Match simulation

How a match is decided

A map is MR12: two halves of twelve rounds, sides switch at the break, first to 13 takes the map. Every round is an economy puzzle and a scripted tactic, weighted by your players’ role ratings, not a coin flip.

“It feels random”

Results are not RNG: the sim picks a winner from squad power, map strength, the Elo gap and team morale, then loads the round dice by ability.

MR12 · overtime · Bo1 / Bo3 / Bo5 · veto

The match structure

One map: MR12 Datamined constants

First half 12 rounds You start one side

Second half 12 rounds Sides flip

Map win First to 13 24-round regulation

12–12 A tie triggers overtime: MR3 (3 rounds per side, first to 4). Tied overtimes repeat until one team is ahead by four.

The series

Bo1 1 map

A single decider: one map, one map veto, high variance. Common in group stages.

Bo3 up to 3

First to two maps. The standard playoff format; the veto shapes the whole series.

Bo5 up to 5

First to three. Reserved for grand finals: depth of map pool decides it.

Map veto FirstPick / FirstBan

1 Team A Bans its worst map
2 Team B Bans its worst map
3 Team A Picks a map to play
4 Team B Picks a map to play
5 Both Trim remaining maps
6 · Last map left is the decider

Each team carries a preferred first pick and first ban; the analyst’s pre-match report advises the order.

Objective, not just fragging

Winning a round

A round is won two or three ways depending on the side. The bomb is the axis: every tactic is built around planting on A or B, holding the plant, or retaking the site.

T Terrorists win by

Detonating the planted C4 (40s timer)
Eliminating all five CTs

CT Counter-Terrorists win by

Defusing the bomb (10s, or 5s with a kit)
Eliminating all five Ts
Running the round timer out with no plant

Buy states · loss bonus · rewards

The round economy

Money carries between rounds, so the buy you can afford drives the tactic you run. The five buy states are a hard enum; the dollar figures follow standard CS2 MR12 economy.

The five buy states Enum · datamined

Pistol The first round of each half: everyone on $800, pistols and light utility only.

Full Buy Rifle, armour and a full utility set. Where the scripted executes happen.

Semi Buy A partial buy: some rifles, some armour, thinner utility.

Force Buy Spend everything on a weak bank to steal a round or deny the enemy economy.

Eco Save the money, expect to lose the round, keep guns alive for next round.

Loss-bonus ladder $ = CS2 convention

Lose consecutive rounds and your bank floor climbs each time; a single round win resets it. This is what lets a beaten team re-buy.

$1,400 L1

$1,900 L2

$2,400 L3

$2,900 L4

$3,400 L5

Round & kill rewards $ = CS2 convention

Round win: $3,250
Bomb detonation (T): $3,500
Plant (even on a loss): +$800
Kill (most weapons): $300
Kill with the AWP: $100
Money cap: $16,000

The AWP’s low kill reward is why an AWP-heavy round is an economic gamble.

The win-probability chain

Who wins the map

The auto-match win chance is a pipeline of datamined inputs, best read from the diagram below: staff quality raises map-practice %, which raises win probability.

Squad power Average role rating of the five starters

Map strength 0–100% familiarity for that specific map

ERS (Elo) The ladder gap turned into a probability

Morale & fitness Team-state modifiers on top

Win probability Rolled per map, then animated

Fact vs inference Win-chance inputs are datamined; the exact weights are not, since every scoring method is stubbed in the game files.

Per-player row

Reading the live sim

In Simulation Mode you watch the match top-down and call one tactic per round. Your only live levers are pause, speed and the tactic call; each player’s row reads like a broadcast HUD.

The live match simulation, showing each player row with kills, deaths, money, HP and weapon — Reading a player row T CT

**Kills**: the star column. More kills = higher round impact.

**Deaths**: the skull column. A dead player’s HP is gone for the round.

**Money**: the per-player bank that decides next round’s buy.

HP: the heart. Full at round start, whittled by damage.

**Weapon & nades**: the held gun and remaining utility icons.

**IGL badge**: flags the in-game leader in the row.

The same idea, drawn as a linked scoreboard: two real top-ranked rosters on a top-down, each marker tied to that player’s season rating, role and top stat.

Illustrative team positions on the Dust II top-down layout — **Team Spirit** attack **Falcons Esports** defense

Illustrative positions: the game ships no in-match coordinates, so the ten spots are hand-placed. The ratings, roles and top stats are real season values from the player database.

K/D/A · HS% · DMG · MVP

Reading the post-map scoreboard

Post-map scoreboard

Reading the scoreboard

Kills, Deaths, Assists: assists include flash assists.

Headshot %: headshots over kills; scaled by weapon and aim.

Damage / ADR: average damage per round, the truest fragging metric.

MVP: the map most-valuable-player marker.

Round strip: skull = the round was won by elimination.

Round strip: bomb = the round was won by detonation.

Round strip: defuse kit = the round was won by defuse.

The round-by-round strip runs between the teams: one cell per round, top block for half one and bottom block for half two, each tinted the winning side’s colour.

Keep reading

The economy decides your buy; the buy decides your tactic, and the tactic leans on specific player roles. The rest of the game (staff, training, transfers and finances) lives in the manager guide.