Matchförutsägelse: Party Astronauts - Virtus.pro | CS2 (CS:GO)

Party Astronauts and Virtus.pro will meet in the first round of the group stage of ESL Challenger Katowice 2023. This is where The International is more interesting, as the North American squad is clearly not weaker than Bravado Gaming, and in some moments can try to fight back.

However, the main question is what Virtus.pro is all about. For a month now, the team has been thinking about something, but has not come up with a fifth player.

And yet the Russian team is rightly considered the favorite, because it must make a difference in its experience, against Party Astronauts for sure. Therefore, I would lean on the Virtus.pro team to win here.

Party Astronauts uniforms

The 57th ranked team in the world made their way to ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 on their own, managing to win qualification. Moreover, there the guys beat ATK and Nouns, which is quite good in those realities.

But then the North American squad had a tough time of it, failing several ESEA Cash Cups and also failing to qualify for Gamers8 2023.

To make matters worse, Party Astronauts crashed out of the ESL Challenger League Season 45 North America play-offs where they suffered two defeats and quickly ran out of steam.

Party Astronauts latest results:

• A 2-0 win over Take Flyte.
• Victory over qwerto17dar by a score of 16-1.
• 15-19 defeat to ATK.
• 0-2 defeat at the hands of Nouns.
• 0-2 defeat at the hands of Wildcard.

Party Astronauts top scorers:

• Inferno - 73% wins.
• Nuke - 67% wins.
• Mirage - 60% wins.
• Ancient - 57% wins.

At the same time, the North American squad has steadily given up on maps Anubis.

Virtus.pro form

The 22nd team of the world ranking showed nothing in the play-offs of BetBoom Playlist Urbanistic 2023, where already in the quarterfinals Ledge was against FORZE. And that was in March, but then The International is even more interesting.

And then the Russian team completely failed in the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Europe RMR A, where they lost everything, if we forget the victory over SAW.

Virtus.pro also quickly dropped out of the BetBoom Playlist Freedom 2023 after their return, losing again in the quarterfinals, but this time to 1WIN. All in all, not a team, but a clown.

Virtus.pro's latest results:

• A 16-9 win over SAW.
• A 14-16 defeat at the hands of B8 Esports.
• Defeat to Into the Breach by a score of 13-16.
• A 0-2 loss to MOUZ.
• 1WIN: 0-2 defeat.

Virtus.pro's best scores:

• Ancient - 25% wins.

In turn, the Russian team has consistently failed to play on the Nuke map.

Party Astronauts - Virtus.pro match statistics

The teams have not met before.

Forecast for the match Party Astronauts - Virtus.pro

In general, it is unlikely that Virtus.pro wants to play in such a squad, although it is unclear why they even take the invites. But that's a tenth thing, the important thing is that the team doesn't play at all.

On the other hand, Party Astronauts seem to be an experienced team, but only by the standards of their region. And the North American team often fails at home, so it's debatable.

All in all, I rather believe in a scenario in which the Bears wake up. Therefore, in this case I would recommend betting on a Virtus.pro team win.