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IEM Katowice 2025 Play-incounterstrikeComplexity Gaming (Counter-Strike (CS2))Complexity Gaming3.7931.01.25 07:30Bo30:2counterstrikeLiquid (Counter-Strike (CS2))Liquid1.2
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Prediction on match CS2 Complexity Gaming - Liquid

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Liquid Will win

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One of the most famous tournaments on the professional Counter-Strike 2 scene, IEM Katowice 2025, is gaining momentum. The Play-In stage is in full swing and the most exciting part of The International is ahead.

Out of 8 available slots in the group stage, 5 are left. Among the contenders for one of them are Complexity and Liquid.

Let's try to find out how the match between Liquid and Complexity will end and who will make it to the second round of the lower Play-In grid and only there will play for the play-offs.

Let's go.

Liquid's form

We open the Liquid vs Complexity match with an analysis of Liquid's form. In this match Liquid are playing as favourites with odds to win at around 1.3.

The American club had a pretty productive 2023 season. Played in a lot of tournaments, but high results were a rarity.

They started the year with a top-4 finish at IEM Katowice 2023, where they reached the top 4. Next was the equally good BLAST Premier: Spring American Showdown with a similar top-4, and then BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: American RMR followed by a top-3 and a trip to the main tournament of the year.

Unfortunately for Liquid, that's where their results ended. At BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, the team made it to the top 8 and that was their biggest achievement of the year.

After making it to the legends stage at the only Major tournament of the season, Liquid played at a lot of big events. These included IEM Dallas 2023 with a top-12 ranking, BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023 with a top-9 ranking, and IEM Master Cologne with a top-12 ranking.

At the end of the season they played at Gamers8 2023, finishing in the top 16 and ESL Pro League Season 18, finishing in the top 20. Closed the year with a second place finish at BLAST Premier: Fall American Showdown 2023.

  • Team Liquid roster: NAF, YEKINDAR, jks, ultimate, NertZ.

A string of failures at major championships has caused major roster changes. Such that Liquid in 2024 can be called "Dream Team", but the status still has to be earned.

2024 began with qualifiers for the American RMR. They came out, which is not surprising. They also tried to qualify for IEM Chengdu 2024, but it was not successful: in the final of the qualifiers Ledge and M80.

Liquid took TOP-8 at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, and then passed at IEM Dallas 2024, did not pass at PGL Copenhagen Major 2024, taking TOP-8 at home, and then TOP-16 at BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024 and TOP-6 at IEM Masters and TOP-6 Chengdu 2024. They also played at ESL Pro League Season 19, where they finished Top-8.

IEM Dallas 2024 Liquid started with a victory over CoL, but then - a completely unexpected defeat by 9z Team in the match for the play-offs. As a result, at IEM Dallas 2024 Liquid finished in the top 9-12 without making the play-offs.

Liquid attended BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, where they surprised everyone. At BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, Liquid finished in the top 1-4, winning their group, thus securing a slot at BLAST Premier: World Final.

Liquid Long Sogpeg IEM Cologne 2024 from the Play-In stage, where they played twice against Brazilian representatives: paiN and FURIA and won both times to advance to the group stage. At the Long Stage of the group stage IEM Cologne 2024 played against FaZe, where Ledgeili 0-2. After falling to the bottom of the group stage, Liquid made it to the small final, where they again played against FaZe and in a very dramatic match they lost 1-2 and as a result finished in the top 8.

ESL Pro League Season 20 Team Liquid started with a performance in Group D, where they beat ENCE and Vp 2-0, and lost to Vitality 1-2 in the play-offs seeding match. Starting the main stage of the ESL Pro League Season 20 play-offs with a match against CoL, Liquid beat the American club 2-0 without a chance. But then they faced G2 and as a result of the meeting they left ESL Pro League S20.

Next, Liquid played at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024, where they finished in the top 6 and at IEM Rio 2024, where they finished in the top 12. The final tournament for Liquid in the 2024 season was Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024, where Liquid managed to qualify for the play-offs, but lost to future champions Spirit in the first round of the main stage.

They started at BLAST Bounty Season 1 with a clean win over 9 Pandas. But then they met Heroic, where they lost with 1-2 score, which led to TOP-16.

At IEM Katowice 2025 Long Sogpeg were defeated by HEROIC (1-2).

Team Liquid Mapple

Team Liquid's top 1 map in the last 3 months is Mirage. Liquid has a mind-blowing winrate of 92% with 13 games played.

They also played Inferno, where they won 5 matches out of 7 games. Nuke is also in plus winrate, where the "ninjas" have 3 wins from 5 matches.

The most not favoured map for Team Liquid will be Vertigo. There they have 6 maps and only 1 win.

Complexity Shape

We continue the analysis of the CoL - Liquid match with the analysis of Complexity's game form. In this match they play as an outsider with odds to win around 4.4.

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

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

Complexity partially overcame the 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 there they lost to Monte with a 1-2 score, finishing in the top-12.

Before the IEM Sydney 2023 Long Convergence, Monte fuelled themselves with a win on American Blast. They defeated Team Liquid 2-0 in the grand final of the qualifier, thus earning themselves a place at the autumn finals.

In the first round of IEM Sydney 2023 CoL played against Monte. Ukrainian club gave a fight, but the forces were enough only for 9 rounds. Next, the Americans met with the "samurai" from G2 Esports. They gave a fight, but it was not enough: as a result, G2 closed the series with a score of 2-0, giving the Americans a total of 14 rounds. After the defeat from G2 in the group stage, Complexity seemed to go off the chain: the club started to gain momentum and go head-to-head: first 2-1 against Cloud9, then a confident 2-0 against Monte, and then - play-offs. In the main stage of IEM Sydney 2023 CoL ran over BB Team (2-0) in the first round, and in the semi-finals they avenged their group loss to G2 Esports by knocking M0nesy and company out of the tournament with a 2-0 win.

After a top performance at IEM Sydney 2023, CoL travelled to play Thunderpick World Championship 2023. There the result was more modest - now top 9 with a 1-2 loss to MOUZ.

At BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 Complexity got into Group A, where they played two matches. In the first, they beat Astralis 2-0, followed by Ledge and Vitality (1-2) in the play-offs seeding match. In the first round of play-offs Complexity played against Natus Vincere. The match ended in favour of the Americans, although the game was close (2-1).

CoL finished their way through BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 in the second round of play-offs, and fell out after a meeting with FaZe. As a result, CoL finished in the top 4 at BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 and lost their chance to play at the World Final.

Next up was Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 and ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023. At the former CoL finished in the top 8, and at the latter they finished in the top 6.

The 2024 season started with a victory at the American PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: North American Qualifier, but then - failure. It happened at the BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 tournament, where the Americans took 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 there the top-32.

At the IEM Katowice 2025 CoL Long Season 1 we played at the expected defeat by Eternal Fire with the score 0-2.

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 there they have 33% wins each, with a very poor record of 6 and 3 maps respectively.

History of head-to-head meetings between Liquid and Complexity

In the season 2024 the teams played each other 5 times, where Liquid won 4 matches.

Predicted result of Complexity vs Liquid at IEM Katowice 2025

In this match I expect a close game. Both teams look so bad, and therefore, we should expect a lot of scraps from both sides. I think it will be a full-fledged Bo3, but Liquid should win. The gap between the teams is too wide.

Bottom line: 2-1 win for Liquid.

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Complexity Gaming
Complexity Gaming
3.79
Statistics
24%
76%
Liquid
Liquid
1.2

According to leading bookmakers predictions, the team Liquid are the favorite with average odds 1.2 at the moment. Respectively, bookmakers consider Complexity Gaming to be the outsider of the match with odds on a victory in the sum of about 3.79.

Team statistics in recent matches

Last MatchesComplexity Gaming Team Liquid
5 matches (wins)22
10 matches (wins)46

Also it makes sense to remember the statistics of the matches between the teams. The competitors have held 31 matches. In these matches Complexity Gaming won 6 times, Team Liquid active consisits of 25 wins.

Maps

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inferno
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Complexity Gaming:Liquid
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ancient
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Complexity Gaming:Liquid
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