Match Prediction: Falcons - Eternal Fire | CS2 (CS:GO)

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The IEM Katowice 2024 tournament is moving into a new phase. Spodek Arena is preparing for the debut of the group stage teams. In short, the most interesting part of The International begins.

We'll talk about Group A, where Falcons and Eternal Fire will compete for the main prize of $400,000 and a trip to IEM Cologne 2024 with BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2024.

We'll see which of the Falcons - EF pairing will be the stronger and advance to the next round of the top Group A bracket at IEM Katowice 2024.

Let's go.

Eternal Fire uniforms

Let's open the match with an analysis of Eternal Fire's form. In this match they will play as favourites, with odds to win at around 1.7.

The 15-team world ranking team has been struggling throughout the season. Despite a huge number of matches, achieving success has been rare.

At the beginning of the year Eternal Fire won ESL Pro League Season 17: European Conference, thus securing their place at EPL S17. The Main Event ended miserably - only top 20 and no group.

Participated in BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. There they took TOP-14, which was not enough to reach the only Major of the season.

In the middle of the year, Eternal Fire showed their best form. The Turks finished in the top 4 twice, but did so at TIR-B tournaments. They broke into the top four at CCT North Europe Series #7 and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.

• Eternal Fire roster: XANTARES, Calyx, MAJ3R, Wicadia, woxic.

Before the ESL Pro League Season 8 Long Round, MAJ3R's team played on CCT Central Europe and Pinnacle Cup V. Both championships ended for them on top 8.

Eternal Fire played their debut match at ESL Pro League Season 18 against Cloud9. They played as the number two and got a natural result: 0-2, but with 11 and 12 rounds respectively.

In the first match of the lower grid Eternal Fire played against 9INE. The Turks were clearly on form, as they managed to run over a pretty tough competitor without much difficulty. The match ended with a score of 2-0 in favour of Eternal Fire. As a result, the ESL Pro League Season 18 run ended very well: the team barely qualified for the play-offs of the tournament, where they managed to win two series. EF left Astralis and BIG behind, but Ledge and Natus Vincere.

EF later made the Top 16 at Roobet Cup 2023, where they finished Top 16 and Top 2 at PARI, Please. In 2024, Eternal Fire attended PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European Qualifier B, where they placed Top 2, advancing to European RMR A.

IEM Katowice 2024 started with the Play-In stage. By the way, they passed it very easily: 13-1 against BB Team and 2-0 against Rebels Gaming allowed them to get into the group stage.

Eternal Fire mappool

The best map is Nuke. There are 4 matches and 4 wins.

Anubis (7 matches, 85% wins), Mirage (4 matches, 75% wins) are doing very well. Vertigo - 71% wins in 7 matches, Inferno and Overpass - 3 wins in 5 matches.

Falcons form

We continue our match analysis with an analysis of the Falcons' match form. In this match they are playing as a number two, with the odds of winning at around 2.1.

The 11th team in the HLTV world rankings has been showing rather "blurry" results. The 2023 season can be called a failure.

All 2023 Falcons were, as they call it, in search of themselves. They started the professional season by playing at B-Tier tournaments: Thunderpick Bitcoin Series #2, OMEN WRG Challenge 2023 and CCT West Europe Series #1. At the first two, they celebrated a top-2 finish, and at the more prestigious CCT, a top-8 finish.

Later tried to make it to the Paris Major . Had two attempts, at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A and BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. Both were unsuccessful: top-11 and top-6.

In the middle of the year, Falcons continued to bang their heads against the wall. Top-13 at ESL Challenge League Season 45: Europe, Top-10 at ESL Championnat National Spring 2023 and Top-24 at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.

Tried to qualify for IEM Sydney 2023, but fell off at the top-64 stage in the open qualifiers. As a Saudi Arabian club they got a slot at Gamers8 2023, where they played to the best of their ability, which is Top 16.

• Falcons line-up: BOROS, Snappi, Magisk, maden, SunPayus.

At the end of the year Falcons tried to put together DreamTeam. So far they are not doing so well, because they failed in the first tournament with the new squad. That was BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, where the team finished top-12.

At IEM Katowice 2024 they got to the IEM Katowice 2024 by ESL Ranking points. There they were ranked Top 10 before the Long Sogpeg of the tournament, but for what merit is a big mystery.

Falcons Mappool

The Falcons' best map is Nuke (1 game, 1 win). Next is Ancient (1 win, 1 loss).

Among the unfavourable maps for Falcons are Vertigo and Anubis. On the former they have 3 matches and 1 win, while Anubis has 1 loss.

History of head-to-head matches between Eternal Fire and Falcons

This match can be called the debut match between the teams. The teams once played at the OMEN WGR European Challenge 2023, when Falcons were still a French team. They won that match, but it's been a long time.

Predicted result of Falcons vs Eternal Fire at IEM Katowice 2024

Frankly speaking, it is not quite clear for what merits Falcons got directly into the group stage of this championship. As far as I'm concerned, they only have to prove their competitiveness on the big stage of CS2, while EF in recent tournaments look like a team capable of fighting not only against "Dream Team" like Falcons, but also more stable and serious clubs. All in all, I'm in favour of the Turks.

Bottom line: Eternal Fire wins.