Forutsigelse av kamp: BIG - Apeks | CS2 (CS:GO)
IEM Katowice 2024 Play-inWelcome to EGamersWorld.
The big Counter-Strike 2 event is gaining momentum. At the Spodek Arena in Katowice, Poland, the IEM Katowice 2024 is gaining momentum.
The $1,000,000 tournament is at the Play-In stage with 8 teams left in the race for 4 slots into the group stage. Among them are BIG and Apeks - whose head-to-head matchup we'll talk about today.
We will see who of the pair Apeks - BIG will be stronger and the winner of the match. Once again: the winner will advance to the group stage where they will play for the chance to earn $400,000 and a trip to IEM Cologne 2024 and BLAST Premier: World Final 2024. That's why the match has a price and is likely to be quite The International heresy.
Let's go.
BIG uniforms
We start the match breakdown with an analysis of BIG's playing form. In this match, the Germans will play the number one, with odds to win at around 1.5.
In the 2023 season, BIG participated in a lot of championships, but there were not many decent results. They started top-9 at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2023, and continued top-16 at IEM Extreme Masters Katowice 2023.
There was also an appearance at ESL Pro League Season 17 with a top-20 there. The failures partially managed to cap off the Top-4 at the Elis Invitational Winter 2023, where the team reached the Top-4.
In the middle of the year, the Germans failed to qualify for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023, finishing top-11 at RMR Europe and then top-3 at qualification. In the second half of the year they started playing CCT Series championships, where it is worth noting CCT Online Finals #1, with TOP-4, CCT West Europe Series $4 with TOP-2.
Back to the S-Tier tournaments with BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2023 with Top-9, and then Top-24 at IEM Cologne 2023.
- BIG lineup: tabseN, Krimbo, mantuu, prosus, s1n.
Prior to the ESL Pro League Season 18 Long Round, the team played at Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #1 with a top-2 finish. There was also a top-8 at CCT East Europe Series #7 and a win at CCT Europe Series #7.
At ESL Pro League Season 18 they debuted with a match against Monte. The Ukrainian club fought honourably, but in the end they were defeated by Ledgeil with the score 1-2, putting BIG in the semi-finals of Group B at ESL Pro League Season 18.
In the previous match, BIG made perhaps the biggest sensation of the tournament. The Germans defeated Heroic, sending them to the bottom of the group.
Next, BIG played another big European club - ENCE. The Finns failed to win (1-2), but BIG made it to the play-offs, straight into the second round. That's where their ESL Pro League Season 18 journey came to an end.
BIG Ledge and Eternal Fire in the second round of play-offs with the score 0-2. Thus, the Germans took the EPL S18 top-12.
In the match before that, BIG played against 9INE. The Germans defeated their visions quite easily, closing the match with a score of 2-0.
Afterwards, BIG outplayed ENCE and advanced to the finals of BLAST Premier: Fall European Showdown 2023. However, BIG were not enough for the final as C9 won 2-0.
Prior to the Roobet Cup 2023, BIG played two CCT tournaments. It was CCT North Europe Series #8 and CCT East Europe Series #3. They finished in the top 16 at the latter, but won the North European tournament, beating Spirit 2-0 in the grand final.
The Roobet Cup 2023 ended quite well for BIG. The team finished in the top 8, and repeated that result at Thunderpick World Championship 2023. They also played at CCT Online FInals #4, where they finished in the top 3.
In the first match at CCT Online Finals #5 BIG played Zero Tenacity. "The Germans proved to be stronger, easily defeating ZT. In the next game BIG faced Guild Eagles and were stronger, and very confidently - 2-0. Next, the BIG stage opponent was 9 Pandas and once again the Germans did not feel the enemy. A confident 2-0 against the Pandas led them to the final of the upper grid. There they slammed Aurora without much difficulty and later repeated this in the grand final of the tournament.
BIG started the tournament with a rather lacklustre loss against Vp, but followed it up with a colourful and hard fought win against Heroic. Even more colourful was the victory over Cloud9 in the lower finals match, where BIG shut out the "titular" Americans 2-0. However, it was not possible to come out of their group victorious and Vp repeated their debut success. Next, BIG fought Astralis in the match for the BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2024, but they failed there as well.
At IEM Katowice 2024, BIG Long Competed from the Play-In stage, where they first beat ENCE (13-9), and then in a tough Bo3 they were weaker than Heroic (1-2). In the lower Play-In set, fell straight to the second round.
BIG Mapple
BIG have 3 of the best maps in their arsenal. They are Overpass, Vertigo and Anubis with 5 matches and 3 wins on each.
The most played map is Ancient. BIG have played 14 matches there and have a 57% win rate.
The most unlucky map is Inferno with 2 wins and 2 losses. The worst map is Mirage (9 matches, 33% wins).
Apeks form
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Apeks' game form. In this match, the European club will have to play as the number two, with win odds around 2.1.
The 2023 season has been very productive for Apeks, but the team's performance remains questionable. Over a dozen tournaments have been played, but the high-profile results can be listed on the fingers of one hand.
They started the season with a top-16 finish at CCT South Europe Season 2. Next was the nightmarish Elisa Invitational Winter 2023 with a top-20 and then a top-4 CCT West Euroe Series #1.
In the middle of the year, Apeks took Top 2 at CCT West Europe Series #2 and Top 8 at BB Playlist. Urbanistic and Brazy Party. However, it was much more important to make it to the TOP-6 at European RMR A and to get to BLAST.tv Paris Major.
Paris Major itself became Apeks' moment of glory. Being a clear Underpassdog, Apeks managed to surprise the audience and make it to the top 4, where they were defeated by the future champions from Vitality.
Before the Long Convergence Gamers8, the team took part in IEM Cologne 2023, where they finished in the Top 20, CCT Online Finals #2, with Top 12 and Top 16 at ThunderPick World Championship 2023: European Series #1. The results are frankly so-so, but it doesn't get much better than that in the rivalry.
- Gamers8 lineup: nawwk, jkaem, kyxsan, sense, CacaNito.
After the extremely successful BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Apeks changed their line-up. The 13th team of the world was completed by Macedonian CacaNito, who replaced in the roster headliner jL, who moved to NaVi.
After the roster shake-up, Apeks continued to perform at all sorts of tournaments. Their portfolio includes appearances at Gamers8 (TOP-16), CCT North Europe Series #7 (TOP-16), absolutely failed EPL Season 18 (TOP-28), CCT East Europe Series #2 (TOP-4).
Just before Roobet Cup 2023 Apeks took part in ESL Challenger At DreamHack Winter 2023: Europe Qualifier and IEM Sydney 2023. At the qualifier event they took TOP-6, but in Sydney they reached TOP-12.
At the Roobet Cup 2023 Apeks got into Group C, where they were opposed by BIG, 9INE and Astralis. The quartet, to put it bluntly, is not the easiest, nevertheless Apeks managed to reach the play-offs from the second place, losing only to BIG at the beginning of the group stage. However, having started in a good way, they finished in a bad way: the final place - TOP 8, which is not bad in principle, but obviously could be better.
At Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 Apeks won Group B quite unexpectedly. Considering the fact that MOUZ and Complexity are there, it is a very decent result, and Apeks clearly aimed for a high place in this tournament. And they got it. At the end of Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 Apeks took the top 2, Ledgeiv in the grand finals of FURIA.
In the first round of ESL Challenger Season 46, the team defeated a mix of Team Space. They won fairly easily, with scores of 13-6 and 13-7 respectively. At the end of the tournament, Apeks finished in the top 4 and then went on to finish in the top 2 of ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023.
Apeks Long Cogged IEM Katowice with a 0-13 defeat against Team Spirit. Stayed afloat after defeating Furia in a match for life (2-1).
Apeks Map Pool
Apeks has an extensive map pool. The most frequent map is Inferno (12 maps, 83% wins).
Mirage (63% wins with 11 matches), Anubis (62% wins, 8 matches), Ancient (46% wins, 13 matches).
Among the worst are Overpass and Vertigo. They have 37% winrate with 13 cards each.
Nuke is not playing.
History of head-to-head meetings between Apeks and BIG
The last time the teams played each other was in November 2023 during BBD 2023 Closed Qualifier. Apeks won that time.
Predicted result of the match BIG - Apeks at IEM Katowice 2024
In this match I expect a close game, despite the debut performance of Apeks. In my opinion, it will end on three maps, so my bet is +2.5 total.
Bottom line: total +2.5.
Bookmakers & Statistics
For øyeblikket ser flertallet av bookmakere enstemmig på laget BIG som favoritten i spillet med gjennomsnittlige odds på seier i summen av 1.992. Apeks sjanser til å vinne blir evaluert med gjennomsnittlige odds 2.43 av bookmakere.
Lagstatistikk i de siste kampene
Siste kamper | BIG | Apeks |
5 kamper (seire) | 3 | [bortevinnerrate_5] |
10 kamper (seire) | 4 | 6 |
Statistikken over personlige kamper mellom lag er også viktig for vellykkede spill. Konkurrentene har holdt 7 kamper. I disse kampene vant BIG 4 ganger, Apeks aktive consisits av 3 seire.