Match Prediction: Cloud9 - Evil Geniuses | CS2 (CS:GO)
ESL Pro League Season 17Cloud9 and Evil Geniuses will meet in the quarterfinals of the upper bracket of the ESL Pro League Season 17 group stage. It's a funny fight, but in this case, the situation for the Russian team smells like flowers.
I'm not 100% sure if this Evil Geniuses roster will remain, because in a day the organization can freak out and make the right decision by disbanding the entire five. In fact, the North American team is just some kind of horror.
Let's not forget that Cloud9 also failed at the start of the season, but here the selection is limited to only one championship in Katowice. In turn, Evil Geniuses returned to their home region, where they continued to disappoint and did not even make it to the RMR tournament.
In general, we will do without sensations here, since with such “successes” the North Americans have nothing to catch. True, after so many failures to even see a map from Evil Geniuses is just some kind of nonsense. Therefore, here I would take a closer look at the defeat from the "cloudy".
Form Cloud9
The thirteenth team of the world ranking visited IEM Katowice 2023. Moreover, the Russian team started its way to the Play-In stage quite well, where they won two victories over IHC and ENCE to get into the main part of the competition.
However, in the group stage, Cloud9 performed a miracle of miracles. And okay, the defeat from NAVI can be explained, but the team also managed to lose to IHC, showing a shameful game.
Then you can still attribute it to problems with teamwork, but now is really the last chance for the team to prove that buster is a normal replacement. Now, summing up the newcomer's recent matches, this is a complete failure.
Latest Cloud9 results:
- Defeated by MOUZ with a score of 1:2.
- Victory over IHC with a score of 16:5.
- Victory over ENCE with a score of 2:1.
- Lost to Natus Vincere with a score of 0:2.
- Lost to IHC with a score of 0:2.
Best Cloud9 Maps:
And they are not. At the same time, do not forget that the Russian team continues to stand its ground and still refuses the Nuke card.
Evil Geniuses form
The 22nd team in the world ranking so far is the main shame not only in North America, but in the entire competitive scene. Moreover, at BLAST Premier Spring Groups 2023 there were some bells that are about to burst.
But within the framework of IEM Katowice 2023 Play-In and CCT North Europe Series 3, the North American team began to convince the opposite. As a result, Evil Geniuses dropped out of all more or less normal championships and went home.
Apparently, the team decided to stay here, as it managed to fail in the closed qualifiers for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 North America RMR. In general, there is not even anything to talk about, because it is both funny and sad.
Evil Geniuses latest results:
- Victory over REIGN with a score of 16:8.
- Victory over Vendetta with a score of 16:8.
- Lost to MIBR with a score of 0:2.
- Victory over Mythic with a score of 2:0.
- Defeated by TeamOne with a score of 0:2.
Best Evil Geniuses cards:
- Inferno - 56% of wins.
- Nuke - 50% win rate.
- Overpass - 50% of wins.
- Ancient - 50% win rate.
In turn, the North American team still does not play on the Vertigo map.
Match statistics Cloud9 — Evil Geniuses
During the last season, the teams held two meetings:
- Cloud9 won the ESL Pro League Season 16 with a score of 2:0.
- Cloud9 won at IEM Rio Major 2022 Challengers Stage with a score of 2:0.
Then the teams played on the Overpass and Inferno maps, except for Dust 2.
Prediction for the match Cloud9 — Evil Geniuses
It doesn't even make sense to talk about something here, because the Evil Geniuses game is a shame. Even with their own problems, the Russian team must close everything without problems, otherwise the “cloudy” ones will have to be disbanded themselves. Therefore, in this case, I would recommend betting on Cloud9 to win with a score of 2:0.
Bookmakers & Statistics
Cloud9 are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.081. Evil Geniuses, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 6.941.
How did the participants perform in the last matches
Last Matches | Cloud9 | Evil Geniuses |
5 matches (wins) | 2 | 1 |
10 matches (wins) | 7 | 2 |
The statistics of personal battles between teams is also important for successful bets. The teams played 8 matches with each other before. In these matches Cloud9 won 4 times, Evil Geniuses active consisits of 4 wins.