On October 16, 2023 the first major tournament on CS2 will start - Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023! And especially for you we will make predictions for the matches of this tournament.

Today we got the match FaZe Clan vs GamerLegion, who are in group A of the championship. The start of the match is scheduled for 04:15 Kiev on October 16, 2023.

Team Form

Certainly, FaZe Clan team exceeds their opponents by a head by individual parameters. Namely, all players of the team have 3% better rating for the last matches.

I would also like to note that FaZe Clan has 10% more kills done on the head, which gives not just any advantage. And one of the most important parameters, namely the success in the first kills on the map also goes to FaZe Clan, here they exceed their opponents by 9%.

Well, in general, the team GamerLegion after the last major in CS:GO still can not get to a decent level, because they lose to almost all normal teams.

It should be noted that for the last 6 months the teams have never met in official matches.

Pool of Maps

In this match with the maps pool the situation is quite interesting. FaZe Clan's permoban is not replaceable for several years — Vertigo. But GamerLegion previously had Anubis, but now it is Nuke.

And it is quite bad for FaZe Clan, because it is considered to be one of the best in the team.

The juicy fight in this match should take place exclusively on the map Inferno, because in CS:GO it was a breath of fresh air for GL. But on other maps FaZe Clan should just smear their opponents.

According to our article, the teams should choose these maps:

• Mirage
• Anubis
• Inferno

The result

Easy walk for FaZe Clan, because let's be honest, after BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 GamerLegion still can't reach the proper Tier-1 level. But FaZe Clan have been practicing in CS2 for a long time and will be ready to close their opponent with the score 2:0.

After all, while the meta on the maps will not change, as everyone will play by the rules of CS:GO.

The situation in the groups at the championship at the moment look like this:

Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 is the first CS2 tournament that takes place in LAN format in Sydney from October 16-22, 2023. The championship has a prize pool of $250,000 and a total of 16 teams are participating in the tournament.