CS2 ban wave tracker

Of the 351 players checked on CSWatch whose latest ban landed in the last 90 days, 351 have a game ban and 8 a VAC ban. The 25 August 2026 wave was game bans only. A VAC ban means Valve Anti-Cheat detected cheat software; a game ban comes from Valve as the developer of CS2 in other ways, for example after a review of reported matches. So a player with a clean VAC record can still be banned: check both with the VAC and game ban checker.

A match cut short by VAC Live is something else again: read what VAC Live is.

Link your match history on CSWatch and we check the other nine players of every match you play. When one of them gets a VAC or game ban after that match, you get a notification. For a single match, paste its share code into the match checker.

Every time someone checks a player or a whole match on CSWatch, we store Steam's ban data for that player. Steam gives the number of VAC and game bans and the days since the latest one, so each banned player counts once, on the day of their latest ban. This is a sample, not all of Steam: 61,589 players someone looked up, and the other nine players of the matches they checked. The last few days fill in as profiles are checked again, and players who asked us to remove their data are left out. The page shows totals only and names nobody.