Anubis was the Shortest-lived CS map of the past 10 years

IEM Cologne 2025 is kicking off this Wednesday, July 22nd, and it will be the first tier-one event of the year to not feature Anubis. This is because Valve removed Anubis and added Overpass to CS2 last week.

Turns out that Anubis spent the least time in the official rotation than any other Counter-Strike map in the past 10 years, as first reported by bo3.gg.

Anubis was part of the official Counter-Strike map pool since November 18th, 2022. It stayed only 972 days, which isn't much considering that Valve are letting Nuke, Inferno, and Mirage stay almost permanently.

Although Valve made changes to these maps over the past decade, they haven't been removed in favor of new maps for a while. Nuke and Inferno are part of the map pool since 2016 and 2017, respectively, whereas Mirage is part of the rotation since 2013.

Many teams, especially some from North America like NRG and M80, will be affected with the removal of Anubis, as the T-sided map was among their favorite.

These teams will inevitably have to pour efforts on Overpass, unless they want to sacrifice a map that they already have been playing.