Match Prediction: Vitality - Sharks | CS2 (CS:GO)

Team Vitality will play against Sharks Esports in the quarter-finals of the top grid of Group B of the ESL Pro League Season 19 tournament. The losing team will drop down to the middle part of the grid. The format of the match is bo3. Will the Brazilians be able to win at least one card? Let's find out.

In this betting thread you will find out how the participants of this match performed in the previous year, how they did in their previous professional tournament, as well as how this match will end.

Team Vitality's form

Team Vitality have had a great year of play, although they didn't start the previous season in the best way. The European squad started the year with a 1st-3rd place finish at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023, followed by 5th-8th place finishes at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023 and ESL Pro League Season 17. But then ZywOo and his teammates were able to pick up their form and win the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023 and BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, earning a combined $600,000 in prize money at those two events. In BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023, Team Vitality finished in second place at the tournament and won $85,000. BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023 finished in 4th-6th place for Vitality, which earned them $17,500 in prize money and a slot in BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. ZywOo and his team also participated in the Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023 where they finished in 3rd-4th place and won $80,000. At Gamers8 2023, a LAN event in Saudi Arabia with a prize pool of $1,000,000, Team Vitality was victorious and earned the top prize of $400,000. Vitality also competed at ESL Pro League Season 18, where they managed to finish in the top 8. The 5th-8th places in the standings provided the players with $35,000 in prize money. At the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023, Team Vitality finished in the top 16 and received a $4,000 consolation prize. ZywOo and his teammates ended the year as BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023 champions, earning $200,000 as well as a slot in BLAST Premier: World Final 2023. The gaming year ended with a win at BLAST Premier: World Final 2023, which earned the team a top prize of $500,000. The new year started for Team Vitality with a win in Group A at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, which earned them $22,500 and a trip to BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024. At the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2024, ZywOo and his teammates failed to please their fans, finishing 13th-16th in the standings and earning $10,000.

Previously, Vitality participated in PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, where Team Vitality made it to the PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR B tournament. At the tournament itself, the Long Sogpeg team was in the elimination stage. In the first match ZywOo and team lost to Eternal Fire and travelled to the lower matches of the second round, where they defeated The MongolZ with a score of 13-9 on the Nuke map. The European club's next opponent was the Brazilians from Imperial Esports, who were outlasted by Vitality with a 13-9 score on the Overpass map. In the top matches of the fourth round Team Vitality defeated Complexity Gaming in a complete bo3 series (Inferno - 19-16, Vertigo - 7-13, Anubis - 13-10), which allowed them to enter the play-offs of the tournament. The first opponent for ZywOo and his team in the final stage was Cloud9. A 2-0 victory (Inferno - 13-8, Anubis - 13-2) secured Vitality's place in the semi-finals of the tournament.

Statistics of Team Vitality's latest results:

• A 2-1 defeat to FaZe Clan
• A 2-0 win over Cloud9
• 2:1 win over Complexity Gaming
• 13-9 win over Imperial Esports
• 13-9 win over The MongolZ

Sharks Esports uniforms

In the past year, the Brazilian team Sharks Esports has only made their mark online. In particular, the Brazilians won the EPL World Series: Americas Season 3, TG Rush Autumn 2023 and CBCS 2023 Season 1 in the first half of the year. So cumulatively, the players earned over $26,000 for the three championships. In addition, Sharks Esports actively participated in various CCT series tournaments, regularly earning prize money. Various qualifications for major LAN tournaments ended with the team in either open qualifiers or closed regionals. Towards the end of the season, Sharks won bronze at Copa BetBoom 2023, earning $6,000 in prize money, and also won ESL Brasil Premier League Season 15, earning another $1,000. The new 2024 Long Sogpeg for Sharks Esports started with participation in a series of qualifiers. The team qualified for the Intel Extreme Masters Chengdu 2024, but finished in third place in the South American Closed Qualifiers. At the PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: South American Qualifier drg and his teammates also failed to achieve the desired success. The Brazilians earned their first trip to a LAN tournament in the last couple of years by winning the ESL Pro League Season 19: South American Qualifier. Sharks Esports then failed open qualifiers at the Ace South American Masters Spring 2024 and Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2024. A win at EPL World Series: Americas Season 6 earned the team its first $3,500 in 2024 earnings. The Sharks also finished in 3rd-4th place at RES Latin American Series #1 and earned another $5,000. The next tournament in the series finished in 9th-12th place. The Brazilians then failed to qualify for the ESL Challenger at DreamHack Summer 2024.

The previous professional tournament for Sharks Esports was Esports World Cup 2024: South American Open Qualifier. The team attempted to qualify for the closed qualifiers of one of the biggest events of the summer. According to the results of the draw, the first opponent of the Brazilians in the Latin American qualifier was the collective w7m esports. The defeat with a result of 11-13 ended the journey of drg and the team in the qualifiers.

Sharks Esports recent results statistics:

• A loss to w7m esports with a score of 11-13
• 1-2 loss to Galorys
• A 0-2 loss to paiN Gaming.
• 25-23 win over ODDIK
• 8-13 defeat by ODDIK

Match history of Team Vitality - Sharks Esports

The participants of this confrontation have not met on the professional Counter-Strike 2 scene before.

Predicted result of the match Team Vitality - Sharks Esports

These two teams play at a completely different level, and for ZywOo and his teammates the Brazilians should not pose any big problems. Let's bet on a 2-0 win for Team Vitality.