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had become stale, noting professional teams repeated the same strategy in every match due to the map's lack of updates since 2020. He noted that although the map has been featured in over 18 CS:GO Major championships some esports players have called for its removal from the map pool, although he
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commented on the map's increasing use in esports over competing maps like Train, calling it the "most important map-to-be", and saying the shift made sense due to the development of better grenades and tactics that enabled more possibilities for its three-lane layout. By 2022, Leonardo Biazzi of
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