Prediction on match CS2 Complexity Gaming - Eternal Fire

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We continue to explore what's happening at IEM Katowice 2025. The Play-In stage is heating up, with 16 teams fighting for 8 spots in the group stage.

Complexity and Eternal Fire are among the contenders to advance to the next round of the competition. The teams will play each other on the 29th of January at 18:00 SET.

Let's find out how the CoL vs EF match will end and who from this pair we will see in the next round of the upper part of the grid.

Let's go.

Complexity Form

We open the CoL - Eternal Fire match with an analysis of Complexity's form. In this match they play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.3.

• Complexity lineup: JT, Grim, hallzerk, cxzi, nicx.

Complexity partially overcame their failure by winning the local Thunderpick World Championship 2023: North America Series #2. Nouns were defeated 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. In the match to come here Complexity surprised perhaps everyone. They ran over Cloud9 with an ice rink, closing the series 2-0 in their favour. They didn't manage to play long in the play-offs. CoL went straight to the second round of the main stage, but lost to Monte with a score of 1-2, finishing the tournament in the top-12.

CoL started the 2024 season with a win at the American PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: North American Qualifier, but then they failed. It happened at the BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 tournament, where the Americans finished in the top-16. In addition, they played at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024, where they finished in the top-11.

Before playing at IEM Dallas 2024 CoL visited ESL Pro League Season 19, where they reached TOP-4. At IEM Dallas 2024 Complexity made it to the Top 16, then made it to the Top 8 at YaLLa Compass 2024 and won ESL Challengers at DreamHack Summer 2024.

They also attended ESports World Cup 2024, where they failed to make it out of the Opening Stage. They got to IEM Cologne 2024 thanks to ESL NA rating. At the championship itself they played very "average", ranking TOP-9-12. In addition, they played at BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown 2024, where they finished at TOP-8.

ESL Pro League S20 opened with a match against M80, where they lost 0-2 without a chance. They defeated Astralis and MOUZ in the middle set of their group, but lost to BIG in the last chance set. Already there the team beat MOUZ again, thus knocking out their place in the main stage. In the first round of play-offs CoL sensationally beat FaZe with the score 2-0. However, it was not possible to pass further, because Liquid got in the way, who knocked out CoL at the stage of TOP-12.

After a very cheerful ESL Pro League S20, CoL played at the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2024, where they finished in the top-12. At PW Shanghai Major 2024, CoL made it to the PW Shanghai Major 2024 thanks to a top-3-5 finish at American RMR (3-1 score).

Chinese Major CoL Long CoL started with a defeat by FlyQuest, which was the main sensation of the first round, and then lost to Passion UA. However, we managed to pull ourselves together in the following games and got two clean wins over Imperial and C9. In the match for life we lost, Ledgeiv BIG with the score 2-3.

We played BLAST Bounty Season 1. Well, as played, tried to play, but failed miserably, taking the top 32 there.

Complexity's mappool

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

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

Eternal Fire Form.

Let's continue the analysis of Eternal Fire vs Complexity match with the analysis of EF's form. In this match they are playing as an outsider with odds to win around 4.

Eternal Fire started actively making their way to the title tournaments in the 2023 season. Then the team won the ESL Pro League Season 17: European Conference, thus securing a place in the EPL S17. The Main Event ended miserably - only top 20 and not out of the 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, jottAAA, 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 finished in the 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. In the first match of the group stage they also easily defeated Falcons (13-9; 13-6), and then showed a very cheerful CS in the match against the top-2 team of the world FaZe Clan, but Ledge were defeated on three maps (1-2). At the end of IEM Katowice 2024 Eternal Fire took the top 12, and then started to play at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A.

At the qualifying tournament, the Turks finished in the top 8, which gave them the opportunity to qualify for PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024, which is true in the first stage.

At PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Eternal Fire are feeling very good so far. The Turks have 2 wins and 1 loss: they beat Mongolz and Pain, but lost to Heroic 0-2 in the match for the next stage. However, they succeeded in their next attempt: they defeated GL with a score of 2-1.

Eternal Fire debuted in the legends stage with a surprise win against Vitality. However, in the second round they lost to MOUZ, which brought them to 1-1 score. And then there was a real sensation: 13-1 against FaZe Clan and 2-1 score for the Turks.

Eternal Fire got into the play-offs of the tournament after the victory over Vp. The match ended with the score 2-1. However, they failed to move beyond the first round, as NaVi were stronger than the Turks and closed the series with a score of 2-0.

They also attended ESL Pro League Season 19, where they failed, and quite seriously. The Turkish team took TOP-21-28. Then diametrically opposite situation at CCT Season 1: Global Finals and then - not leaving the group at YaLLa Compas 2024.

Eternal Fire got to IEM Cologne 2024 thanks to the ESL world ranking, but there they took the top 20, without having time to show anything. Then there were equally failed tournaments like IEM Rio 2024, with TOP-12 and failure at Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B with TOP-14.

The 2025 Long Season was followed by qualifiers at BLAST Bounty Season 1. There EF beat ENCE and Falcons. At the final stage of BLAST Bounty Season 1 Eternal Fire beat Vitality. Next up, they defeated G2 Esports to advance to the grand finals, but lost to Spirit by a score of 1-3.

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.

History of head-to-head meetings between Eternal Fire and Complexity

In the season 2024 the teams played each other twice and both times CoL won.

Predicted result of Complexity vs Eternal Fire at IEM Katowice 2025

To be honest, I don't know where the bookmakers got these quotes from. Eternal Fire on BLAST Bounty Season 1 looked great, which led them to the top 2, while CoL, to put it mildly, played so badly. Here I'm in favour of the Turkish club without any ifs.

Bottom line: Eternal Fire wins.