Train
reserve
In the Active Duty pool 2025-01-28 – 2026-01-21 — 358 days total.
26 changes
pro playHow the sides split on this map
Train'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 not in pool · 2024-05 not in pool · 2024-06 not in pool · 2024-07 not in pool · 2024-08 not in pool · 2024-09 not in pool · 2024-10 not in pool · 2024-11 not in pool · 2024-12 not in pool · 2025-01 54.3%† · 2025-02 52.5%† · 2025-03 42.8% · 2025-04 56.2% · 2025-05 47.9% · 2025-06 51.4%† · 2025-07 61.0%† · 2025-08 60.2%† · 2025-09 58.2% · 2025-10 56.1% · 2025-11 59.2% · 2025-12 48.9% · 2026-01 no matches · 2026-02 not in pool · 2026-03 not in pool · 2026-04 not in pool · 2026-05 not in pool · 2026-06 not in pool · 2026-07 not in pool · 2026-08 not in pool
“Not in pool” is a month Train 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 (33 maps, October 2025) — thin enough to read as noise. Median 12 maps played per month it was in the pool; tournament schedules cluster, so the thinnest such month (July 2025, 2 maps) and the richest differ by more than 16×.
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 Train 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 25.7% (18/70) before March 2025 → 19.2% (132/686) after · first pick 7.5% (n=756) · decider 8.9% (n=756) overall
Lines: solid — first ban · dashed — first pick · dotted — decider. A gap is a month Train was outside the Active Duty pool, not a rate of zero.
Change history
2026-01-21
- reworkRemoved Train from the Active Duty Map Pool
2025-09-24
- reworkAdded "train_zoo.vmap" with all de_train assets and examples for mapmakers.
2025-09-23
- reworkVarious player clipping fixes
2025-07-28
- reworkAdded new cover on A site by Hell train
2025-05-07
- reworkDefusal Group Delta: Train, Anubis, Ancient, Overpass, Nuke.
2025-02-03
- fixFixed sounds from Train inspect scenery not getting cleared when going back to the main menu.
2025-01-28
- reworkTrain has been added to the Active Duty map pool
2025-01-09
- fixFixed various minor visual bugs and gaps in world
- reworkAdded dirt and wetness onto crates and tarps where appropriate
- reworkWidened opening on A site between Hell and Tunnels
- reworkOpened container door on back of the train near Ivy/Tunnels
- reworkAdded dumpster by Ivy
- reworkAdded barrels in A site cubby
- reworkPushed back T spawns a little
2024-12-18
- reworkImproved collision fidelity on various props
- fixUpdated and fixed surface types on several props
- reworkAdjusted wetness levels on some surfaces
- fixFixed various gaps in map
2024-12-03
- reworkIncreased collision fidelity of several models
2024-11-27
- reworkBlockers added for train in B to avoid unfair angles
2024-11-14
- fixFixed various collision issues including a higher fidelity for the orange train on B site
2024-11-13
- reworkAdded a map guide for Train, which demonstrates four simple Terrorist grenade line-ups. To load a map guide, go to Play→Practice and toggle "Load Map Guides" on.
- reworkAdded Train to Competitive, Casual, and Deathmatch modes.
- reworkRemoved small fence at the edge of party/picnic that interfered with visibility to train station.
- reworkReplaced some windows with opaque surfaces in train station to remove bad lines of sight.
- reworkRemoved some trees and objects around park and train station that prevented players from backing into certain useful spaces.
pool historyIts time in the Active Duty pool
Every Active Duty transition that added or removed Train, launch to 2026-08-20.
2025-01-28Season 2
Added to the Active Duty pool.
2026-01-21Season 4
Removed from the Active Duty pool.
“Premier Season Four has begun. Added Anubis to the Active Duty Map Pool. Removed Train from the Active Duty Map Pool.”
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.