Map & Side Selection
- Available pool: Ancient, Anubis, Dust II, Inferno, Mirage, Nuke, Overpass, Train, Vertigo
- The veto runs at the very start of the tournament via the Map Picker tool and stays valid for the full event.
- A coin toss decides which team starts.
- The first team bans one map.
- The second team bans one map.
- Teams then alternate map picks.
- When one team picks a map, the other team picks the side (T or CT).