marathon2025-04-27
Vitality22–20Falcons
Vitality and Falcons played 42 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–20.
Nuke · Vitality started on T
IEM Melbourne 2025
Melbourne, Australia
Vitality Win Melbourne on a 22-20 Fifth Map After Falcons Force the Distance
The Melbourne final went all five maps and finished deep in overtime: Vitality took Inferno 13-2, Falcons answered 16-12 on Dust II, the two split Train and Mirage, and Nuke ended 22-20. Vitality did not lose a match in Australia — five wins, two maps dropped. Falcons had played six matches to reach that final, one more than the champions.
2025-04-21 – 2025-04-27, part of Season 2. 29 matches played across 71 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.
shutout2025-04-23
FaZe13–13DMAX
FaZe beat 3DMAX 13–1, conceding a single round.
Dust2 · FaZe started on CT
comeback2025-04-22
3DMAX19–16BIG
3DMAX went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 9–3 on CT, and won double overtime 7–4 — 19–16 over BIG.
Dust2 · 3DMAX started on T
comeback2025-04-22
Falcons13–11Natus Vincere
Falcons went into the break 3–9 down on CT, took the second half 10–2 on T — 13–11 over Natus Vincere.
Mirage · Falcons started on CT
marathon2025-04-23
GamerLegion19–16FaZe
GamerLegion and FaZe played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.
Mirage · GamerLegion 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 - Group winners advance to the playoff semi-finals; - The 2nd and 3rd placed teams go to the playoff 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 Anubis was the most first-picked (8 matches).
- Inferno14 maps played
43.8% CT · 56.2% T — 6.2pts T-leaning
picked 10 · banned 10 · left over 9 · first ban 0 · first pick 6 · decider 9
- Nuke13 maps played
48.9% CT · 51.1% T — 1.1pts T-leaning
picked 11 · banned 14 · left over 4 · first ban 2 · first pick 1 · decider 4
- Mirage11 maps played
53.0% CT · 47.0% T — 3.0pts CT-leaning
picked 11 · banned 15 · left over 3 · first ban 7 · first pick 5 · decider 3
- Ancient11 maps played
48.5% CT · 51.5% T — 1.5pts T-leaning
picked 7 · banned 14 · left over 8 · first ban 3 · first pick 2 · decider 8
- Dust II9 maps played
50.6% CT · 49.4% T — 0.6pts CT-leaning
picked 8 · banned 18 · left over 3 · first ban 7 · first pick 4 · decider 3
- Anubis9 maps played
44.3% CT · 55.7% T — 5.7pts T-leaning
picked 9 · banned 20 · left over 0 · first ban 3 · first pick 8 · decider 0
- Train4 maps played
58.7% CT · 41.3% T — 8.7pts CT-leaning
picked 4 · banned 23 · left over 2 · first ban 7 · first pick 3 · decider 2
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 71 maps at 48.6% CT; Season 2 as a whole played 790 maps at 48.7% CT (1.3pts T-leaning) — 0.1pts more T-sided than the season as a whole.
71 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.