Match Prediction: Cloud9 - Rebels Gaming | CS2 (CS:GO)

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The big Counter-Strike 2 is back on our screens after a week's break. Just after the BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 matches, the CS TIR-1 returns to our screens with the IEM Katowice 2024 matches.

A total of 24 teams will play at the canonical Spodek Arena in '24. Of these, 16 will start their journey to the championship and the main prize of a trip to IEM Cologne 2024 and BLAST Premier World 2024 with 400,000 USD in addition, at the Play-In stage. Among their number are Cloud9 and Rebels Gaming.

We'll be looking at who from the C9 - Rebels Gaming pairing will be stronger in this match and move further up the top grid, and who will have to continue on to the play-offs from the lower grid.

Let's go.

Cloud9 Form.

We open the match breakdown with an analysis of Cloud9's match form. In this match the Americans will play as favourites, with odds to win at around 1.1.

C9 had a pretty busy 2023 season. "Cloud9 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 called by literally everyone who could not help themselves.

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 worked out pretty well: 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.

At the end of the last season C9 played two BLAST tournaments. It was BLAST Premier Fall Final 2023 followed by Top 4 and Top 6 at BLAST Premier: World Finals 2024.

The first big tournament in 2024 for C9 was BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024. There, Cloud9 had a rather mediocre performance with a final TOP-12 at the conclusion of the tournament.

Cloud9 Mappool.

The best C9 map 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).

Rebels Gaming Form

We continue our match review with an analysis of Rebels Gaming's form. In this match, the team is playing the second number, and the odds for their victory are at around 5.5.

Rebels Gaming can not be called a top club. The maximum that the "Poles" claim - the status of a mid-tier, without much, at first glance, prospects.

Before the IEM Katowice 2024, the main tournament in the history of the club, the team is on the 118th line of the world ranking HLTV. The Poles got there thanks to their performance in local championships, which Rebels have not much in their portfolio.

Rebels Gaming played at three events in total. These were mostly qualifying tournaments and various qualifications. So the Poles played at ESL Challenger League Season 46 Europe Relegation, where they took TOP-6, then - ESL Pro League Season 19 NC Europe Qualifier and finally - qualifiers for PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Europe RMR Open Qualifier 4, where they took TOP-9/16.

• Rebels Gaming roster: olimp, sNx, Flayy, kisserek, casey.

The headliner of the team and one of the most experienced shooters can be called Flayy. The 18-year-old Pole has a kda of 1.11, which is the highest among his teammates.

Rebels Gaming Mappool

Rebels Gaming's top 1 map for the last 3 months is Mirage. Rebels Gaming has a mind-blowing winrate of 92% with 13 games played.

They also played on Inferno, where they won 5 matches out of 7 games. Nuke is also in plus winrate, where the "ninjas" have 3 wins from 5 matches.

The most not favoured card for Rebels Gaming will be Vertigo. There they have 6 cards and only 1 win.

History of head-to-head meetings Cloud9 - Rebels Gaming

Previously, the teams have not played each other in official meetings.

Predicted result of the match Rebels Gaming - Cloud9 at IEM Katowice 2024

As far as I am concerned, everything is decided in this match. Cloud9 are a few goals above Rebels Gaming, although it will not be possible to call them the leading team of extra-class. It should be easy for C9.

Bottom line: Cloud9 wins.