Envy’s Singapore Major bid starts with a 21st-place ranking

Priya Nambiar, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Envy have returned to competitive CS2 by signing the former 3DMAX lineup, nearly six years after their last team, with the French five entering the race for a place at the PGL Singapore Major 2026.

Announced on 29 September, the move reunites Envy with the French Counter-Strike scene behind the organisation’s biggest achievement. Envy’s earlier French lineups featured Dan ‘apEX’ Madesclaire and Kenny ‘kennyS’ Schrub, and won the organisation’s only Major at DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015, beating NAVI 2-0 in the final.

Envy’s last Counter-Strike team, in 2020, was an international lineup featuring MICHU, Nifty and Thomas. The organisation had teased its return on 23 September, shortly after the 3DMAX roster won Logitech G Play Connect 2026.

A tournament-winning core with little time to settle

The roster consists of AWPer and in-game leader Bryan ‘Maka’ Canda, Lucas ‘Lucky’ Chastang, Kévin ‘misutaaa’ Rabier, Filip ‘Graviti’ Brankovic and Jeremy ‘Kursy’ Gast. Maka was named MVP at Logitech G Play Connect, the team’s last event under the 3DMAX name.

Envy are expected to make their debut at Stake Pulse Beat III, which starts on 12 October. They currently sit 21st in the Valve Regional Standings (VRS), the ranking used for Major invitations, and are scheduled to play DraculaN Season 7 as well before the 2 November invitation cutoff. The roster’s VRS position gives it a head start rather than requiring a climb from zero-a factor that looms large in a CS2 scene shaped by major roster moves.

The deal’s reported structure also separates the players’ move from 3DMAX’s financial difficulties: Envy took on the lineup and its VRS points, but not the former organisation’s outstanding debt. The report puts that debt at around $2 million, including roughly €1.5 million in unpaid salaries, prize money and sticker revenue; those figures have not been independently verified here.

Singapore qualification is the immediate test

A Mischief qualification simulation gives Envy a 38.8% chance of reaching the Singapore Major and projects a possible final ranking between 14th and 26th. That is a model, not a guarantee: Envy are 21st now and outside its projected qualification line, with two ranked events left to change the picture.

The comeback also arrives as Counter-Strike organisations face pressure from reduced sticker revenue and restrictions on promoting skin-gambling, case-opening and skin-trading websites at officially licensed tournaments. The French lineup now has a short window to turn that starting position into a Major invitation.

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Priya Nambiar, Senior Editor

Priya Nambiar is a UK-based esports writer with a deep passion for competitive gaming and the communities that surround it. Growing up in Leicester, she split her time between following Premier League football and grinding ranked queues, a combination that gave her an instinct for what makes competition tick at any level. She has been covering esports since the early days of mainstream streaming, and still believes the scene is only just getting started.

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