// Event · Tier B
ESL Challenger League Season 52: North America - Cup 1
26 Aug – 2 Sep 2026
Online
$17,500 prize pool Finished
No forecast of ours was made before it started.
How it finished
Winners and losers
Voca won the tournament, but New Legends gained more from it: 133 points against 49. What counts is whom you beat and what it replaced in your ten best.
Overtake Sector
4–2Semi-final
DETONATE
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
EMPIRE
3–2Quarter-final
Incognito
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
Shimmer
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
Zomblers
3–2Quarter-final
Marsborne
4–2Final
Iowa Stormboar
2–2Quarter-final
Villainous
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
Club 333
0–2Out before the quarter-finals
NuTorious
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
FarmVille
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
Chicken Coop
3–2Semi-final
Voca
5–0Winner
Elusive
2–2Quarter-final
New Legends
1–2Out before the quarter-finals
How these numbers are made
- Ours: race impact, the chances, the finishes and Elo, from our forecast of 23 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.