All Participants of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 in CS2 Revealed

The full list of teams that will compete in one of the largest early-year LAN tournaments of Counter-Strike 2 was officially announced by the organizers of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026. Between February 9 and 22, the championship will take place in Romania, pitting 16 teams against each other for a prize pool of $1,250,000. Team Spirit declined their invite, opening up the slot to other participants.

The invitations to the tournament were issued based on Valve Ranking on January 2025, giving priority to merit-based selection and the teams' current form. During stage one, all teams will be competing in a Swiss group stage, best-of-three format, but the top eight will then progress into the playoffs, single-elimination bracket, third-place match, and the best-of-five grand final.

Not less than half of the general prize will be forwarded straight to the organizations, which makes PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026 really attractive from a club economics perspective. The tournament will also be a very important warm-up before the spring portion of the year, and this will be the first obvious event that is going to enable people to understand the strength parity of CS2 in the whole world.

Participants of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026:

• FURIA Esports

• Team Vitality

• Team Falcons

• Natus Vincere

• MOUZ

• FaZe Clan

• The MongolZ

• Aurora Gaming

• B8 Esports

• Legacy

• G2 Esports

• Team 3DMAX

• Astralis

• PARIVISION

• HEROIC

• paiN Gaming

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The tournament will take place in the facility of PGL Cluj-Napoca in the year 2026, which will be one of the major events of the approaching season with all major teams gathered with dreams of winning a major title along with large prizes.