ESL Challenger League: Europe Cup #4 season 52 2026

About the tournament

ESL Challenger League Season 52: Europe Cup #4 is a Tier 2 Counter-Strike 2 cup in ESL’s European Challenger circuit, played online on European servers. Sixteen teams are split into four GSL groups of four, with every group match played best-of-three; the top two teams from each group move on to an eight-team single-elimination playoff, also best-of-three, including the third-place match. It runs from August 18 to August 20, 2026, and the winner earns a $7,000 prize plus a place in the season’s regional final.