CSBattle Halloween event 2026: races, cases, raffle and what it's worth

The CSBattle Halloween event at a glance

Key dates and times

CSBattle runs the event on UTC. Here is what that means in Brussels time. The clocks go back on 25 October, so the times shift by an hour from then on.

How race points work

Everything in the event runs on race points. You earn them by wagering, and CSBattle says the number of points per coin is "based on the house edge of the game", with extra rules to stop abuse.

What that means in practice:

• Higher-edge games should earn more points per coin. That is how points tied to the house edge normally work: a game where you lose less on average earns fewer points.
• You can't game the race by switching games. If points follow the house edge, the race mostly ranks how much players are expected to lose, not how much they wager.
• CSBattle does not publish the exact rate for each game. The easiest way to see your own points is the raffle board: it shows your ticket count at the top, and one ticket is 15 race points (more on that below).

This is the opposite of how the BANDITS leaderboard works. On the BANDITS board every coin you wager counts the same, whichever game it is on. More on playing both at once further down.

The daily race: 1,000 coins every day

The daily race resets every day at 00:00 UTC and pays the top 11:

How many points it takes: on 20 October, with two and a half hours left, 1st place had 37,684 points and 11th had 1,417. The top spot moves around. The last four daily winners were four different players.

The monthly race: 15,000 coins for October

The monthly race counts every race point from 1 to 31 October and pays the top 12:

On 20 October, with 11 days to go, 1st place had 149,557 points, 5th had 84,303 and 12th had 21,352. Note how steep it is: the top five share 13,500 of the 15,000. From 7th place down, the prizes are small.

Pumpkins and the five Halloween cases

Race points also give you pumpkins, the event currency. CSBattle's rule is 1 pumpkin per 10 "normalized coins", and normalized coins are your race points divided by 1.5. Put simply: every 15 race points gives you 1 pumpkin.

You spend pumpkins on five Halloween cases. We read the odds on all five:

The striking part: all five cases pay back exactly the same, 0.02 coins per pumpkin. The case you pick only changes how swingy the result is, not what you get on average. Halloween 5 has the biggest single hit, an AK-47 B the Monster worth 387.63 coins, but at a 1 in 10,000 chance. Halloween 1 lets you open more often with smaller swings.

What that means for your pumpkins: 500 pumpkins take 7,500 race points to earn and open about 10 coins of skins on average. They are a small bonus, not a reason to wager. Spend them before the event ends on 1 November, because we would not count on them being worth anything after.

The Halloween raffle: 8,100 coins of skins

The raffle runs in two rounds, each with the same eight skins worth 4,050 coins in total:

Tickets work like pumpkins: every 15 race points gives you 1 raffle ticket. You don't buy them or claim them. They come with your wagers.

Round 1 has already been drawn. It had at least 87,000 tickets in it, which works out to at most about 0.05 coins of prizes per ticket. The player with the most tickets held about 8% of them and won three of the eight prizes, the Fire Serpent among them. Luck plays a big part, but more tickets means more chances.

Round 2 is open now and is drawn live around midnight Brussels time on the night of 1 to 2 November. The ranges on the board run past 25,000 tickets already, and that number will keep growing until the draw.

The Halloween calendar

The calendar has 32 cells, one for each day of the event. Each day one new cell opens, and you claim it by clicking it. The reward stays hidden until you claim it.

Two things to know:

• A missed day looks to be gone. On the account we checked, the past days were greyed out and only that day's cell could be opened.
• You need a recent deposit. To claim a cell, you must have deposited at least 10 coins in the last 14 days. Without one, you can't claim.

CSBattle ran a similar calendar for Halloween 2025, where you collected pumpkins every day for 31 days.

What the event is really worth

The event page says 100,000 coins. The prizes we could put a number on add up to about 55,100: up to 32,000 from the daily races (1,000 a day for up to 32 days), 15,000 from the monthly race and 8,100 from the raffle. The calendar rewards and the pumpkin cases have no listed value, so they are not in that total.

And here is what your points turn into on the side:

Put together: for every 1,500 race points you get about 2 coins from pumpkins and at most about 5 coins of raffle value. The real prizes are in the races, and those go to a small group of very large players. For most people the honest way to see the event is as a free extra on play you would do anyway.

One thing to keep in mind when you compare prizes: a CSBattle coin is not a dollar. When we checked the deposit screen on 16 October, a coin cost about $0.66. Check the current rate before you convert.

How to play it with code BANDITS

The Halloween event and the BANDITS leaderboard count the same wagers, so you can be on both at once:

1. Sign in through csbattle.com/r/bandits, or enter code BANDITS in the referral code box on the deposit screen if you already have an account. See our promo code guide for where to find it.
2. Play as you normally would. Every wager counts on the 500 coin BANDITS leaderboard in full, and earns race points, pumpkins and raffle tickets for the Halloween event at the same time.
3. Claim the calendar every day you play. It is the only part of the event that doesn't depend on how much you wager, but it does need a deposit of at least 10 coins in the last 14 days.
4. Spend your pumpkins before 1 November ends.

The current BANDITS period runs from 12 to 25 October. The next one is announced on stream and in the Discord, and how the leaderboards work has the full rules. The prizes and payout steps are on the CSBattle rewards page.

If you open cases while you play, our check of 90 CSBattle cases shows which ones pay back the most. The gap between the best and the worst case is more than 5% of what you wager, which is likely to matter more than the pumpkins and tickets.

Before you play

• Decide your budget for the event before you start, and stop when it is gone. Races reward volume, and chasing a place on the board is the quickest way to lose more than you planned.
• Don't wager for the pumpkins or the raffle. Together they are worth less than half a coin for every 100 race points you earn.
• Check the times in UTC. A daily race that ends at 02:00 Brussels time is easy to miss.

If gambling stops feeling like entertainment, read our responsible gambling page.

How we checked

On 20 October 2026 we read the event pages on csbattle.com (the races, raffle, calendar and cases) and the item list, values and odds of all five Halloween case pages. Every case's odds add up to exactly 100%. A case's average value is each item's value times its chance, added up. Prize ladders and dates come from the same pages. We tried to claim a calendar cell on our own account to confirm the deposit rule. We checked the 1 ticket per 15 points rule against the board: for two of the top players, their tickets times 15 matched their race points almost exactly. Standings are a snapshot from the evening of 20 October.

What we couldn't check: CSBattle does not publish how many race points each game gives per coin, and the calendar rewards stay hidden until you claim them. The event pages are always the final word.