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

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Slowly but surely, we are approaching the major tournament of the year. We are talking about the first Major tournament in CS 2 - PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024.

The tournament will open with the battles of the teams in the so-called Opening Stage. Here 16 teams will play each other according to the "Swiss system" and one of the first to enter the tournament will be Eternal Fire - The Mongolz.

We are trying to find out who will be stronger in this confrontation and who will earn the first points at the end of the match in anticipation of the distribution of points for passage to the next stage.

Let's go.

Form Eternal Fire

We open our match analysis with an analysis of Eternal Fire's form. In this match they will play the number one side with odds to win at around 1.4.

The 15-team world ranking team has experienced difficulties throughout the season. Despite the huge number of matches, success has been achieved occasionally.

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 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 position, after which they started playing 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 the PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024, which is true in the first stage.

Mappool Eternal Fire

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.

TheMongolz Form

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of TheMongolz form. In this match, the Mongols are playing as the number two and the odds for their victory are at around 2.8.

The 30th team in the world has played mostly in TIR-2 tournaments, where they have not always been successful. Among the notable marks are the victory at the XSE Pro League: Online Stage and ESN National Champioship 2023.

However, the Mongolians have also made their mark on the international scene. They played at the BLAST.tv Paris Major, where they finished in the top 20-22.

• The MongolZ roster: bLitz, Techno4K, 910, mzinho, Senzu.

The conditional roster newcomers are mzihno and 910. Both players joined the team a month ago, and before that they played for local teams like Clutch and The Shine.

In the first match at IEM Cologne 2023 The MongolZ will face MOUZ, who have already reached the group stage of the tournament. As you have already realised, The MongolZ lost their match, but lost on the dopes, Ledgeiv Nuke with a score of 17-19.

Then MongolZ ran over Into The Breach with the score 2-0, and then closed FURIA with a similar score. Thus advanced to the group stage.

In the first match of the group stage of IEM Cologne 2023 The MongolZ faced Heroic. Despite the huge difference in the level of play, The MongolZ managed to take the first map and almost slammed Heroic on their own peak, Overpass, but didn't finish and eventually lost with the score 1-2. However, it didn't go any further and the result was a top-16 finish.

After playing in the big tournament, TheMongolZ played a lot of smaller events. These included the MESA Pro Series: Fall 2023, with a top-1 finish, a win at ESL Challenger League Season 46: Asia-Pacific, and a top-4 finish at ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023.

In the 2024 season, before playing directly at the PGL CS 2 Copenhagen Major Championship 2024, MongolZ won the PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: East Asia Qualifier, which guaranteed passage to the Asia-Pacific RMR. The break was Top 1 at eXTREMEMESLAND 2023 and Top 20 at IEM Katowice 2024, but after winning at PGL Copenhagen 2024: Asia-Pacific RMR, where MongolZ celebrated the victory.

Mapple The MongolZ

The most successful map in 3 months was Ancient. The team has a 100% winrate, but they played the map only 1 time.

Among the acceptable options for the peak there is Mirage with 1 win 1 loss.

On the other maps of the competition pool The MongolZ has a minus winrate.

Personal history of Eternal Fire - TheMongolz

Previously the teams have not played each other in official matches.

Predicted result of the match TheMongolZ - Eternal Fire

In this match I expect about equal play, because TheMongolZ is probably the best team in Asia, which they proved during the Asian RMR. In their turn, Eternal Fire can't be called a whipping boy either, because the Turks in the past TIR-1 tournaments gave a fight to the best teams in Europe, and therefore in the world. Still, I am in favour of Eternal Fire.

Bottom line: Eternal Fire wins.