marathon2024-02-01
BetBoom25–22Cloud9
BetBoom and Cloud9 played 47 rounds and quadruple overtime before it broke, 25–22.
Overpass · BetBoom started on CT
IEM Katowice 2024 Play-in
Katowice, Poland
Four Teams Clear the Katowice 2024 Play-in, Spirit Among Them
The play-in before IEM Katowice 2024 sent Eternal Fire, GamerLegion, HEROIC and Spirit through at 2-0 — and Spirit went on to finish the event it fed 5-0. Astralis, BetBoom, FURIA and Rooster went out at 0-2. Thirteen of its twenty matches ended without the losing side taking a map.
2024-01-31 – 2024-02-02, part of Season 1a. 20 matches played across 39 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 Katowice 2024 Play-in'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.
shutout2024-01-31
Spirit13–0Apeks
Spirit beat Apeks 13–0, conceding nothing.
Ancient · Spirit started on CT
comeback2024-02-01
FURIA13–10Apeks
FURIA went into the break 2–10 down on T, took the second half 11–0 on CT — 13–10 over Apeks.
Mirage · FURIA started on T
shutout2024-01-31
Eternal Fire13–1BetBoom
Eternal Fire beat BetBoom 13–1, conceding a single round.
Nuke · Eternal Fire started on T
comeback2024-02-02
ENCE16–13The MongolZ
ENCE went into the break 3–9 down on CT, took the second half 9–3 on T, and won overtime 4–1 — 16–13 over The MongolZ.
Mirage · ENCE started on CT
comeback2024-02-02
Apeks16–14BIG
Apeks went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 9–3 on CT, and won overtime 4–2 — 16–14 over BIG.
Ancient · Apeks 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
Double elimination Bo3 - Opening matches Bo1
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 (4 matches), and Inferno was the most first-picked (4 matches).
- Ancient8 maps played
58.4% CT · 41.6% T — 8.4pts CT-leaning
picked 2 · banned 12 · left over 6 · first ban 4 · first pick 0 · decider 6
- Mirage7 maps played
56.1% CT · 43.9% T — 6.1pts CT-leaning
picked 4 · banned 12 · left over 4 · first ban 1 · first pick 2 · decider 4
- Inferno6 maps played
39.1% CT · 60.9% T — 10.9pts T-leaning
picked 5 · banned 14 · left over 1 · first ban 4 · first pick 4 · decider 1
- Vertigo6 maps played
46.7% CT · 53.3% T — 3.3pts T-leaning
picked 6 · banned 14 · left over 0 · first ban 4 · first pick 2 · decider 0
- Nuke5 maps played
55.3% CT · 44.7% T — 5.3pts CT-leaning
picked 3 · banned 13 · left over 4 · first ban 3 · first pick 2 · decider 4
- Anubis4 maps played
46.1% CT · 53.9% T — 3.9pts T-leaning
picked 2 · banned 14 · left over 4 · first ban 2 · first pick 0 · decider 4
- Overpass3 maps played
50.0% CT · 50.0% T — an even split
picked 2 · banned 17 · left over 1 · first ban 2 · first pick 2 · decider 1
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 39 maps at 51.2% CT; Season 1a as a whole played 528 maps at 50.8% CT (0.8pts CT-leaning) — 0.4pts more CT-sided than the season as a whole.
39 maps is under a quarter of Season 1a's 528 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.