North American esports organisation Wildcard overhauled its Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) roster for the 2026 season.
The brand new-look line-up is the most recent chapter within the organisation’s CS2 journey, following a number of roster modifications all through 2025.
Jaxon ‘Peeping‘ Cornwell stays the one participant who competed in Wildcard’s last occasion of 2025. The pair of Miłosz ‘mhL‘ Knasiak and Simon ‘sSen‘ Solnæs Iversen be a part of the primary roster from Wildcard Academy, whereas Anthony ‘CLASIA‘ Kearney and former M80 participant Ethan ‘reck’ Serrano full the line-up.
The formation of the roster follows Wildcard deciding to maneuver the trio of Peter ‘stanislaw‘ Jarguz, Joshua ‘JBa‘ Barutt, and Love ‘phzy‘ Smidebrant to the bench in November 2025 after lacking out on qualification for the StarLadder Budapest Main.
Reck becoming a member of Wildcard brings a four-month stint on the M80 bench to an finish after representing the organisation at the BLAST.television Austin Main, the place the group scored a high 22 placement after failing to advance from Stage 2.
CLASIA isn’t any stranger to North American Counter-Strike esports, having represented the likes of Gaimin Gladiators, SkinRave, and BLUEJAYS over the course of his seven-year profession.
What Subsequent For Wildcard?
Because of Peeping being the only real member of the earlier Wildcard roster, which was ranked 83rd in December 2025’s Valve Regional Standings (VRS), the organisation begins from scratch, with three of the 5 gamers now not that includes on the beginning roster.
With Wildcard an unranked group, the brand new roster should compete in numerous Ranked occasions to earn VRS factors. This can decide invites to high-profile tournaments together with the 32 groups that earn a spot at Counter-Strike’s Majors.
Wildcard makes its match debut at Miami Frag2 hosted by Fragadelphia, from January 2nd to 4th. Groups from throughout Europe and North America will compete for VRS factors together with a share of an $8,000 (~£5,953) prize pool.
