The national teams from Lithuania, Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria have qualified for the 2026 Esports Nations Cup for CS2
The Eastern Europe qualifiers for the 2026 Esports Nations Cup have concluded. As a result, the national teams of Lithuania, Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria have received invitations to the main stage of the tournament.
Sixteen teams participated in the closed qualifiers, competing against each other in a double-elimination format. The national teams from Lithuania and Romania advanced to the Esports Nations Cup 2026 through the upper bracket, while the teams from Poland and Bulgaria secured their spots in the championship by defeating the teams from Kosovo and Serbia in the decisive lower-bracket matches.
Lithuania National Team
- Justinas “jL” Lekavičius
- Vilius “tAk” Keserauskas
- Matas “MAGILA” Magila
- Žygimantas “nukkye” Khmelyauskas
- Deividas “Uzman” Narutis
- Albinas “tooizera” Šeputis (coach)
Romania National Team
- Lavrentiy “lauNX” Tsirlea
- Adrian “XELLOW” Guta
- Alexander “s0und” Stefan
- Mihai “fNk” Kostach
- Radu “HOLY” Vrancanu
- Catalin-Ionut “BTN” Stanescu (coach)
Poland National Team
- Wojciech “Prism” Zieba
- Patryk “Demho” Tomaszewski
- Roland “ultimate” Tomkovyak
- Konrad “Qlocuu” Kloczek
- Mateusz “Ex1st” Witman
- Grzegorz “SZPERO” Dżamalek (coach)
Bulgarian National Team
- Teodor “SPELLAN” Nikolov
- Dimitar “Skrimo” Yanulov
- Hristiyan “REDSTAR” Pironkov
- Kaloyan “shaiK” Borisov
- Georgi “SHiPZ” Grigorov
- Milen “milky” Iliev (coach)
The 2026 Esports Nations Cup for Counter-Strike 2 will take place November 10–15 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A total of 24 national teams will compete in the tournament, and the championship’s prize pool will total $1,320,000.
Photo: PGL.
Alexey Mikhailov
