BIG announces female CS2 initiative Project Breach

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

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

BIG’s initiative comes a number of months after one of many greatest 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 other esports organisations fielding feminine groups and CS2 fans alike.

BIG at the moment has an energetic all-women’s esports staff in CS2 known as BIG EQUIPA, which was first shaped in 2022 after signing the equipa roster. Earlier than the circuit was suspended, BIG EQUIPA received ESL Impact 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 deliver training activations to followers.

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

Again in January, the non-profit organisation Brace for Impact 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 Pro 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 neighborhood has strived to organise occasions, updates, chief boards and discussions by way of the ‘Female Counter-Strike’ hub on the esports platform FACEIT.