PGL CS2 Major Singapore 2026: Dates, Teams, Format and Prize Pool

The PGL CS2 Major Singapore 2026 runs from November 24 to December 13, 2026. It is the second Counter-Strike 2 Major of the year, with 32 teams, three Swiss stages, a playoff bracket at the Singapore Indoor Stadium and a $1,250,000 prize pool. On this page you get the stage dates, the format and the full list of 32 teams with the way they earned their places. You also get where to watch, how the Pick’Em Challenge works, what to know before you buy Major stickers as an investment, and a short history of the last six Majors. Every fact is checked against the organizer, Liquipedia, Valve or Steam news, and the status is as of November 5, 2026.

We will update this page during the event. Results go into the Latest section with the date of each update, so you can see what changed since your last visit. If you came for the skins side of the Major, the players and stickers sections show items with SkinsMonkey prices. The CS2 Inventory Value Checker shows what your own inventory is worth before the stickers and souvenirs arrive.

Latest: Where the Singapore Major Stands as of November 5, 2026

Update, November 5, 2026. The dates, the playoff venue, the format and the prize pool are public. The field is set too: Valve published the November Valve Regional Standings (VRS) on November 2, 2026, and HLTV reported the full list of 32 invited teams the same day. The full list by stage and region is in the Teams section below. Valve has not posted a Steam announcement about Singapore stickers, a Viewer Pass or Pick’Em yet.

• Stage 1 starts on November 24, 2026. No matches have been played.
• Teams: all 32 invitations are known since November 2. Falcons, FURIA, Spirit, Vitality, MOUZ, Aurora, BetBoom and Legacy start in Stage 3. PGL has not yet published the official rosters, so player lists can still change.
• Major items: no announcement from Valve. For comparison, Valve announced the Budapest 2025 Viewer Pass and stickers on November 12, 2025, twelve days before that Major’s first stage.

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Dates and Venue: Three Weeks in Singapore, Four Days in the Arena

The event takes three weeks from the first Stage 1 match to the Grand Final. PGL moves the last four days, the playoffs, to the Singapore Indoor Stadium in Kallang, an arena that PGL lists at over 12,000 seats. Liquipedia gives these dates for each part of the event:

1. Nov 24, 2026 Stage 1 starts, 16 teams, until November 27.
2. Nov 28, 2026 Stage 2 starts, 16 teams, until December 1.
3. Dec 2, 2026 Stage 3 starts, 16 teams, until December 6.
4. Dec 10, 2026 Playoffs start at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
5. Dec 13, 2026 Best of five Grand Final decides the champion.

According to Liquipedia there is no stage between December 7 and December 9, so the eight playoff teams would have three days off before the arena part. PGL has not published a schedule per stage or match times for any day yet. We add them to this page when PGL releases them.

Format: Three Swiss Stages Before a Best of Five Final

The Major uses the format that Valve sets in its Major rulebook for all Majors. Each of the three stages has 16 teams and uses the Swiss system: teams play opponents with the same win and loss record, three wins send a team to the next stage and three losses eliminate it. In every stage, the top 8 teams advance and the bottom 8 go home.

• Stage 1 and Stage 2: elimination and advancement matches are best of three, all other matches are best of one.
• Stage 3: every match is best of three.
• Playoffs: a single elimination bracket of eight teams. Quarterfinals and semifinals are best of three, the Grand Final is best of five.

Seeding comes from the global VRS. Teams invited directly to Stage 2 or Stage 3 take seeds 1 to 8 in that stage, and the eight teams that come through from the stage before take seeds 9 to 16. Liquipedia lists the map pool as Ancient, Anubis, Cache, Dust II, Inferno, Mirage and Nuke. That is the Active Duty pool since July 2026, when Valve added Cache and removed Overpass. If you want to learn the maps the teams will play, our Anubis callouts and Ancient callouts guides cover the names casters use.

Prize Pool: $1,250,000 for 32 Teams

The prize pool is $1,250,000. The winner takes $500,000 and the runner-up $170,000, according to the Liquipedia prize table. The rest is split among the other teams by final placing. Valve also shares half of the money from Major stickers and passes with the organizer, the teams and the players, and at Cologne 2026 the share for each team depended on its seeding and its final placing.

Teams: How the 32 Places Are Handed Out

Valve’s Major rulebook gives 16 invitations to Stage 1, 8 to Stage 2 and 8 to Stage 3. Rosters get them by their place in the regional VRS lists for Europe, the Americas and Asia. Invitations go out to Stage 3 first, then Stage 2, then Stage 1. If a roster declines or is no longer intact, the next roster in the ranking gets the place, and a last-chance regional qualifier fills any slot that is still open.

How many places each region gets depends on the previous Major. A region earns one Stage 3 invitation for each of its teams that reached the playoffs at Cologne 2026, and one Stage 2 invitation for each team that reached Stage 3. For Singapore that gives Europe 18 places, the Americas 9 and Asia 5. The invitations went out after the VRS update of November 2, 2026, and HLTV published the full field on the same day:

Four teams play their first Major: 100 Thieves, DENDELE, 1win and BC.Game. 100 Thieves took the 18th European place by winning the FiRe Last Chance event in Buenos Aires, and Wildcard took the last place of the Americas there with a win over NRG. In Asia, Lynn Vision got the last place after TYLOO withdrew from HyperX Retake Season 13 in Lisbon before the playoffs. All of this comes from HLTV’s report of November 2. PGL has not published the official rosters yet, so a roster change before the deadline could still move a team. The settings of many players from this list are in our CS2 pro settings and configs guide.

The Cologne 2026 Playoff Teams and the Players to Watch

These are the eight teams that reached the playoffs of the last Major, IEM Cologne 2026. The pairings come from Valve’s Steam post, the scores from match reports. Stage 3 places go to regions, not to teams. Each Cologne playoff team earned one Stage 3 place for its region, which is why Europe has six and the Americas two. The VRS ranking of November 2 then decided which teams fill those places. That is how 9z, a Cologne quarterfinalist ranked fifth in the Americas, starts in Stage 1, while Legacy, ranked second in the Americas, goes straight to Stage 3. All eight Cologne playoff teams are in Singapore.

Every Major has its star. Below are three of them: two players from this bracket who play in Singapore and one from the Major that Poland still talks about. We have checked all three Steam inventories with our checker. Each card shows the most valuable priced item in that inventory, with the SkinsMonkey WIKI price on November 5, 2026 and a price that updates every day.

donk, Team Spirit: the youngest Major MVP

In Shanghai the star was 17 years old. donk, born on January 25, 2007, won the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 with Team Spirit on December 15, 2024 and was named the HLTV MVP of the tournament, the youngest Major MVP so far, with a 1.49 rating over 14 maps. Four weeks later HLTV ranked him first in its Top 20 players of 2024. At Cologne 2026 Spirit finished third to fourth, and in Singapore they start in Stage 3. When we checked his Steam inventory on October 17, 2026, the most valuable item with a SkinsMonkey price was a Factory New AWP Gungnir without stickers. The inventory fits the player: a Major champion’s trophy from Shanghai, Katowice 2014 crafts and skins at the top of the market. The full list is in donk’s CS2 inventory, and his crosshair and sensitivity are in donk’s CS2 settings.

ZywOo, Team Vitality: three Major titles

ZywOo plays for Team Vitality and won three Majors with them. The first was BLAST.tv Paris 2023, the last Major of CS:GO, and the next two came in 2025: BLAST.tv Austin and StarLadder Budapest, where Vitality won the first best of five Grand Final at a Major 3-1. HLTV named him the best player of 2025. At Cologne 2026 Vitality lost their quarterfinal to the later champions, Team Falcons, and in Singapore they start in Stage 3 again. On October 27, 2026 his inventory held a Factory New Butterfly Knife Doppler Sapphire, the most valuable item our checker priced in the account. The rest is in ZywOo’s CS2 inventory, and his game setup is in ZywOo’s CS2 settings.

pashaBiceps, Virtus.pro: the Polish Major

The second Major in history was EMS One Katowice 2014, played in March 2014 at the Spodek arena. Virtus.pro with pashaBiceps, NEO, TaZ, Snax and byali beat Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0 in the final, Mirage 16-9 and Inferno 16-10. pashaBiceps had joined Virtus.pro in January 2014, two months before that final. The organization names him the MVP of the tournament. He stayed with the team for years and won 11 trophies with it. Since 2020 he streams full time, and in August 2020 he joined Team Liquid’s stream team. His inventory still holds the champion trophy from Katowice 2014 and trophies from nine more Majors, and the most valuable item in it is a Factory New Skeleton Knife Doppler Black Pearl. The full list is in pashaBiceps’ CS2 inventory.

The stickers from Katowice 2014 are the rarest tournament items in the game. On November 5, 2026 the SkinsMonkey WIKI listed the Virtus.Pro (Holo) Katowice 2014 sticker from $6,820.70. That is more than twice the price of his knife, so a sticker from a Major can end up worth more than most knives.

You can run any public Steam profile through the same CS2 Inventory Value Checker, your own included, and compare it with the players above in under a minute.

Where to Watch the PGL Major Singapore 2026

PGL broadcasts the Major on its own channels. Liquipedia lists the main English stream on Twitch, YouTube, Kick and Facebook under the name PGL, and a second English stream on the Twitch channel pgl_cs2 and the Kick channel PGLCS2. The cards below open each channel in a new tab.

The casters and analysts are not announced yet. Liquipedia’s talent list for the event is still empty, so we will add the names here when PGL confirms them. Daily match times will also follow, and we will list them in the Latest section with the time zone.

Pick’Em Challenge: The Free Prediction Game Inside CS2

Pick’Em is a prediction game that Valve runs inside CS2 at every Major. You place team logos on your picks for each stage in the Major hub of the main menu, and later you predict the playoff bracket. Correct picks complete challenges and upgrade a Major coin. You do not put money or items on your picks, and every reward is an in-game item.

Valve has not announced a Pick’Em Challenge for Singapore as of November 5, 2026. The rules below come from Valve’s announcements for the last Majors and show how the game worked until now:

• Free picks with Prime: since the Copenhagen 2024 Major, every player with Prime status can place picks for free.
• Viewer Pass for rewards: to complete challenges and earn rewards from a stage, you need a Viewer Pass activated before that stage begins. The pass gives an upgradable coin and a place on the Active Pass Leaderboard with your friends.
• Deadlines: picks for a stage can be changed until its first match starts. Playoff picks must be in before the first playoff match.
• Cologne 2026 rewards: the Challenge Coin went from Bronze to Silver, Gold and Diamond, and each upgrade gave 300 tokens for stickers or souvenirs from the Major Shop.

At earlier Majors, such as Copenhagen 2024 and Shanghai 2024, coin upgrades gave extra Souvenir Packages instead of tokens. The reward changes with Valve’s item system, so check the Singapore announcement before you buy a pass.

Stickers and Souvenirs: What Valve Has Said So Far

Valve has not announced Singapore stickers or souvenirs as of November 5, 2026. We checked the CS2 announcements on Steam up to the update of November 5. So nothing below is a confirmed plan for Singapore. It is how the last Major worked, which is the best guide to what to expect.

Tokens came in two steps. For the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 Valve introduced Souvenir Tokens, which pass holders could earn and buy and then redeem for a souvenir from a match of their choice. For IEM Cologne 2026 Valve went further and replaced sticker capsules with a Major Shop. Players bought tokens and used them to pick any team or player sticker directly, at prices that changed with demand. Souvenirs also changed: with the Souvenir-O-Matic, a player could turn a weapon from their inventory into a Souvenir with the gold team, autograph and map stickers of a finished match. Our Cologne 2026 Major hub post explains the change in more detail.

The Cologne 2026 stickers are on the market now, and the SkinsMonkey WIKI lists them with prices. On November 5, 2026 the Falcons (Gold) sticker of the Cologne champions started at $864.52, the donk (Holo) sticker at $23.27 and the ZywOo (Holo) sticker at $10.66. All tournament stickers are grouped by Major on the CS2 stickers page of the WIKI.

Cologne 2026 stickers from the last Major

If Valve keeps the Cologne system, Singapore stickers will come with a shop and a pass, not capsules. If it goes back to capsules, we will say so here on the day of the announcement.

Investing in Major Stickers and Capsules: How It Works and What Can Go Wrong

Many traders buy Major stickers and sticker capsules during the event and keep them for months or years. The idea behind investing in Major stickers and capsules is simple. Valve sells tournament items only for a limited time around the Major. After Cologne 2026 the shop still got new items on July 1, ten days after the final, but once the shop closes nobody can buy new capsules or tokens. New stickers then only come out of capsules that are still unopened, and every sticker that someone applies to a weapon leaves the market for good. With a supply that stops growing and slowly shrinks, some older Major stickers became more expensive over time.

That is the theory. Our own WIKI prices show that it does not work for every item. On November 5, 2026 the Astralis (Holo) sticker from Berlin 2019 started at $0.66 on SkinsMonkey, while the Natus Vincere (Holo) sticker from Copenhagen 2024 started at $5.28. Age alone did not make the older sticker more valuable. The price of a Major sticker depends on several things at once:

• The team or player: popular teams and star players sell more stickers during the Major, and more people want them later.
• The finish: Holo, Foil and Gold versions are rarer than the paper version. On November 5, 2026 the Vitality sticker from Budapest 2025 started at $0.10 in paper, $1.14 in Holo and $3.21 in Gold.
• The result: stickers of the champions and of famous moments get more attention after the event.
• How many were sold: a Major with high sales leaves a large supply, and that can keep prices low for years.

The risks are real, and you should know them before you put money into stickers:

• No guarantee: many Major stickers are worth less a year later than during the event, and some never recover.
• Fees: the Steam Community Market takes a fee on every sale, so a small price rise can disappear when you sell.
• Trade holds: since July 2025 Steam Trade Protection holds every item you receive in a trade for 7 days, so you cannot react at once to a price change.
• Money that waits: money in stickers stays in your inventory until someone buys them, and cheap stickers can take a long time to sell.

The Cologne 2026 Major Shop also changed the rules. Prices there followed demand during the event, so early buyers did not always pay less than late ones. Valve softened that with a refund rule: if a sticker’s price dropped by 25 tokens or more within 24 hours of a purchase, the buyer got the difference back in tokens. If Valve uses the same shop for Singapore, compare the shop price with the market price of similar stickers before you buy. Only spend money you can keep in items for a long time without needing it. You can see what your current stickers and skins are worth in the CS2 Inventory Value Checker, and trade skins for other items on SkinsMonkey if you want to change your inventory before the Major.

Recent Majors: Who Won Before Singapore

The table shows the last six Majors, from the final Major of CS:GO to Cologne 2026. For the longer history, see our guide to CS:GO and CS2 Majors.

The Majors go back further than this table. The first one was DreamHack Winter 2013, won by fnatic, and the second was EMS One Katowice 2014, the Polish Major that Virtus.pro won with pashaBiceps, whose inventory is in the players section above.

Copenhagen 2024 was the first Major played in Counter-Strike 2, and PGL organized it, so Singapore is PGL’s second CS2 Major. Budapest 2025 had the first best of five Grand Final at a Major, and Vitality won it 3-1 for their second Major title in a row. Team Falcons won their first Major at Cologne 2026, beating FURIA 3-0 in the final.

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Before the Major: Check Your Inventory and Plan Your Trades

A Major brings new stickers and souvenirs into the market. Many players trade during the event to get a team’s sticker or a skin that a pro used on stage. If you plan to do that, check what you already own first. The CS2 Inventory Value Checker shows the value of every item in a public Steam inventory, and the WIKI shows the price of each skin for every wear.

Two things to know before you trade. Since July 2025, Steam Trade Protection holds every item you receive in a trade for 7 days, also when it comes from a trade bot. Prices in the Cologne Major Shop also changed with demand during the event, and market prices of stickers can move after a Major too. When you know what you want, you can trade for it on SkinsMonkey.

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Bottom line

Mark November 24 for Stage 1 and December 10 to 13 for the arena, then wait for Valve's item news.

The dates, format and prize pool are set, so you can plan your viewing now. The 32 teams are known since November 2. The Major items and the daily schedule are the open points, and we add both to this page when they are published.

If you want Singapore stickers or souvenirs, the Cologne 2026 shop is the best guide to how they may work. Check your inventory before the event, so you know what you can trade when the new items come out.

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