Cologne is heading into the home stretch. Of the 32 teams that showed up, only 8 made it to the playoffs. The earlier stages went by without much drama, but Stage 3 caught a lot of people off guard. Vitality were stunned by 9z, and those same 9z went on to make life miserable for Spirit and knock The MongolZ out before the quarters. Another shock was BetBoom Team punching

Summer 2026 is all about football. The World Cup has millions of fans glued to their screens around the world, and plenty of them are also keeping one hand on the mouse, following the Major in Cologne. The season's two biggest events have lined up perfectly, and it would be a shame not to bring them together in a single loadout. If you're rooting for your national team and want

IEM Cologne Major 2026 has delivered the most radical overhaul of in-game tournament items in CS history. The familiar sticker capsules are gone entirely. In their place, Valve has opened the Major Shop – a store where you don't pull a random sticker out of a pack, but buy a specific logo or autograph at a price that moves with demand. Souvenir packages have been retired too: the Budapest 2025

The Major has finally reached its most exciting stage — the one where the strongest teams step in, the ones who had a little more time to prepare for the event. On top of that, for the first time every Swiss-stage round will be a Bo3, which means the teams that genuinely deserve it will be the ones moving on to the playoffs.As for how Stage 2 wrapped up, there