Another great CS2 tournament begins on Wednesday, June 5: YaLLa Compass 2024. In the group stage, the Complexity and Eternal Fire teams will face each other.
Complexity cannot boast of stable results in CS2. On the one hand, since the launch of the new version of Counter-Strike, the organization has had successes: the final of IEM Sydney 2023, the semifinals of BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023 and the ESL Pro League Season 19. On the other hand, They have had many strange failures in the group stages. At the major, Complexity could have made the playoffs, but they finished the group stage with a 2-3 record and were eliminated. At the last tournament in Dallas, the team stumbled in matches against MOUZ and Team Liquid. And there are also a lot of minor tournaments without outstanding results. What is the problem?
EliGE cannot win events alone. Jonathan is Complexity’s main offensive force, and if he doesn’t do well, his teammates can’t shoulder the same load. Hallzerk is a fairly mediocre sniper, with no flashes of stellar play. Floppy and Grim rarely show a level higher than 1.1 in the HLTV rating on average. JT focuses on the calls and has never excelled on the individual side. Complexity is missing another top-tier star, and it shows in matches against high-level opponents. However, in this lineup they understand the problem and give EliGE maximum freedom, while his teammates try to make fewer mistakes to facilitate the leader’s game.
Complexity last won a tournament in 2021, if you don’t count qualifying for the Showdown at last year’s BLAST Fall Finals. The team has not been able to hold trophies in its hands even in second-level tournaments, and the players are unlikely to be satisfied with that. A good line-up of participants has gathered in Abu Dhabi, and to get to the playoffs, they must beat all opponents in group B.
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Complexity’s latest matches
Eternal Fire has dropped to twelfth place in the HLTV ranking, although it can be safely stated that we are dealing with a Tier 1 team. The Turks had a solid performance at the major and took 5-8 place, and a couple of months then they won the CCT Online 1 Global Finals. This is the first serious trophy for XANTARES in 2024, with half a year still to go, and the team could well make a splash in CS2.
The Turks have adapted to the new game quite well. In CS they also played well, but they always lacked something to reach the next level. With the release of CS2, the results of Eternal Fire have become much more interesting. Even if the team doesn’t win tournaments, it makes the favorites very nervous. FaZe, Virtus.pro, Team Vitality, Team Liquid fell to the Turks in the last three months, and on the server it didn’t seem like they were just lucky. They also imposed their game on MOUZ, they fought intensely against Natus Vincere, G2 Esports; In short, the best teams do not want to face Eternal Fire because they are very difficult series. XANTARES and company are not afraid to play aggressively, sometimes they can execute a tactic quickly in a round and then slow down. The pacing is very irregular, as well as being supported by precise shots from XANTARES, woxic and Wicadia. The latter recently turned 18 and has a great future in CS2.
Eternal Fire has a very strong performance in all level 1.5 tournaments. Now the Turks have arrived in Abu Dhabi at a great time after the triumph in the global finals of CCT Online 1. They have every chance of winning at YaLLa Compass 2024.
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Eternal Fire latest matches
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Betting and predictions
The teams face each other for the first time, until now Complexity and Eternal Fire had not met. Bookmakers give preference to the XANTARES team, and we can hardly contradict them. Nobody knows in what form EliGE arrives, but everyone understands that the Turks are very strong at the moment.
Main prediction: Total Complexity minus 12.5 rounds with coefficient 1.91;
Second prediction: Total plus 21.5 rounds with coefficient 2.00
