BIG EQUIPA has topped the ultimate membership incentive standings for ladies’s Counter-Strike circuit ESL Affect.
The ESL Affect Season 8 champion took residence a lion’s share of the $100,000 (~£74,383) membership reward. This was break up between the eight greatest groups all through Season 8.
ESL reveals that BIG EQUIPA took residence $25,000 (~£18,595) in prize cash, with runners-up MIBR securing $20,000 (~£14,878) respectively.
Along with the membership reward, the event organiser provided $250,000 (~£185,983) for organisations to create short-form and long-form video content material as a fan engagement initiative.
BIG EQUIPA secured third place within the short-form initiative and second within the long-form standings, securing a complete of $55,000 (~£40,915) along with the membership reward and successful ESL Affect’s season-ending occasion.
All through 2025, ESL’s membership incentives have supplied organisations with extra earnings. Outdoors of ESL Affect, Saudi Arabian organisation Workforce Falcons topped the standings, taking residence $407,422 (~£303,219).
What Occurred to ESL Affect?
Launched in 2022, ESL Affect aimed to advertise and develop girls’s Counter-Strike. Over the previous 4 years, the occasion has distributed $1.2m (~£893,220) in prize cash alongside attracting a few of the world’s largest esports organisations.
In October 2025, the event organiser introduced the indefinite suspension of the circuit, citing the unsustainability of its present financial mannequin as an element behind the choice.
In consequence, a number of organisations have parted methods with girls’s Counter-Strike rosters as a result of ecosystem’s unsure future.
January noticed ESL return to girls’s Counter-Strike, becoming a member of forces with Brace for Affect to assist the neighborhood with a variety of aggressive occasions happening all year long.
