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

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ESL Pro League Season 18 is underway. The group stage matches are heating up and the most exciting things are just ahead.

We're talking about what's happening in Group D, where the matches for the play-offs continue. Today we are talking about the top net in the basket, where Cloud 9 and Complexity will meet in a battle.

The "North American" derby won't bring anything The International ere. At least, that's what it looks like before the Long match.

Let's see if I'm wrong or not. At the same time we'll see which club will be the first team to qualify for the play-offs from Group D.

Let's go.

Cloud9 uniforms.

We start the match analysis with the analysis of Cloud9's form. In this match the team will play the first number one.

The odds for Cloud9 victory are at around 1.22. In general, best esports betting sites are not ready to believe in the success of Complexity.

And rightly so. Still, the clubs are of different rank, it's worth understanding.

The 8th team of the world ranking had a very good half-year. "Cloudy" noted Passage to the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 17 and victory at 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, sh1ro, 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 defeated by 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 on at least one of the maps: the match ended 2-0 (16-11 Vertigo, 16-12 Eternal Fire).

Cloud9 Mapple

The best map of C9 is Vertigo. It has 2 wins in 3 matches.

Next is 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).

Complexity Form

We continue our match breakdown with an analysis of Complexity's match form. In this match they are playing as a number two.

This is indicated by the bookmakers. The odds for Complexity's victory in the match of the top grid of Group D at ESL Pro League Season 18 are at 3.8.

Such a figure is not surprising, because CoL is much weaker than Cloud9. In general, their presence in the play-offs is already a reason for surprise, not to mention the potential victory of the "stars and stripes".

Complexity are on the 18th line of the world ranking. They got there thanks to their performance during the season.

And it was, frankly speaking, so bad. CoL were remembered by the top 4 on BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: American RMR.

At the top tournaments, including the Blast Paris Major 2023, CoL were the back of the pack. The team finished in the top 21-28 at EPL S17, and at Major e it was top 20.

CoL started playing a little better in the second half of the year. They were already top six at BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023.

• Complexity's lineup: EliGe, JT, floppy, hallzerk, Grim.

CoL's "newcomer" was EliGE. The North American CSGO legend joined CoL a month ago, but has already managed to become the leader of the team in KDA with 1.10 rating.

Complexity played at IEM Masters Cologne 2023, where they finished early. CoL crashed out at the Long Cogner Play-In, losing to OG and finishing in the top 24.

CoL partially overcame their failure by winning the local Thunderpick World Championship 2023: North America Series #2. They defeated Nouns in the grand finals.

In the first match at the EPL S18 Complexity faced 9INE. The Poles put up a good fight, but couldn't pull out a win - the result was 2-1 in favour of CoL.

Complexity's mappool

Complexity's mappool is pretty sad. The most successful map is Overpass with 5 wins in 9 matches.

They can also play Nuke, Ancient and Anubis. But they have 33% wins each, with a very poor record of 6 and 3 maps respectively.

Head-to-head history

The last time the teams played each other was during IEM Dallas 2023. Then the victory was celebrated by "cloudy", but with the score 2-1.

Predicted result of Complexity vs Cloud9 at ESL Pro League Season 18

I don't expect Complexity to struggle in this match. Of course they will try, but they won't be able to beat C9.

The result: Cloud9 wins with the score 2-0.