The next big CS2 tournament will continue on Thursday, June 6: YaLLa Compass 2024. BIG and Eternal Fire will face each other in the group stage.
The Germans showed hope in the spring of 2024 and gave a good image, but so far the game has not materialized in the result. The tabseN team lost to BetBoom Team (9-13) and Complexity (5-13) in the tournament, and defeated FURIA Esports (13-3). BIG seems to be close to success, but it always lacks something to obtain serious results.
On the one hand, syrsoN, a high-quality sniper, is back, and newcomer JDC has breathed life into the team and is racking up a ton of frags on the servers. But now Krimbo, former BIG star, is not doing well. Probably, the positions of the players have changed after the reshaft, and the young German does not feel comfortable in the current scheme. TabseN no longer plays alone, he has a very good lineup. BIG has trouble finishing matches. In the recent ESL Pro League Season 19, the team could have taken the map away from G2 Esports, but they blew a huge advantage. In the last VO1 with BetBoom Team, the Germans were part of creating a majority, but they didn’t realize it, and they also lost clutches. Recently in CS2, Dust2 has appeared, historically a crowning card for BIG, but the team rarely plays it, preferring Ancient.
TabseN has been running BIG for a while, but after coronavirus there is no way for the organization to be in HLTV’s top 10 again. The discipline is there, the good and experienced players are there, the action seems calibrated and sharp. But in CS2 individual play matters a lot and sometimes the Germans make fatal mistakes in important rounds. YaLLa Compass 2024 is still on the line, but if they win the matches against Eternal Fire and Fnatic, there will be hope for the playoffs.
The Turks did not look like themselves on the first day. They lost against Complexity (16-13) and Fnatic (13-5), and four players did not enter the positive statistics of the tournament. After the quarterfinals of the PGL Copenhagen Major 2024, the team has been feverish: they had not reached the ESL Pro League Season 19 playoffs for three months and immediately won the CCT Online 1 World Finals. Apparently, the magic of the Eternal Fire works in the tournament, and in the YaLLa Compass 2024 the Turks will be unlucky.
XANTARES is usually at the top statistically, but in Abu Dhabi we don’t see that stability. There was a good match with Complexity and then a complete failure with Fnatic. The overall pace of Eternal Fire depends on the leader’s play, although he is not the only one to blame for the defeats. Wicadia was also bad, the woxic sniper was the culprit of the entire team. The Turks rarely won the majority in matches against Fnatic and Complexity, but even if they managed to achieve 5v4 situations, they were poor in completion (61%). In the minority, Eternal Fire has big problems – 24% winrate. Strangely, the team wins the pistol rounds 75% of the time, but suffers in full completions.
Not long ago, Eternal Fire was in HLTV’s top 10, and was fighting with those above with great confidence. Now the team cannot show the same level with less skilled opponents. For XANTARES the meeting with BIG will be pleasant and principled at the same time – it is necessary to show tabseN that he has not lost his status since the time of joint performances.
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Data to take into account
The bookmakers focus on the HLTV rating and obviously believe in Eternal Fire. But we know that in even matches BIG fights hard until the last round. The Germans can take the Turks to extra rounds if they want. We expect a lot of fighting and the outcome at 22-24 rounds.
The main prediction: Total rounds plus 21.5 with odds of 1.92.
The second prediction: Rounds handicap of (+2.5) for BIG with odds of 1.90.
