Anubis has been the fixed point of this series. Six appearances, six Team Jungle losses, 52 rounds won and 77 lost, and — as I wrote five days ago — not one of those maps ever reached overtime. I called it the fixture's only fortress and predicted it would go the way it always does.

It went 22–20 to Team Jungle. Forty-two rounds, the longest Anubis this series has ever played and the second-longest map of any kind in AlaPimee history, behind only the 53-round Mirage of September 2025. Jungle are 1–6 on it now. The fortress had a gate the whole time; nobody had ever pushed on it for four overtimes.

The two men who actually played it

tompaldinho finished that map 47–29 with a 111.0 ADR and a +9.3 rating. Forty-seven kills is a career high for him by nine — his previous best in a major map was 38, also on that Mirage — and it is the third-largest single-map kill count anyone has posted in this series. He arrived peaking and he was, to the extent that a man can peak and still lose the map: 100.8 ADR across the day, level with the 100.9 he managed in November 2025, and a +4.5 that is the third-best major day of his career.

Opposite him, dulle went 42–23 for 108.3 and +7.9. Those two accounted for 89 of the 189 kills on the map. Everyone else was a spectator with a rifle — denzari, who came in averaging +5.0 on Anubis and owning a 27–7 on it from March, went 23–30 for a −3.7. It was his first negative Anubis since May 2025, and it came on the one occasion his team needed the map to stay a fortress.

The floor got tested and did not move

The open question before the night was whether 23 days off the game would finally give dulle a bad map. It did not. His worst of the nine was a −1.1 on the second Dust2; of his 43 rated major maps he has still never been below −2.6.

What he did instead was Ancient. Twenty-seven kills, eight deaths, 146.8 damage per round across a 13–4, and a +17.4 rating — the second-highest single-map figure ever recorded in this series, behind his own +18.9 on Train in May 2025. He now owns three of the five best major maps anyone has played here. His day, at +5.3 and 98.4 ADR, was actually his quietest of six rated majors on damage, which is the sort of sentence that only makes sense about him.

Six maps, none of them close

The scoreline flatters nobody. Connector won six maps and never once needed a fourteenth round: 13–6, 13–5, 13–10, 13–5, 13–8, 13–10. Jungle won three and needed 13, 16 and 22. Every map that went past regulation went to Jungle; every map that did not, went to Connector, with one 13–4 exception. Rounds on the day: 116–95. That is not a night decided by clutch play or nerve — Jungle were simply beaten flat six times and won the three arguments that lasted long enough to become arguments.

The T sides tell you where it happened. Every Jungle player except dulle was negative attacking: Sect0r −4.8 on T against +0.9 on CT, Fons −4.0, taikajim −3.3. Connector's answer was tompaldinho at +4.7 on T and denzari at +5.7 on CT. Two sides of the map, two different men, covered.

The predictions, marked honestly

Right on the winner, wrong on the margin — I said Connector by a map at 5–4 and it was 6–3, which reverses April exactly. Right that 95% was a number for a team that had been playing.

Wrong on Anubis, comprehensively.

The slow burn ended. j0nxiest had raised his damage on five consecutive major days — 49.1, 73.2, 78.4, 86.0, 86.9, 91.3 — and last night he posted 81.6 and a −1.9. The mechanism was the one flagged: he led every man on the night in deaths with 168, including 36 on Anubis alone. He produced 100.6 ADR on Mirage and 102.7 on Cache and was negative on both nights' Dust2s. More damage, dying alone, exactly as advertised, just with the damage going the wrong way for once.

taikajim walked in on 125 days without a recorded match and it showed in the one place rust always shows: 59.0 ADR, the lowest of his eight major days, by two tenths of a point. His −2.4 is not his worst day (−3.7 in March) and he was not the worst man on the floor, which after four months off is a defensible outcome. On Anubis he went 23–24 over 42 rounds for 44.7 damage a round — present for the kills, absent from everything between them.

silmamies was the one I hedged on and the hedge paid. Twenty-one days idle, a −4.9 ten-match club stretch behind him, and he turned up at +0.9, 76.2 ADR, 0.98 K/D — within a rounding error of his career major line. He turns up on major nights. That is now seven for seven.

Ele, whom nobody mentioned, quietly had the best major day of his career: −0.6 and a 0.91 K/D, both personal bests over six rated days. It is a low bar and he cleared it on the winning side.

Fons had the night. A −3.5 average is his worst major day across seven rated appearances, his 0.72 K/D is the lowest he has posted, and the two worst individual maps of his career — a −8.4 on the first Dust2 and a −7.6 on Cache — both happened inside four hours of each other. He was also the only Jungle player besides dulle with meaningful recent volume, which is either the cruellest part or the explanation. In fairness he then went 33–30 on Anubis for a +3.2 and 83.4 a round, his second-highest kill total in any major map, and Jungle won it.

Connector take the day 6–3 and level the ledger from April. They did it with tompaldinho playing the best individual map of his life and losing it, with their most reliable Anubis performer having his worst Anubis in fifteen months, and with Pattunen posting his lowest-damage major day on record at 56.4. Six of nine, and their two best individual performances of the night both came on maps they lost. Jungle, meanwhile, got the second-greatest map ever played here out of dulle and won a fortress that had held for sixteen months, and still went home three.

The model had them at 95%. The model has some reading to do.