Esports event organiser PGL has introduced a number of changes to its 2026 Counter-Strike 2 calendar.
After saying the dates for its 2026 calendar in March 2024, the event organiser has modified the dates of a number of occasions to keep away from overlaps with different tournaments.
The opening PGL occasion of 2026 will happen from February ninth to twenty second in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. 16 groups will compete for a share of a $1.25m (~£952,783) prize pool. The final three days of the event will happen on the BTArena, the identical location as PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025.
PGL Bucharest additionally returns in 2026 from April third to eleventh. As a result of a calendar battle, the event organiser has adjusted its schedule so the event ends on April eleventh, a day sooner than initially deliberate.
From Could seventh to seventeenth, Counter-Strike 2 heads to Astana, Kazakhstan, for a Tier 1 event. The occasion ends two days earlier than the CS Asia Championship 2026. To help groups competing in each occasions, PGL and Good World have joined forces to make sure organisations can compete in each.
PGL’s deliberate occasion set to happen in October has been cancelled because of ‘a full overlap with one other organiser’s event’. As a alternative, the organiser has unveiled one other occasion going down from October twenty second to November 2nd, with extra particulars showing at a later date.
PGL CS2 Occasion Changes
Regardless of adhering to Valve’s event operation rulebook, PGL continues to regulate its calendar to keep away from any battle with different event operators and to allow the world’s greatest groups to attend.
For 2027, PGL and BLAST have introduced CS2 occasions going down on the identical time in early January, leading to groups having to decide on which tournaments to participate in.
