Matchförutsägelse: Team Liquid - ENCE | CS2 (CS:GO)

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The big CSGO doesn't even think of ending. On the contrary, it is only gaining momentum, together with the Gamers8 tournament.

Gamers8 is an extravaganza of competitive, commercial CSGO. 16 world-class teams, including Heroic, Vitality, NaVi and other clubs, play for a prize pool of $1,000,000.

Liquid with ENCE is among the number of participants. They will play their debut match in a head-to-head confrontation.

North America and Europe will face off to determine the winner, who will advance further down the tournament grid. The loser of the ENCE/Liquid pairing will be eliminated from Gamers8.

Let's try to figure out who will be the winner of this match and continue to move towards the main prize of $400,000, and who will have to leave the championship before it has even started.

Let's go.

ENCE Form

Let's open the match analysis with an analysis of ENCE's form. In this match, the Finnish club plays in the status of favourite.

Bookmakers believe in the success of ENCE. The odds for an ENCE victory are at around 1.5.

I don't see any point in disputing ENCE's position in the match against Liquid. They prove their ability.

During the season, the team took TOP-3 at CCT Central Europe Malta Vibes, TOP-4 at ESL Pro League Season 17, and also got to TOP-8 European RMR B - qualifying event for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. ENCE also played at the Major, but it was TOP-14, which is hardly a worthy result.

IEM Dallas 2023 turned out to be much more pleasant. ENCE looked quite cheerful throughout the event, which allowed them to defeat MOUZ in the grand finals with a score of 2-0. Just before IEM Cologne 2023, ESL Challenger Katowice was played, where they had to defeat Vp in the grand final 1-2.

• ENCE roster: Snappi, NertZ, Maden, dycha, SunPayus .

ENCE have been playing in a stable roster for almost half a year. SunPayus and NertZ headline the roster with a KDA of 1.12.

Thanks to their victory at IEM Dallas 2023 ENCE started Cologne from the group stage. The first opponent was the Poles from 9INE, who gave the Finns serious problems, but lost with a score of 1-2 and a series of dops on the decisive map.

The next match was a match against Fnatic. ENCE won both maps, leaving Fnatic no special chances.

In the match for the Grand Final ENCE played against Heroic. Being an outsider, the Finns took a very good approach to the match and shut down the top 1 team in the world with a score of 2-1 in a tough Bo3.

Next up was a match against Vitality and as a result a passage to the Grand Final of IEM Cologne 2023. ENCE was not enough for the title, G2 Esports were stronger.

ENCE Mapple

ENCE has two 100 per cent maps. They are Nuke with 9 wins in 9 matches and Anubis with 5 matches and 0 losses.

Still playing Ancient (66% wins in 3 matches). Still playing Mirage (9 matches, 4 wins). Vertigo with 2 wins and 3 losses and Overpass (2 wins in 7 matches).

Inferno are not playing.

Team Liquid uniforms

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Team Liquid's form. In this match the team will play the second number.

Bookmakers do not believe in the success of the team from North America. The odds on their success is at around 2.4.

Frankly speaking, the figure seems to me even underestimated. Liquid are not impressive at all this season.

The first half of the year was more or less the same. There was a top-4 at two top championships: IEM Katowice 2023 with a top-4 and BLAST Premier: Spring American Showdown 2023.

But there were some glaring failures as well. For example, BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 and ESL Pro League Season 17, where they took TOP-12 and TOP-16 respectively.

At American RMR, Liquid finished top-3, which allowed them to qualify for the BLAST.tv Paris Major. Liquid finished the Paris Major on the 8th line after being eliminated by Apeks.

After the Major, Liquid played at IEM Dallas 2023 and BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. Both tournaments are below average: top-12 and top-9 respectively.

The last tournament before Gamers8 was IEM Cologne 2023, where Liquid showed a disgusting CSGO. So much so that they failed to make it past the Play-In stage.

• Liquid lineup: NAF, oSee, YEKINDAR, Patsi, Rainwaker .

The failure at IEM Cologne can be attributed to Liquid's recent Reshuffle, but it's not an excuse. ENCE will be all the same.

Liquid's Mapple

Liquid's most frequent maps are Vertigo and Anubis. Both have been played 3 times each and both have 2 wins and 1 loss.

Mirage is also looking good, where Liquid has played 5 times, of which they won three times. The last "plus" winrate is Inferno. TL has 3 wins and 3 losses there.

The worst is on Overpass and Nuke. On Overpass 8 matches, but 5 losses, on Nuke - only a loss.

History of head-to-head meetings between Liquid and ENCE

The last time the teams played in an official match was back in 2021.

Predicted result of Liquid vs ENCE on Gamers8

Considering Liquid's performance in recent events, I don't see how they can win. I can see that the team is in search of themselves. Hence, they try to play all of their matches, but with such a good performance.

ENCE look confident, and the results speak for themselves. "Liquid" is definitely a passable opponent for the Finns.

Bottom line: ENCE win.