Inner Circle and Acend have both punched their tickets to the grand final of Digital Crusade Super DraculaN Season 1, setting up a best-of-five title decider in Bucharest, Romania on 28 June 2026 at 17:00 UTC.
The two sides earned their spots by dispatching their respective semi-final opponents – Inner Circle edging past Brazilian Major-attending outfit Sharks on Anubis in overtime, while Acend swept through Echo to book their place in the final. The tournament has featured 16 teams competing across a $150,000 prize pool, and now just these two remain.
- Grand final format: best-of-five
- Date and time: 28 June 2026, 17:00 UTC
- Location: Bucharest, Romania
- Prize pool: $150,000
- Tournament: Digital Crusade Super DraculaN Season 1
A Rematch With History Behind It
This final carries genuine narrative weight beyond the trophy. The two teams have already met twice in 2026 at BC.Game Masters Championship Season 2 – Acend took the early-stage match, before Inner Circle responded with a 2–1 win later in that same event. Whoever takes Super DraculaN will have the clearest claim to settling the head-to-head argument, at least for now.
Inner Circle enter as the higher-ranked side, sitting around HLTV rank 42 compared to Acend’s approximate rank of 59, but in a best-of-five those numbers become background noise quickly. Map veto depth and stamina across five maps will matter far more than the seed gap – especially given how close their previous meetings have been. For context on how dramatic CS2’s biggest finals can get, the IEM Cologne 2026 Major grand final showed exactly how quickly momentum can swing at that format length.
The grand final gets underway on 28 June, with post-match coverage on prize distribution and circuit implications to follow.