BIG declares feminine CS2 initiative Challenge Breach

German esports organisation BIG (Berlin Worldwide Gaming) has revealed that it’s engaged on a feminine Counter-Strike 2 (CS2) initiative referred to as Challenge Breach in collaboration with GreenMedical.

The announcement was made by a three-minute reveal trailer on social media, promising to disclose extra info surrounding the occasion within the close to future.

BIG’s initiative comes a number of months after one of many largest ladies’s CS2 circuits, ESL Affect, was shut down by ESL FACEIT Group, which was highlighted within the trailer. At the moment, the organiser sited that the ‘financial mannequin’ was not ‘sustainable.’

The announcement has been met positively from different esports organisations fielding feminine groups and CS2 followers alike.

BIG at the moment has an lively all-women’s esports staff in CS2 referred to as BIG EQUIPA, which was first fashioned in 2022 after signing the equipa roster. Earlier than the circuit was suspended, BIG EQUIPA gained ESL Affect League Season 8 after defeating MIBR Feminine 2-1 within the Grand Finals, securing $50,000 (~37,550) in prize funds.

Challenge Breach additionally options the digital healthcare supplier GreenMedical, which established a partnership with BIG final September to carry training activations to followers.

Regardless of ESL Affect’s absence, third events and the web group proceed to maintain women-only CS2 competitions alive in 2026.

Again in January, the non-profit organisation Brace for Affect introduced a partnership with ESL FACEIT Group to advertise ladies in CS2. The deal sees the charity use FACEIT Golf equipment to organise female-only competitions throughout 5 areas all through 2026.

In 2026, BIG EQUIPA has additionally been competing in smaller C-Tier and B-Tier occasions, together with the JB Professional League Season 1 again in February, the place the staff positioned third out of the eight groups that competed.

Whereas the skilled CS2 ladies’s scene’s future stays unsure, the group has strived to organise occasions, updates, chief boards and discussions by the ‘Feminine Counter-Strike’ hub on the esports platform FACEIT.