Paris 2023 Sells the Most Stickers. Katowice 2014 Makes the Most Money.
Market Insights
Paris 2023 accounts for a quarter of all Major sticker sales, but only a sliver of the money. 42 Katowice 2014 trades outweigh 31,577 Paris trades, and the oldest Majors are quietly disappearing from the market.
Open any CS2 sticker feed and it looks like the market belongs to the newest Majors. Paris 2023, Copenhagen 2024 and Budapest 2025 capsules change hands thousands of times a day. But count the money instead of the trades, and the picture flips completely.
We took every sticker from all 25 CS Majors, from DreamHack 2013 to Cologne 2026, and lined up two numbers for each tournament: how many of its stickers sold in the last 30 days, and roughly how many dollars those sales were worth. That makes 10,183 stickers across 35+ marketplaces. The two rankings barely look like they describe the same market.
One Major sells a quarter of all stickers
Over the last 30 days, tracked marketplaces recorded 128,366 Major sticker sales. Paris 2023 alone accounts for 31,577 of them. That is 24.6% of every Major sticker sold, from a single tournament out of 25.
Copenhagen 2024 is second with 24,518 sales (19.1%). Together, the two Majors make up 43.7% of the whole sticker flow. Budapest 2025 adds another 10.7%, and Austin 2025 7.3%. The four most recent "big" Majors before Cologne 2026 cover almost two thirds of all trades.
The individual leaders confirm it. The most traded Major sticker of the month is Cloud9 (Glitter) from Copenhagen 2024 with 4,565 sales. Natus Vincere (Glitter) from the same Major is second with 2,483, and BLAST.tv (Gold) from Paris 2023 is third with 1,982. You can check live prices for any of them on the CS2 stickers page.
If you only looked at activity, you would conclude that sticker trading in 2026 is a Paris and Copenhagen business. You would be wrong about where the money is.
Count the dollars and Paris almost disappears
To see the money side, we multiplied each sticker's 30-day sales by its 30-day average price and added everything up per Major. It is an estimate, not a receipt, but it shows the scale clearly.
By that measure, Paris 2023 drops from first place to seventeenth. Its 31,577 sales add up to roughly $8,500. The average Paris sticker changes hands for about 27 cents. Half of all 600 Paris stickers are listed under $0.10 right now.
Copenhagen 2024 holds up better: about $36,000 in estimated volume, 4.8% of the dollar total, at roughly $1.48 per sale. Budapest 2025 sits under 1%. Austin 2025 under 1%. RMR 2020, the sixth most traded Major by count, is dead last among the listed tournaments by dollars.
So the Majors that dominate the trade feed together generate a small slice of the money. The volume is real, but it is mostly cents moving back and forth.
42 sales that outweigh 31,577
Now look at the other end. Katowice 2014 recorded just 42 sticker sales in the same 30 days. That is 0.03% of all Major sticker trades. Its estimated dollar volume: about $243,000, or 32% of the entire Major sticker market by value.
In other words, 42 Katowice 2014 trades moved almost 30 times more money than 31,577 Paris 2023 trades. The average Katowice 2014 sale is worth around $5,780.
A big part of that comes from a handful of names. A single Titan (Holo) sale alone accounts for an estimated $130,000. Six Virtus.Pro (Holo) sales add roughly $28,600, and one Team LDLC.com (Holo) about $23,500. The current cheapest listings for Katowice 2014 Holos tell the same story: iBUYPOWER (Holo) is listed at $99,990, Reason Gaming (Holo) at $74,151, Titan (Holo) at $69,690.
And it is not only Katowice 2014. Krakow 2017 (11% of dollar volume), Boston 2018 (10.1%) and London 2018 (9.5%) all rank in the top four by money while sitting below 1% by trade count. Every Major from before 2019 combined makes up just 6.2% of sticker sales, but about 79.5% of the estimated dollars.
Old stickers don't get cheaper. They vanish
There is a second pattern hiding in the same data: older Majors don't just get more expensive, they slowly disappear from the market.
For every Major we checked what share of its stickers is not listed on any tracked marketplace at all. For every tournament from Stockholm 2021 onward, the answer is zero: every single sticker can still be bought somewhere. From 2019 back to 2017 it is around 5-6%. Then it jumps. For the 2015-2017 Majors (Cluj-Napoca, Cologne 2015, Cologne 2016, Columbus, Atlanta) roughly a third of all stickers have no live listing. DreamHack 2014 is at 44%.
The correlation between a Major's age and the share of its stickers that are gone from the market is about 0.75. That is a strong relationship for anything in a market this noisy. The older the tournament, the more of it has been applied to guns, kept in inventories that never sell, or simply lost.
The extreme case is the first capsule in Counter-Strike history, DreamHack 2013. It has 12 stickers. Today, 0 of them are listed on any marketplace we track, and none sold in the last 30 days. The whole tournament is effectively off the market.
Want to see how each event is valued right now? Our tournament pages collect the sticker data by Major.
Paris peaked in its own month
The newest high volume Majors share one more uncomfortable fact: most of them peaked at launch.
Out of the 600 Paris 2023 stickers, 387 reached their all-time high in May 2023, the month the Major was played. The median Paris sticker trades 97% below its all-time high today. For Austin 2025 the median drawdown is 96.7%, for Budapest 2025 95.3%, for Shanghai 2024 93.3%. Across all listed Major stickers, about two thirds sit more than 80% below their peak.
The older Majors look completely different. The median Katowice 2015 sticker is 53.5% below its all-time high, Cologne 2014 58.5%, Katowice 2014 62.7%. Still a long way down, but these are stickers that went up for years before coming back, not stickers that only went down after release week.
That is the trap in the trade count. The capsules that feel "alive" because everyone trades them are mostly the ones that lost almost all of their value. The ones that hold value barely trade at all, because almost nobody can afford them and almost nobody wants to sell.
Paper vs Holo: the same split, by type
The same gap shows up when you split stickers by finish instead of by tournament.
Paper stickers are 45.6% of all Major sticker sales, but only about 9.9% of the estimated dollars. Glitter is 18.8% of sales and 2.2% of the money. Holo is the opposite: 14.8% of sales, 39.4% of the money. Gold: 11.5% of sales, 35.3% of the money. Foil: 6.9% of sales, 13.2% of the money.
The median Paper and Glitter sticker is listed at about 6 cents. The median Gold sticker is at $5.19 and the median Foil at $6.06. A Holo or Gold from an old Major is a different asset class from a Paper sticker from a recent one, even though both are called "stickers".
What this means if you trade stickers
Three practical takeaways from the numbers:
High volume is not the same as a good investment. Paris 2023 and the 2024-2025 Majors are liquid, so they are easy to buy and sell. But the typical sticker from them already lost 93-97% from its peak, and most trades are worth cents.
Scarcity is the real driver for old Majors. As listings disappear, the stickers that are left get rarer every year. That is why a few dozen trades from 2014-2018 Majors outweigh tens of thousands of new ones.
The spread between markets matters more on cheap stickers. When an item costs 15 cents, a difference of a few cents between marketplaces is a big percentage. Before you buy in bulk, compare prices across marketplaces to see where it is actually cheapest.
If you hold stickers from a specific Major, you can set a price alert and get notified when they move, instead of checking every day.
Explore the data
All numbers in this article come from CSMarketCap's own tracking of 35+ marketplaces. To go deeper: