// Event · Tier C
ESL Challenger League Season 52: Europe - Cup 5
30 Aug – 1 Sep 2026
Online
$7,000 prize pool Finished
Winner
Entropy
5–0 · Europe #91
No forecast of ours was made before it started.
How it finished
Winner
Entropy
5–0Europe #91
Semi-final
Inner Circle Academy
4–2Europe #82
Semi-final
WBT
3–2Europe #102
Winners and losers
Inner Circle Academy
4–2Semi-final
Fire Flux
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
WBT
3–2Semi-final
Entropy
5–0Winner
Misa
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
Fortress
2–1Quarter-final
Noir Verse
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
BAKS
2–2Quarter-final
Virtus.pro
4–1Final
Atreides
2–2Quarter-final
Strael Bora
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
PCIFIC
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
MOUZ NXT
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
BERG
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
Azuolas
2–2Quarter-final
Permitta
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
How these numbers are made
- Ours: race impact, the chances, the finishes and Elo, from our forecast of 22 October (how our Elo is scored). Valve's: the standings and the event weight.
- Race impact is how many points of Major chance the event is expected to move, summed over the teams in the race.
- Event weight is the prize pool through Valve's curve. A stage or qualifier also takes half the pool of each finished event it feeds.
- Points are Valve's change between its releases of 3 August and 7 September, so other events and ageing move them too.
- The whole method: the model, its sources, how well it has done and what it cannot see.