BC.Recreation has topped ESL‘s Annual Incentive standings for February following its look at IEM Kraków 2026, the match organiser’s first Tier 1 Counter-Strike 2 occasion of 2026.
The staff, headlined by Counter-Strike legend Oleksandr ‘s1mple‘ Kostyliev, attracted the very best common viewing figures all through the occasion’s period.
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- BC.Recreation won’t compete in its sponsored CS2 occasion
- Staff Vitality earns over $700,000 by ESL and BLAST 2025 incentive programmes
Revealed on February twenty seventh, BC.Recreation recorded a mean viewing determine of 569,201, scoring eight Viewership Factors Over the course of the ESL Professional Tour season, the match organiser will award 720 factors to groups collaborating in its occasions.
BC.Recreation navigated its method by the Play-In, defeating Legacy and Ninjas in Pyjamas to qualify for the Group Stage. The staff’s match got here to an finish shortly after, with defeats to Staff Vitality and FaZe Clan knocking it out with a top-16 end.
For groups that attend a number of ESL Professional Tour occasions, a multiplier is awarded to spice up earnings from the initiative. BC.Recreation was one in all 4 groups that acquired eight Viewership Factors, with NAVI, Staff Spirit, and FURIA additionally incomes the very best quantity on supply.
IEM Kraków 2026 champion Staff Vitality scored six factors with a mean determine of 307,615, inserting the French esports organisation in sixth place forward of Staff Falcons and FaZe Clan.
ESL’s Ecosystem Assist
Along with providing enormous prize swimming pools for its Counter-Strike tournaments, ESL’s Annual Incentive goals to reward groups for recurrently attending its occasions in a calendar the place a number of match organisers are internet hosting occasions with massive quantities of prize cash on the road.
By means of ESL and BLAST‘s initiatives, Staff Vitality earned over $700,000 (~£520,432) in income due to the staff’s frequent appearances at occasions.
The following ESL-operated occasion the place Viewership Factors can be found is ESL Professional League Season 23, going down from March 1st to fifteenth. With BC.Recreation and Staff Vitality not attending, the occasion is a chance for others to money in and safe the lion’s share of the $3.15m (~£2.34m) up for grabs.
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