ESL announce 2026 event dates

Earlier today through their blog post, ESL announced their Counter-Strike 2 plans for 2026 by unveiling tournament dates. As per the announcement, ESL's 2026 starts with a tournament held every month till June. After a break in June, July and August, one event each in September and November will wrap up the year for ESL Counter-Strike.

Drawing comparison to their 2025 calendar, ESL's event in January 2026 could be the year's first IEM event. ESL have been constantly introducing changes to how their tournaments are set to function in 2025 with modified formats, a different seeding mechanism and much more.

ESL also announced their plans for ESL Impact in 2025 yesterday which revealed that Asia would not receive any open qualifiers or a slot in the ESL Impact circuit in 2025.