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IEM Rio 2024

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Natus Vincere Win Rio 3-1, Taking the Last Map 13-11 on Ancient

Natus Vincere won IEM Rio 2024 3-1 against MOUZ, taking Inferno 13-11 and Dust II 13-2 before MOUZ pulled one back on Mirage and the title was settled 13-11 on Ancient. MOUZ had played more matches than anyone here, seven, and lost two of them. The champions finished 5-1 in matches and 10-5 in maps.

2024-10-072024-10-13, part of Season 1b. 29 matches played across 61 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

Natus Vincere 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.

comeback2024-10-13
Natus Vincere1311MOUZ

Natus Vincere went into the break 2–10 down on T, took the second half 11–1 on CT — 13–11 over MOUZ.

Ancient · Natus Vincere started on T

comeback2024-10-09
HEROIC1311Vitality

HEROIC went into the break 2–10 down on T, took the second half 11–1 on CT — 13–11 over Vitality.

Mirage · HEROIC started on T

marathon2024-10-08
Vitality1917The MongolZ

Vitality and The MongolZ played 36 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–17.

Inferno · Vitality started on CT

comeback2024-10-12
Natus Vincere1614HEROIC

Natus Vincere went into the break 3–9 down on CT, took the second half 9–3 on T, and won overtime 4–2 — 16–14 over HEROIC.

Dust2 · Natus Vincere started on CT

marathon2024-10-09
Virtus.pro1916Astralis

Virtus.pro and Astralis played 35 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–16.

Ancient · 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 - Opening matches Bo1 Group winners advance to playoff semi-finals, while 2nd and 3rd placed teams go 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 (9 matches), and Inferno was the most first-picked (5 matches).

  • Mirage16 maps played

    56.4% CT · 43.6% T — 6.4pts CT-leaning

    picked 12 · banned 10 · left over 7 · first ban 3 · first pick 3 · decider 7

  • Dust II12 maps played

    46.7% CT · 53.3% T — 3.3pts T-leaning

    picked 8 · banned 15 · left over 6 · first ban 0 · first pick 3 · decider 6

  • Inferno11 maps played

    42.7% CT · 57.3% T — 7.3pts T-leaning

    picked 7 · banned 17 · left over 5 · first ban 3 · first pick 5 · decider 5

  • Ancient8 maps played

    56.7% CT · 43.3% T — 6.7pts CT-leaning

    picked 7 · banned 21 · left over 1 · first ban 9 · first pick 4 · decider 1

  • Nuke8 maps played

    60.2% CT · 39.8% T — 10.2pts CT-leaning

    picked 5 · banned 16 · left over 8 · first ban 1 · first pick 3 · decider 8

  • Anubis4 maps played

    61.8% CT · 38.2% T — 11.8pts CT-leaning

    picked 3 · banned 25 · left over 1 · first ban 5 · first pick 2 · decider 1

  • Vertigo2 maps played — thin sample

    60.4% CT · 39.6% T — 10.4pts CT-leaning

    picked 2 · banned 26 · left over 1 · first ban 8 · 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 61 maps at 53.0% CT; Season 1b as a whole played 1,012 maps at 49.7% CT (0.3pts T-leaning) — 3.2pts more CT-sided than the season as a whole.

61 maps is under a quarter of Season 1b's 1,012 maps — a small sample against the season it sat in, marked here rather than read as equally trustworthy.

Sample-size caveat