Welcome to all esports and Counter-Strike 2 fans! From November 12, 2025, to November 16, 2025, one of the biggest tournaments of this autumn — BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 is taking place. Eight teams will compete for the championship title and a prize pool of $350,000. Among the matches of the first day, we highlight Team Spirit vs Team Falcons, which promises to be very exciting. While the teams are preparing, we’ll share our CS2 betting tips and insights for this match.
How the bookies view it: Team Falcons favorite
Most bookmakers, with a slight advantage, consider Team Falcons the favorites in the match against Team Spirit at BLAST Rivals Fall 2025. The team is one of the strongest this season and has secured prize places in most tournaments they have participated in.
Team Spirit form. What result can be expected from Team Spirit
Our betting tips and CS2 picks for the Team Spirit vs Team Falcons matchup begin with analyzing Team Spirit form. Team Spirit can be considered one of the best CS2 teams in recent years, and this is backed up by strong results.
The 2023 season was intense for Spirit. The esports club played wherever they could, but they failed to achieve significant results. They started with participation in IEM Katowice 2023, where they finished in the top 12.
One of the biggest tournaments of 2023 for Spirit was ESL Pro League Season 17, where the "Dragons" placed 21st–28th, which was a poor result for them.
From mid-year to the end, Spirit played in smaller tournaments and performed quite successfully. Among their main achievements in the 2023 season were a victory at CCT North Europe Series #6, second place at CCT Online Finals #2, and wins at Dunav Party LAN and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2.
Team Spirit roster: chopper, sh1ro, donk, zweih, tN1R.
The 2024 season turned out clearly better for Team Spirit. From the beginning of the year, the team regularly reached finals or prize-winning positions in most tournaments.
At IEM Katowice 2024, Spirit started from the Play-In stage. There, they crushed Apeks 13-0 without a chance, and then confidently (except for two maps) defeated MongolZ 2-0, thus advancing to the group stage. The group stage also brought no issues: giving up only one map to NaVi, they easily beat CoL and FaZe Clan 2-0.
The IEM Katowice 2024 playoffs confirmed Spirit’s dominance — they easily shut down Falcons (2-0), and in the grand final, defeated FaZe even more confidently (3-0).
After their triumph at Katowice 2024, Spirit went to PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where they reached the playoffs but lost to FaZe Clan in the first round of the main stage. Final standing — top 8.
At BB Dacha, Spirit showed decent performance, but a 0-3 loss to MOUZ in the grand final slightly spoiled the impression.
At IEM Dallas 2024, Spirit went through the group stage very easily, not dropping a single map in Group B. However, they couldn't go all the way in the playoffs: Vitality interfered at the top-4 stage and knocked them out of the tournament.
Later, Spirit won BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024. After that came a string of unsuccessful performances: top 8 and top 16 at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024.
At ESL Pro League Season 20, Spirit played slightly worse. The team got a series of wins, but in the playoffs lost to NaVi and finished 5th–8th.
Spirit also played at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024, where they again failed to find success — only top 6. At BLAST Premier: World Final 2024, Spirit started in Group B, competing with G2 Esports, Vitality, and Liquid. The final score was 1-1: a win against Vitality and a loss to G2 in the seeding match. In the playoffs, they made it all the way to the grand final, where they once again lost to G2 with a score of 0-3.
The main tournament of the year for the team was the Shanghai Major 2024. In the Elimination stage, the team lost to FURIA, then defeated Wildcard and NaVi, and in the match for a full Bo3 series, beat Heroic.
In the PW Shanghai Major 2024 playoffs, Spirit started with a win over Liquid, defeated MOUZ in the semifinals, and in the grand final overcame FaZe, becoming world champions for the first time in the club's history.
The 2025 season has also been quite successful for Team Spirit. Among the main achievements are 1st place at BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 and PGL Astana 2025, 2nd place at IEM Katowice 2025, and 3rd–4th place at ESL Pro League Season 21, BLAST Open Spring 2025, and BLAST Rivals Spring 2025.
At IEM Cologne 2025, Team Spirit defeated HEROIC, Aurora Gaming, and MOUZ, qualifying directly for the Semifinals. In the Semifinals, the team defeated Natus Vincere, and in the grand final, beat MOUZ 3-0, becoming the champions of the tournament.
Team Spirit continued their successful run by winning BLAST Bounty Fall 2025, defeating VP, MOUZ, and Mongolz.
However, at the Esports World Cup, Spirit performed poorly. The team unexpectedly lost to HEROIC 1-2 in the first match, being eliminated from the tournament and finishing in the top 16.
At ESL Pro League Season 22, Team Spirit went 3-0 in Stage 2 but lost their first playoff match to FaZe Clan and were eliminated from the tournament, finishing in 5th–8th place.
At IEM Chengdu 2025, Team Spirit performed below expectations. The team started with a victory over paiN Gaming but then lost to Team Falcons and dropped to the lower bracket. In the Lower Bracket Semifinal, Team Spirit defeated HEROIC, but in the Lower Bracket Final, they lost to The Mongolz and were eliminated from the tournament, finishing 7th–8th.
Team Falcons form. What result can be expected from Team Falcons
We continue our CS2 tips with analyzing Team Falcons form. Team Falcons made their first appearances at S-tier events in 2023, but for the most part competed at B-tier tournaments. That year, the team played at Thunderpick Bitcoin Series #2, OMEN WRG Challenge 2023, and CCT West Europe Series #1. At the first two events, they placed 2nd, and at the more prestigious CCT, they finished in the top 8.
Later, Falcons attempted to qualify for the Paris Major. They had two chances — at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A and BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. Both were unsuccessful, finishing 11th and 6th respectively.
In the middle of the year, Falcons continued searching for the right tactics and playstyle. They placed 13th at ESL Challenge League Season 45: Europe, 10th at ESL Championnat National Spring 2023, and 24th at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.
As a Saudi Arabian club, they received a slot at Gamers8 2023, which became their first S-tier tournament, where they placed 9th–16th.
Team Falcons roster: NiKo, TeSeS, kyxsan, m0NESY, kyousuke.
At the end of the year, Falcons tried to form a DreamTeam. However, things did not start well — their first tournament with the new roster (BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024) ended with only a top-12 finish.
At IEM Katowice 2024, the team earned a slot thanks to ESL Ranking points. They were seeded in the top 10 before the start of the Long Shogpeg, though what exactly earned them that place was unclear.
At IEM Katowice 2024 Falcons showed their first solid results. Although they started with a loss to Eternal Fire, they then defeated Rebels, Complexity Gaming, and Natus Vincere, advancing through the lower bracket to the playoffs. In the playoffs, Team Falcons beat ENCE but fell to Team Spirit, finishing in the top 4.
Next came ESL Pro League Season 19, where Falcons completely failed — finishing 28th. At IEM Dallas 2024, they started with a loss to G2 but then confidently defeated Monte 2-0. However, they could not go further and ended up in the top 9–12.
Overall, the 2024 season was better than the previous one, but still unsuccessful for a team with such a star-studded roster.
The 2025 DreamTeam Long Sogpeg season began with BLAST Bounty Season 1. Falcons once again failed — 16th place. At IEM Katowice 2025, the situation did not change — again 16th, with no real chances.
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 became Falcons’ best tournament of that season. They reached the playoffs for the first time in a long while, winning the Swiss stage 3-1. In the first playoff round, they pleasantly surprised by beating Eternal Fire 2-0. They then defeated FaZe but lost to MOUZ in the grand final.
At ESL Pro League Season 21, they started with a win over Liquid, but then lost to MOUZ and 3DMax. They stayed alive by beating FURIA, but Eternal Fire knocked them out, finishing 11th.
At BLAST Open Lisbon 2025, Falcons Long started with a loss to MOUZ and finished last in Group A, beating only Huns Esports. In the next round, they lost to VP and ended the tournament in 12th place.
At PGL Bucharest 2025, Falcons lost to CoL and GamerLegion but managed to beat paiN, keeping playoff hopes alive. They went on to defeat Rare Atom and MongolZ, securing a playoff spot. In the main stage, they opened with a win over GamerLegion, then beat FaZe 2-1, and in the grand final crushed their biggest rival G2, claiming their first major CS2 title in a long time.
At IEM Melbourne 2025, Falcons began with a victory over sAw, then defeated NaVi, but lost to Vitality in the seeding match, starting the playoffs from the quarterfinals. There, they demolished GamerLegion 2-0, giving up only 7 rounds in total. The semifinals followed a similar scenario — 13-3 and 13-6 in favor of Falcons. In the grand final, they lost to Vitality 2-3 in one of the most spectacular matches in Counter-Strike 2 history.
Also worth noting is their performance at BLAST Rivals Season 1, where Team Falcons once again finished 2nd, losing the grand final to Vitality with the same score of 2-3.
The team also placed 3rd–4th at IEM Dallas 2025 but had less successful runs at BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025 and IEM Cologne 2025, finishing 22nd and 12th respectively.
The Esports World Cup 2025 turned out to be a very successful tournament for Falcons, as the team delighted their fans by finishing in 3rd place on home soil.
At ESL Pro League Season 22, Team Falcons went 3-0 in both Stage 1 and Stage 2. In the playoffs, the team defeated 3DMAX and MOUZ, but in the grand final, they lost to Vitality, finishing in 2nd place at the tournament.
At IEM Chengdu 2025, Team Falcons performed at about the same level, showing a good quality of play and finishing in 3rd place.
Recent head to head
Team Spirit and Team Falcons have played against each other 5 times, with the former winning 3 times and the latter winning 2 times. The match at BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 is not a rivalry match, but both teams want to start the tournament successfully.
Which maps does Team Spirit pick and ban most often?
Let’s analyze both teams map statistics to make smart CS2 picks.
Strong maps
- Train: high win percentage (87.5%) with 8 matches played.
- Dust2: high win percentage (79.4%) with 34 matches played.
- Ancient: high win percentage (75.0%) with 24 matches played.
- Anubis: high win percentage (71.4%) with 14 matches played.
- Mirage: high win percentage (65.5%) with 29 matches played.
- Nuke: high win percentage (63.3%) with 30 matches played.
Which maps does Team Falcons pick and ban most often?
Strong maps
- Ancient: high win percentage (76.5%) with 34 matches played.
- Mirage: high win percentage (63.0%) with 27 matches played.
- Nuke: high win percentage (61.3%) with 31 matches played.
- Dust2: high win percentage (57.6%) with 33 matches played.
Average results
- Train: average winning percentage (47.6%) with 21 matches played.
Weak maps
- Inferno: low win percentage (40.6%) with 32 matches played.
Predicted result of the match between Team Spirit and Team Falcons at BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
Predicting the result of Team Spirit vs Team Falcons at BLAST Rivals Fall 2025 is quite difficult. Both teams are among the strongest and have high win rates. However, Team Falcons have shown slightly better performance in previous tournaments, so in our opinion, based on past results, they are likely to win this match. Fans should expect a dynamic and exciting game.
Betting prediction: Team Falcons wins.
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