Valve has quietly added a small but meaningful decoration to the Mirage map in Counter-Strike 2: four tomato cans labeled “Magic: Secret Sauce” with a “4X” printed beneath them. But for anyone who watched Boris “magixx” Vorobiev dismantle an entire G2 squad in the IEM Cologne Major 2026 quarterfinals, the reference is unmistakable.
The update, released around June 30, 2026, represents the first time Valve has commemorated a professional esports moment inside CS2. The last time the developer did anything like this was nearly a decade ago, when Dosia’s legendary grenade play earned its own in-game tribute in CS:GO back in 2017.
The play that broke the internet
Team Spirit were locked in a second overtime against G2 on Mirage during the quarterfinals of the Cologne Major. It was map point. Magixx, Spirit’s captain, armed with an AK-47, sprayed down all four remaining G2 players in a 1v4 clutch that immediately became one of the most replayed moments in competitive Counter-Strike history. Within hours, clips of the play were ricocheting across social media. Within days, the CS community had organized petitions and threads demanding Valve honor the moment with some kind of permanent in-game tribute.
