BLAST Open Porto 2026
BLAST closes its second Counter-Strike 2 Open season of 2026 with a three-day arena finals at the Super Bock Arena in Porto, 4-6 September, with six teams and a $1.1 million prize pool on the line.
BLAST brings Counter-Strike 2 back to Portugal for the fourth time. After Lisbon in 2018, 2022 and 2025, the second BLAST Open season of 2026 ends with an arena weekend in Porto.
The opening stage is played out of BLAST's studios in Copenhagen, where sixteen teams fight for six places in the live finals. Those six then travel to the Super Bock Arena - Pavilhao Rosa Mota in Porto, where the playoffs run from 4 to 6 September 2026 in front of a crowd. The total prize pool for the tournament is 1.1 million US dollars, split between players and clubs, and the group phase is played entirely in best-of-three series with group winners going straight to the playoff semi-finals.
For fans in the Adriatic region Porto is a realistic away trip: a short flight, a compact three-day schedule and one of the strongest CS2 fields of the early autumn on one stage. Read the dates carefully - only the Porto weekend is played in front of an audience, the earlier stage is a closed studio event. Ticketing and the full match schedule are published on BLAST's official tournament page.
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