A single arena cut into red canyon rock, with sandy ground and walls of striated stone. The middle is filled with low wedges and spurs of rock that stick out of the floor at sharp angles and serve as the only cover. Two small structures of pale green brick are set into opposite walls, each with a dark doorway leading out of the arena, and one frame looks over the lip of the pit into the dark corridor below. Above the wall line there is blue sky with thin cloud and the blunt shapes of rock towers on the horizon. Nothing here is dressed up: no props, no signs, no vegetation, only rock, sand and the two brick doorways.

The map is 1536 × 1536 × 640 units, a small square by the standards of the engine, and it is built from 393 faces on 11 textures, none of them packed into the .bsp, where de_dust2 uses 5,383 faces on 44. Each side has 6 spawn points, so 12 players can start a round. Despite the cs_ name there are no hostages and no rescue zones in the map, and no bomb sites either, so neither of the standard round objectives can be completed. Buy zones are on auto and the engine places them at the spawns. Two ladders are the only entities a player can interact with. No sky texture is set and there is no water. The archive holds the .bsp alone.