Amateur squad Sky Esports has won the G2 x PUBG MOBILE Community Challenge, a tournament played on a custom map inspired by Counter-Strike’s Dust II inside PUBG MOBILE. The team beat Star Dust Esports 2-0 in the best-of-three grand final over the weekend of 7 and 8 November, and took home €500 in cash, a €125 Amazon gift card and G2 merchandise.
Twenty-five teams entered the event, which was open only to amateur players and ran in a round-based bomb-defusal mode rather than PUBG MOBILE’s usual battle royale. The winners are not to be confused with Skyesports, the Indian tournament organiser.
Sky Esports did not lose a match all weekend
The tournament opened on Saturday with best-of-one, single-elimination qualifiers, which left no room for an off day. With 25 teams chasing four semi-final places, a single defeat ended a team’s weekend. Sky Esports, WM Officials, Star Dust Esports and DMSXBIS came through to claim those slots. On Sunday, both semi-finals were played as best-of-three series, and both ended 2-0, with Sky Esports beating WM Officials and Star Dust Esports knocking out DMSXBIS.
The grand final was just as one-sided as the semi-finals. Sky Esports took the opening map and then won the second 6-1 to complete a 2-0 series win, according to the organisers. In the third-place match, played alongside the final, DMSXBIS beat WM Officials to finish on the podium. That means Sky Esports won every match it played across the two days, from the single-elimination qualifiers to the final.
Every team in the top four left with a prize. The cash prizes add up to the €1,000 prize pool that G2’s community account advertised when registration opened on 27 October. On top of that, the top three teams each received a €125 Amazon gift card and G2 merchandise, while fourth place took €125 in gift cards.
| Place | Team | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Sky Esports | €500, €125 Amazon gift card, G2 merchandise |
| 2nd | Star Dust Esports | €300, €125 Amazon gift card, G2 merchandise |
| 3rd | DMSXBIS | €200, €125 Amazon gift card, G2 merchandise |
| 4th | WM Officials | €125 in Amazon gift cards |
A Dust II remake inside PUBG MOBILE is G2’s pitch to Counter-Strike players
The custom map was the event’s main hook for Counter-Strike fans. Called PMG2, it was built in World of Wonder, the creation mode in PUBG MOBILE that lets players and partners design their own maps and game modes. Its layout is inspired by Dust II, one of the best-known maps in Counter-Strike’s history. To keep the Counter-Strike feel, teams played a classic bomb-defusal mode in which each player had a single life per match, according to the organisers.
G2 and PUBG MOBILE said the event was designed to connect with Western Europe’s large Counter-Strike community and to introduce G2 fans to the mobile game. G2 is one of the most recognisable names in Counter-Strike, and its roster has included stars such as m0NESY, who played his first full season with G2 in 2022 before joining Falcons. The organisers described the Dust II-style map as a bridge between the familiar world of Counter-Strike and the mobile battle royale.
Restricting entry to amateurs also gave smaller teams a competitive stage of their own. All four semi-finalists entered as amateur teams, in line with the event’s rules, and the prize structure rewarded every team in the top four. The format put accessibility ahead of a large prize pool, which suits an event built to bring new players into the game.
The Community Challenge sits inside a bigger PUBG MOBILE push in Western Europe
The tournament is the latest project in a partnership that G2 and PUBG MOBILE Esports announced in Berlin on 15 June. Under that deal, G2’s media house, 62, supports tournament operations and community activations, while German creator JanickaGaming was named PUBG MOBILE’s ambassador for the region, with weekly streams of the game. “It still feels like we’re only scratching the surface of what’s possible here,” G2 chief executive Alban Dechelotte said at the time. Shaowei Chen, PUBG MOBILE’s head of Western Europe publishing, called the region “one of the most promising growth frontiers for PUBG MOBILE esports”.
The partnership’s first major event was the 2026 PUBG MOBILE Global Open Western Europe Finals in September, organised by 62. According to the official results, 16 teams played 18 matches for a $23,000 prize pool, and British team Hustler Crew won with 157 points and 109 eliminations. Hustler Crew and Ukraine’s NEXT qualified for the PMGO Season 2 main event in Pakistan, which Wolves Esports went on to win.
The pathway also includes the PUBG MOBILE Club Open Western Europe, which the partners launched alongside the June announcement as an amateur-to-pro route. PUBG MOBILE, which is co-developed by Tencent’s Lightspeed Studios and Krafton, is also widening its reach with PUBG MOBILE FLASH, a lighter version of the game due on 13 November. At the top of the competitive ladder, PMGO is one of the routes to the PUBG MOBILE Global Championship, whose 2026 field is now set.
