Match Prediction: Team Spirit - Falcons | Counter-Strike (CS2)

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The celebration of big Counter-Strike continues at IEM Katowice 2024. At Spodek Arena today they are preparing to watch the semi-finals of the first title tournament in 2024.

Even though ENCE, the hosts of the stage, have left the championship, it is not a reason to despair. There are 3 more top series ahead, including the Falcons vs Team Spirit matchup.

The teams will play each other for a trip to the grand finals of the tournament. The winner will guarantee himself TOP-2 and will play against the winner of the pair MOUZ - FaZe in the grand final.

We are trying to find out which of the teams will be stronger and will make it to the Grand Final of the first title tournament of 2024, and who will be one step away from the final. The format is bos3.

Let's go.

Team Spirit's uniform

We start the match analysis with Team Spirit's form. In this match, the club is playing as the number one, with odds to win at around 1.3.

The 2023 season has been a busy one for Spirit. The Serbian club has played wherever they can, but they haven't managed to get any significant results.

They started the previous season with an appearance at IEM Master Katowice 2023, where they finished in the top 12. Then there was the local CCT Central Europe Malta Finals 2023, where they finished in the top 6.

One of the biggest tournaments of the 2023 season for Spirit was ESL Pro League Season 17, where the Dragons finished in TOP-28. They tried to make it to the Major in Paris, but again all in vain.

From the middle and up to the end of the year Spirit played at local events of small calibre. And they were quite successful, it is worth mentioning: TOP-1 at CCT North Europe Series #6, TOP-2 at CCT Online Finals #2, victory at Dunav Party LAN and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2.

• Team Spirit roster: chopper, magixx, zont1x, donk, sh1ro.

At the end of the year, they won the BB Dacha. In 2024 BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024 was the first big event of the Dragons. Spirit played frankly poorly there: they finished in the top 16 at their debut BLAST Championship, advancing to the Spring Showdown.

At IEM Katowice 2024 Spirit started their performance at the Play-In stage. There they beat Apeks 13-0 without a chance, and then confidently (except for 2 maps) beat MongolZ 2-0, thus advancing to the group stage.

Spirit continued to pile on the pressure in the group stage. First they defeated NaVi (2-0), and then the same fate awaited Complexity.

In the match to reach the semi-finals of IEM Katowice 2024 Team Spirit played against FaZe Clan. "Dragons" were again stronger than their more titled opponent, thus taking their slot in the quarterfinals.

Team Spirit Mapple

The best map of Team Spirit remains Vertigo, where the Brazilians played 5 times and won in 3 maps. Next is Mirage, with 7 games and 4-3 statistics.

The neutral choice for Team Spirit will be Nuke and Ancient. The Brazilians have 6 maps there and the score is 3-3 on each.

The worst is Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).

Falcons Form

We continue the match analysis with an analysis of the Falcons' form. In this match the second opener (after Spirit) of IEM Katowice 2024 will play as Underpassdog with odds to win at around 3.6.

The 11th team of the HLTV world ranking shows rather "smeared" results. The 2023 season can be called a failure.

All 2023 Falcons were, as they say, in search of themselves. They started the professional season by playing at B-Tier tournaments: Thunderpick Bitcoin Series #2, OMEN WRG Challenge 2023 and CCT West Europe Series #1. At the first two, they celebrated a top-2 finish, and at the more prestigious CCT, a top-8 finish.

Later tried to make it to the Paris Major . Had two attempts, at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR A and BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: European RMR B. Both were unsuccessful: top-11 and top-6.

In the middle of the year, Falcons continued to bang their heads against the wall. Top-13 at ESL Challenge League Season 45: Europe, Top-10 at ESL Championnat National Spring 2023 and Top-24 at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1.

Tried to qualify for IEM Sydney 2023, but fell off at the top-64 stage in the open qualifiers. As a Saudi Arabian club they got a slot at Gamers8 2023, where they played to the best of their ability, which is Top 16.

• Falcons line-up: BOROS, Snappi, Magisk, maden, SunPayus,

At the end of the year Falcons tried to put together a DreamTeam. So far it's not working out so well, because they failed in the first tournament with the new squad. That was BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024, where the team finished top-12.

At IEM Katowice 2024 they got to the IEM Katowice 2024 by ESL Ranking points. There they were ranked in the top 10 before the tournament's Long Shogpeg, but for what merits - a big mystery.

IEM Katowice 2024 Falcons started with a defeat against the best team of Turkey - Eternal Fire. After losing to the Turks, Falcons were close to crashing out of the tournament in a lower bracket match against Rebels, but managed to stay afloat thanks to a 2-1 win. In fact, a similar situation occurred in the match against CoL, where the Falcons gave up the first card, but cameback on the second and closed out the series with a third.

In the IEM Katowice 2024 IEM Katowice 2024 play-offs, Falcons unexpectedly beat NaVi, closing the series 2-0. They started the main stage with an important victory, namely a 2-1 win over ENCE, the hosts of the arena, which boosted their morale for the clash against Spirit.

Falcons Mappool

The best map of Falcons is Nuke (1 game, 1 win). Next is Ancient (1 win, 1 loss).

Among the unfavourable maps for Falcons are Vertigo and Anubis. On the former they have 3 matches and 1 win, while on Anubis they have 1 loss.

History of head-to-head meetings between Spirit and Falcons

Previously, the teams have not played each other in official matches. This meeting ѕtunet the first lаѕhm of the teams.

Predicted result of the match Falcons - Spirit at IEM Katowice 2024

All IEM Katowice 2024 I did not take seriously neither Spirit nor Falcons, but here they are in the semifinals of IEM Katowice 2024 and very deservedly. The teams can be confidently called the main discoveries of the championship. In such a fight, you want to see a full-fledged Bo3 and I'm almost sure that we will get it.

Bottom line: total +2.5.