Friday, February 7, at BLAST Premier Spring Series 2023 matches of group B will begin. The struggle to enter the main stage of the tournament will enter Natus vincere, Team vitality, Astralis and Complexity gaming. We tell you what to expect from the teams at the championship in London. Assessing the handouts in group B, we relied on the odds of the betting company Parimatch, the local broadcast partner of BLAST Premier 2023.
Natus Vincere – the first real line-up test
NAVI and instability, is there a more outstanding duo? In the new year, the team decided not to wait until Guardian will gain form: the Slovak was expelled, and in his place they took a young Perfecto, and while the team is doing well … okay.
Before BLAST, the composition from the CIS participated in GG.Bet ICE Challenge 2023where he reached the finals. The team confidently performed in the group stage: won Og and lost only one card Godsent, and in the playoffs left no chance for the team Maikelele. The first serious problems began in the decisive match with mousesports.
NAVI seemed to confidently start the final: on the first map after the first half they were 10-5, but in the end they lost and fell in the air – 1: 3, the CIS team could only take signature Train. The first game against the team from the top 5 was unsuccessful. The big question is whether NAVI learned to deal with tilt, because at BLAST it is very important: there the rivals will be even more serious.
In the first round, the roster Boombl4 will meet with an uncomfortable opponent – Vitality. In the last two series, NAVI lost to the French, and in both meetings Zywoo (as usual) showed a monstrous game, and s1mple lost on the cards. It is hoped that this time everything will be different.
The odds to win in the group – 6.50.
Team Vitality – will there be an effect from point permutations?
We have not seen the French in business since December, when Vitality won the last major tournament of the year. EPICENTER 2019and ZywOo claimed the title of best player of the year. Interestingly, there have been changes in the CS: GO team that you might have missed.
WiPR analyst dismissed Vitality at the end of January, but the assistant coach appeared at the club – a 34-year-old MaTwho won World Cyber Games in 2007 with emuLate !. As indicated in the announcement, Leber will work closely with the head coach XTQZZ, which, as the members of the French team have repeatedly admitted, is almost a key figure in the team.
How Vitality will change from this is a question. Perhaps, there is no doubt about only one thing: ZywOo will kill. However, bookmakers believe in Vitality no more than they do in NAVI: according to Parimatch quotes, both teams have equal chances to win in a group.
The odds to win in the group – 6.50.
Astralis – to new challenges
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It’s hard to say anything new about the Danes. They, as always, are favorites in any tournament and in any matchup. Like most other teams, Astralis has not yet played in the championships in the new year, but this is unlikely to at least somehow change the balance of power in group B.
Most interesting how exactly gla1ve and the company prepared during the break. The Danes are, in every sense, the main trendsetters of modern CS: GO, they study their game far and wide, and therefore now their main task is to show something new. But Astralis was accustomed to difficulties and hardly sat idly by. She always defended the title of best with dignity.
Since last year, the meta has not changed, the composition of most teams – too. While all the handouts indicate that Astralis will easily pass to the LAN finals of the BLAST Premier spring season, the bookmakers agree with this.
The odds to win in the group – 1.40.
Complexity Gaming – what will the Juggernaut show?
The failure in the Berlin major hit the owner of Complexity Gaming, Jason Lake. Still: his club received multimillion-dollar investments, and the CS: GO roster will finish at one of the main tournaments of the year only in the top 22. Right after the championship, Lake publicly announced that he wanted to recruit new players to make the team-juggernaut.
The club was looking for new players for a long time: Lake decided not to go the easy way and assembled the team from scratch, only the young oBo remained from the past roster. The captain came to the team Heroic blameFcheeky k0nfig, major champion in the composition Cloud9 RUSH and talented Bulgarian sniper poizon.
On paper, the new Complexity compound is sweetie. But, as in the case of OG, everything depends on teamwork, and the team has problems with this. The new Complexity team has so far performed only in online qualifications, and only one has been able to win – far from the most prestigious DreamHack Open Anaheim 2023.
BlameF is one of the most promising players and captains of the professional scene, but for several months he failed to bring Complexity to a fundamentally new level. Now the team is not even included in the world top 30: we can only dream of real competition with NAVI, Astralis and Vitality.
The odds to win in the group – 5 p.m..
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Based on the results of the matches of Group B, two teams will be determined who will perform at the LAN finals of the BLAST Premier spring season. The two remaining teams will go to the Showdown stage, where six teams will play four more slots in the competition with a prize pool of $ 750 thousand, which will be held in Moscow.
