In his latest interview, the player from the FaZe Clan team, Håvard "rain" Nygaard, made a prediction regarding the possible release date for CS2, or perhaps not a prediction at all.

rain:

Considering that all the maps have been released and the situation is rapidly improving, I have a feeling that ESL Pro League Season 18 will be the last tournament in CS:GO. After that, we will probably switch to CS2.

 

The only question remaining is whether the developers will be able to fix all the shortcomings that CS2 currently has.

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EPL S18 takes place from August 30 to October 1. Teams are fighting for a prize pool of $850,000. The champion will also receive quotas for BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 and IEM Katowice 2024. You can track the schedule and results of the competition via the link.

And the next tier-1 tournament is Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023, which starts on October 16, 2023!

Rumors are going around that the developers have a strict deadline, namely September 28-29, 2023, but as for the reliability of this information, we can't say anything.

Source — Fragster