Прогноз на матч: Cloud9 - ENCE | Counter-Strike (CS2)

Welcome to EGamersWorld.

We're still keeping an eye on what's happening at Gamers8. This is the biggest commercial tournament of the season, where top teams battle it out for an impressive $1,000,000 prize pool.

There are 7 teams left in the race for the $400,000 top prize, including Cloud9 and ENCE. However, after this match there will be fewer teams fighting for the top prize.

The winner of the ENCE/Cloud9 pair will advance to the next round, where he will play with the winner of the Heroic/GamerLegion pair. The loser will be eliminated from the tournament. The format of the match is Bo3.

Let's see which of the teams will be stronger and make it to the next stage, and who will be satisfied with the top 8 at the tournament in Saudi Arabia.

Let's go.

Cloud9 uniforms

Let's start the match analysis with Cloud9's form. In this match, Cloud9 will play as the number one.

Bookmakers believe more in the victory of the "American team". The odds for their success are at around 1.75.

In fact, we are facing a match of equal teams. The odds directly indicate this.

The 8th team of the world ranking had a very good half-year. "Cloudy" celebrated the passage to the grand finals of ESL Pro League Season 17 and victory at the BLAST Premier: Spring European Showdown 2022.

In addition, the team won the commercial BB Playlist. Urbanistic. In April, C9 seriously stumbled: they lost two qualifications at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 and missed the only Major of the season.

Next up was a top-4 finish at IEM Rio 2023 and a win at Brazy Party. Before IEM Cologne 2023, C9 failed IEM Dallas 2023 (top-8) and BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023 (top-8).

• Cloud9 line-up: H0bbit, electroNic, Ax1Le, sh1ro, Perfecto.

Before Gamers8 Cloud9 attended another major summer tournament - IEM Cologne 2023. The most prestigious event went well for Cloud9: not good, but not bad either.

A very difficult Long Corner in Cologne forced Cloud9 to mobilise all their resources in order not to drop out at the group stages, and these resources were enough until the first round of play-offs, where C9 was dealt with Vitality.

In the first round Gamers8 Cloud9 played against Fnatic - a kind of principal rival, with whom they crossed paths at IEM Cologne 2023. The first map was close (16-14 on Vertigo in favour of C9), but on the second map Fnatic fell apart and lost with the score 16-7.

Cloud9 Mapple

The best C9 map is Vertigo. There are 2 wins in 3 matches.

Next is Inferno. On Inferno Cloud9 played 5 times, of which they won 3 matches.

Minus winrate on 4 maps at once: Ancient (42% wins in 7 matches), Overpass (33% wins in 3 matches), Anubis (3 matches, 33% wins), Mirage (2 matches, 0 wins).

ENCE

Let's move on to a breakdown of ENCE's game form. In this match, the European club will play in the status of an outsider.

Bookmakers put ENCE in the role of catching up, but with a minimal gap. The odds for their victory are in the region of 1.9.

To tell the truth, it is not quite clear why ENCE has even a minimal gap. At the last events, the team looks quite brisk, better than C9 as far as I am concerned.

During the season, the team took TOP-3 at CCT Central Europe Malta Vibes, TOP-4 at ESL Pro League Season 17, and also reached TOP-8 European RMR B - qualifying event for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. ENCE also played at the Major, but it was TOP-14, which is hardly a worthy result.

IEM Dallas 2023 turned out to be much more pleasant. ENCE looked quite cheerful throughout the event, which allowed them to defeat MOUZ in the grand finals with a score of 2-0. Just before IEM Cologne 2023, ESL Challenger Katowice was played, where they had to defeat Vp in the grand final 1-2.

• ENCE roster: Snappi, NertZ, Maden, dycha, SunPayus .

ENCE have been playing in a stable roster for almost half a year. SunPayus and NertZ headline the roster with a KDA of 1.12.

Thanks to their victory at IEM Dallas 2023 ENCE started Cologne from the group stage. The first opponent was the Poles from 9INE, who gave the Finns serious problems, but lost with a score of 1-2 and a series of dops on the decisive map.

The next match was a match against Fnatic. ENCE won both maps, leaving Fnatic no special chances.

In the match for the grand final ENCE played against Heroic. Being an outsider, the Finns took a very good approach to the match and shut down the top 1 team in the world with a score of 2-1 in a tough Bo3.

Next up was a match against Vitality and as a result a passage to the Grand Final of IEM Cologne 2023. ENCE was not enough for the title, G2 Esports were stronger.

After an offensive Cologne 2023 ENCE started Gamers8 on a high note. They defeated Liquid 2-0 in the first match of the tournament.

ENCE Mapple

ENCE has two 100 per cent maps. They are Nuke, who has already played at IEM Cologne 2023 with 9 wins in 9 matches, and Anubis with 5 matches and 0 losses.

Still playing Ancient (66% wins in 3 matches). Still playing Mirage (9 matches, 4 wins). Vertigo with 2 wins and 3 losses and Overpass (2 wins in 7 matches).

Inferno are not playing.

History of head-to-head meetings

Earlier the teams played each other back at RMR European B. Then ENCE closed the series with the score 2-0.

Predicted result of the match ENCE - Cloud9 on Gamers8

Maybe this match will finally give us a full-fledged Bo3. At least, I believe so, as the teams look very close.

In general, I think this is one of the rare full-fledged bo3 series on Gamers8.

Bottom line: total +2.5.