Results / ESL Challenger League Season 52 North America Cup 1 / EMPIRE vs Iowa Stormboar

Match over

2 : 1

BO3 · 2026-08-29

Toss-up: EMPIRE took it

Market favoured EMPIRE at 52% · odds 1.75 / 1.91 · 7 books · Series MVP C0C0 1.6

EMPIRE’s current lineup differs from this match: no longer twigs · now FRIZZY

Iowa Stormboar’s current lineup differs from this match: no longer false · now H0NeST

VetoBO3

EMPIRE banned Mirage

Iowa Stormboar banned Dust2

EMPIRE picked Cache

Iowa Stormboar picked Nuke

EMPIRE banned Ancient

Iowa Stormboar banned Anubis

7Inferno was left over as the decider

Mapsclick a map

picked

Cache

3:9 · 1:4

4 : 13

picked

Nuke

8:4 · 5:4

13 : 8

–decider

Inferno

8:4 · 5:6

13 : 10

Round history

Cache

1st3:92nd1:4

EMPIRE

Iowa Stormboar

CT win T win kills bomb defuse time

IOW 2/2 pistols, +3 follow-ups13-4 demolitionMVP aelor 1.7

Scoreboard

Cache

Player	K-D	+/-	ADR	KAST	HS%	Rating
EMPIRE · won
Walco	12-15	-3	77.7	64.7%	75%	0.95
BAGEL	12-16	-4	76.1	58.8%	42%	0.93
ayaneuu	9-15	-6	74.5	64.7%	78%	0.88
C0C0	7-14	-7	59.5	70.6%	57%	0.83
twigs	4-14	-10	32.6	41.2%	75%	0.45
Iowa Stormboar
aelor	20-6	+14	95.1	94.1%	65%	1.7
TyRa	18-8	+10	94.1	82.4%	67%	1.63
Scorchyy	14-9	+5	77.9	82.4%	57%	1.56
Valter0k	12-9	+3	95.7	94.1%	58%	1.35
false	10-12	-2	72	64.7%	70%	0.86

EMPIRE beat Iowa Stormboar 2–1 at ESL Challenger League Season 52 North America Cup 1 in this CS2 bo3.