sponsors directly, which is why they anchor the season around them. Format, qualification routes and past winners live on the CS2 Major Championships page. This page tracks when the next one starts.
Finding tier-1 events on the calendar
Select S-tier or A-tier to cut the regional and qualifier layer from the directory, then choose Upcoming for the future-facing feed. Start times for individual maps sit on today's CS2 matches.
How the CS2 tournament calendar is structured
BO5 is tracking 209 CS2 events across 4,390 matches and 385 teams. That number surprises people, and the reason is that most of it is not the professional circuit you see on stream. Qualifiers, regional leagues and online cups make up the bulk of any given week, and tier is how you tell them apart.
What S-tier, A-tier and B-tier mean
Tier is a rough measure of who is in the field and what is at stake. It is also the fastest filter on this page.
| Tier | What it is | Who gets in | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| S-tier | The top of the circuit. Majors, IEM and BLAST flagships, and the Esports World Cup. Almost always LAN, usually with a crowd. | The best teams in the world, invited on Valve Regional Standings, plus a handful of qualifier winners. | Majors, IEM Katowice, IEM Cologne, BLAST finals, Esports World Cup |
| A-tier | Strong international events one rung below the flagships. A mix of LAN finals and online group stages. | Established tier-1 and tier-2 rosters, with more qualifier places than an S-tier event. | ESL Pro League, StarLadder and PGL season events, FISSURE playoffs |
| B-tier and below | Regional leagues, online cups and the qualifier layer that feeds everything above. This is most of the calendar by volume. | Tier-2 and tier-3 rosters, academy sides and stand-in lineups, often playing several events a week. | Regional leagues, open and closed qualifiers, online cups |
The LAN and online split matters as much as the label. CS2 LANs put both teams on the same equipment in front of a crowd, while online play carries regional ping differences and a much higher rate of stand-ins. A result at an S-tier LAN tells you far more about a roster than the same scoreline in an online cup.
How teams qualify for the biggest events
Most invitations to the biggest CS2 events come from the official Valve standings, which rank rosters on results over a rolling window rather than on reputation. Organisers invite from the top of those standings and fill the remaining slots through open and closed qualifiers, which is how a tier-2 roster reaches a flagship LAN. Roster changes reset a team's standing points, so a transfer window reshapes qualification as much as results do. You can follow the rosters themselves on CS2 teams and their form in CS2 team and player stats.
The CS2 season in 2026
A CS2 season is built around its Majors, and everything else arranges itself in the gaps. The year opens with the winter LAN block, runs a long middle stretch of circuit events and qualifiers, and closes with season finals in the last weeks of the year.
Six organisers run most of what matters. ESL operates the IEM circuit and ESL Pro League, BLAST runs its own season format and finals, and PGL, StarLadder and FISSURE each hold a block of international events across the year. The Esports World Cup sits in the middle of the calendar as a separate mid-season peak with its own prize pool and format.
The shape repeats year to year, so a reader who followed the 2025 calendar will recognise 2026: two Major anchors, a mid-season peak, and a dense qualifier layer running underneath the whole thing. What changes between seasons is which events hold Major status and which organisers hold which slots, and that is settled by Valve and the organisers rather than by the calendar itself.
Season announcements come from the organisers directly and from Valve's official Counter-Strike updates. For audience size rather than schedule, Esports Charts tracks viewership per event.
Using this page to follow an event
The directory above lists every tracked event, and its filters do the work. Filter by tier to cut the qualifier layer out and leave the events you would actually watch, by status to separate ongoing from upcoming, and by Past to look back at finished events.
Opening an event gives you its schedule, the teams in the field, the bracket and results as they land. That is the difference between this page and today's CS2 matches: matches are organised by time, events are organised by competition. Use the match slate when you want to know what is starting in the next hour, and an event page when you want to follow a bracket to its end.
After a series finishes, the scoreline moves to completed results. If you follow the betting market around an event, prices for the same matches sit on CS2 match odds. Everything else about the game starts from the CS2 hub.
CS2 tournament FAQ
Where can I watch CS2 tournaments?
Official CS2 broadcasts run on Twitch and YouTube, on the tournament organiser's own channels rather than a single central home. ESL, BLAST, PGL and StarLadder each broadcast their own events, and most tier-1 tournaments carry several language streams alongside the main English one.
Watch parties and co-streams from players and analysts usually run in parallel, and organisers sometimes restrict those or geo-block a region where they have sold exclusive rights. If a stream is unavailable where you are, the organiser's own channel is the first place to check.
Start times for every tracked match are on today's CS2 matches.
How many CS2 tournaments does BO5 track?
BO5 tracks 209 CS2 events across 4,390 matches and 385 teams in the complete calendar. Most of that number is qualifiers and regional leagues rather than headline events, which is why the tier filter is the fastest way to cut it down.
How much prize money do CS2 tournaments award?
Valve fixed the standard CS2 Major prize pool at $1,250,000 at the end of 2022, and Majors have carried that figure since. Other S-tier events set their own pools, and the largest of them, the Esports World Cup, has run well above the Major figure.
Below that the range drops sharply. A-tier international events typically award six-figure pools, while regional leagues and online cups often run in the low tens of thousands or less.
Distribution matters more than the headline number, because prize money is heavily top-weighted. Reaching the playoffs is usually worth several times a group-stage exit, so a deep run at a mid-sized event can pay better than attending a larger one. Prize pools for a specific event are listed on that event's own page.
Do you show completed CS2 tournaments?
Yes. Set the directory's status filter to Past to see events that have finished, while the default view leads with ongoing and upcoming ones. For finished matches and scorelines rather than whole events, go to completed results.
Can I enter CS2 tournaments myself?
Not through this page. BO5 tracks the professional circuit, and those events are invite or qualifier only. Open and amateur tournaments run on third-party platforms and ladders instead, which is a separate route with its own sign-ups, and our FACEIT profile finder is a reasonable place to start.
What makes a CS2 Major different from other S-tier events?
A Major is the only CS2 tournament Valve sponsors directly, and that changes what comes with it. Valve sets the format, fixes the prize pool at $1,250,000, and attaches in-game sticker capsules and souvenir drops to the event, so a Major reaches players who never watch another tournament all year.
A privately run S-tier event can carry a larger prize pool and a similar field, but it cannot carry that in-game presence or the standing a Major title holds. Legacy is the practical difference: rosters are remembered for Major runs in a way they are not for other wins. Format, qualification and every past winner are on the CS2 Major Championships page.
See which CS2 teams are in form right now
Invitations to the events above come off the official standings, so the rankings are the fastest read on who is about to qualify for what.
View CS2 world rankings