EWC 2026 CS2 Grand Final Moved to Accor Arena

The organizers of the Esports World Cup 2026 have announced that the final day of the Counter-Strike 2 tournament will take place at Accor Arena in Paris. This is the same arena that hosted the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, where Vitality won its first Major.

The Esports World Cup was originally supposed to be held in Riyadh, but due to the war in Iran, the tournament was moved to Paris. The main part of the competition will still take place at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, but after tickets for the grand final sold out, the organizers decided to increase capacity and move the final day to a larger arena.

The CS2 tournament at EWC 2026 will feature a $2,000,000 prize pool. A total of 32 teams will take part, with four of them qualifying through a large open LAN qualifier. Sixteen teams will advance to the playoffs, while the grand final is scheduled for August 23.

Moving the final day to Accor Arena should make the decisive matches more spectacular and accessible to a larger number of spectators. For Paris, it will also mark the return of a major CS event to an arena already connected to one of the most important chapters in the history of French Counter-Strike.

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