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We continue to watch the top CS2 on BLAST Rivals Season 1. There are 6 teams left in the race for the $350,000 prize pool with a top prize of $125,000.
Among the play-offs are Spirit and Wildcard, who will play each other to advance to the semi-finals, where Vitality is already waiting for the winner of the pair.
Let's see how the match Wildcard - Spirit will end and who will go to the TOP-4 of the tournament, where they will fight against Vitality.
Let's go.
Spirit Form
Let's open the Spirit vs Wildcard match with an analysis of Spirit's form. In this match they play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.2.
The 2023 season has been a busy one for Spirit. The Serbian club has played wherever they can, but they have not managed to get significant results almost anywhere.
They started the previous season with an appearance at IEM Master Katowice 2023, where they finished in the top 12. Then there was the local CCT Central Europe Malta Finals 2023, where they finished in the top 6.
One of the biggest tournaments of the 2023 season for Spirit was ESL Pro League Season 17, where the Dragons finished in TOP-28. They tried to make it to the Major in Paris, but again all in vain.
From the middle and up to the end of the year Spirit played at local events of small calibre. And they were quite successful, it is worth mentioning: TOP-1 at CCT North Europe Series #6, TOP-2 at CCT Online Finals #2, victory at Dunav Party LAN and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2.
- Team Spirit roster: chopper, zont1x, sh1ro, donk, magixx.
At the end of the year, they won the BB Dacha. In 2024 BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024 was the first big event of the Dragons. Spirit played frankly poorly there: they finished in the top 16 at their debut BLAST Championship, advancing to the Spring Showdown.
At IEM Katowice 2024 Spirit started their performance at the Play-In stage. There they beat Apeks 13-0 without a chance, and then confidently (except for 2 maps) beat MongolZ 2-0, thus qualifying for the group stage. The group stage was not a problem for Spirit either: after giving up only 1 map to NaVi, they easily made it to the play-offs by beating CoL and FaZe Clan 2-0. The IEM Katowice 2024 play-offs confirmed Spirit's dominance, as they easily shut down Falcons (2-0) and it was even easier against FaZe in the grand finals (3-0).
After the triumph at Katowice 2024, Spirit went to PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where they managed to reach the play-offs, but Ledge and FaZe Clan in the first round of the main stage. Spirit took the top 8.
Spirit had a kind of successful performance at BB Dacha, but a 0-3 loss to MOUZ in the grand finals spoilt the feeling a bit.
At IEM Dallas 2024 Team Spirit had a very easy time in the group stage, not giving up a single map in the B basket. However, they didn't manage to beat everyone in the play-offs: Vitality intervened at the TOP-4 stage and knocked Spirit out of the tournament.
Later Spirit won the BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024. And then came a string of poor performances, including Top 8 and Top 16 at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2024.
ESL Pro League Season 20 Team Spirit started with Group B, where they defeated Ledge and MIBR in the second round of the upper grid and after dropping below, they had no trouble beating The MongolZ and 3DMAX, which allowed them to advance to the play-offs, where they beat FURIA 2-0 in their first match. Later they ran into NaVi, after their defeat they finished the pro league.
Spirit played at BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024, where they did not find success either. They only finished in the top 6.
At BLAST Premier: World Final 2024 Spirit started their journey from Group B, where they fought against G2 Esports, Team Spirit, Vitality and Liquid. They went 1-1, beating Vitality but losing to G2 in the playoffs seeding match. In the play-offs itself, Spirit made it directly to the grand finals, but there they were defeated 0-3 by Ledge and G2 Esports.
Shanghai Major 2024: European RMR B Long They started with a win over B8. Then they lost to Passion UA, beat Aurora, lost to G2, but in the last match they beat Sashi Esports. At the Elimination Stage Spirit Long Sogpegos started with a loss to FURIA, but then defeated Wildcard and NaVi. Then in a match to advance to the full bo3, they handled Heroic. Spirit opened the play-offs of PW Shanghai Major 2024 with a win over Liquid. In the semi-finals of Shanghai Major 2024 they defeated MOUZ. In the grand finals they defeated FaZe, thus becoming world champions for the first time in the club's history.
BLAST Bounty Season 1 Long They started the qualifying round with two confident victories against Fnatic and FlyQuest. In the play-offs they also beat Heroic without any problems. Next - the expected victory against NaVi and triumph in the grand finals against Eternal Fire.
IEM Katowice 2025 Spirit started with the first round of Group B. There they demolished Astralis without much trouble, giving up a total of 9 rounds. In the match for the play-offs they played against NaVi, where they lost 1-2 in a protracted Bo3 with extra rounds on the third map Nuke. Having got to the bottom net they beat Liquid and GamerLegion, which allowed them to enter the play-offs. In the main stage they defeated Vp and NaVi in turn, making it to the grand finals, but in the match for the title they were unable to oppose Vitality: 0-3 and TOP-2.
The group stage of ESL Pro League Season 21 Spirit went the way they were expected to: 3-0. Playoffs Long Sogpegov with a hard win (2-1) over Eternal Fire. But then they lost to MOUZ and dropped out of the championship in the top 4.
At the BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 Spirit Long started with a 2-0 win over The Hans Esports. Then there was a super difficult match against MOUZ, where in an unreal series with extra rounds Ledgeili (1-2). Already in the lower net they beat FaZe with the score 2-0. In the play-offs match they closed Vp without much difficulty. In the first round of play-offs Spirit defeated their principal rival NaVi, shutting down "born to win" with the score 2-0. In the next round they met Vitality, where they gave battle, but Ledgeili with the score 1-2, taking the TOP-4 at the tournament as a whole.
After the top 4 at BLAST Open Lisbon 2025, Spirit went to play BLAST Rivals Seaso 1. In Group B, Long Sogpeg were defeated by FlyQuest by a score of 2-0. In the semi-final match, they lost to Falcons with a score of 1-2.
Team Spirit Mapple
The best map of Team Spirit remains Vertigo, the Brazilians played there 5 times and won in 3 maps. Next comes Mirage, already with 7 games and 4-3 statistics.
The neutral choice for Team Spirit will be Nuke and Ancient. The Brazilians have 6 maps and 3-3 score on each.
The worst is Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).
Wildcard Form
We continue the Wildcard vs Spirit match with an analysis of Wildcard's form. In this match they play in the status of a clear outsider with odds to win around 9.
The American club is on the 22nd line of the world ranking from HLTV. They managed to get so high thanks to a pretty good game at PW Shanghai Major 2024.
- Wildcard roster: stanislaw, sonic, phzy, susp, JBa.
Wildcard can safely be called newcomers of the CS2 competitive scene. The team appeared on the radar of eSports Counter-Strike in 2023.
During their debut season, Wildcard played in numerous tournaments, mostly TIR-B and TIR-C. These were Thunderpick World Championship 2023: North American Series, ESEA Pro Seris and others. There showed very good performance, winning them consistently. There were also attempts at title tournaments, such as Thunderpick World Championship 2024, which was the only TIR-S tournament of the year. Wildcard finished in the top 18, which is not a good result.
In the 2024 season, they continued to play at roughly the same level and also occasionally made it to title tournaments. Among them in the 2024 season were IEM Chengdu 2024, where Wildcard finished in the top 16, and ESL Pro League Season 20, where Stanislaw and company finished in the top 28.
The team's main achievement during 2024 was reaching the PW Shanghai Major 2024. At the first World Championship in the history of the club, the team got through Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024: American RMR with TOP-1-2.
At PW Shanghai Major 2024, Wildcard Long Team started with a win over Fnatic, but then lost to Liquid and FURIA. Next, Wildcard sent home Vp, coming out on a 2-2 score. In the decisive Opening Stage match, they shut out Passion UA, advancing to the Elimination Stage. However, the Elimination Stage was clearly not enough for Wildcard and the team finished 0-3 without any chances.
In the season 2025 Wildcard Long competed in BLAST Bounty Season 1: Closed Qualifier, where they lost in the first round to Astralis and ended up in TOP-32. Later they attended IEM Katowice 2025, where they finished in the top 20, but failed to make it past the group stage.
At the PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 Wildcard Long Long Competed with a clean victory over MIBR with the score 2-0. However, this was the end of Wildcard's "successful" performance: they lost to MongolZ, Vp and BIG in turn, finishing the tournament on the 13th position.
After failing at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, Wildcard returned to their home harbour and won the North American qualifiers for Austin Major 2025.
At BLAST Rivals Season 1, Wildcard were lucky to make it through to the play-offs. They started the group with a 0-2 loss to Vitality and then defeated paiN 2-0, thus advancing to the top 6.
Wildcard Mapple
The best map for Wildcard remains Ancient, where Wildcard won 3 maps out of 3 played. Among the frequently played ones is Overpass - where Vp have played 11 maps, of which they have won 9.
In the pool there is a good Anubis (3-1 on maps), Mirage (6 wins in 9 matches) and Inferno (7 wins in 11 games).
The worst choice for Wildcard is Vertigo. It has a 44% win rate with 9 matches.
History of head-to-head meetings between Wildcard and Spirit
This will be the 3rd game between the teams in the last year. Spirit have won both matches.
Predicted result of Spirit - Wildcard on BLAST Rivals Season 1
I don't expect any revelations in this match. Spirit should eat Wildcard with a score of 2-0, and then we'll see.
Bottom line: Spirit wins with a score of 2-0.
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