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We continue to watch the action at PGL Astana 2025. The title tournament with a prize pool of $1,250,000.
G2 and M80 are in the race for such a significant prize pool. However, both teams are very far away from at least some prizes, because G2 and M80 have a score of 0-2 and after this match one of the teams will leave the tournament.
We are trying to find out whether G2 will be able to save face in the match with a very unpleasant opponent or after the departure of NiKo and m0NESY will continue to fall in the global ranking of CS2 teams.
Let's go.
G2 Esports uniforms
We open the breakdown of the G2 vs M80 match with an analysis of G2's game form. In this match they are playing as favourites with odds to win at around 1.5.
After a frankly weak performance at EPL Season 17, G2 Esports played at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. In Paris, NiKo and company had a real fiasco, as the tournament for them ended at the stage of TOP-14, which certainly did not fit into the plans of G2.
- G2 Esports line-up: malbsMd, Snax, HeavyGod, TaZ, hades.
Before ESL Pro League Season 18, G2 Esports made their mark on several other major tournaments. These were BLAST Premier: Spring Finals and Fall Groups, where G2 took top 4 and top 8 respectively.
Next up was IEM Cologne 2023 and finally a win. In the Grand Final they beat ENCE 3-1, thus taking another IEM title for the year.
The last championship was Gamers8. The biggest commercial tournament of the season ended with G2 Esports in the top 4.
G2 Esports started off ESL Pro League Season 18 with a betting tirerable win. They beat Lynn Vision 2-0 in their opening match, but to be fair, they were close to a fiasco on the first map. However, G2 Esports subsequently made it to the play-offs, and straight into the quarter-finals, where they met MOUZ. The Mice outplayed G2 Esports and later became EPL S18 champions.
G2 Esports attended two more events before competing at BLAST Premier: World Finals 2023. These were BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown 2023 and IEM Sydney 2023. Both tournaments saw the team finish in the Top 4 stage. There was also CCT Online Finals #5, where G2 showed a frankly mediocre result. The titular European club failed to make it to the Top 2 and get a slot to the Global Finals, and settled for only Top 4.
Prior to the PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Europe RMR G2 Esports played at three top tournaments before the Long Convergence PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024 Europe RMR G2 Esports. BLAST Premier: World Final 2023, BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 and IEM Katowice 2024 and they finished in the top 6. Looks good, but it's still not the same for the G2 Esports level.
Then PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A G2 Esports played at their level. The level that you expect from them, i.e. Top 2 and a slot in the Copenhagen CS2 Major Legends.
Later G2 Esports played at the PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen, where they managed to reach the play-offs and at the end of the championship took the top 4. In the semi-finals they lost to future champions NaVi.
G2 Esports played at IEM China 2024, where the "samurai" managed to reach the TOP-4. Later they played at ESL Pro League Season 19, where they reached TOP-8, Ledgeiv to the future champions from MOUZ.
G2 Esports attended IEM Dallas 2024, where they managed to snatch a win with a 2-1 win over Vitality in the grand finals. They also played BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2024, where they finished in the top 8.
Esports World Cup 2024 G2 Esports started off with a solid win over MongolZ, even though the latter struggled. Next was a match against Team Spirit, which the Samurai won again, beating one of the strongest teams in the world with a score of 2-1. Later G2 defeated Vp, but in the grand finals Ledge and NaVi with the score 1-2.
Further G2 Esports played almost all top tournaments on Counter-Strike 2. They played at BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2024, where they finished in TOP 1-4, as well as at IEM Cologne 2024, where they finished in TOP 6.
At ESL Pro League Season 20, the team won Group B, beating KOI, 3DMAX and MIBR. In the play-offs, they went straight to the quarter-finals, where they defeated Liquid. However, G2's path was interrupted at the TOP-4 stage: they defeated NaVi, who later became the tournament champions.
A little later, G2 managed to get revenge on NaVi by defeating Born to Win in the grand finals of BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2024. However, it was not possible to translate the victories at the autumn finals into a winning streak, because at the IEM Rio Masters 2024 G2 Esports took the TOP-13-16.
However, G2 Esports went on to play at BLAST Premier: World Final 2024, where they triumphed, winning another trophy at the BLAST Championship Series. In the final, they stomped Spirit by a score of 3-0.
The way to the Major at G2 Esports Long started with a victory over NiP. Then they beat 9 Pandas without any problems. But in the match for the Major with a score of 3-0, G2 Esports sensationally lost to 3DMax, although later they took the series against Spirit and went to the Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 with a score of 3-1.
Elimination Stage PW Shanghai Major 2024 Long started with a loss to MongolZ, but then defeated BIG and 3DMax. In the play-offs, G2 Esports defeated FaZe Clan. Heroic beat Heroic in the first round of the play-offs, but then Ledge beat FaZe, leaving the tournament in the top 4.
In the 2025 season, G2 Esports attended BLAST Bounty Spring 2025, where they again finished in the top 4, again losing to FaZe. They also attended IEM Katowice 2025, where they finished in the top 4. They also attended ESL Pro League Season 21, where they reached the play-offs, but failed to advance further.
After significant transfers, when m0NESY and NiKo left the roster, G2 Esports attended BLAST Open Spring 2025, finishing in the top 6 and reached the top 2 at PGL Bucharest 2025.
At PGL Astana 2025 G2 Esports are playing with forced stand-ins and it is paying off. After two matches the team is in the basket 0-2, having lost to MIBR and ODDIK.
G2 Esports Mappool
G2's main map is Ancient. There G2 played 8 matches, of which they won 6.
Then comes Anubis (3 games, 2 wins), Vertigo (5 games, 3 wins), Inferno (12 games, 58% wins).
G2 Esports has no minus winnings on mapx. Among the "worst" choices are Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Mirage (4 wins, 4 losses).
M80 Form.
We continue the analysis of the match M80 - G2 Esports with the analysis of M80 form. In this match they play as an outsider with odds to win at around 2.6.
M80 can hardly be called a top club or a close competitor for teams of G2 level and others. However, they play on the international stage with unenviable regularity, which we can wish for other TIR-2 teams, but not only.
One of the most "successful" seasons was the 2024 season. They opened it with a performance at the Intel Extreme Masters 2024. We played, tried - top 20.
Next was ESL Pro League Season 19, where M80 again did not surprise us. At ESL Pro League Season 19 they took TOP-20.
- The composition of M80: Swisher, reck, slaxz-, s1n, Lake.
Then there was IEM Dallas 2024, again S-Tier tournament, where M80 took TOP-16. Later visited Esports World Cup 2024, where they lost in the first round to MongolZ, finishing in the top 13.
In the season 2025 they again "marked" at the Tier-S tournament, where they again played at their level. That is, they took TOP-18.
BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 Long Started with a match against MongolZ, where, contrary to expectations, they fought back and took the card. Having found themselves in the bottom net they knocked FURIA out of the tournament, but in the next round they lost to G2 Esports with the score 0-2. According to the results of BLAST Open Lisbon 2025 M80 took TOP-12.
At PGL Astana 2025 Long Sogpeg with two defeats: by NaVi and by Vp.
Mappool M80
The best map of M80 is Ancient. There M80 has 7 wins in 9 matches. However, Mirage can also be called a signature choice: it has been played 13 times and won 10 of them.
Things are not bad on Anubis, where M80 has 8 wins and 4 losses.
The worst results are on Vertigo. There M80 have a statistic of 2-4.
History of head-to-head meetings between G2 and M80
In the season 2025 they played each other 1 time. G2 won that time.
Predicted result of the match M80 - G2 Esports at PGL Astana 2025.
In this match I expect an even game. Despite the gap in the odds, I do not consider G2 much stronger than M80 and their game at PGL Astana 2025 confirms my words. I will trust in M80
Bottom line: M80 wins.
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