Match Prediction: Vitality - Cloud9 | CS2 (CS:GO)
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February's main event, PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024: European RMR, continues with the RMR B matches. The race for 11 slots at PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024 is drawing to a close, and today we will be honouring the first RMR B winners and seeing off the first losers.
Among the contenders for passage to Copenhagen Major 2024 are place and Vitality with Cloud9. Both teams have a score of 2-0 and the winner of the meeting will go to the PGL Copenhagen Major 2024.
Let's find out who from the pair Vitality - C9 will celebrate the exit to the Major today, and who still has to struggle in the basket 2-1.
Let's go.
Vitality's form
Let's open the match analysis with Vitality's form. In this match they will play as clear favourites with odds to win at around 1.3.
The first half of the 2023 season has been a real treat for Vitality. They started it with a win at the spring Blast Premier groups and a top-6 finish at the top IEM Katowice 2023 and ESL Pro League Season 4. Next was Top 3 at European RMR B and triumph at the most domestic Major e - BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. After winning the Paris Major e Vitality took the top 2 at the spring finals of BLAST, Ledge and Heroic in the grand finals.
The last tournament before IEM Katowice was BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023. There Vitality showed a worse result than expected, with the top 6 in the end.
- Vitality lineup: apEX, ZywOo, mezii, Spinx, flameZ.
In their debut match at IEM Cologne 2023, Vitality only confirmed their status as one of the main favourites of Group B. OG tried, but were defeated 16-6 by Mirage and 16-13 by Anubis.
After defeating OG, Vitality took on MOUZ, who were dealt an even bigger blow by the Bees, 16-4 and 16-5.
In the match for seeding in the play-offs Vitality met another top club - G2 Esports. A nerve-wracking game where Vitality pulled out a 19-17 win on Inferno in the extra time, but then lost 10-16 to Vertigo and 8-16 to Mirage.
Starting the play-offs from the first round stumbled Cloud9. "Cloud9 tried to fight back and almost succeeded on the second map, but ZywOo and company were undeterred: 16-11 Mirage and 19-17 Inferno. However, this was the end of Vitality's stay at the tournament: they met ENCE in the semi-finals and lost with 1-2 score and dropped out of the championship.
The top 4 at IEM Cologne did not embarrass Vitality at all, on the contrary - it fuelled them. Before the end of the year they pocketed 3 more wins at title tournaments: they took revenge on ENCE in the Gamers8 Grand Final and beat FaZe twice at BLAST tournaments (Fall Final 2023 and World Final 2023).
Before playing at PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024: European RMR B played BLAST Premier: Spring Groups, where they passed the group stage without any problems and at IEM Katowice 2024, where they failed very unexpectedly, finishing top-12.
At the PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024: European RMR B Vitality stomped GamerLegion and Heroic with absolutely no problems, giving up a total of 5 rounds in two maps.
Vitality's mappool
Vitality's best map is Nuke. It has 4 matches and 4 wins.
Anubis (7 matches, 85% wins), Mirage (4 matches, 75% wins) are very good. In general, Vitality doesn't have any bad cards that they play. Vertigo - 71% wins in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.
Ancient is not being played.
Cloud9 Form.
We continue our match breakdown with an analysis of C9's match form. In this match they are playing as a number two with win odds above 3.
C9 have had quite a busy 2023 season. "Cloudy" celebrated a passage to the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 17 and a victory at 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 couldn't 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 labelled as by literally everyone.
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 the BLAST Premier Fall Final 2023 followed by a top-4 and top-6 finish at BLAST Premier: World Finals 2024.
BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 Cloudy started off with a win over Heroic. However, a very easy 2-0 against the Danish Club prevented a repeat of their success against Vp. "Brothers in Spirit" proved to be stronger on three maps and closed the series with a 2-1 score, sending C9 to the bottom set. From there, C9 couldn't swim away: a 0-2 loss to BIG, which ultimately led Cloudy to the Top 12.
After failing at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, C9 played even worse at IEM Katowice 2024. In Poland, they finished in the top 16.
At PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024: European RMR B Cloud9 started off with an easy win against Pera (13-3), but then they had to struggle against Apeks (13-10).
Cloud9's mappool
The best map 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: Ancient (42% wins in 7 matches), Overpass (33% wins in 3 matches), Anubis (3 matches, 33% wins), Mirage (2 matches, 0 wins).
History of head-to-head meetings Vitality - C9
Previously, the teams have played each other several times during the 2023 season. In total, Vitality have an unequivocal lead: 5 wins out of 5.
Predicted result of Cloud9 vs Vitality at PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024: European RMR B
In this match my preferences are completely on the side of Vitality. At this RMR, the team looks like one that has already made it to the Major, and the rest is a matter of technique. C9, on the other hand, will still have to play in the 2-1 basket.
Bottom line: Vitality wins.
Bookmakers & Statistics
Vitality are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 2.923. Cloud9, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 3.224.
What are the successes of the teams in the last games
Last Matches | Vitality | Cloud9 |
5 matches (wins) | 3 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 7 | 5 |
The statistics of personal battles between teams is also important for successful bets. The competitors have held 6 matches. In these battles Vitality got 6 victories while Cloud9 managed to take 0 matches.