Dust II
active duty
In the Active Duty pool since 2024-04-25 — 847 days total so far, counted through 2026-08-20.
13 changes
pro playHow the sides split on this map
Dust II's regulation rounds, summed by calendar month rather than cut into Premier seasons — the shape of the line is the finding; the all-time figure above is the same aggregate, kept only as context. Season boundaries are marked on the axis below rather than used to bucket it, and each still links to its own season.
35 months of figures and method notes
Measured across Tier 1 events — HLTV Majors and international LAN events with a prize pool between $600,000 and $2,000,000: matches played 2023-10-16 – 2026-08-02, regulation rounds only — overtime alternates sides in short halves and can't be attributed to CT or T, so it's excluded here.
2023-10 not in pool · 2023-11 not in pool · 2023-12 not in pool · 2024-01 not in pool · 2024-02 not in pool · 2024-03 not in pool · 2024-04 no matches · 2024-05 52.4%† · 2024-06 48.6%† · 2024-07 59.4%† · 2024-08 46.0% · 2024-09 51.7% · 2024-10 46.5% · 2024-11 52.2%† · 2024-12 47.5%† · 2025-01 46.8% · 2025-02 50.3% · 2025-03 44.5% · 2025-04 42.8% · 2025-05 49.0% · 2025-06 47.1% · 2025-07 53.1%† · 2025-08 46.7%† · 2025-09 49.2% · 2025-10 52.2% · 2025-11 55.2% · 2025-12 50.7% · 2026-01 48.1% · 2026-02 53.9% · 2026-03 50.1% · 2026-04 49.9% · 2026-05 53.5% · 2026-06 50.8% · 2026-07 49.2% · 2026-08 41.9%†
“Not in pool” is a month Dust II sat outside the Active Duty rotation entirely; “no matches” is a month it was in the pool but no match in this snapshot happened to play it — the two are never the same fact, and neither is a 0% CT share. † marks a month whose sample is under a quarter of this map's own richest (51 maps, May 2026) — thin enough to read as noise. Median 24 maps played per month it was in the pool; tournament schedules cluster, so the thinnest such month (August 2026, 3 maps) and the richest differ by more than 17×.
129 updates in this window touched a weapon, the economy, a map, its utility, or player movement — ticked along the axis above. Marking one next to a shift in this line shows where the two sit side by side; it does not claim the update caused it — this site makes no such claim, here or anywhere else. See /pro-meta for the full list, linked by day.
veto_actions.seq orders every ban and pick inside a match: the first ban (the map a team most wants gone), the first pick (the map it most wants), and the decider (the map neither side chose). Every rate below divides only by the matches where Dust II actually sat in the Active Duty pool that month — a map outside the pool cannot be banned, picked, or left over, so dividing by every match played that month would understate it. See /pro-meta's veto order section for why that normalisation matters: for a map that spends part of the window off-pool, the raw share and the normalised one can point in opposite directions, and that section works the case out from the data rather than naming a map here that a later export might make wrong.
First-ban, first-pick and decider figures, and the line legend
first ban 9.1% (47/517) before March 2025 → 14.0% (164/1174) after · first pick 15.8% (n=1691) · decider 15.9% (n=1691) overall
Lines: solid — first ban · dashed — first pick · dotted — decider. A gap is a month Dust II was outside the Active Duty pool, not a rate of zero.
Change history
2026-07-08
- fixFixed pixel gap Outside Tunnel
- reworkClipping adjustment Outside Tunnel
2026-04-29
- reworkBlocked visibility through corner of Mid Box (Xbox).
2026-04-28
- reworkUncovered Mid Box (Xbox) to reveal a previously hidden jump spot. On purpose this time.
2026-03-11
- fixFixed a pixel gap in a door Outside Long.
2025-05-07
- reworkDefusal Group Alpha: Dust 2, Mirage, Inferno, Vertigo.
2025-02-06
- reworkUpdated Dust II radar image to be more accurate.
2024-10-28
- fixFixed a gap in geometry.
2024-10-02
- fixFixed some clipping at B site
2024-04-26
- fixFixed a spot in Dust 2 above mid doors where grenades would fall through the world.
2024-04-25
- reworkReplaced Overpass with Dust 2 in the Active Duty Group, current competition map pool, and Premier matchmaking
2023-10-25
- fixFixed micro-cracks in crate models
2023-09-29
- reworkcs2 -dedicated +map de_dust2
pool historyIts time in the Active Duty pool
Every Active Duty transition that added or removed Dust II, launch to 2026-08-20.
2024-04-25Season 1b
Added to the Active Duty pool.
“We've updated the Active Duty map pool (for both Premier and competitions), removing Overpass and bringing back Dust II.”
Why some seasons carry a letter
Where a Valve season holds more than one pool state, they're told apart here with a letter — 1a, 1b, and so on. Valve names the whole span “Season One”; it never split it into 1a/1b itself — that split is this site's own, to distinguish two different pools within one Valve season.