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Quick summary

Cobblestone is a bomb defusal map that exists in CS:GO and not in CS2. Total CS lists 34 callouts for it and marks the map as CS:GO only, and Liquipedia's map navbox puts Cobblestone in the CS:GO casual group with no CS2 entry at all. If you queue CS2 you will never play it. If you still run CS:GO, a community server, or a workshop map built on the layout, the names below are what your team will actually say.

Where the map sits

Total CS describes Cobblestone as a bomb defusal map set in France that has existed across many iterations of Counter-Strike, and notes it went through many layout changes in CS:GO. The site also says it is one of the rare CS:GO maps where the Terrorist side is generally considered easier to play than the Counter Terrorist side. Liquipedia gives the same setting and adds the theme, a castle, with the Terrorists on the Phoenix faction and the Counter Terrorists on GIGN.

Neither source lists Cobblestone as a CS2 map. Total CS prints a CS:GO-only badge on the page, and Liquipedia's Counter-Strike 2 map navbox has Active Duty, Reserve, Arms Race, Wingman and Unavailable groups without Cobblestone in any of them. The CS:GO navbox does list it, under Casual.

The map's history

Liquipedia credits the original de_cbble to Dave Johnston, who also made Dust and Dust II. It says the map was originally called de_cstle, was always meant to be set in a castle, and was scrapped in favour of the redesign that became de_cbble. It was introduced in Counter-Strike Beta 6.5.

The CS:GO remake came on December 18, 2013, in the Winter Offensive update, shipped alongside Overpass. Valve's stated focus for the remake was opening the map up and adding more strategic options for site takes and retakes. The first professional CS:GO tournament to use it was ESL One Cologne 2014, where it was played six times including the grand final.

In April 2018 Valve ran the update it called "Smoke Mid Every Day" and announced that Dust II would replace Cobblestone in the Active Duty map pool. The map was then removed from Competitive Matchmaking altogether in March 2019 because of low popularity. Liquipedia names DreamHack Masters Marseille 2018 as the last S-tier tournament to feature it and ELEAGUE Major Boston 2018 as the last Major.

The 34 callouts

Total CS lists 34 callouts for the map. Grouped by area, they read like this.

• Spawns T Spawn, CT Spawn
• Sites A Site, B Site
• B site and the halls Connector, Upper Halls, Lower Halls, Drop, Window, Electric, B Short, Boost, B Long, B Platform, Broken Wall, Ninja (B), Chicken, Fountain, Rock, B Doors, Vent Room, Balcony, Stables
• Mid and A CT Ramp, Mid, A Long, Catwalk, T Ramp, Snake, Patio, Mid Platform, Statue, Sky, Cubby

A few of the descriptions are worth reading twice because they explain the name rather than the position. Drop refers to the room you drop into from B Halls, but Total CS says the callout is generally used for the area before the room too, including the stairs up to it and the small platform that looks over into Drop. Boost is the elevated flowerbed on B site that overlooks Electric, B Long and B Doors, and players have to be boosted onto it, which is where the name comes from. Snake is the hall from T Ramp up towards the Dragon Lore art, named for its shape and recognisable for the barred window that looks over the stairwell. Cubby is the dip in the wall at the end of A Long, closest to A site, where players are hard to spot.

Names the table uses but never defines

This is the part that trips people up. Twelve names appear inside other callout descriptions without ever getting a row of their own:

• Flowers, A Doors, Toilets, B Halls, Drop Room, Chicken Coop, Truck, Danger, T Mid, D Lore Art, Dragon Lore Art, Outside Long

The practical point is that if someone calls Danger or T Mid at you, the table will not help you find it, because neither name has its own row. Connector is described as the middle ground between A and B that houses Window and Flowers and leads through to Vent Room and the A Doors, and Mid is described as the large room connecting CT Ramp, Danger and T Ramp / T Mid. Those two descriptions are where most of the undefined names come from.

Learning order

Start with the spawns and the two sites, then the B site chain, because B is the side with the most named positions. Upper Halls and Lower Halls split B Halls, Drop is the room off them, Electric leads from Drop out onto B site, and B Long is the primary Terrorist entrance. Once those are fixed, learn the mid and A set: Mid, CT Ramp, A Long, Catwalk and T Ramp cover most of what gets called in a round.

FAQ

• Is Cobblestone in CS2? No. Total CS marks the page CS:GO only, and Liquipedia's CS2 navbox does not list it in any group.
• Why does Total CS still publish callouts for it? The site says its database is accurate for the latest versions of maps, and it specifically names Cobblestone's recent update as an example. It keeps CS:GO maps in the index alongside CS2 ones.
• How many maps does the callout index cover? The index intro says 383 callout names from 8 maps, but the page then lists eleven map entries. The 8 and the eleven do not agree, so read the per-map counts rather than the total.
• Which maps are CS:GO only? Total CS flags Cobblestone and Train. The other nine entries in the index carry the note that the map and the callouts are the same or very similar in both CS2 and CS:GO.
• Is Cobblestone balanced? Total CS says it is one of the rare CS:GO maps where the Terrorist side is generally considered easier than the Counter Terrorist side. It gives no numbers for that claim.

Sources

Cobblestone callouts table and the 34 names, Total CS
All-callouts index with the 383 name total and the CS:GO-only flags
Cobblestone map history, official description and the CS:GO versus CS2 navbox placement, Liquipedia