1win’s CS2 players have been handed the most glamorous incentive of the season, as the organisation’s owner has promised each of them a Rolls-Royce if they win the PGL Major Singapore 2026. The offer arrived on November 3, only a day after Valve’s rankings confirmed that the team will be in Singapore later this month.
1win is the esports organisation backed by the betting brand of the same name, and its owner posts publicly under the name “Owner 1win”. He shared the message on his Telegram channel and on X on Tuesday evening, and fan accounts such as Ozzny_CS2 soon carried it across the wider Counter-Strike community.
A UFC title gift set up the Rolls-Royce promise for nafany and company
The statement opened with news that the owner had just given UFC fighter Petr Yan a Rolls-Royce Cullinan for defending his title, a gift he had first promised in October. Straight after that, he turned to his CS2 team and said it had earned a chance to compete for the title at a Major “for the first time”.
“For the guys, this is a huge step,” he wrote, before adding that “a Major is the pinnacle of CS, and there’s no bigger goal.” Then came the headline offer: “Guys, if you win the Major, each of you gets a Rolls-Royce from me.” He signed off by telling the players that he keeps his word and that the next move now belongs to them. Coming from an owner who has already rewarded this roster once this season, that line carries more weight than the usual pre-Major hype.
That earlier reward came barely a month ago, during the team’s best run of the year. On October 6, the owner announced a $100,000 bonus after 1win beat Team Spirit 2-0 at ESL Pro League Season 24, a result he said lifted the side into the world’s top 14. That win completed a 3-1 group run in which 1win lost to Team Vitality before beating G2, Legacy and Spirit, according to Valve’s match records. Aurora then knocked 1win out of the playoffs on October 9, although by that point the team had already shown that it could beat the very best.
How the former TDK lineup secured a Stage 2 place in Singapore
Interestingly, 1win’s current roster has only been with the organisation since August 1, when 1win announced that it had signed the TDK lineup coached by Konstantin “groove” Pikiner. That deal brought in Vladislav “nafany” Gorshkov, Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov, Artem “ArtFr0st” Kharitonov, Andrey “BELCHONOKK” Yasinskiy and Petr “fame” Bolyshev.
The final push came in Moscow on November 1, where the team won a LAN event at Skolkovo by beating HOTU in the final. The organisation said the title was worth 8,000,000 roubles, which Valve’s records list as $96,646, and the result counted towards the standings published the very next day.
PGL fills all 32 places at the Major from the Valve Regional Standings of November 2, and those standings ranked 1win 10th in Europe with 1,598 points. That was enough for a place in Stage 2, while HOTU, the side 1win beat in Moscow, finished 19th and missed out on Singapore altogether.
The offer did not stay unique for long, though. Less than two hours after the original post, Ali “Ako” Muhanned, who took over as CEO of BC Game in October, said on X that he would match the Rolls-Royce for his own players.
In a playful dig at his rival, he also threw in jewellery and “one wish each” for every player. His post did not spell out what the BC Game roster has to achieve to collect the reward, but it arrived as a direct answer to the 1win offer.
BC Game, whose roster includes Oleksandr “s1mple” Kostyliev, finished second in Asia in the same November 2 standings. As a result, the team is expected to begin its campaign in Stage 1, which means the two rosters chasing these cars could even cross paths on the road to the Playoffs.
Thirty-two teams chase $1.25 million at the first Southeast Asian Major
Away from the car park, the prize on offer in Singapore is significant in its own right. According to PGL, the Major runs from November 24 to December 13 with 32 teams competing for a $1,250,000 prize pool, and it is the first Counter-Strike 2 Major held in Southeast Asia.
The tournament unfolds across three stages before the final four days move to the Singapore Indoor Stadium, which holds more than 12,000 spectators. The Playoffs are played there from December 10 to 13, and for the first time at a Major, a third-place decider will take place before the best-of-five Grand Final.
The road to those cars is a long shot for the players though. The team has to come through Stage 2 and Stage 3, and then it must win every series in the Playoffs, with the last of them on December 13 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. Should nafany and his teammates pull it off, the owner will have five Rolls-Royces to deliver. Given how quickly the Petr Yan gift followed his October promise, very few people in the Counter-Strike scene will doubt that he intends to honour this one as well.
