Kalshi’s esports markets traded $231.8 million throughout 4.05 million particular person trades in June 2026, unfold throughout 28 distinct sequence protecting seven titles. With the hazard of sounding like I’m flogging a lifeless horse, the $231.8 million traded doesn’t equal complete cash risked, such is the character of prediction markets.
The extra fascinating one is that this: 57% of it, $132.1 million, was a small cluster of Counter-Strike 2 markets, and an excellent chunk of that ran via one week in the course of the month, when IEM Cologne was stay. I beforehand broke down IEM Cologne’s Kalshi information right here.
Kalshi Esports · June 2026
The month in 4 numbers
Whole Contracts
231.80M
231,796,650
Whole Trades
4.05M
4,047,758 fills
Energetic Collection
28
distinct esports markets
Days Tracked
30
2026-06-01 → 2026-06-30
CS2 completely dominates June
There’s a transparent market chief in what persons are buying and selling in June, and the reply’s clearly Counter-Strike. 59% of each esports contract traded on Kalshi in June 2026 was on Counter-Strike 2. This was virtually fully single-match betting (made up of recreation winner, map winner and total-maps markets), plus a small slice on the tournament-outright market.
No different title cracked 12% of the month’s quantity, and the sheer dominance was significantly pronounced at IEM Cologne within the third week.
Prime Collection — Full Month
2026-06-01 → 2026-06-30 · ranked by contracts traded · CS2’s recreation/map/total-maps/qualifier markets mixed into one “Single-Match Betting” line; CS2 Event Winner (the outright futures market) stays separate
#
Collection
Contracts
Trades
% Mo.
01
CS2 Single-Match Betting
CS2
132.13M
2.12M
57.0%
02
League of Legends Sport
League of Legends
26.80M
353.1K
11.6%
03
Valorant recreation winner
Valorant
20.14M
429.2K
8.7%
04
League of Legends Map Winner
League of Legends
12.65M
201.3K
5.5%
06
Name of Obligation Video games
Name of Obligation
7.28M
180.1K
3.1%
07
Valorant Map Winner
Valorant
5.91M
121.5K
2.5%
09
CS2 Event Winner
CS2
3.51M
30.8K
1.5%
11
COD Map Winner
Name of Obligation
2.12M
54.0K
0.9%
12
League of Legends Whole Maps
League of Legends
1.74M
42.8K
0.8%
League of Legends Sport Winner was a distant second at 11.6% of the month ($26.8 million), with Valorant’s game-winner market shut behind at 8.7% ($20.1 million). Between them, CS2’s single-match betting, LoL’s recreation market and Valorant’s recreation market accounted for 77% of all the pieces traded on Kalshi’s esports board in June. It goes to point out that when there’s a significant Counter-Strike occasion on, it swallows the competitors. Whether or not or not that adjustments in July with LoL’s MSI happening stays to be seen.
Share of Month-to-month Contract Quantity, by Sport
What “57%” is definitely fabricated from
It’s value breaking such a considerable quantity down. CS2, broadly talking, isn’t only one market on Kalshi. It may be cut up into 5. These are whether or not a group wins the match; whether or not it wins a given map; whether or not the match goes over or below a total-maps line; whether or not a group qualifies for the subsequent stage of a event; and, individually, who wins the entire occasion outright. Practically four-fifths of CS2’s whole month-to-month quantity, $103.8 million, sat within the single “who wins the match” market alone. Map winner markets added one other 20% ($26.9 million).
Inside CS2’s 135.65M Contracts
how CS2’s personal quantity splits throughout its 5 markets
Single-Match Betting vs. Event Outright
Single-Match Betting
Event Winner (outright)
Inside Single-Match Betting
The IEM Cologne impact, at a extra granular degree
The event comfortably produced just about the entire high ten largest markets, and stealing a desk I made for the IEM Cologne evaluation, the match-level wagering usually adopted the event development.
Falcons have been concerned within the high three traded markets. This could merely be defined by the magnitude of the eventual winners’ contests with the 2 groups tipped to win all of it pre-tournament in Staff Spirit and Staff Vitality.
Match quantity
Prime 15 Matches — All Phases
Ranked by mixed market quantity (either side)
Jun 2–21, 2026
League of Legends could possibly be set for an enormous MSI
One match would break into the highest ten, sitting simply above 9z vs FURIA exterior of Counter-Strike and that match was T1 vs Gen.G which noticed $1.97 million traded. There’s not been an terrible lot of League of Legends motion of late with MSI play-ins simply ending up (and my god, did T1 look sturdy). The Korean World Champions didn’t drop a single map as they swept their strategy to the primary stage at MSI. As we transfer into July, it’ll be fascinating to see if having an enormous international League of Legends occasion takes a few of Counter-Strike’s thunder. On condition that the variety of fixtures is considerably decrease, MSI might not attain Cologne’s complete seismic quantity,however I’d count on there to be some heavy-hitters on match quantity alone.
Editor’s methodology word: Figures cowl Kalshi esports markets from 2026-06-01 → 2026-06-30. “Contracts” refers to complete contract quantity traded on a market; “trades” refers back to the variety of particular person fills. Weekly blocks run Sunday–Saturday from June 1; Week 5 is a two-day tail (June 29–30) and shouldn’t be in contrast on to full seven-day weeks. CS2’s recreation winner, map winner, total-maps and qualifier markets are mixed into one “Single-Match Betting” line all through, since they’re all bets on the identical underlying matches; the separate CS2 Event Winner market (an outright futures decide) is stored by itself line. Particular person-match figures mix either side of a match (e.g. “will A win” and “will B win”) into one market-size complete; the place just one aspect’s quantity was obtainable, the determine is flagged and displays that aspect alone. Figures are sourced from Kalshi’s public market information.
