marathon2026-06-19
Spirit25–22G2
Spirit and G2 played 47 rounds and quadruple overtime before it broke, 25–22.
Mirage · Spirit started on CT
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Cologne, Germany
Falcons Win the Cologne Major With the Same Scoreline Three Times Over
Falcons closed the IEM Cologne Major 2026 with 13-8 on Mirage, 13-8 on Anubis and 13-8 on Inferno — a 3-0 against FURIA on identical scores. Getting there cost rather more: 6-1 in matches and 13-7 in maps, with their only loss coming before the final. Twenty-two of the Major's forty matches went to a deciding map, more than half of everything played in Cologne.
2026-06-11 – 2026-06-21, part of Season 4. 40 matches played across 103 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
Falcons 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.
shutout2026-06-14
Aurora13–19z
Aurora beat 9z 13–1, conceding a single round.
Nuke · Aurora started on CT
shutout2026-06-11
Spirit13–1Natus Vincere
Spirit beat Natus Vincere 13–1, conceding a single round.
Dust2 · Spirit started on T
shutout2026-06-11
9z13–1PARIVISION
9z beat PARIVISION 13–1, conceding a single round.
Overpass · 9z started on T
comeback2026-06-13
9z16–12Spirit
9z went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 9–3 on CT, and won overtime 4–0 — 16–12 over Spirit.
Overpass · 9z started on T
comeback2026-06-13
Spirit16–139z
Spirit 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 9z.
Mirage · Spirit started on T
marathon2026-06-14
Falcons19–16Natus Vincere
Falcons and Natus Vincere played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.
Anubis · Falcons started on CT
decider2026-06-13
Spirit16–149z
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Spirit took it 16–14.
Dust2 · Spirit started on CT
decider2026-06-11
Falcons16–13G2
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Falcons took it 16–13.
Ancient · Falcons started on CT
decider2026-06-20
Falcons16–12Spirit
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Falcons took it 16–12.
Dust2 · Falcons started on T
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 | 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 — Anubis was the most first-banned map (13 matches), and Dust II was the most first-picked (10 matches).
- Dust II24 maps played
48.5% CT · 51.5% T — 1.5pts T-leaning
picked 20 · banned 10 · left over 10 · first ban 0 · first pick 10 · decider 10
- Mirage19 maps played
60.1% CT · 39.9% T — 10.1pts CT-leaning
picked 13 · banned 16 · left over 11 · first ban 0 · first pick 6 · decider 11
- Inferno15 maps played
53.4% CT · 46.6% T — 3.4pts CT-leaning
picked 12 · banned 21 · left over 7 · first ban 10 · first pick 6 · decider 7
- Overpass13 maps played
59.1% CT · 40.9% T — 9.1pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 26 · left over 3 · first ban 7 · first pick 7 · decider 3
- Nuke13 maps played
57.8% CT · 42.2% T — 7.8pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 24 · left over 5 · first ban 6 · first pick 7 · decider 5
- Anubis10 maps played
38.4% CT · 61.6% T — 11.6pts T-leaning
picked 9 · banned 30 · left over 1 · first ban 13 · first pick 3 · decider 1
- Ancient9 maps played
56.0% CT · 44.0% T — 6.0pts CT-leaning
picked 6 · banned 31 · left over 3 · first ban 4 · first pick 1 · 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 103 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.
103 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.