Match Prediction: Apeks - OG | CS2 (CS:GO)
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February's most important tournament, PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR B, is heating up. We continue to follow the action at the tournament with the Apeks vs OG match.
It will be one of the most colourful fights of the first round, and all because of nominally equal teams. However, the advantage is still on the side of Apeks, who clearly look more awake than their opponents.
Let's try to find out who will be stronger in the match OG - Apeks and earn the first of 3 victories needed to qualify for PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR B.
Let's go.
Apeks Form
We open the breakdown of the Cloud9 - Apeks match with an analysis of Apeks' match form. In this match they will play the first number one with odds to win at around 1.5.
They started the season with a top-16 finish at CCT South Europe Season 2. Next was the nightmarish Elisa Invitational Winter 2023 with a top-20 and then a top-4 CCT West Euroe Series #1.
In the middle of the year, Apeks took Top 2 at CCT West Europe Series #2 and Top 8 at BB Playlist. Urbanistic and Brazy Party. However, it was much more important to make it to the TOP-6 at European RMR A and to get to BLAST.tv Paris Major.
Paris Major itself became Apeks' moment of glory. Being a clear Underpassdog, Apeks managed to surprise the audience and make it to the top 4, where they were defeated by the future champions from Vitality.
Before the Long Convergence Gamers8, the team took part in IEM Cologne 2023, where they finished in the Top 20, CCT Online Finals #2, with Top 12 and Top 16 at ThunderPick World Championship 2023: European Series #1. The results are frankly so-so, but it doesn't get much better than that in the rivalry.
- Gamers8 lineup: nawwk, jkaem, kyxsan, sense, CacaNito.
After the extremely successful BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Apeks changed their line-up. The 13th team of the world was completed by Macedonian CacaNito, who replaced in the roster headliner jL, who moved to NaVi.
After the roster shake-up, Apeks continued to perform at all sorts of tournaments. Their portfolio includes appearances at Gamers8 (TOP-16), CCT North Europe Series #7 (TOP-16), absolutely failed EPL Season 18 (TOP-28), CCT East Europe Series #2 (TOP-4).
Just before Roobet Cup 2023 Apeks took part in ESL Challenger At DreamHack Winter 2023: Europe Qualifier and IEM Sydney 2023. At the qualifier event they took TOP-6, but in Sydney they reached TOP-12.
At the Roobet Cup 2023 Apeks got into Group C, where they were opposed by BIG, 9INE and Astralis. The quartet, to put it bluntly, was not the easiest, but nevertheless Apeks managed to reach the play-offs from the second place, losing only to BIG at the beginning of the group stage. However, having started in a good way, they finished in a bad way: the final place - TOP 8, which is not bad in principle, but obviously could be better.
At Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 Apeks won Group B quite unexpectedly. Considering the fact that MOUZ and Complexity are there, it is a very decent result, and Apeks clearly aimed for a high place in this tournament. And they got it. At the end of Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 Apeks took the top 2, Ledgeiv in the grand finals of FURIA.
In the first round of ESL Challenger Season 46, the team defeated a mix of Team Space. They won rather easily, with scores of 13-6 and 13-7 respectively. At the end of the tournament, Apeks finished in the top 4 and then went on to finish in the top 2 of ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023.
Apeks Long Cogged IEM Katowice with a 0-13 defeat against Team Spirit. They managed to stay afloat after defeating Furia in the match for life (2-1). And then came the victory in the match against BIG (2-1), which can be called a kind of sensation. Thus Apeks entered the group stage. However, they didn't go further than the first round of the group stage: first Ledge and CoL with the score 0-2, and then lost to NaVi with the score 1-2.
Apeks map pool
Apeks has an extensive map pool. The most frequent map is Inferno (12 maps, 83% wins).
Mirage (63% wins with 11 matches), Anubis (62% wins, 8 matches), Ancient (46% wins, 13 matches).
Among the worst are Overpass and Vertigo. They have 37% winrate with 13 cards each.
Nuke is not played.
OG Form
Let's continue the match analysis with the analysis of OG form. In this match OG play second number, with the odds of winning around 2.3.
The 55th team of the world ranking can't boast of big wins. OG played a lot of places during the season, but there are no results at all.
Among the most high-profile ones - 7th place on BLAST.tv European RMR A and passage to the Major tournament, but failure directly in Paris. At the actual Paris Major 2023 the club took TOP-22.
Among the A Crossovers, we can mention only Brazy Party. The commercial tournament ended for OG at the stage of TOP-4, which was the best result for the whole year.
Before IEM Cologne 2023, OG failed to qualify for the last chance at Gamers8, and finished in the top 12 at BLAST Premier: Fall 2023 Groups.
- OG roster: F1KU, regali, k1to, Nexius, HeavyGod.
The latest replacements in the form of FASHR, k1to and Regali joining the team a month ago are not paying off yet. The Frenchman and the German have ratings below 0.89 and 0.94 and this is the worst among the team, which, however, does not shine with bright personalities.
Despite the dismal statistics of the players in recent months, in the first match against 9INE OG looked good, although they failed to get the win. They lost to the Poles on Overpass with a score of 17-19.
Cologne itself did not end well for the Europeans. OG lost to NaVi in the last chance set, and then prematurely left the championship.
After failing at a major event, OG took to playing everything. Mostly small tournaments: CCT Online Finals #2, CCT East Europe Series #1, Pinnacle Cup V, qualifiers for IEM Sydney 2023, Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2, and CCT Online Finals #3 with BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown 2023 and CCT North Europe Series #8. I purposely didn't separate
these andVent and lumped them into a pile, as everywhere on them OG dissolved.At best it was top 6, like at the qualifiers for IEM Sydney, and on average it was top 8.
In general, Roobet Cup 2023 can be assessed as a real chance for OG to show something in the second half of the year. So far there are prospects for it, because OG came out of a rather difficult Group D, where they left behind Fnatic and NiP. However, they didn't manage to get further than the top 8.
Next up was the Top 16 at CCT Central Europe Series #8. 2024 started off pretty tough: they finished Top 64 at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 at the first qualifier, but after that they finished Top 2 at the second qualifier. This allowed them to advance to PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier A, where they took Top-7 and made it here.
Leading up to PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR B, they played at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, where they couldn't get above the top 16.
OG Mapple.
The only map where OG have won in the last 3 months is Mirage. They had a win against BIG, but 2 losses later.
They tried to make something up on Inferno and Ancient, but they lost twice there, and then there was Overpass and also a loss.
History of head-to-head meetings between OG and Apeks
The teams played each other twice during 2023. It was a match at Brazy Party 2024 and IEM Cologne 2023 - Play-In. Apeks won the first time and OG won the second time.
Predicted result of Apeks vs OG at PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR B
In this match we should expect an equal fight, but the advantage is still on the side of Apeks. They look a bit more confident and should outplay the raw OG, who are in eternal search.
Bottom line: Apeks win.
Bookmakers & Statistics
At the moment, the majority of bookmakers unanimously see the team Apeks as the favorite of the game with average odds on a victory in the sum of 1.538. OG chances to prevail are evaluated with average odds 3.1 by bookmakers.
What are the successes of the teams in the last games
Last Matches | Apeks | OG |
5 matches (wins) | 3 | 2 |
10 matches (wins) | 5 | 5 |
The statistics of personal battles between teams is also important for successful bets. The teams played 2 matches with each other before. And Apeks won 1 times while OG correspondingly became the winner 1 times.