5 Oct 2026 · Maastricht
The Maas replay path has a two-minute cap.
Siege on the Maas closes tonight, and the rule that held the weekend together is almost boring, which is why it worked. A plant review can be asked for. It cannot become the match.
Operators are banned in public before map one. If a squad wants the plant watched again, the referee starts a clock. At two minutes the lobby returns to the next round plan. On Saturday that rule saved a quarterfinal from a twenty-minute argument about a pixel on a smoke. The crowd stayed. The players stayed sharper than the argument.
Audio was the other quiet decision. Each squad gets a sound check, because a missed call in this title is often the headset. The gear desk logged two swapped cables and one mute key that only worked if you hit it like it owed you money. Both were fixed before map two.
28 Sep 2026 · Amsterdam
Bootcamp desks dropped another 200 grams.
The loft that feeds several spring squads did not buy a new theme. It removed things. A second mouse bungee left. A coil of spare cable left. The monitor arm stayed, because a drifting panel invents aim problems that are really furniture.
Mice on the row sit under 60 grams, and the spare in the drawer is the same shape, not a cousin. Headsets are closed, sidetone is checked on Mondays, and the chair argument ended when someone admitted lumbar beats a logo over a five-game draft. The full blueprint lives on the equipment page.
18 Sep 2026 · Amsterdam
Crown Finals draws lanes so the main stage can breathe.
21–23 November is the arena weekend. Valorant and Counter-Strike 2 take the water-facing stage. The side halls are not an afterthought taped to a corridor. Apex Legends, Overwatch 2, Fortnite, PUBG, and StarCraft II each have a marked lane, a power plan, and a person who knows which monitor is theirs.
Fighting games wait until Haarlem. Frost Keys, 12–13 December, keeps Tekken 8 and Street Fighter 6 in a room where you can hear a stick. Mixing that with a PUBG circle call was how last year’s mixed hall got loud in the wrong way.
11 Aug 2026 · The Hague
The club cup wrote the delay before anyone needed it.
EA Sports FC weekends collide with other modes if you let them. Binnenhof Club Cup locked formations before the first whistle, numbered the controller rack, and printed a delay rule for players who still had a weekend-league window open. One semifinal used it. The bracket did not collapse into a group chat.
The useful detail was the rack. Shared controllers only moved when the sheet said so. That sounds small until you watch a final played on a stranger’s deadzone.
6 Apr 2026 · Amsterdam
Keizersgracht published the pistol, not only the highlight.
Counter-Strike 2 on MR12 makes the first buy feel heavier. The invitational posted a half-by-half economy note: who won the pistol, who forced, who actually kept the guns into round six. Two squads that started on club PCs still reached Sunday. Their sensor settings were photographed and matched before the second day, which is now a line in the stage checklist.
