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CS Asia Championships 2023

Shanghai, China

FaZe Win the 2023 CS Asia Championships, Closing 22-18 on Nuke

FaZe went 4-0 in Shanghai and finished the final 2-0 over MOUZ, taking Mirage 13-7 and then Nuke 22-18 deep in overtime. Astralis won four of the six most one-sided maps played here — none of them closer than nine rounds — and still went out at 2-1.

2023-11-082023-11-12, part of Season 1a. 13 matches played across 28 maps at Tier 1 events — HLTV Majors and international LAN events with a prize pool between $600,000 and $2,000,000.

championWho took it

FaZe won this event's chronologically last recorded match.

Why no bracket is shown

matches.stage is empty on every row in this snapshot — no bracket, round, or placement is derivable for this event, or any other on this site.

momentsThe maps worth remembering here

The maps from this event that were not ordinary — a half thrown away and won back, a game that would not end, a side that conceded nothing. Ranked by how rare each reading is across every map in this snapshot, rarest first.

marathon2023-11-09
FaZe2825Ninjas in Pyjamas

FaZe and Ninjas in Pyjamas played 53 rounds and quintuple overtime before it broke, 28–25.

Ancient · FaZe started on T

marathon2023-11-12
FaZe2218MOUZ

FaZe and MOUZ played 40 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–18.

Nuke · FaZe started on T

comeback2023-11-08
TYLOO1310Lynn Vision

TYLOO went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 10–1 on CT — 13–10 over Lynn Vision.

Overpass · TYLOO started on T

What these readings are drawn from

Drawn from results, half-by-half round counts and overtime only. This snapshot carries no demo data, so nothing here is about an individual player.

formatHow the event was run

Double elimination Bo3 - Opening matches Bo1; - Group winners advance to the semi-finals; - 2nd and 3rd placed teams in each group proceed to the quarter-finals. | Single elimination Bo3

maps playedWhat was picked, banned and left over

Every map this event's veto touched, picked or played, at least once — Anubis was the most first-banned map (4 matches), and Overpass was the most first-picked (4 matches).

  • Overpass7 maps played

    57.2% CT · 42.8% T — 7.2pts CT-leaning

    picked 6 · banned 5 · left over 2 · first ban 1 · first pick 4 · decider 2

  • Ancient6 maps played

    44.1% CT · 55.9% T — 5.9pts T-leaning

    picked 2 · banned 7 · left over 4 · first ban 2 · first pick 1 · decider 4

  • Nuke6 maps played

    65.6% CT · 34.4% T — 15.6pts CT-leaning

    picked 4 · banned 5 · left over 4 · first ban 0 · first pick 2 · decider 4

  • Mirage3 maps played

    41.7% CT · 58.3% T — 8.3pts T-leaning

    picked 3 · banned 10 · left over 0 · first ban 2 · first pick 2 · decider 0

  • Anubis2 maps played

    33.3% CT · 66.7% T — 16.7pts T-leaning

    picked 1 · banned 11 · left over 1 · first ban 4 · first pick 0 · decider 1

  • Inferno2 maps played

    34.3% CT · 65.7% T — 15.7pts T-leaning

    picked 1 · banned 11 · left over 1 · first ban 2 · first pick 0 · decider 1

  • Vertigo2 maps played

    27.9% CT · 72.1% T — 22.1pts T-leaning

    picked 1 · banned 11 · left over 1 · first ban 2 · first pick 0 · decider 1

Per-map veto counts and the thin-sample rule

A row marked "thin sample" played under a quarter of this event's own busiest map — the same relative cut `/pro-meta` uses for a thin season or month, applied here within this one event. A map with no CT/T bar was banned before it was ever played, not omitted.

against the seasonHow it compares with its own season

This event played 28 maps at 49.2% CT; Season 1a as a whole played 528 maps at 50.8% CT (0.8pts CT-leaning) — 1.6pts more T-sided than the season as a whole.

28 maps is under a quarter of Season 1a's 528 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.

Sample-size caveat