Play on a Team With HeatoN or pashaBiceps: Free CS2 Qualifiers Open for the King’s Crown Show Match by Kinguin

Most players only ever watch their idols on stream. On Sunday, 15 November, eight of them will play on the same team. Kinguin’s King’s Crown Show Match puts Counter-Strike legends HeatoN and pashaBiceps in charge of two 5v5 teams, and every other seat goes to a player from the community.

The way in is free and open to everyone: two 1v1 qualifiers on Saturday, 14 November, one for each captain. The show match headlines King’s Crown Tournaments, a season of free CS2 tournaments for players in Europe that runs every weekend until 13 December.

How to Earn a Seat Next to a Legend

HeatoN is one of the first stars of competitive Counter-Strike and an icon of the Swedish scene. pashaBiceps won a Major with Virtus.pro in Katowice in 2014 and is one of the best-known faces of Polish Counter-Strike. In the show match, each of them captains a team, and the rest of both rosters comes from the community.

• Saturday, 14 November, from 19:00 CET: two 1v1 qualifiers run side by side, one for Team HeatoN and one for Team Pasha. Both run at the same time, so every player picks one captain to play for.
• The top 4 of each qualifier join their captain’s team for Sunday.
• Sunday, 15 November, from 19:00 CET: Team HeatoN vs Team Pasha, 5v5, best of 3, streamed live on https://www.twitch.tv/heatoncs and https://www.twitch.tv/pashabiceps.

The qualifiers pay out like every King’s Crown tournament: the top 8 of each qualifier win Kinguin vouchers worth EUR 70, EUR 30, EUR 15 or EUR 5. The four community players on the winning team each take home an M4A1-S | Golden Coil with a Team Kinguin (Foil) | Cologne 2015 sticker. Viewers can join in too, with Kinguin gift cards given away during the broadcast.

Sign-up for both qualifiers is open on Vieforit. 

Free Tournaments Every Weekend Until 13 December

King’s Crown Tournaments started on 17 October and run every weekend until 13 December: 1v1 on Saturdays, 2v2 on Sundays, except on 14-15 November, when the qualifiers and the show match take their place. Entry is free, with no purchase and no Kinguin account needed. Spots are limited, so sign up early.

• Up to 512 players in every 1v1 tournament, European servers, players aged 16 and over.
• Start at 19:00 CET, check-in between 18:15 and 18:45 CET.
• Single elimination, every round best of 1, the final best of 3.
• Akros anti-cheat and live admins in every tournament.
• Prizes in every tournament: the top 8 win Kinguin vouchers, EUR 70 for 1st, EUR 30 for 2nd, EUR 15 for 3rd-4th and EUR 5 for 5th-8th. In 2v2, both players get the full amount. More than EUR 4,000 in prizes across the season.

The series has its own map, Kinguin Arena, built for King’s Crown and played with the M4A1-S and P250. After the show match, regular weekends continue until the last weekend of the season on 12-13 December. Players can join as many weekends as they like.

How to Join

1. Create a free account on Vieforit and sign up for each tournament separately.
2. Install the Akros anti-cheat from the tournament page.
3. Check in between 18:15 and 18:45 CET on match day.

As a bonus for the community, the code KINGSCROWN gives 8% off a Kinguin cart until 13 December 2026. You don’t need to play in the tournaments to use it.

Key dates

• 7-8 November: weekly tournaments
• 14 November: show match qualifiers for Team HeatoN and Team Pasha, from 19:00 CET
• 15 November: King’s Crown Show Match, Team HeatoN vs Team Pasha, live from 19:00 CET
• 21-22 November: weekly tournaments
• 28-29 November: weekly tournaments
• 5-6 December: weekly tournaments
• 12-13 December: last weekend of the season

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