{"id":36204,"date":"2026-04-18T06:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/?p=36204"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:07:23","slug":"cache-is-back-on-faceit-for-season-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/news\/cs-2\/cache-is-back-on-faceit-for-season-8\/","title":{"rendered":"FACEIT Season 8 Brings Back Cache: What Changes on April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>FACEIT is bringing <strong>Cache back for Season 8<\/strong>, which begins <strong>April 22<\/strong>, after the map won the platform\u2019s community vote with <strong>148,840 votes<\/strong>. Cache matches will <strong>count toward Elo<\/strong>, but players who don\u2019t want to queue it can <strong>deselect Cache<\/strong> without needing a subscription or changing other map bans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cache returns to FACEIT Season 8 on April 22<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cache joins FACEIT matchmaking in Season 8 on April 22 following 148,840 votes.<br><br>Matches on Cache will count toward your Elo. Players can deselect Cache without needing to subscribe or change your other map bans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cSj2WZfbf6\">pic.twitter.com\/cSj2WZfbf6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FACEIT CS2 (@FACEITcs) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FACEITcs\/status\/2045125607177040070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 17, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>FACEIT confirmed Cache\u2019s return ahead of Season 8 after a close community vote. The map will be available in the matchmaking pool on launch day, and results on Cache will impact Elo the same way as other active-duty picks\u2014unless you remove it from your selected maps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other maps in the FACEIT Season 8 matchmaking pool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of Cache, FACEIT provides a lot of other competitive maps. Currently, players can use the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dust 2<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nuke<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mirage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inferno<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ancient<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anubis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vertigo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Each of the maps offers unique play styles<\/strong>, and people have the chance to choose the ones they are most comfortable with. The fact that players can customize their matchmaking gives them more flexibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What changes in FACEIT Season 8 (FACEIT Rating, soft Elo reset, Premium tools)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from the fact that players will have access to Cache, <strong>FACEIT\u2019s Season 8 will come with a lot of new things<\/strong>. For starters, there will be a completely new stat called FACEIT Rating and it will be<strong> added to every match<\/strong>. Aside from just counting kills, the stat will show you how much your actions impacted winning rounds. The idea is to have a deeper insight into performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, there will be a <strong>soft elo reset<\/strong>, meaning users must <strong>play 10 placement matches<\/strong> to determine their starting elo. Premium users will also have access to a new analysis tool showing round-by-round breakdowns. It will i<strong>nclude things like utility usage, kill locations and different performance graph<\/strong>s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Season 8 of FACEIT will also<strong> formalize a more structured season system<\/strong>. Players can also expect the FACEIT League to continue with regional divisions, playoffs and prize pools. All in all, it is<strong> definitely one of the more interesting updates<\/strong> and at <a href=\"http:\/\/blix.gg\">Blix.gg<\/a> can\u2019t wait to see everything new<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACEIT is bringing Cache back for Season 8, which begins April 22, after the map won the platform\u2019s community vote with 148,840 votes. Cache matches will count toward Elo, but players who don\u2019t want to queue it can deselect Cache without needing a subscription or changing other map bans. Cache returns to FACEIT Season 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":36206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-36204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs-2","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36204"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36211,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36204\/revisions\/36211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}