marathon2025-02-04
Eternal Fire25–22FaZe
Eternal Fire and FaZe played 47 rounds and quadruple overtime before it broke, 25–22.
Nuke · Eternal Fire started on CT
IEM Katowice 2025
Katowice, Poland
Vitality Sweep Katowice Without Losing a Match, Dropping One Map in Twelve
Vitality came through IEM Katowice 2025 without losing a match, taking all five and dropping a single map on the way. The final against Spirit ran the same way: 13-6 on Dust II, 13-5 on Nuke, 13-11 on Mirage — a 3-0 with only the last map close. Spirit had reached it the long way, playing seven matches to Vitality's five, and the event as a whole finished near even between the sides at 48.0 percent CT.
2025-02-01 – 2025-02-09, part of Season 2. 29 matches played across 69 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
Vitality 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.
marathon2025-02-07
The MongolZ22–18Eternal Fire
The MongolZ and Eternal Fire played 40 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–18.
Mirage · The MongolZ started on T
marathon2025-02-02
Vitality19–16FaZe
Vitality and FaZe played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.
Dust2 · Vitality started on CT
marathon2025-02-01
Vitality19–163DMAX
Vitality and 3DMAX played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.
Inferno · Vitality started on CT
decider2025-02-03
Natus Vincere16–14Spirit
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Natus Vincere took it 16–14.
Nuke · Natus Vincere started on T
decider2025-02-02
Virtus.pro16–13Eternal Fire
The series went the distance and the decider went to overtime — Virtus.pro took it 16–13.
Train · Virtus.pro 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 — Ancient was the most first-banned map (6 matches), and Nuke was the most first-picked (7 matches).
- Nuke16 maps played
51.0% CT · 49.0% T — 1.0pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 9 · left over 9 · first ban 3 · first pick 7 · decider 9
- Mirage14 maps played
47.1% CT · 52.9% T — 2.9pts T-leaning
picked 13 · banned 11 · left over 5 · first ban 3 · first pick 4 · decider 5
- Dust II11 maps played
51.3% CT · 48.7% T — 1.3pts CT-leaning
picked 9 · banned 15 · left over 5 · first ban 3 · first pick 2 · decider 5
- Ancient9 maps played
50.0% CT · 50.0% T — an even split
picked 8 · banned 18 · left over 3 · first ban 6 · first pick 4 · decider 3
- Inferno9 maps played
46.3% CT · 53.7% T — 3.7pts T-leaning
picked 9 · banned 16 · left over 4 · first ban 2 · first pick 6 · decider 4
- Anubis7 maps played
33.8% CT · 66.2% T — 16.2pts T-leaning
picked 7 · banned 20 · left over 2 · first ban 6 · first pick 5 · decider 2
- Train3 maps played — thin sample
57.9% CT · 42.1% T — 7.9pts CT-leaning
picked 3 · banned 25 · left over 1 · first ban 6 · first pick 1 · 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 69 maps at 48.0% CT; Season 2 as a whole played 790 maps at 48.7% CT (1.3pts T-leaning) — 0.7pts more T-sided than the season as a whole.
69 maps is under a quarter of Season 2's 790 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.