marathon2025-07-25
3DMAX22–20TYLOO
3DMAX and TYLOO played 42 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–20.
Inferno · 3DMAX started on CT
IEM Cologne 2025 Stage 1
Cologne, Germany
Four Teams Clear IEM Cologne's Opening Stage, and One Map Runs to 22-20
The double-elimination stage before IEM Cologne 2025 sent FaZe, FURIA, GamerLegion and Ninjas in Pyjamas through at 2-0, and put B8, BIG, Complexity and MIBR out at 0-2. Its last match opened with an Inferno that ran to 22-20 in overtime. The stage settles no title of its own — only who plays the event it feeds.
2025-07-23 – 2025-07-25, part of Season 3. 20 matches played across 48 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
IEM Cologne 2025 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.
marathon2025-07-23
FlyQuest19–17FURIA
FlyQuest and FURIA played 36 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–17.
Dust2 · FlyQuest started on CT
comeback2025-07-25
3DMAX13–10TYLOO
3DMAX went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 10–1 on CT — 13–10 over TYLOO.
Ancient · 3DMAX started on T
marathon2025-07-24
FlyQuest19–16B8
FlyQuest and B8 played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.
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
Double elimination Bo3
maps playedWhat was picked, banned and left over
Every map this event's veto touched, picked or played, at least once — Train was the most first-banned map (5 matches), and Inferno was the most first-picked (5 matches).
- Inferno11 maps played
43.3% CT · 56.7% T — 6.7pts T-leaning
picked 8 · banned 8 · left over 4 · first ban 1 · first pick 5 · decider 4
- Ancient10 maps played
53.1% CT · 46.9% T — 3.1pts CT-leaning
picked 7 · banned 8 · left over 5 · first ban 0 · first pick 1 · decider 5
- Nuke8 maps played
58.9% CT · 41.1% T — 8.9pts CT-leaning
picked 7 · banned 9 · left over 4 · first ban 3 · first pick 5 · decider 4
- Dust II7 maps played
53.1% CT · 46.9% T — 3.1pts CT-leaning
picked 7 · banned 11 · left over 2 · first ban 4 · first pick 2 · decider 2
- Mirage6 maps played
57.3% CT · 42.7% T — 7.3pts CT-leaning
picked 5 · banned 11 · left over 4 · first ban 3 · first pick 3 · decider 4
- Overpass4 maps played
55.3% CT · 44.7% T — 5.3pts CT-leaning
picked 4 · banned 15 · left over 1 · first ban 4 · first pick 2 · decider 1
- Train2 maps played — thin sample
61.0% CT · 39.0% T — 11.0pts CT-leaning
picked 2 · banned 18 · left over 0 · first ban 5 · first pick 2 · 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 48 maps at 52.7% CT; Season 3 as a whole played 912 maps at 53.0% CT (3.0pts CT-leaning) — 0.3pts more T-sided than the season as a whole.
48 maps is under a quarter of Season 3's 912 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.