ESL Pro League Season 23 Finals land in Stockholm this weekend with 8-team CS2 playoff bracket

The three-day LAN finale at Annexet (March 13–15) features single-elimination best-of-threes leading to a best-of-five grand final, with teams like Spirit, NAVI and MOUZ fighting for the title and a $776,000 prize pool.

The ESL Pro League Season 23 Finals are the live, in-arena conclusion of one of Counter-Strike 2’s biggest league circuits. Over the last stage, 24 teams played online phases to qualify, and now the final eight teams meet on LAN in Stockholm, Sweden, to decide the champion in a fast, high-pressure weekend format.

This finals weekend runs March 13–15 at Annexet and uses a single-elimination bracket: every match is best-of-three, while the grand final is best-of-five (with a 3rd-place match also scheduled). The event prize pool is listed at $776,000 (with both player and club shares).

Quarter-finals (Friday, March 13)

• The MongolZ vs Natus Vincere (NAVI)
• Legacy vs Aurora
• MOUZ vs FUT
• Astralis vs Spirit
  
  

Two storylines stand out immediately: Spirit vs Astralis is a high-profile rematch after Spirit won 2–0 earlier this year at IEM Krakow’s group stage, while NAVI vs The MongolZ has extra tension after NAVI’s recent loss to The MongolZ at PGL Cluj-Napoca (with The MongolZ also navigating coaching-related disruption).

With everything compressed into three days, this is the kind of bracket where one hot map or one off-series can end a run—making the Stockholm weekend one of the season’s most viewer-friendly “all-killer-no-filler” finals in CS2.