Match Prediction: ENCE - NaVi | CS2 (CS:GO)
BLAST Premier World Final 2023Let's move on to the elimination match in Group A of the BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 tournament, where ENCE will face the Ukrainian club Natus Vincere. The winner will advance to the play-offs, while the loser will finish their participation in the LAN Championship, take 7th-8th place and earn $15,000 in prize money. The format of the match is bo3. Will Born to Win be able to rehabilitate after the defeat by Vitality? Let's find out.
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ENCE uniforms
Finnish team ENCE started the current gaming year with a rather weak performance at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023, where the team took 17th-20th place and $4,500. ENCE missed the Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023 and finished in fourth place in the European qualification. From there, the team only began to gain momentum. Bronze at CCT Central Europe Malta Finals and 3rd-4th place at ESL Pro League Season 17 allowed ENCE to earn a total of $65,000. Eighth place at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B allowed ENCE to qualify for the only and last Major CS:GO tournament of the year. The performance at Brazy Party can be considered a failure, because there dycha and the team failed to get into the top 8 and earn at least some prize money. BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 ended for ENCE on the 12th-14th place, which brought the team $20,000. The team's biggest achievement so far is winning the Intel Extreme Masters Dallas 2023. ENCE showed a decent performance and won the $100,000 grand prize. Silver at ESL Challenger Katowice 2023 brought ENCE $20,000 in prize money. After that, the Finnish club also won silver at Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023, for which they received $180,000. Second place at Gamers8 2023 provided the players with an additional $180,000 in prize money. The 3-4th place at ESL Pro League Season 18 allowed ENCE to earn another $50,000. The European club achieved a similar result at BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown 2023, where it was able to get $7,500 as a reward. 5th-6th place at Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 provided ENCE with $10,000 in prize money. The trip to China for CS Asia Championships 2023 was a bit more successful, where the team took 3-4th place and earned $50,000 in prize money.
ENCE came to Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 thanks to a direct invitation from the tournament organisers. The team went to Group A, where in the first match they sensationally lost to HAVU Gaming with the score 6-13 on the Nuke map. Then ENCE managed to rehabilitate themselves by defeating Fnatic in a full bo3 series (Anubis - 7-13, Vertigo - 13-2, Overpass - 13-5). ENCE won the deciding match of the group against GamerLegion 2-1 (Ancient - 13-8, Overpass - 4-13, Nuke - 13-7). In the semi-finals, Finnish club Ledgeil Apeks on two maps in a row and crashed out of the tournament. ENCE received $15,000 for 3rd-4th place in the standings.
The draw for the BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 sent ENCE to Group A. In the first match, gla1ve and his teammates Ledge and Cloud9 took two maps in a row and lost the right to make a mistake.
Statistics of ENCE's last result:
- 0:2 defeat by Cloud9.
- Defeat by Apeks 0:2
- 2:1 win over GamerLegion
- 2:1 win over Fnatic
- 6-13 defeat to HAVU Gaming
Natus Vincere's form
Overall this year Natus Vincere have seen a slight downturn in the quality of their play. Since the beginning of the current season Born to Win have taken 3-4th places at Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023, ESL Pro League Season 17 and Intel Extreme Masters Rio 2023. In Katowice the team earned $80,000. At the Paris Major s1mple and the team qualified thanks to their victory at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A. At BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 NAVI did not show much success, finishing in 9th-11th place and earning $20,000. At BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023, the Ukrainian team took 4-6th place in the standings and received $17,500 in prize money and a trip to BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2023 went relatively well for Natus Vincere, but the team failed to qualify for the play-offs. NAVI Ledge defeated Astralis 1:2 in the lower finals. The 7th-8th place at IEM Cologne 2023 provided NAVI with $24,000 in prize money. Gamers8 2023 ended for the Ukrainian team with 5-8th place in the standings and $35,000 in prize money. In ESL Pro League Season 18, Natus Vincere won silver, for which they received $90,000. The trip to the Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 was not so successful, where the Ukrainian club failed to get out of the group, took 9-12th place and had to settle for $5,000.
Before travelling to Abu Dhabi, Born to Win took part in BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. The draw placed the Ukrainian team in Group A. NAVI lost their first match to Cloud9 in a full bo3 series. Then Natus Vincere defeated Ninjas in Pyjamas on two maps in a row (Overpass - 13-11, Mirage - 13-6) and qualified for the play-offs. In the quarter-finals Aleksib and Ledge beat Complexity Gaming 1:2 and took the 5th-6th place in the tournament, earning $20,000.
The BLAST Premier: World Final 2023 Long match was the first round of the tournament for Natus Vincere in Group A. Their first opponent was Team Vitality. The Ukrainian team could not give a proper response to the opponent and lost with the result 0:2.
Statistics of the latest results of Natus Vincere:
- Defeat by Team Vitality with the score 0:2
- 1:2 loss to Complexity Gaming.
- 2:0 win over Ninjas in Pyjamas
- Defeat by Cloud9 with the score 1:2
- Defeat by FaZe Clan with the score 1:2
History of ENCE - Natus Vincere matches
Since the beginning of this year the participants of this match have not played against each other on the professional stage.
Predicted result of the match ENCE - Natus Vincere
ENCE are not showing their best game lately, while NAVI distinguished themselves only at the last EPL. Let's bet on the total of cards more than 2.5.
Bookmakers & Statistics
All bookmakers have agreed that NaVi is the favorite. This can be noticed because odds on them are 1.519. This number in the favor of ENCE amounts 2.574. Respectively, the last ones are the underdogs of the upcoming match.
Team statistics in recent matches
Last Matches | ENCE | NaVi |
5 matches (wins) | 2 | 1 |
10 matches (wins) | 3 | 3 |
The statistics of personal battles between teams is also important for successful bets. The participants in the battle before the meeting played 10 matches with each other. In these matches ENCE won 4 times, NaVi active consisits of 5 wins.