marathon2024-03-17
Imperial22–19ENCE
Imperial and ENCE played 41 rounds and triple overtime before it broke, 22–19.
Anubis · Imperial started on CT
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Opening Stage
Copenhagen, Denmark
Cloud9 and HEROIC Clear the Copenhagen Major's Opening Stage 3-0
The earliest Major stage in this archive ran on Bo1s except where a series would qualify or eliminate a team, so twenty-nine of its thirty-three matches ended without the loser taking a map. Cloud9 and HEROIC went through 3-0; AMKAL and KOI went out 0-3. Anubis was banned first in ten of those matches and played in six.
2024-03-17 – 2024-03-20, part of Season 1a. 33 matches played across 50 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
PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Opening Stage'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.
marathon2024-03-18
Cloud919–17SAW
Cloud9 and SAW played 36 rounds and double overtime before it broke, 19–17.
Nuke · Cloud9 started on CT
comeback2024-03-20
GamerLegion16–12Imperial
GamerLegion 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 Imperial.
Overpass · GamerLegion started on T
comeback2024-03-17
Cloud913–10Legacy
Cloud9 went into the break 3–9 down on T, took the second half 10–1 on CT — 13–10 over Legacy.
Overpass · Cloud9 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 Bo1 - Progression matches Bo3 - Elimination matches Bo3
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 (10 matches), and Ancient was the most first-picked (3 matches).
- Nuke11 maps played
57.9% CT · 42.1% T — 7.9pts CT-leaning
picked 3 · banned 20 · left over 10 · first ban 3 · first pick 2 · decider 10
- Vertigo9 maps played
54.9% CT · 45.1% T — 4.9pts CT-leaning
picked 4 · banned 23 · left over 6 · first ban 8 · first pick 3 · decider 6
- Overpass8 maps played
52.7% CT · 47.3% T — 2.7pts CT-leaning
picked 3 · banned 22 · left over 8 · first ban 0 · first pick 3 · decider 8
- Ancient7 maps played
52.6% CT · 47.4% T — 2.6pts CT-leaning
picked 5 · banned 25 · left over 3 · first ban 5 · first pick 3 · decider 3
- Anubis6 maps played
38.8% CT · 61.2% T — 11.2pts T-leaning
picked 4 · banned 26 · left over 3 · first ban 10 · first pick 1 · decider 3
- Mirage5 maps played
65.7% CT · 34.3% T — 15.7pts CT-leaning
picked 4 · banned 28 · left over 1 · first ban 5 · first pick 1 · decider 1
- Inferno4 maps played
49.4% CT · 50.6% T — 0.6pts T-leaning
picked 3 · banned 28 · left over 2 · first ban 2 · first pick 0 · 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 50 maps at 53.7% CT; Season 1a as a whole played 528 maps at 50.8% CT (0.8pts CT-leaning) — 2.9pts more CT-sided than the season as a whole.
50 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.