decider2026-03-15
Astralis16–12FUT
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Astralis took it 16–12.
Overpass · Astralis started on T
ESL Pro League Season 23 Finals
Stockholm, Sweden
Natus Vincere Win ESL Pro League Season 23 in Stockholm, 3-0 in Matches
Natus Vincere came through the Stockholm finals without losing a match, though Aurora took Anubis off them 13-11 in the grand final before falling 13-8 on Nuke and 13-9 on Dust II. Eight teams played a straight knockout with nothing else attached, and half of them were out after a single match. Five of the eight matches reached a deciding map.
2026-03-13 – 2026-03-15, part of Season 4. 8 matches played across 23 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
Natus Vincere 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.
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
Single elimination Bo3 - Grand final Bo5 3rd place decider match Bo3
maps playedWhat was picked, banned and left over
Every map this event's veto touched, picked or played, at least once — Inferno was the most first-banned map (4 matches), and Dust II was the most first-picked (4 matches).
- Dust II7 maps played
55.1% CT · 44.9% T — 5.1pts CT-leaning
picked 6 · banned 0 · left over 2 · first ban 0 · first pick 4 · decider 2
- Ancient4 maps played
44.7% CT · 55.3% T — 5.3pts T-leaning
picked 4 · banned 4 · left over 0 · first ban 0 · first pick 1 · decider 0
- Mirage4 maps played
62.0% CT · 38.0% T — 12.0pts CT-leaning
picked 3 · banned 4 · left over 1 · first ban 0 · first pick 2 · decider 1
- Overpass3 maps played
51.5% CT · 48.5% T — 1.5pts CT-leaning
picked 2 · banned 4 · left over 2 · first ban 2 · first pick 0 · decider 2
- Inferno2 maps played
45.2% CT · 54.8% T — 4.8pts T-leaning
picked 0 · banned 5 · left over 3 · first ban 4 · first pick 0 · decider 3
- Nuke2 maps played
57.8% CT · 42.2% T — 7.8pts CT-leaning
picked 2 · banned 6 · left over 0 · first ban 0 · first pick 1 · decider 0
- Anubis1 map played — thin sample
37.5% CT · 62.5% T — 12.5pts T-leaning
picked 1 · banned 7 · left over 0 · first ban 2 · first pick 0 · decider 0
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 23 maps at 52.4% CT; Season 4 as a whole played 1,046 maps at 53.9% CT (3.9pts CT-leaning) — 1.6pts more T-sided than the season as a whole.
23 maps is under a quarter of Season 4's 1,046 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.