marathon2026-03-03
Monte22–20HEROIC
Monte and HEROIC played 42 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–20.
Nuke · Monte started on CT
ESL Pro League Season 23 Stage 1
Europe (Online)
FUT and Legacy Clear ESL Pro League Season 23's Online Stage 3-0
The Swiss stage that seeds ESL Pro League Season 23 ran online with sixteen teams, and two of them — FUT and Legacy — came through without dropping a match. Two more went out at 0-3. Twenty of the thirty-three matches ended 2-0, so most of the field was sorted without a deciding map. The stage crowns nobody itself; the Stockholm finals do that.
2026-03-01 – 2026-03-05, part of Season 4. 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 23 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.
marathon2026-03-03
Ninjas in Pyjamas19–16NRG
Ninjas in Pyjamas and NRG played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.
Anubis · Ninjas in Pyjamas started on CT
marathon2026-03-04
PARIVISION19–15Monte
PARIVISION and Monte played 34 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–15.
Dust2 · PARIVISION started on T
marathon2026-03-02
PARIVISION19–15paiN
PARIVISION and paiN played 34 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–15.
Mirage · PARIVISION started on CT
marathon2026-03-01
Passion UA19–15Liquid
Passion UA and Liquid played 34 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–15.
Nuke · Passion UA started on CT
decider2026-03-01
paiN16–143DMAX
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — paiN took it 16–14.
Inferno · paiN started on T
decider2026-03-04
Liquid16–13M80
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Liquid took it 16–13.
Mirage · Liquid 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 — Ancient was the most first-banned map (7 matches), and Dust II was the most first-picked (10 matches).
- Dust II23 maps played
48.4% CT · 51.6% T — 1.6pts T-leaning
picked 20 · banned 9 · left over 4 · first ban 2 · first pick 10 · decider 4
- Mirage12 maps played
54.4% CT · 45.6% T — 4.4pts CT-leaning
picked 10 · banned 16 · left over 7 · first ban 6 · first pick 4 · decider 7
- Nuke12 maps played
62.1% CT · 37.9% T — 12.1pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 19 · left over 3 · first ban 6 · first pick 4 · decider 3
- Inferno12 maps played
55.1% CT · 44.9% T — 5.1pts CT-leaning
picked 9 · banned 19 · left over 5 · first ban 4 · first pick 6 · decider 5
- Anubis7 maps played
47.6% CT · 52.4% T — 2.4pts T-leaning
picked 6 · banned 26 · left over 1 · first ban 5 · first pick 5 · decider 1
- Overpass7 maps played
57.5% CT · 42.5% T — 7.5pts CT-leaning
picked 6 · banned 25 · left over 2 · first ban 3 · first pick 3 · decider 2
- Ancient6 maps played
54.4% CT · 45.6% T — 4.4pts CT-leaning
picked 4 · banned 18 · left over 11 · first ban 7 · first pick 1 · decider 11
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 53.5% CT; Season 4 as a whole played 1,046 maps at 53.9% CT (3.9pts CT-leaning) — 0.4pts more T-sided than the season as a whole.
79 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.