On October 28th, 2024, a group of 17-year-old prodigies on NAVI Junior achieved something no Counter-Strike team ever had before – a complete and total 13-0 shutout over Ecstatic that now stands as the fastest professional Counter-Strike match of all time.

With a gameplay time of just 13 minutes and 27 seconds, this CS2 match obliterated the previous record, including every 16-0 played in CS:GO’s long history. The match lasted 18 minutes and 4 seconds in total from start to finish, but it’s the in-game time that stunned the community.

The YouTuber and Counter-Strike commentator PHY broke down the full story in his video, analyzing over 110 demos with help from Leetify to find the true fastest matches ever.

Why was this match so fast?

In the NAVI Junior vs Ecstatic match, everything clicked for a record-breaker:

• No pauses or timeouts
• Ecstatic kept rushing without slowing down
• NAVI Junior’s defense shut down every push with brutal efficiency
• Only two bomb plants happened in 13 rounds
• Player “cmtry” didn’t die once

This created what PHY refers to as a “Dinger” – a term for when a team gets completely swept without winning a single round (13-0 or 16-0). And this one was the fastest Dinger ever.

Fastest CS2 matches (ranked by total live time)

Here’s a list of the fastest matches in Counter-Strike 2, measured by in-game time (live time only):

Fastest CS:GO matches before CS2

Before CS2, the record belonged to Dignitas vs Vega Squadron, played on Mirage in 2017. That match took just 15 minutes and 18 seconds of live gameplay, setting the bar for over six years – until NAVI Junior shattered it in CS2.

Here’s the full ranking of the fastest CS:GO-era matches by live time:

The impact of CS2’s shorter format

With the CS2 switch to MR12 (maximum 13 rounds to win) instead of MR15, matches naturally became shorter. However, many modern teams favor slower, more tactical gameplay, making it rare for matches to be this fast.

That’s what makes NAVI Junior’s 13-0 vs Ecstatic so special – it combines old-school run-and-gun speed with new-era mechanical precision. And somehow, it’s even faster than most of the 16-0s from CS:GO.

Huge credit to PHY, the YouTuber and CS analyst who researched, scripted, and shared this Counter-Strike milestone. He partnered with the stat-tracking platform Leetify, who helped gather data from over 110 match demos to verify these records.

Sometimes, history is written in milliseconds – and NAVI Junior’s total domination proves that. Whether it’ll ever be broken remains to be seen, but for now, 13 minutes and 27 seconds stands as the fastest Counter-Strike game ever played.