Only Train was less popular in June 2025. Anubis was also the most lopsided of any map, favorite T-side in 53% of rounds. Restricting to 20k-25k Rating, Anubis became even more T-Sided (55% of rounds won were on the T-Side)
Im pretty sure you can craft the perfect map, put it in the pool, and it would still rank lower than Mirage / D2. The CS community always been like that. First game in today in Premier everyone immediately banned Overpass, refusing to try out the changes, and instead picked mirage only to bitch at each other.
CS players will never change
P_ZERO_
Didn’t like Anubis at all. I like train, wish I could play it more to improve, but since it’s a defacto veto for what seems to be 90% of the player base, it might as well go soon, too.
P_ZERO_
Didn’t like Anubis at all. I like train, wish I could play it more to improve, but since it’s a defacto veto for what seems to be 90% of the player base, it might as well go soon, too.
filous_cz
I love that the professional map pool gets balanced by data gathered from a pug gamemode designed to mimic the professional play.
Exicted for 5 more years of saving on Inferno before Valve gets finally rid of it! /s
ArtsM
Sorry, but unless you remove mirage or dd2 or both, you will not see a shake up in map pick popularity in premier simple as that.
Caveirzao
Well dont be shy show faceit stats now and not low skilled premier lobbies
FAMAStrash
3 million games, Train comfortably the least picked so we won’t remove it or make any changes to it but instead replace the 2nd least played map instead, for a map that was played less than Vertigo when it was removed and has received 1/one/uno change since it was removed.
Valve masterclass.
NightProfessional800
I really wish they would have removed anything else than Ancient or Anubis.
JoeVanWeedler
train sitting where it belongs. trash level
ghettoflick
NewTrain … A-site is TERRIBLE.
OldTrain layout… when?!?
t0pli
I’m glad it’s out, it felt bad. I don’t care about premier stats otherwise and honestly, this is based on a large group of people with a low elo median. Train is still new in and will likely see more updates for balance, so far it’s decent, not my first ban nor pick but like to play it occasionally. I think the reason people avoid it is because it’s difficult for scrubs and most people are comfortable playing already existing maps.
Is overpass better? Meh, just did two premiers on it and it felt like the old op, just boring. Still better than anubis tho. I just hate how people are tryharding it so much on 25k+ and likely gonna be the same in faceit 3k elo now. The map is big and slow…
cheddarbomb81
Anubis is a great competitive map to play and watch and I’ll die on that hill. Light years ahead of train, inferno, or mirage right now.
Syntechi
So now we get the least popular map that’s the most CT sided shitshow
bromikeystudios
Looking at stats from the pro scene shows a different story. Premier is always going to skew heavy on mirage and D2. I don’t really have an opinion on the change but ppl seem to underestimate how popular it was.
The full distribution of maps played in 2025(As of April 1) are:
Can’t you balance around having more maps in pool by having more veto/bans whatever? With cache (hopefully) on the line I would rather have a broader variety than seasonal variety of one map..
Obamametrics
“noooo y u no remove mirage, all of my le friends permaban it and we haaaate it”
dumbasses, its literally the most popular map in the game
Tostecles
I’d like to see this split by rank. I’ve seen many times that noobs don’t like Anubis, but I think it was my group’s most played map in Prem season 2 lol
SilverBallsOnMyChest
You’re allowed to like this map. You can even say it was your favorite map. But this map is a bad map in its current state.
When 4 CT rounds is considered a good CT half, there’s a fucking problem.
You’re also allowed to hate mirage and dust. I too dislike those maps. But Anubis HAD to go.
jjochimmochi
Because russians and all other bots only play dust 2 and sometimes mirage in premier
DapperSEM
Now -ancient +cache and game will be good
PlusFlounder684
Fuck it I just wanted Inferno gone. I don’t care about stats. I don’t care about popularity. I don’t care about any arguments. Inferno fucking sucks. It’s the only map you’ll see a full save at $8k or during a pistol round
Zeilar
I don’t get this fondness for Anubis. Trash map and most unbalanced in the game. Whoever plays T first wins. And the map just sucks to play as CT.
NupeKeem
I was not expecting Anbus to be taken out.
EZG_yt
this is why my proudest acheivement of season 2 is only 2 mirage maps played.
Any_Resident7576
Kind of wish premier map picks were just random.
Huge-Entertainer-166
damn ancient over nuke is kinda crazy ancient is lowkey spectacular its like a better dust 2
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Source for 1: [https://leetify.com/data-library/counter-strike/premier-most-played-maps](https://leetify.com/data-library/counter-strike/premier-most-played-maps)
Source for 2 and 3: [https://leetify.com/data-library/counter-strike/premier-ct-t-side-winrates](https://leetify.com/data-library/counter-strike/premier-ct-t-side-winrates)
Im pretty sure you can craft the perfect map, put it in the pool, and it would still rank lower than Mirage / D2. The CS community always been like that. First game in today in Premier everyone immediately banned Overpass, refusing to try out the changes, and instead picked mirage only to bitch at each other.
CS players will never change
Didn’t like Anubis at all. I like train, wish I could play it more to improve, but since it’s a defacto veto for what seems to be 90% of the player base, it might as well go soon, too.
Didn’t like Anubis at all. I like train, wish I could play it more to improve, but since it’s a defacto veto for what seems to be 90% of the player base, it might as well go soon, too.
I love that the professional map pool gets balanced by data gathered from a pug gamemode designed to mimic the professional play.
Exicted for 5 more years of saving on Inferno before Valve gets finally rid of it! /s
Sorry, but unless you remove mirage or dd2 or both, you will not see a shake up in map pick popularity in premier simple as that.
Well dont be shy show faceit stats now and not low skilled premier lobbies
3 million games, Train comfortably the least picked so we won’t remove it or make any changes to it but instead replace the 2nd least played map instead, for a map that was played less than Vertigo when it was removed and has received 1/one/uno change since it was removed.
Valve masterclass.
I really wish they would have removed anything else than Ancient or Anubis.
train sitting where it belongs. trash level
NewTrain … A-site is TERRIBLE.
OldTrain layout… when?!?
I’m glad it’s out, it felt bad. I don’t care about premier stats otherwise and honestly, this is based on a large group of people with a low elo median. Train is still new in and will likely see more updates for balance, so far it’s decent, not my first ban nor pick but like to play it occasionally. I think the reason people avoid it is because it’s difficult for scrubs and most people are comfortable playing already existing maps.
Is overpass better? Meh, just did two premiers on it and it felt like the old op, just boring. Still better than anubis tho. I just hate how people are tryharding it so much on 25k+ and likely gonna be the same in faceit 3k elo now. The map is big and slow…
Anubis is a great competitive map to play and watch and I’ll die on that hill. Light years ahead of train, inferno, or mirage right now.
So now we get the least popular map that’s the most CT sided shitshow
Looking at stats from the pro scene shows a different story. Premier is always going to skew heavy on mirage and D2. I don’t really have an opinion on the change but ppl seem to underestimate how popular it was.
The full distribution of maps played in 2025(As of April 1) are:
1. **Ancient** – 1,145
2. **Mirage** – 962
3. **Anubis** – 862
4. **Dust2** – 835
5. **Nuke** – 828
6. **Inferno** – 649
7. **Train** – 354
[https://www.dust2.us/news/59709/which-cs2-maps-are-the-most-played-after-the-first-quarter-of-2025](https://www.dust2.us/news/59709/which-cs2-maps-are-the-most-played-after-the-first-quarter-of-2025)
Can’t you balance around having more maps in pool by having more veto/bans whatever? With cache (hopefully) on the line I would rather have a broader variety than seasonal variety of one map..
“noooo y u no remove mirage, all of my le friends permaban it and we haaaate it”
dumbasses, its literally the most popular map in the game
I’d like to see this split by rank. I’ve seen many times that noobs don’t like Anubis, but I think it was my group’s most played map in Prem season 2 lol
You’re allowed to like this map. You can even say it was your favorite map. But this map is a bad map in its current state.
When 4 CT rounds is considered a good CT half, there’s a fucking problem.
You’re also allowed to hate mirage and dust. I too dislike those maps. But Anubis HAD to go.
Because russians and all other bots only play dust 2 and sometimes mirage in premier
Now -ancient +cache and game will be good
Fuck it I just wanted Inferno gone. I don’t care about stats. I don’t care about popularity. I don’t care about any arguments. Inferno fucking sucks. It’s the only map you’ll see a full save at $8k or during a pistol round
I don’t get this fondness for Anubis. Trash map and most unbalanced in the game. Whoever plays T first wins. And the map just sucks to play as CT.
I was not expecting Anbus to be taken out.
this is why my proudest acheivement of season 2 is only 2 mirage maps played.
Kind of wish premier map picks were just random.
damn ancient over nuke is kinda crazy ancient is lowkey spectacular its like a better dust 2