Today, on October 7th, at 21:00 EEST, the semifinal of the BLAST Premier: Fall American Showdown 2023 will take place between FURIA and Complexity. The winner of this match will face the better team from the Liquid – Party Astronauts pair. In this article, Bo3.gg analyzes and predicts the outcome of this match.

Individual Form

Both teams have already played one match each in this tournament, but their opponents were far from the highest level: FURIA defeated Legacy, and Complexity defeated Evil Geniuses. Additionally, both participants in today's match made it to the playoffs of ESL Pro League Season 18 but were eliminated in the early rounds.

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Ricky "floppy" Kemeri has been demonstrating excellent gameplay as part of Complexity. With the arrival of Jonathan "EliGE" Jablonowski, floppy has had more space to shine in new roles. Before that, Ricky performed more support functions and often focused on clutch plays. Over the past three months, he has had a rating of 6.3, 0.69 kills per round, and 76 average damage.

On the contrary, FURIA has struggled after their roster changes. The team barely made it to the playoffs of ESL Pro League and had poor performances in previous tournaments. The new lineup is still finding its rhythm and adapting to a new map pool. The most consistent performer on the team is usually Kaike "KSCERATO" Cerato, who demonstrates confident gameplay with incredible individual stats. Often, the entire team's performance relies on KSCERATO's ability to get multi-kills.

Map Pool

Lately, Complexity's main advantage has been the map Anubis, where they had a streak of eight consecutive victories, including wins against Cloud9 and G2. However, the problem is that Anubis is FURIA's permaban. In contrast, Complexity bans Mirage, which is not FURIA's strongest map.

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As for map picks, we can expect Complexity to choose Overpass, and FURIA might go for Nuke or Vertigo. It's more likely to be Nuke, where the Brazilian team defeated Legacy yesterday. There are several options for the decider, but Ancient appears to be the main choice.

Prediction

In the BLAST Premier: Fall American Showdown 2023 match between FURIA and Complexity, the Brazilian team appears to be the favorite. FURIA's main advantage lies in their ability to ban Complexity's primary pick, Anubis. Anubis was the key to Complexity's recent victories in ESL Pro League Season 18.

Furthermore, FURIA has more experienced players compared to their opponents. Towards the end of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive era, experience can play a crucial role, as teams are now focusing on training for Counter-Strike 2.

The winner of the BLAST Premier: Fall American Showdown 2023 will advance to the BLAST Premier: Fall Final 2023, which will take place in Copenhagen and will have a prize pool of $425,000. Ninjas in Pyjamas, Heroic, Natus Vincere, Vitality, FaZe and Astralis.   have already secured their participation.

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