Match Prediction: FaZe Clan - Imperial Esports | CS2 (CS:GO)
ESL Pro League Season 19Welcome to EGamersWorld.
Big Counter-Strike 2 is gaining momentum. Just finished IEM China 2024, where FaZe Clan got the victory, and now ESL Pro League Season 19 is getting ready for the Long Run.
EPL S19 is a long tournament, which will delight us with matches of top teams for a month. And it all starts with the group stage matches.
We are talking about Group A, where on the Long Stage of the tournament we will be waiting for the match between FaZe Clan and Imperial. Let's see if the Brazilians have a chance to win.
Let's go.
FaZe Clan uniform
We start the review of the match with the analysis of FaZe Clan's form. In this match the European club will play as favourites.
One of the most stable teams of the last season has quite an extensive record in the first half of the year. However, it mostly consists of "near" top results.
Among the main achievements - getting into the top three at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023 and winning at ESL Pro League Season 17. Also this year FaZe got the award for the 4th season of Intel Grand Slam, enriched by $1,000,000.
Speaking of award tournaments, there was less luck here. Top-12 at IEM Rio 2023, and Top-4 at IEM Dallas 2023. At the only Major e in the season FaZe did not cope with the tension, but made it to TOP-8.
Before the Long Conference IEM Cologne 2023 they attended two tournaments of BLAST series: Spring Final 2023 and Fall Groups 2023. At the Finals they were ranked Top 6, and at the Fall Groups 2023 they were in the top three, earning themselves a slot at the Autumn Finals.
- FaZe Clan line-up: karrigan, rain, Frozen, ropz, broky.
Despite the ubiquitous Reshuffle and rather "average" results for the year, FaZe didn't change the main roster. However, there were some substitutions: FaZe presented a new coach, who became the legendary Pole NEO. On his post he replaced the legendary RobbaN and it affected FaZe's gameplay in IEM Cologne 2023, where FaZe took the top-12.
The setbacks continued from there onwards. At Gamers8 2023 FaZe Clan took a similar place (9-12), Ledgeiv at the Long Segment of the Vp tournament with the score 2-0.
Things didn't go too well at ESL Pro League Season 18. FaZe made it to the play-offs on the top grid of Group C, beating 9Z Team and Fnatic, but in the match for seeding in the main stage they lost to NaVi with the score 0-2. However, FaZe didn't manage to play long at ESL Pro League Season 18: in the first play-offs match, which for FaZe started from the second stage, the team met MOUZ. The future EPL champions sent FaZe Clan home. As a result FaZe found themselves on the 9-12th place of the top tournament.
FaZe rehabilitated quite quickly. Already at IEM Sydney 2023 they triumphed with the victory over CoL in the grand final.
Thunderpick World Championship 2023 FaZe Clan have a great time. The titular European club passed the group stage without problems becoming the best team of the quartet B, and then took part in the play-offs of the championship.
The first opponent for FaZe in the play-offs of Thunderpick World Championship 2023 was MOUZ. A serious opponent, but FaZe did well: 2-1 in favour of the champions of IEM Sydney 2023.
Later MOUZ played against C9 in the match for the final of the tournament and won. They finished what they started with a match against Vp in the grand finals of Thunderpick World Championship 2023, becoming the champion of the $500,000 online tournament.
At CS Asia Championship 2023 FaZe confidently made their way to the play-offs through Group B. Having taken unquestionable TOP-1 the team went directly to the semi-finals of the tournament. FaZe then went head-to-head: first they defeated ENCE 2-1 and in the grand final they defeated MOUZ 2-0.
The last tournament before the BLAST Premier: World FInals 2023 was the BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023. There FaZe took the top 2, Ledgeiv in the Vitality Grand Final.
At BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023 FaZe, playing with substitutes, managed to take the top 1 in their group. They took turns beating Heroic and then G2. At this rate they reached the grand final, but there Ledge or Vitality. The outcome was almost identical at BLAST Premier: World Final 2023, where FaZe again lost to Vitality in the grand final.
Before the performance at IEM Katowice 2024 they visited BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024. There FaZe very confidently took the top 1 in their group, thus securing a ticket to Spring Finals 2024. IEM Katowice 2024 also went very well: FaZe managed to reach the grand finals, but they didn't have enough strength for the match with the loaded Spirit. As a result FaZe lost the Grand Final of Katowice with the score 0-3.
Next was PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR A, where they finished in the top 5 after losing to Eternal Fire. At the PGL CS 2 Major Copenhagen 2024 FaZe started with a defeat by Heroic, but then won against FURIA. Then they lost to Eternal Fire, defeated Imperial and defeated Complexity, which allowed them to enter the play-offs Major.
The humiliating defeat at PGL CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024 was partially overtaken by a win at IEM China 2024, beating MOUZ in the grand finals.
FaZe Clan Mappool
FaZe's best map is Mirage. They played 12 matches and won 9 of them.
Next were Overpass with 8 matches and 5 wins. They play Nuke (7 matches, 4 wins), Inferno (9 matches, 5 wins). Worse is Ancient with 3 wins in 6 matches, and worst of all was Anubis. His FaZe was picked 7 times, but played with a winrate of 42%.
Imperial's form
We continue our match review with an analysis of Imperial's match form. In this match they will play in the status of an outsider.
The first half of the year 16 team of the world spent on various qualifying events and TIR-2 tournaments. Among the rare results is a victory at the local championship TG Masters Spring 2023. We can also mention the failure at EPL Season 17, where Imperial finished in the top 32.
Imperial's main Milestone was the performance at American RMR B, a qualifier for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. There, the Brazilian club finished in the top-12. Later there was a disappointing IEM Masters Rio 2023 and top-16 there.
- Imperial line-up: VINI, HEN1, felps. noway, decoy.
Before the Long Convergence of IEM Cologne 2023, Imperial won the ESL Brazil Premier League Season 14 and finished in the top 4 at BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023.
On top of that, Imperial have invited felps and HEN1 to join the team. The team's rookies lost their debut match at the club. They were run over by Monte, who won at Nuke 16-9. Next it was no better and as a result Cologne Brazilians took the top 20.
Later, they finished top-28 in ESL Pro League Season 18 and tried to make a name for themselves in other tournaments. They played at local championships like CBCS 2023 Season 1, Copa BetBoom, Game Arena and so on, but failed to achieve success there. Imperial looked better in the 2024 season.
So far, the main achievement of the year was winning the home PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: American RMR and making it to the Major itself. There the team went through the Opening Stage with a 3-2 score and then played the Legends Stage with a 1-3 score, which is pretty good.
Imperial Mappool
Imperial's best maps are Ancient and Inferno. The former has 3 wins in 4 maps and the latter has 5 wins out of 7.
Don't mind playing Overpass either, where the Brazilians have 57% wins in 7 maps. Can also play Nuke with Vertigo, where they have 50% wins at 6 and 4 mapx respectively.
They don't play on Anubis.
History of personal meetings FaZe Clan - Imperial
Previously the teams played each other PGL CS 2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where FaZe knocked out Imperial with the score 2-1.
Predicted result of the match Imperial - FaZe Clan on EPL Season 19
In this match my bet will be +1.5 on Imperial. FaZe are famous for their throw-ins at the Long Island tournament, and the Brazilians are definitely not the boys to beat.
Bottom line: +1.5 on Imperial.
Bookmakers & Statistics
FaZe Clan are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.184. Imperial Esports, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 5.042.
How did the participants perform in the last matches
Last Matches | FaZe Clan | Imperial Esports |
5 matches (wins) | 4 | 3 |
10 matches (wins) | 6 | 5 |
The statistics of personal battles between teams is also important for successful bets. The competitors have held 1 matches. And FaZe Clan won 1 times while Imperial Esports correspondingly became the winner 0 times.