Prediction on match CS2 Aurora - Apeks

Aurora and Apeks will meet in the first round of the BetBoom Playlist Urbanistic 2023 play-offs. It remains to be seen who the winner will go next, but it will be very interesting.

Here, however, the Russian team clearly stands out from their rival. First of all, Aurora managed to establish themselves at their level, showing a good game.

In turn, Apeks are still floating, so I see no reason to talk about the guys' stability. So I would look out for an Aurora team win here.

Aurora's form.

The 28th ranked team in the world back in early March won CCT South Europe Series 3, but immediately followed that up with a disappointing result in indoor qualification for ESL Challenger Melbourne 2023.

The Russian side went on to reach the semi-finals of the RES Eastern European Masters Spring 2023, and also made it to the BetBoom Playlist Urbanistic 2023 playoffs with no problems, picking up three wins.

In general, Aurora have maintained their level, but there have been no glaring failures either.

Aurora's latest results:

• A 16-14 win over Monte.
• Defeat at the hands of Cloud9 10-16.
• 16-13 win over DomiNation.
• 0-2 defeat by VOYVODA.
• 2-0 win over Copenhagen Flames.

Aurora's best cards:

• Nuke - 89% wins.
• Ancient - 86% wins.
• Anubis - 70% wins.
• Inferno - 67% wins.
• Mirage - 64% wins.

Let's not forget that the Russian team is still not playing on the Vertigo card.

Apeks form

The 49th ranked team in the world also failed in the closed qualification for ESL Challenger Melbourne 2023, although the guys didn't win at all there.

Next, the Europeans struggled to qualify for the BetBoom Playlist Urbanistic 2023 playoffs, suffering two defeats to HEET and 1WIN.

Of the latter, Apeks also reached the final of CCT West Europe Series 2, but also managed to drop out of ESL Challenger League Season 44 Europe, a testament to unstable play.

Recent Apeks results:

• A 2-0 win over EYEBALLERS.
• Defeat at the hands of Monte, 0-2.
• 2-0 win over BIG.
• 2-0 win over Endpoint.
• 0-2 defeat by Monte.

Apeks' best cards:

• Anubis - 75% wins.
• Ancient - 67% wins.
• Overpass - 55% wins.
• Inferno - 53% wins.
• Mirage - 50% wins.

In turn, the Apeks team has stopped appearing on the Nuke map.

Aurora - Apeks encounter statistics

In the current season, the teams have met once - Aurora (2-0) won in the ESL Challenger Melbourne 2023 indoor qualification.

Outlook for Aurora vs Apeks

Last time the teams played Ancient and Anubis, but there was virtually no fight. Now we should expect something similar, because Apeks is clearly not at ease, and for a long time has not shown a stable game even on its peaks.

For their part, starix's wards usually gobble up such matches. Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on the Aurora team to win.