Matchförutsägelse: FaZe Clan - Cloud9 | CS2 (CS:GO)

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We're still watching the action in Copenhagen, where BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 continues today. We're talking about the group stage, specifically Quartet A.

Today all 3 participants of the play-offs will be determined. And if NaVi and NiP will have to play a match for life, FaZe and Cloud9 are luckier in this respect: both of them are already in play-offs. The only question is the seeding.

Here we will look for the answer to it. The winner of the FaZe - C9 match goes to the semi-finals of BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023, and the loser starts the play-offs from the first round of the main stage.

Let's find out who of the pair will be stronger in this Bo3 and will go to the semi-finals of BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023, and who will have to play in the first round of play-offs.

Let's go.

FaZe Form.

Analyzing FaZe Clan's current form is crucial as we delve into this CS:GO matchup. The top team globally, they are set to take the lead in this game. Interestingly, some players might be considering a CSGO gamble, especially with the odds for FaZe's victory hovering around 1.5.

One of the most stable teams of the season has quite an extensive record in the first half of the year. However, it mainly consists of "around" top results.

Among the main achievements - getting into the top three at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 and winning at ESL Pro League Season 17. Also this year FaZe got the award for the 4th season of Intel Grand Slam, enriched by $1,000,000.

Speaking of award tournaments, there was less luck here. Top-12 at IEM Rio 2023, and Top-4 at IEM Dallas 2023. At the only Major e in the season FaZe did not cope with the tension, but made it to TOP-8.

Before the Long Conference IEM Cologne 2023 they attended two tournaments of BLAST series: Spring Final 2023 and Fall Groups 2023. At the Finals they were ranked Top 6, and at the Fall Groups 2023 they were in the top three, earning themselves a slot at the Autumn Finals.

• FaZe Clan line-up: karrigan, rain, Twistzz, ropz, broky.

Despite the ubiquitous Reshuffle and rather "average" results for the year, FaZe didn't change the main roster. However, there were some substitutions: FaZe presented a new coach, who became the legendary Pole NEO. On his post he replaced the legendary RobbaN and it affected FaZe's gameplay in IEM Cologne 2023, where FaZe took the top-12.

The setbacks continued from there onwards. At Gamers8 2023 FaZe Clan took a similar place (9-12), Ledgeiv at the Long Segment of the Vp tournament with the score 2-0.

Things didn't go too well at ESL Pro League Season 18. FaZe made it to the play-offs on the top grid of Group C, defeating 9Z Team and Fnatic, but in the match for seeding in the main stage they lost to NaVi with the score 0-2. However, FaZe didn't manage to play long at ESL Pro League Season 18: in the first play-offs match, which for FaZe started from the second stage, the team met MOUZ. The future EPL champions sent FaZe Clan home. As a result FaZe found themselves on the 9-12th place of the top tournament.

FaZe rehabilitated quite quickly. Already at IEM Sydney 2023 they triumphed with the victory over CoL in the grand final.

Thunderpick World Championship 2023 FaZe Clan have a great time. The titular European club passed the group stage without problems becoming the best team of the quartet B, and then took part in the play-offs of the championship.

The first opponent for FaZe in the play-offs of Thunderpick World Championship 2023 was MOUZ. A serious opponent, but FaZe did well: 2-1 in favour of the champions of IEM Sydney 2023.

Later MOUZ played against C9 in the match for the final of the tournament and won. They finished what they started with a match against Vp in the Grand Final of Thunderpick World Championship 2023, becoming the champion of the $500,000 online tournament.

Before the performance at BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 FaZe visited CS Asia Championship. At the conclusion of the CS Asia Championship 2023 FaZe triumphed once again, defeating Complexity 2-1 in the grand finals.

At BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 FaZe debuted with a match against Ninjas in Pyjamas. "Ninjas" though tried to impose the fight, but it did not affect the performance: as a result - 2-0 in favour of FaZe.

FaZe Clan Mapple

The best map FaZe - Mirage. They played 12 matches and won 9 of them.

Then there were Overpass with 8 matches and 5 wins. They play Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Inferno (9 matches, 5 wins). Worse is Ancient with 3 wins in 6 matches, and worst of all was Anubis. His FaZe was picked 7 times, but played with a winrate of 42%.

Not playing on Vertigo.

Cloud9 Form.

Let's continue with the analysis of C9's playing condition. They have to play as number two here, which is quite logical, especially against FaZe. The odds for a win are somewhere around 2.

C9 had a very good half-year. "The Cloudies 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 dealt with 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 turned out pretty good: 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.

In the first match at BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 Cloud9 met a principled opponent in the face of NaVi. "Born to Win" gave battle and took the map, but the outcome was 2-1 in favour of C9.

Cloud9 mappool

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

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

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

History of head-to-head meetings between Cloud9 and FaZe

FaZe and C9 have played each other twice in 2023. FaZe won twice.

Predicted result of the match Cloud9 - FaZe

In this match I expect a bright game from both sides, but I give the victory to FaZe. Right now they are too monumental to compete with them.

Bottom line: FaZe wins.