Hey everyone!

For a while now we’ve heard that you would like to be able to choose which maps to play, or rather, which map you would like NOT to play… let’s say… Mirage.

We’re excited to let you know that, you can now remove maps that you don’t want to play before joining matchmaking queues in CS:GO.

This is a great opportunity to remove maps from voting that you’re not quite on good yet, or perhaps, practice more on those that you don’t necessarily get to play often competitively.

How does it work?

We’ll find the best match with the preferred map pool and only vote on the maps you really wanted to play.

We’re rolling this feature out to Premium players first and with a minimum maps needed to be selected as we monitor queue times to ensure that wait times don’t increase drastically.

For Free players, this means that you are automatically put in the queue with all maps pre-selected and can lead to a smaller map pool for captains to vote on.

Head over to the matchmaking page and you’ll see a new dropdown menu next to the play button. From there you can make your selections.

We would love to hear your feedback on this feature. Head over to our Community portal to discuss improvements.