New pro-scene record for number of rounds played in one match set

In the final of the Polish Esports League 2023 Split 2 online tournament, ThunderFlash and PGE Turow set a new record of the professional stage for the number of rounds played. In a BO5 match, the opponents played 173 rounds.

PGE Turow secured the victory with a scoreline of 3:2 – 16:19 on Vertigo, 16:14 on Ancient, 14:16 on Inferno, 22:20 on Anubis and 19:17 on Mirage. Notably, at the end of the match, nine out of ten players overcame the threshold of 100 kills.

ThunderFlash vs PGE Turow match statistics looks as follows:

The previous record for the number of rounds played in one game was set in 2015 at the Acer Predator Masters LAN tournament in a match between MOUZ and HellRaisers. Then the teams played 164 rounds.

Top 10 professional matches with most rounds played are:

  1.  PGE Turow –  ThunderFlash (Polish Esports League 2023 Split 2, 173 rounds)
  2.  MOUZ –  HellRaisers (Acer Predator Masters 2015, 164 rounds)
  3.  TYLOO –  Heroic (Toyota Master Bangkok 2018, 161 rounds)
  4.  Gambit –  Heroic (ESL Pro League Season 13, 157 rounds)
  5.  Liquid –  Vitality (ESL Pro League Season 16, 155 rounds)
  6.  0to100 –  4glory (Kuvo OneTap Winter 2022,154 rounds)
  7.  BIG Academy –  ECLOT (Y-Games Pro Series 2022, 154 rounds)
  8.  Extra Salt –  GODSENT (DreamHack Open September 2021, 154 rounds)
  9.  Vitality –  Heroic (DreamHack Open Fall 2020, 154 rounds)
  10.  SK –  Virtus.pro (EPICENTER, 2017, 151 rounds)

Origin: www.hltv.org