The strategy behind vetoing maps plays a big part in professional CS:GO matches. If a team have the read and do the right move, it can leave the opponent in a pretty dire spot for the series. This is what happened before paiN Gaming thrashed Fluxo 16-2 on Mirage in the first round of the BLAST Paris Major Challengers Stage on May 8 and it was all because paiN’s captain Rodrigo “biguzera” Bittencourt saw it unfold on Steam ahead of the tournament.
PaiN had the better seeding coming into the game and therefore could choose to either remove the first two maps or the three last ones. Biguzera chose the latter so he could see what strategy Fluxo was going for and to confirm the theory he crafted after seeing Fluxo’s players practicing a lot of Ancient via Steam’s friend list.
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