Matchförutsägelse: Cloud9 - Pera Esports | Counter-Strike (CS2)

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The big Counter-Strike 2 doesn't think about leaving our screens. In the European region, the qualifiers for the first ever CS2 Major - Copenhagen Major - are in full swing.

Here we are talking about PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen European RMR B, and more specifically about the match C9 - Pera Esports. This will be the first match for the two teams in the qualifiers for the Major.

We are trying to figure out which of the pair C9 - Pera will be stronger in this Bo1 and earn the first victory on the eve of a rather long journey to Copenhagen.

Let's go.

Cloud9's form.

We open the match breakdown with an analysis of Cloud9's match form. In this match, the American club plays the number one with odds to win at around 1.1.

C9 had a pretty busy 2023 season. "Cloud9 made it to the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 17 and won the BLAST Premier: Spring European Showdown 2022.

In addition, the team won the commercial BB Playlist. Urbanistic. In April, C9 seriously stumbled: they lost two qualifications at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 and missed the only Major of the season.

Next up was a top-4 finish at IEM Rio 2023 and a win at Brazy Party. Before IEM Cologne 2023, C9 failed IEM Dallas 2023 (top-8) and BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023 (top-8).

• Cloud9 line-up: H0bbit, electroNic, Ax1Le, BoombI4, Perfecto.

Before Gamers8 Cloud9 attended another major summer tournament - IEM Cologne 2023. The most prestigious event went well for Cloud9: not good, but not bad either.

A very difficult Long Corner in Cologne forced Cloud9 to mobilise all their resources in order not to drop out at the group stages, and these resources were enough until the first round of play-offs, where C9 were defeated by Vitality.

Next, C9 visited Gamers8, but even there everything was not so good. At the TOP-8 stage the team faced ENCE, and they were unable to do anything against the overclocked Finns. And that's how they ended up in the TOP-8.

In their debut match at EPL Season 18, Cloud9 played against Eternal Fire. The Turks, being a cheerful team on paper, failed to outplay C9 at least on one of the cards: the match ended with the score 2-0 (16-11 Vertigo, 16-12 Eternal Fire).

In the play-offs match C9 faced Complexity. Being the absolute favourite of the match, Cloud9 failed to give CoL a fight and lost 0-2.

Cloud9's failures didn't end there. After getting into the net of the last chance of EPL Season 18, Cloud9 lost 1-2 to Liquid in a rather lacklustre manner, thus failing to qualify for the play-offs of the prestigious tournament. At the end of EPL S18, C9 finished in the top 20, which, to put it mildly, is weak for a top-tier team, which C9 was labelled as by literally everyone.

However, before the IEM Sydney IEM Long Convergence, C9 managed to rehabilitate themselves a bit for their mediocre performance at the last TOP tournaments. C9 won the BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown 2023, earning them a slot at the BLAST Autumn Finals.

Before competing at Thunderpick World Championship 2023, Cloud9 made an appearance at IEM Sydney 2023. It wasn't great there, as C9 failed to make it past the group stage, crashing out after losing to Complexity.

Thunderpick World Championship 2023 was C9's first tournament with BoombI4 officially as captain. It worked out pretty well: Cloud9 made it to the play-offs of the tournament and finished in the top 4, losing in the semi-finals to the future champions from FaZe with a 1-2 score.

At the end of the last season C9 played two BLAST tournaments. It was the BLAST Premier Fall Final 2023 followed by a top-4 and top-6 finish at BLAST Premier: World Finals 2024.

BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 Cloudy started off with a win over Heroic. However, a very easy 2-0 against the Danish Club prevented a repeat of their success against Vp. "Brothers in Spirit" proved to be stronger on three maps and closed the series with a 2-1 score, sending C9 to the bottom set. From there, C9 couldn't swim away: a 0-2 loss to BIG, which ultimately led Cloudy to the Top 12.

After failing at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, C9 played even worse at IEM Katowice 2024. In Poland, they finished in the top 16.

Cloud9 Mappool

The best map of C9 is Vertigo. There are 2 wins in 3 matches.

Next is Inferno. On Inferno Cloud9 played 5 times, of which they won 3 matches.

Minus winrate on 4 maps: Ancient (42% wins in 7 matches), Overpass (33% wins in 3 matches), Anubis (3 matches, 33% wins), Mirage (2 matches, 0 wins).

Pera Esports Form

We continue our match analysis with the analysis of Pera Esports' match form. In this match, the Hungarian club is playing as the number two, with odds to win at around 5.5.

Pera Esports are the young blood on the competitive Counter-Strike 2 scene. They started their journey on the international scene in 2023.

Last season they debuted with a top-16 finish at the Roobet Arena Weekend Cup Europe #6, followed by two qualifying events at the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023. And if at the first attempt they made it to the TOP-4, the next one was worse - TOP-6.

Then there were two victories at local tournaments. Pera celebrated victory at TippmixPro Masters Fall 2023 and LEON x TEAMPLAY Season 2.

With their victories, they started playing at ESL Challenger League Season 46: Europe and lost miserably. Pera finished in the top 18 at their first "big" tournament.

However, they ended the year on a positive note. First they won the Magyar E-sport Fesztival 2023, then qualified for the RCL 2024 and won the 22BET Christmas Cup.

In 2024, the season of qualifiers started. Pera played at the qualifiers PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, ESL Pro League Season 19: European Conference. We can say that they were successful, because through the qualifiers for PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen they reached RMR.

• Pera Esports roster: msN, Aaron, Kamion, Porya, DGL.

The last tournament before playing at PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen European RMR B was RES Eastern European Masters: Spring 2024, where Pera reached the Top 8, Ledgeiv Sinners Esports.

Pera's Mapple

Pera's best map is Mirage. They played 12 matches and won 9 of them.

Next was Overpass with 8 matches and 5 wins. Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Inferno (9 matches, 5 wins). Worse goes to Ancient with 3 wins in 6 matches, and the worst is Anubis. His Pera was picked 7 times, but played with a winrate of 42%.

History of head-to-head meetings C9 - Pera Esports

Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches. This match is the debut match between the clubs.

Predicted result of the match C9 - Pera at PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen European RMR B

In this match of The International Riga is absent from the word completely. No matter how bad C9 looked everywhere they played in 2024, they are still a few goals above Pera and should have no problem handling them. The only thing that is questionable is the bo1 format, but even that can't be a barrier for C9, because the level of the teams is critically different.

Bottom line: C9 wins.