De_Airport Masters: 14 teams descend on Oslo for two days of CS2
Landing Zone's De_Airport Masters kicks off today in Gardermoen with 14 teams competing for $8,000. Here are the groups, the schedule, and what to watch.
Epic location — picture kindly provided by @Landingzone2026
The setup
Landing Zone's De_Airport Masters gets underway today at Thon Hotel Oslo Airport in Gardermoen, Norway. Fourteen teams, four groups, two days of games, $8,000 on the line.
The venue is exactly what it sounds like: an airport hotel. Teams flying in from across Europe skip the city transfer — practical, if not glamorous. The setup and branding look sharp. Clean staging, solid production value, as you can see in the cover image above. Excited to see how the stream goes tomorrow.
Format
Four groups, all Round Robin BO1. Top three from each group advance. Group winners earn a direct pass to the semifinals; second and third-place finishers play a knockout BO3 for the remaining spots. After that: semis, a third-place decider, and the Grand Final — all BO3.
Day 1 (February 20) runs all the group matches. Day 2 (February 21) has the knockouts and bracket.
The groups
Group A: Metizport, Lilmix, Infurity
Three teams, so all three advance. This is essentially Metizport's warm-up block — they should go 2-0 without breaking a sweat. For Lilmix and Infurity, two guaranteed matches before the knockout stage is a bonus, but they'll need to figure out their CS before facing real competition.
Group B: Fingers Crossed, Acend Club, Gamle Venner, Insidious
The morning's most competitive pool. Fingers Crossed are the top seed but Acend Club are close enough to push them. Their head-to-head at 11:00 local decides who tops the group and who has to play a knockout BO3. Gamle Venner are the dark horse. Insidious, entering at 14th seed, will need an upset to avoid an early exit.
Group C: AaB esport, SemperFi, TICKET TO NORWAY, Young Ninjas
The headline pool. AaB vs SemperFi at 16:00 local is the best match of the group stage. Nine of the fourteen teams carry world rankings into this event. Metizport (#79) and Phantom (#80) lead the field; AaB sit at 95, SemperFi at 103. So this match is effectively third vs fourth by ranking — two sides who know exactly where they stand relative to each other, which tends to make for a proper game. TICKET TO NORWAY and Young Ninjas are fighting for third place and one more series on Day 2.
TICKET TO NORWAY, seeded 12th at a tournament held in Norway, is either a fun coincidence or very deliberate. Probably both.
Group D: Phantom Esports, BOSS, ReThink
Three teams, all three advance. Phantom are the second overall seed and should handle their group. In BO1, though, both BOSS and ReThink have a shot to make it awkward.
Day 1 schedule
Groups A and B play the morning block; C and D take the afternoon.
10:00 UTC — Metizport vs Lilmix · Fingers Crossed vs Acend Club · Gamle Venner vs Insidious
11:00 UTC — Metizport vs Infurity · Fingers Crossed vs Gamle Venner · Acend Club vs Insidious
12:00 UTC — Lilmix vs Infurity · Fingers Crossed vs Insidious · Acend Club vs Gamle Venner
15:00 UTC — AaB esport vs SemperFi · TICKET TO NORWAY vs Young Ninjas · Phantom Esports vs BOSS
16:00 UTC — AaB esport vs TICKET TO NORWAY · SemperFi vs Young Ninjas · BOSS vs ReThink
17:00 UTC — AaB esport vs Young Ninjas · SemperFi vs TICKET TO NORWAY
18:00 UTC — Phantom Esports vs ReThink
You can follow all the matches as they happen right here on De_Airport Masters.