Which maps will Valve Remove by July 31: how this market works

What you need to know

This market asks whether Valve will permanently drop a specific map from the CS2 competitive pool before the end of July 2026. The Active Duty map pool is the small group of maps used in ranked play and pro tournaments. A Yes means that map gets cut and stays cut. A No means it stays in the rotation, or any removal was only temporary. Each map resolves Yes only if Valve removes it from the Active Duty pool and keeps it out for at least 48 hours in a row, all before July 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET. A short-term removal for testing that gets reversed does not count. Valve's own announcements are the main source, but consistent reporting from credible outlets can also confirm it. None of the provided news headlines relate to CS2, Valve, or esports in any way. There is no relevant recent news to point to here. The kind of development worth watching would be a Valve patch announcement, a major tournament map pool update, or credible leaks about CS2 map rotation changes. Valve does not follow a public schedule for map pool changes, so timing is genuinely hard to call. Ancient is priced at 26%, meaning the market sees a real but minority chance of removal. Nuke and Cache are priced very low at 3% and 2%, so for those two the main uncertainty is simply whether something unexpected happens. Valve can act at any time with little warning, and community speculation does not always match what Valve actually does.

The odds right now

• Ancient+22.7 pts (1w)26%
• Nuke+0.4 pts (1w)3%
• Cache2%
• Anubis2%
• Dust 2-0.1 pts (1w)1%
• Inferno-3.0 pts (1w)0%
• Mirage-1.9 pts (1w)0%

Price history

How this resolves

This market will resolve to "Yes" if Valve removes the listed map from the official map pool by July 31, 2026, 11:59 PM ET, and the removal lasts continuously for at least 48 hours. Otherwise, this market will resolve to “No”. Read the full resolution rules on the live market page.

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