On May 18, Team Vitality will hold a quarterfinal match at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. The team's opponent will be Into The Breach, for which this meeting will be the debut in the CS:GO Major playoffs. The match is scheduled to start at 20:00 EEST. In an exclusive comment for Cover.gg, Fedor KvaN Zakharov speculated on how this game might end.
Form
After arriving at the home major, Vitality match after match demonstrates how important it is for the team's players. Victory at the BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 will allow Dan apEX Madescler and Mathieu ZywOo Herbault to become icons of the French Counter-Strike scene. For another team member, Peter dupreeh Rasmussen, the theoretical championship can become the fifth. He will be the only athlete who managed to do it.
Remember that the playoffs will be in an arena filled with French fans. The fans will drive Vitality forward and charge them to victory.
For ITB, the situation is the opposite. For Thomas Thomas Utting's team, getting to the Major, and even more so, getting to the playoffs, is already an incredible holiday. Despite the victories over FaZe Clan, ENCE, and Fnatic, their level of play could have looked more convincing.
About 99% that this match will end the "Cinderella" story for the ITB team. The fact that they can make it to the Major stage in Paris is a miracle. It is obvious that in all indicators, they are inferior to the Vitality team.Fedor KvaN Zakharov
Maps selection
Having studied the statistics of teams on various maps, we found that Vitality outperforms the opponent in absolutely all locations except for Ancient, which it does not play and primarily bans. Winrate on other maps is 12-24% higher than in the apEX’s team. ITB prefers to ban Nuke, and their results in other locations are extremely unstable. Thus, we will not see Ancient and Nuke, and Vitality will play on the rest without problems. The British team will have a hard time.
KvaN’s prediction
Finally, nothing will put pressure on ITB, and they will try to play for their own pleasure in a relaxed way, but the level of the teams is too different. I think that in the best case, we will have two maps at 16:10, and in the worst case, Vitality will simply close two maps at 16:5.Fedor KvaN Zakharov
BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 takes place from May 8 to 21 in France. The teams are vying for a prize pool of $1.25 million. The champion will also receive slots at IEM Cologne 2023 and BLAST Premier: World Final 2023. You can follow the schedule and results of the major here.
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