Esports event organiser PGL has introduced it’ll host the second Counter-Strike 2 Main of 2026 in Singapore.
The PGL Singapore Main 2026 will happen from November twenty fifth and December thirteenth, appearing because the season-ending occasion for Valve’s first-person shooter.
The Singapore Main marks the primary time Counter-Strike’s greatest event has taken place in Southeast Asia, marking one other step within the recreation’s continued development the world over. PGL reveals that the ultimate 4 days of the event will happen on the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
For PGL, that is the fifth time the event organiser has hosted a Main. Between 2021 and 2024, it hosted Majors in Stockholm, Sweden, Antwerp, Belgium, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Bringing the primary Counter-Strike Main to Singapore is a second that actually conjures up us,” stated Silviu Stroie, CEO of PGL.
“The town has been house to a few of our most memorable esports occasions, and we’ve at all times felt the vitality and fervour of the followers right here. Returning now with a Counter-Strike Main feels just like the pure subsequent step.”
Just like the 2025 season, two Majors will happen in 2026. Earlier than the Singapore Main, fellow event organiser ESL will host the IEM Cologne Main from June 2nd to twenty first. Each occasions will see the highest 32 groups from the Valve Regional Standings (VRS) competing for a $1.25m (~£938,417) prize pool and the possibility to be topped Counter-Strike’s finest workforce.
Singapore And Esports
Elsewhere, the nation continues to take steps ahead in formally recognising esports as a sport. November noticed the proposal of the Singapore Sports activities Council (Modification) Invoice 2025, integrating esports into its nationwide sporting framework.
PGL has in depth expertise in internet hosting high-profile Counter-Strike tournaments, and with Singapore persevering with to increase its presence throughout the esports business, the Singapore Main is about to be one other spectacle.
