"Clutch (1vN) in CS2, defined"

A clutch is a round won by the last player alive on their team, against one or more opponents. It is written 1vN — 1v1, 1v2, and so on.

Clutches are the most cited and most misread numbers in Counter-Strike. They are rare, high-variance, and heavily circumstantial: a 1v2 with the bomb planted, full armour and an AWP is a different proposition from a 1v2 on a save with a pistol.

That is why raw clutch counts mislead. A player who is often last alive may simply be dying last on a losing team. The meaningful figure is the conversion rate, split by opponent count and by whether the bomb is down.

Because clutches are low-frequency, sample size matters far more here than for ADR or KAST: a season of clutch data is dozens of rounds, not thousands.

Clutch and multi-kill counts are available per match through the CS2 data API.