GRID Announces Champion of Champions Tour Season 2

GRID Esports reveals details on Champion of Champions Season 2 tournament

GRID Esports announced the first details on Champion of Champions Tour Season 2, the official return of its Counter-Strike 2 tournament series that was launched in 2022 and spanned into 2023/2024.

Season 2 will begin on April 15, will have a total prize pool of $1.5M USD, and will conclude in 2025 with a global finals. The CCT Global Finals are set to take place May 16-23. The previous season concluded in May of this year.

The tour will feature 36 “regionally-focused online events” in Europe, South America, North America, and Oceania. Changes for Season 2 include a consolidation of Europe into a single region. In the previous season, the continent was split into divisions (North, South, East, West and Central Europe). GRID says that this change will offer the region’s competitors a simplified, yet challenging, path to the Global Finals. North and South American circuits will also be condensed into Main and Playoffs stages.

Europe will get 20 events, while South America will feature eight, and North America and Oceania will get four each.

GRID is partnering with Malta-based tournament organizer EDEN Esports to handle the organization of these events (including broadcast production), while Oceania will be operated by New Zealand-based LetsPlay.Live. Financial terms of these partnerships were not disclosed.

In case you are not familiar with the company, GRID describes itself as “the official data platform for League of Legends, VALORANT, Rainbow Six Siege, and PUBG — and a trusted data partner within the CS2 and Dota 2 esports ecosystems. It provides in-game telemetry data sourcing (GRID Game SDK), analytics, integrity, and distribution in competitive game titles for AAA publishers and independent game studios.”

Editor’s note: This story was updated with the dates for the Global Finals after publication (which means those changes will not be reflected in the audio version of the story).