Season 2
2025-01-28 – 2025-07-15
The Active Duty pool Valve fielded from 2025-01-28, and the professional-play meta measured while it held.
what changedThe rotation that opened it
2025-01-28Season 2
the pool that seasonThe seven maps it fielded
the meta that seasonWhat the sides did on them
Scope, method, and per-row pick/ban counts
Measured across Tier 1 events — HLTV Majors and international LAN events with a prize pool between $600,000 and $2,000,000, from matches played between 2023-10-16 and 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. Sample sizes are per row below.
- All maps combined790 maps played
48.7% CT · 51.3% T — 1.3pts T-leaning · −1.1pts since Season 1b (49.7% → 48.7%)
632 picks, 1,462 bans this season
- Ancient112 maps played
48.6% CT · 51.4% T — 1.4pts T-leaning · unchanged from Season 1b (48.5%)
81 picks, 203 bans this season
- Anubis90 maps played
43.5% CT · 56.5% T — 6.5pts T-leaning · −1.7pts since Season 1b (45.2% → 43.5%)
77 picks, 233 bans this season
- Dust II137 maps played
46.7% CT · 53.3% T — 3.3pts T-leaning · −3.0pts since Season 1b (49.7% → 46.7%)
114 picks, 183 bans this season
- Inferno142 maps played
49.6% CT · 50.4% T — 0.4pts T-leaning · +2.0pts since Season 1b (47.6% → 49.6%)
110 picks, 174 bans this season
- Mirage124 maps played
49.2% CT · 50.8% T — 0.8pts T-leaning · −3.1pts since Season 1b (52.3% → 49.2%)
104 picks, 198 bans this season
- Nuke124 maps played
53.0% CT · 47.0% T — 3.0pts CT-leaning · −0.4pts since Season 1b (53.4% → 53.0%)
93 picks, 198 bans this season
- Train61 maps played
48.8% CT · 51.2% T — 1.2pts T-leaning
53 picks, 273 bans this season
tournaments this seasonThe Tier 1 events played on this pool
Every Tier 1 event in this snapshot whose matches fell inside Season 2, newest first.
2025-06-03 – 2025-06-10 · 24 teams
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BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025's main event is not in this snapshot — only its 2 other parts are. That is a coverage gap, not a tournament with no winner: the decisive final that would name a champion simply isn't recorded here.
- ESL Pro League Season 212025-03-01 – 2025-03-16
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Vitality Win ESL Pro League Season 21 Without Losing a Match
Vitality took the Stockholm finals 3-0 over MOUZ — 13-9 on Dust II, 13-4 on Nuke, 13-5 on Inferno — to finish the season 6-0 with two maps lost in fifteen. MOUZ had come through five wins to reach that final. Rounds across the event went to the T side at 45.9 percent CT, the second-lowest figure of any event played on this pool.
Champion: Vitality
24 teams · 73 matches · 177 maps played across 2 phases
- Stage 12025-03-01 – 2025-03-05
GamerLegion and SAW Clear ESL Pro League Season 21's Opening Stage 3-0
Matches, maps, and champion for the events below
- IEM Dallas 20252025-05-19 – 2025-05-25
29 matches · 71 maps played · champion: Vitality
- PGL Astana 20252025-05-10 – 2025-05-18
41 matches · 102 maps played · champion: Spirit
- IEM Melbourne 20252025-04-21 – 2025-04-27
29 matches · 71 maps played · champion: Vitality
- PGL Bucharest 20252025-04-06 – 2025-04-13
41 matches · 97 maps played · champion: Falcons
- PGL Cluj-Napoca 20252025-02-14 – 2025-02-23
41 matches · 100 maps played · champion: MOUZ
- IEM Katowice 20252025-02-01 – 2025-02-09
29 matches · 69 maps played · champion: Vitality