In the quarterfinals of IEM Katowice 2024 for CS2, ENCE and Team Falcons will compete against each other. Bo3.gg, together with Alexander shoker Osheka, presents a preview, prediction, and analysis of this confrontation, which will take place on February 9 at 20:30 EET.
This competitive season, CS2 fans have not yet been able to see these two teams face off, but it promises to be very interesting. A key point is that the core of the current Falcons roster moved to the organization from ENCE. Lukas gla1ve Rossander was forced to take the Poles from 9INE and build a new team. Now he will be eager to prove that the players who followed Marko Snappi Pfiffer made a big mistake.
Such transfers add more passion to the professional scene. In such matches, players try to give their all 100% and bring victory to their club. Both teams are still in search of their playstyle, but reaching the playoffs of IEM Katowice 2024 speaks of great prospects for both.
Current Form
In their last five matches, ENCE has picked up a good form and won four of them. On the other hand, Falcons looked less confident before the match with Natus Vincere — three wins out of five.
Map Pool
Regarding the map selection, both teams prefer to ban Inferno. Other statistics will not be entirely accurate, as it includes data from the last six months when the clubs represented completely different lineups. Therefore, we definitely will not see Inferno, and everything else could happen.
Prediction by Shoker
Alexander Shoker Osheka, an analyst and commentator for the Maincast studio, has analyzed and commented on numerous Counter-Strike tournaments. Last year, exclusively for Bo3.gg, he made many predictions, 60% of which turned out to be correct!
Looking at the results of the Falcons team in this tournament, I don't get the impression that this is a strong team. The only victory they can boast of is against NAVI, who slept through that match and gave away their win. On paper, we have BOROS, who has only performed on stage once, and this may affect him negatively. Especially when almost the entire hall will be rooting for ENCE. On the other hand, ENCE's team, on the contrary, made it to this playoff despite everything and is currently showing quite a resilient game. For gla1ve, this is an excellent chance to prove himself a second time as a good captain. He wanted to take the guys to Spodek – he did it. Also, for him, this is a critically important tournament since it's a big playoff after Astralis and a chance to "renew" his name on tier-1. My prediction, ENCE wins 2:1. By the way, they have the best Vertigo in the world, it's an auto 1:0 😆Alexander Shoker Osheka
IEM Katowice 2024 runs from January 31 to February 11 in Poland. Teams are competing for a prize pool of one million dollars. The champion will also receive slots for IEM Cologne 2024 and BLAST Premier: World Final 2024. You can follow the schedule and results of the tournament via the link.
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