Autumn comes to the Count's court.
The blooms did not last. They never do. Season 6 filled the graves with flowers and reminded everyone that nothing stays buried. Season 7 arrives to remind them that nothing stays standing, either.
DraculaN Season 7 carries the series into autumn, continuing its commitment to structured, high-level offline Counter-Strike at the moment in the year when everything gets measured. What grew through the summer is harvested here. What was only decoration falls away.
The leaves turn. The ground hardens. Only the names carved into the stones persist , and this time there are no flowers left to hide them.
Open to up to 24 teams, Season 7 welcomes competitors from across the Global Region to Bucharest for the largest chapter of LAN combat that a DraculaN regular season has staged. Old rivalries return with a full season of results behind them. New contenders arrive with something to prove.
COUNTER-STRIKE FALLS ON BUCHAREST
DraculaN Season 7 maintains the open LAN structure for its autumn battlefield:
The event will take place between
19 and 23 October 2026.
The tournament remains fully open, with no invitation system or entry restrictions. Teams from the Global Region, as defined in Valve's official rules, are eligible to participate.
Registration is first-come, first-served on www.draculan.gg, and the entry fee is
€1500 + VAT per team.
Format & Seeding
Tier 2 VRS Ranked event
Seeding will be based on the official VRS Rankings released by Valve in October 2026.
Depending on the final number of sign-ups, the top 4 or top 8 registered teams by VRS ranking, calculated two weeks before the event, will advance directly into the Main Event.
All remaining teams will fight through the Open LAN Group Stage Qualifiers on Day 1.
Every stage of the competition, from the Group Stage to the Double Elimination Playoffs, will be played entirely offline in a controlled LAN environment, ensuring competitive integrity from the first map to the last.
Coverage and ranking status will be submitted for approval to HLTV.org, although acceptance cannot be guaranteed.
At the full field of 24 teams, the competition runs as follows:
• The top 8 teams by VRS are seeded directly into the Playoffs.
• The remaining 16 teams are drawn into 4 GSL groups. Opening and winners' matches are BO1. Elimination and decider matches are BO3. The top two teams from each group advance.
• Playoffs: a 16-team Double Elimination bracket. Every match is BO3.
Sixteen teams reach the bracket. Half arrive on reputation. Half arrive having already survived a day of it.
Every stage of the competition, from the Group Stage to the Double Elimination Playoffs, will be played entirely offline in a controlled LAN environment, ensuring competitive integrity from the first map to the last.
Coverage and ranking status will be submitted for approval to HLTV.org, although acceptance cannot be guaranteed.
The Venue
New season, new ground. Our new hub is purpose-built and fully esports ready, a venue designed around competitive Counter-Strike rather than adapted to it, where preparation and pressure share the same floor.
The old venue holds eight full practice setups of five PCs each, forty stations in total, so entire rosters can warm up together. Every team is guaranteed access to the practice area for a minimum of two hours before their first official match of the day.
In case you need to play competitive matches, setups are allocated first-come, first-served, with priority given to teams playing in ranked tournament matches. This is done independently from practice times.
The Spirit of Draculan
Season 7 preserves the soul of DraculaN while raising the stakes.
The event continues to stand for transparent competition, fair play, and offline Counter-Strike without compromise. No closed doors. No shortcuts. No artificial paths forward. Only teams, matches played on site, and results decided in real time.
In DraculaN Season 7, teams face each other on equal ground, under thinning branches and over the same familiar graves, where only those who survive the fall move forward.
