marathon2025-07-27
3DMAX22–20GamerLegion
3DMAX and GamerLegion played 42 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–20.
Dust2 · 3DMAX started on T
IEM Cologne 2025
Cologne, Germany
Spirit Win IEM Cologne 2025 Unbeaten, Closing the Final 3-0 Against MOUZ
Spirit went through Cologne without losing a match and took the Bo5 final 3-0 against MOUZ — 13-7 on Mirage, 13-11 on Ancient, 13-6 on Nuke. Five wins, eleven maps to two. MOUZ and Natus Vincere were the only other sides to win four matches here. Twenty-two of the twenty-nine matches ended without the losing side taking a map.
2025-07-26 – 2025-08-03, part of Season 3. 29 matches played across 66 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
Spirit 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.
marathon2025-07-29
MOUZ22–19Spirit
MOUZ and Spirit played 41 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–19.
Mirage · MOUZ started on T
marathon2025-08-01
Natus Vincere22–18The MongolZ
Natus Vincere and The MongolZ played 40 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–18.
Inferno · Natus Vincere started on T
shutout2025-07-29
FaZe13–1Aurora
FaZe beat Aurora 13–1, conceding a single round.
Mirage · FaZe started on CT
comeback2025-07-28
MOUZ13–10Natus Vincere
MOUZ went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 10–1 on CT — 13–10 over Natus Vincere.
Nuke · MOUZ started on T
comeback2025-07-28
Spirit13–10Aurora
Spirit went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 10–1 on CT — 13–10 over Aurora.
Nuke · Spirit started on T
marathon2025-08-01
MOUZ19–16FURIA
MOUZ and FURIA played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.
Train · MOUZ started on CT
marathon2025-07-26
Aurora19–15Ninjas in Pyjamas
Aurora and Ninjas in Pyjamas played 34 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–15.
Train · Aurora 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 - Group winners advance to playoff semi-finals, while 2nd and 3rd placed teams proceed to the quarter-finals. | Single elimination Bo3 - Grand final Bo5
maps playedWhat was picked, banned and left over
Every map this event's veto touched, picked or played, at least once — Dust II was the most first-banned map (7 matches), and Mirage was the most first-picked (6 matches).
- Mirage13 maps played
50.7% CT · 49.3% T — 0.7pts CT-leaning
picked 13 · banned 9 · left over 7 · first ban 4 · first pick 6 · decider 7
- Inferno12 maps played
51.2% CT · 48.8% T — 1.2pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 14 · left over 4 · first ban 2 · first pick 4 · decider 4
- Nuke12 maps played
62.5% CT · 37.5% T — 12.5pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 15 · left over 3 · first ban 1 · first pick 5 · decider 3
- Ancient10 maps played
55.7% CT · 44.3% T — 5.7pts CT-leaning
picked 9 · banned 17 · left over 3 · first ban 6 · first pick 5 · decider 3
- Dust II8 maps played
57.9% CT · 42.1% T — 7.9pts CT-leaning
picked 6 · banned 19 · left over 4 · first ban 7 · first pick 5 · decider 4
- Train8 maps played
58.3% CT · 41.7% T — 8.3pts CT-leaning
picked 7 · banned 19 · left over 3 · first ban 6 · first pick 3 · decider 3
- Overpass3 maps played — thin sample
52.5% CT · 47.5% T — 2.5pts CT-leaning
picked 3 · banned 21 · left over 5 · first ban 3 · first pick 1 · decider 5
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 66 maps at 55.6% CT; Season 3 as a whole played 978 maps at 53.2% CT (3.2pts CT-leaning) — 2.4pts more CT-sided than the season as a whole.
66 maps is under a quarter of Season 3's 978 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.