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One of the most heresy tournaments of the winter in Counter-Strike 2 is heating up. We continue to follow the action at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, where the group stage is underway.
The group stage of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 is held in Swiss format with 3 matches in each round. The International is now 1-0, where MongolZ and Wildcard will play their match.
We are trying to find out how the match of this non-obvious pair will end and which team will be one step away from the play-offs.
Let's go.
The MongolZ uniforms
Let's open the analysis of The MongolZ vs Wildcard match with the analysis of The MongolZ's form. In this match they play as a clear favourite with odds to win at around 1.2.
Previously, the team played mostly in TIR-2 tournaments, where they were not always successful. Among the landmarks 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. There was a Top 1 at eXTREMESLAND 2023 and a Top 20 at IEM Katowice 2024 during the break, but after a win at PGL Copenhagen 2024: Asia-Pacific RMR, where MongolZ celebrated the victory.
At PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024 The Mongolz did not achieve much success, although they managed to reach the top 16.
In the group stage of ESL Pro League Season 19 The MongolZ performed very well. They defeated Falcons and G2 Esports 2-0 to advance to the play-offs. However, the first round of the play-offs ended with The MongolZ losing to Vp with a score of 1-2, eventually finishing in the top 12.
The MongolZ went on to take the top-1 spots at MESA Nomadic Masters Spring 2024 and YaLLa Compass 2024. There were more Top-9s at Esports World Cup 2024 and a second place finish at Skyesports Championship 2024.
One of the central tournaments of the season for MongolZ was the IEM Cologne 2024 Championship, where the club managed to reach the top-12. The same result was also at the ESL Pro League Season 20. In addition, the Mongolian club visited the IEM Rio 2024, where they got to the TOP-8.
They also played at Thunderpick World Championship 2024, where they placed TOP-1, which was a great Long Sogpeg before the Asian RMR. At the home RMR, The MongolZ came out on top by taking two matches out of two.
The main tournament of the 2024 season was PW Shanghai Major 2024. The MongolZ demolished the Opening Stage with a 3-0 win, and then secured the result at the Elimination Stage with another 3-0 win over G2, MOUZ and Heroic. The MongolZ lost in the first round of play-offs to MOUZ, who were outplayed in Bo1. Thus, The MongolZ finished in the top 8 at PW Shanghai Major 2024.
The MongolZ started the 2025 season with an appearance in the group stage of IEM Katowice 2025. There the team beat Liquid and GamerLegion, earning a slot in the first round of play-offs. The team failed to advance directly to the semi-finals: NaVi were much stronger (2-0) in the Group B final. In the play-offs of IEM Katowice 2025 MongolZ Long teamed up against Eternal Fire and although the match ended 2-0 in favour of MongolZ, it was not easy for them. However, they failed to pass Vitality and at the end of IEM Katowice 2025 The MongolZ took the top 4.
At PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025 Long Sogpeg started with a match against Complexity, where they won 2-0.
Mappul The MongolZ
The most successful map for 3 months was Ancient. The team has 100% winrate, however they played the map only 1 time.
Among the acceptable options for the peak there is Mirage with 1 win 1 loss.
The MongolZ has a minus winrate on the other maps in the competition pool.
Wildcard Form
We continue the analysis of the Wildcard - MongolZ match with the analysis of Wildcard's form. In this match they play as an outsider with odds to win at 4.8.
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 PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, Wildcard Long Competed with a clean 2-0 win over MIBR.
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 44% wins with 9 matches
History of head-to-head meetings The MongolZ - Wildcard
Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches.
Predicted result of Wildcard - The MongolZ at PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025
Despite a cheerful Long Corner from Wildcard, in my opinion they are far from the level of the current MongolZ and will not compete with them in the match for the basket 2-0. And the score should be similar.
Bottom line: MongolZ win with the score 2-0.
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