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Ancient: how pros play it

68 pro matches and 1,512 rounds on Ancient: where pros plant, the CT setup at 0:20, early grenades, who wins each buy, retake times, AWP spots and the most-thrown lineups with setpos commands.

The round

Rounds won by the CT side50%758 of 1511
Pistol rounds won by the CT side43%50 of 116
The pistol winner also wins the next round80%93 of 116
The team with the opening kill wins the round72%1084 of 1506

Where pros plant

Ts get the bomb down in 60% of rounds (910 of 1511). They win 74% of the rounds where they plant and 13% of those where they don't.

SitePlantsTs win after itMedian plant
A45% (478)73%0:52 left
B55% (585)72%0:53 left

The CT side's default

Spots someone holds at 0:20 in at least 70% of a team's rounds, out of 71 pro CT sides:

Grenades a team throws in the first 30 seconds of at least 60% of its rounds, out of 71 pro CT sides:

The T side's early grenades

Grenades a team throws in the first 30 seconds of at least 60% of its rounds, out of 71 pro T sides:

Rounds won by buy

The first buy is the side's own; rounds played in brackets.

As CTAs T
Full buy vs full buy51% (825)49% (825)
Full buy vs force buy64% (137)73% (118)
Force buy vs full buy27% (118)36% (137)
Eco vs full buy9% (127)10% (166)

Players alive

Rounds won from each count of players alive.

As CTAs T
5 vs 469% (874)76% (629)
4 vs 524% (629)31% (874)
3 vs 273% (453)89% (392)
2 vs 311% (392)27% (453)
2 vs 180% (278)91% (270)

1-vs-N clutches won: 1v1 50% (210 of 420), 1v2 15% (80 of 548), 1v3 4% (22 of 597).

Rotations

Once the Ts hit a site, how long until the first CT from elsewhere on the map is on it:

Where pro CT AWPs fight

AWP duels by where the CT AWPer stood, most fought first.

SpotDuelsWon
Bombsite A9766%
Street7061%
Speedway6167%
House5569%
Bombsite B4963%
Side Hall3681%
Red2778%
Backstage2665%

The most-thrown pro lineups on Ancient

Paste the line into the console on a local server (sv_cheats 1) to stand exactly where the pro stood, looking where they looked.

  1. T smoke: T Spawn to Stairs (jump), thrown 340 times
    setpos -328.36 -2282.61 -121.28; setang -32.00 93.85 0
  2. T flash: T Spawn to Mid (jump), thrown 321 times
    setpos -735.94 -1925.33 -119.17; setang -19.63 92.69 0
  3. T smoke: T Spawn to Window (jump), thrown 272 times
    setpos -687.97 -2467.96 -128.11; setang -26.86 63.01 0
  4. T smoke: T Spawn to Outside Totem (jump), thrown 213 times
    setpos -735.97 -2135.97 -125.41; setang -26.95 93.60 0
  5. T molly: Outside B to Bombsite B (standing), thrown 158 times
    setpos 1058.09 -935.02 3.53; setang -30.77 110.46 0
  6. CT molly: House to T Mid (running), thrown 146 times
    setpos -479.65 712.97 131.68; setang -11.07 -100.60 0
  7. CT smoke: CT Spawn to T Mid (jump), thrown 142 times
    setpos -518.62 1664.82 69.89; setang -26.21 -102.00 0
  8. CT HE grenade: Bombsite B to Construction (running), thrown 140 times
    setpos 660.40 260.39 130.53; setang -11.64 -76.39 0
  9. CT molly: Short to Construction (jump), thrown 138 times
    setpos 639.90 585.99 161.03; setang 3.63 -89.67 0
  10. T molly: Outside to Mid (running), thrown 134 times
    setpos -1143.05 -895.98 35.01; setang -4.49 35.05 0

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Round, buy, setup, rotation and AWP numbers: the 68 pro matches on Ancient measured on 2026-11-01. Plants and lineups: all 84 pro matches on Ancient in RetakeHQ's pro library now. How each number is counted: how the analysis works.