marathon2025-03-03
3DMAX22–20HEROIC
3DMAX and HEROIC played 42 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–20.
Train · 3DMAX started on T
ESL Pro League Season 21 Stage 1
Stockholm, Sweden
GamerLegion and SAW Clear ESL Pro League Season 21's Opening Stage 3-0
The Swiss stage that seeded ESL Pro League Season 21 ran on Bo3s in Stockholm, with thirteen of its thirty-three matches going to a deciding map. GamerLegion and SAW came through 3-0; Housebets and Mindfreak went out 0-3. Rounds across the stage fell to the T side, 46.9 percent CT. It settles seeding and nothing else — the finals that follow decide the season.
2025-03-01 – 2025-03-05, part of Season 2. 33 matches played across 79 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
ESL Pro League Season 21 Stage 1's own name marks it as one phase of a larger tournament — its last match's winner is not a tournament champion.
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.
shutout2025-03-04
Lynn Vision13–1paiN
Lynn Vision beat paiN 13–1, conceding a single round.
Dust2 · Lynn Vision started on T
marathon2025-03-04
paiN19–17Lynn Vision
paiN and Lynn Vision played 36 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–17.
Anubis · paiN started on CT
comeback2025-03-02
TYLOO16–13Eternal Fire
TYLOO went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 9–3 on CT, and won overtime 4–1 — 16–13 over Eternal Fire.
Inferno · TYLOO started on T
decider2025-03-03
FlyQuest16–13paiN
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — FlyQuest took it 16–13.
Inferno · FlyQuest started on CT
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
Swiss Bo3
maps playedWhat was picked, banned and left over
Every map this event's veto touched, picked or played, at least once — Mirage was the most first-banned map (9 matches), and Anubis was the most first-picked (8 matches).
- Anubis16 maps played
41.5% CT · 58.5% T — 8.5pts T-leaning
picked 14 · banned 11 · left over 8 · first ban 1 · first pick 8 · decider 8
- Dust II14 maps played
49.1% CT · 50.9% T — 0.9pts T-leaning
picked 12 · banned 17 · left over 4 · first ban 7 · first pick 6 · decider 4
- Inferno13 maps played
56.8% CT · 43.2% T — 6.8pts CT-leaning
picked 9 · banned 16 · left over 8 · first ban 4 · first pick 5 · decider 8
- Nuke11 maps played
52.2% CT · 47.8% T — 2.2pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 22 · left over 0 · first ban 8 · first pick 3 · decider 0
- Mirage10 maps played
41.4% CT · 58.6% T — 8.6pts T-leaning
picked 7 · banned 18 · left over 8 · first ban 9 · first pick 3 · decider 8
- Train9 maps played
39.7% CT · 60.3% T — 10.3pts T-leaning
picked 8 · banned 23 · left over 2 · first ban 0 · first pick 4 · decider 2
- Ancient6 maps played
45.2% CT · 54.8% T — 4.8pts T-leaning
picked 5 · banned 25 · left over 3 · first ban 4 · first pick 4 · decider 3
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 79 maps at 46.9% CT; Season 2 as a whole played 790 maps at 48.7% CT (1.3pts T-leaning) — 1.8pts more T-sided than the season as a whole.
79 maps is under a quarter of Season 2's 790 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.