Overpass to re-enter pool at Cologne as BLAST and ESL issue update

16-7-2025 13:35

Anubis will be swapped for Overpass at all of the duo's LAN events next season.

Overpass will replace Anubis at IEM Cologne 2025 after ESL announced that the change will affect the ESL Pro Tour "with immediate effect."

The exception is the ongoing ESL Pro League Season 22 qualifiers, which will continue to run on the old patch.

Overpass replaces Anubis in Active Duty map pool

BLAST issued a similar update, which confirmed Overpass' inclusion in their map pool from August 1 onwards for the BLAST Rising qualifiers. Open qualifiers in July, however, will continue to use Anubis.

The news gives teams 10 days (seven for play-in) to prepare for the new map pool ahead of Cologne, a timespan shortened for teams attending FISSURE Playground 1 in Serbia.

ESEA will enact the change for their leagues from July 28, while PGL are yet to announce their stance.

Good, it will be fun

2025-07-16 13:31

W decision

2025-07-16 13:31

Upsets galore

2025-07-16 13:32

Keeping inferno and removing anubis, another year of sleepferno 4 man saves YIPPEE

2025-07-16 13:32

Tears in my eyes, Overpass, Train and Nuke are back in the map pool AT THE SAME TIME, this is just beautiful. Now we just need reworked cobble and cache instead of inferno and d2 and this map pool is literally perfect

2025-07-16 13:33

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im so fucking tired of mirage broooooooooooooo 😴 😴 😴 😴 😴 😴

2025-07-16 13:47

i just need cobble and cache now. cache, cobble, train, overpass, nuke, ancient (and put back anubis please)

2025-07-16 15:14

Hawk Tuah will be in Counter-Strike 😹😹😹😹😹😹

2025-07-16 13:33

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Huh?

2025-07-16 13:47

what the helly

2025-07-16 13:48

2025-07-16 19:18

Good that they change it for Cologne already

2025-07-16 13:34

sidegrade for coL

2025-07-16 13:35

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i love you

2025-07-16 13:41

I wasnt a big fan of Overpass but the new update has somehow made me miss Overpass alot all of a sudden ? Like I can recall soo many iconic moments from the map over the years that I am actually excited for it ? when was the last time Overpass got played ? Feels like forever.

2025-07-16 13:44

Epic

2025-07-16 13:45

Awesome. Cant wait to see this map again. Considering their history on the map - its looking up for astralis.

2025-07-16 13:48

Will be interesting to see which teams prepped best in such a short time.

2025-07-16 14:01

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Top teams, not falcons or mouz. They permaban anubis so just switch to permaban over. For now at least

2025-07-16 14:27

Vitality used to play overpass a fair amount. Ropz and FaZe too. Pretty sure they're gonna be good on it once again.

2025-07-17 09:47

Overpass is OG competitive, never remove it again

2025-07-16 14:20

what about the ct economy buff and the gameplay changes (mp9 and incendiary) for Cologne?

2025-07-16 14:24

You have an important tournament coming soon? We will make some crucial game updates then. Typical valve.

2025-07-16 14:24

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Should have been done as soon as the major ended really.

2025-07-16 16:24

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For real, there is 1-2 "important" tournaments a month. Aligning an update to not affect a tournament is almost impossible these days. Best option is to send out the update the week after the conclusion of the major, but having an update ready on time once every 6 months also seems impossible with Valve.

2025-07-16 17:21

rip anubis, one of the best new maps for a long time, shame they never last unlike D2, Mirage & Nuke that are so overplayed they've all just blurred into one long match on them.

2025-07-16 14:29

Not good for Aurora

2025-07-16 14:33

I cant believe how much people like that, its not random tournament like EPL or blast to change it one week before event, its fckin cologne. Huge mistake in my opinion

2025-07-16 14:39

Why not god awful stupid -dust2 instead Valve?

2025-07-16 15:24

Liquid and Aurora in shambles

2025-07-16 15:40

Jame is back

2025-07-16 16:04

Jame second major incoming

2025-07-16 16:53

why not ancient smh such a garbage map, that is so bad that 0 ancients were played at the last major playoffs

2025-07-16 17:03

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Ancient is a Great Addition to the map pool ? Overall it was played more than Train and Anubis. So since they just put in Train they did statistically the right move considering your logic….

2025-07-16 17:15