DFSGhost 
CS:GO Slate Summary: BLAST (11:30am EST)
- 2 series on DK
- Best of 3
CS:GO Matchup #1: Team Vitality (-163) vs Complexity (+120)
The first matchup on the CS:GO slate sees two of the best teams in the world who recently just got stronger; Vitality got some much needed help for ZywOo by signing Nivera from Team Heretics, while Complexity made a huge splash with their signing of jks from 100 Thieves after the club folded; while it is unlikely we see Nivera here today, jks will slot in for Complexity, giving them the much needed boost to power their way to the #1 overall ranking. Complexity bans Overpass first at a 58% rate while Vitality bans Train first 96% of the time; neither map should be played here today. Although COM turned to Mirage with their first pick last time out, I think they go with Nuke with their selection this time out, carrying a 47% win-rate and 45% first-pick rate. To counter, Vitality will surely ride their favorite map, Dust2, where they hold a 77% win-rate and select it first 31% of the time. COM will surely want to avoid Inferno, leaving one of Mirage or Vertigo leftover as the potential third map. Although Vitality got the best of COM earlier this month, the addition of jks with his 1.16 K/D and 0.73 kills per round (KPR) to go along with blameF’s absurd 1.30 K/D and 0.75 KPR will be too much for Vitality’s supporting cast. ZywOo is one of, if not the best player in the world, so feel confident in locking him into the majority, if not all of your lineups here despite a predicted losing effort.
Top Plays: ZywOo ($9,400), blameF ($8,600), jks ($7,200), poizon ($5,600), konfig ($6,400)
Top Captains: ZywOo ($14,100), blameF ($12,900), jks ($10,800)
CS:GO Matchup #2: BIG (-350) vs FaZe (+250)
While both Vitality and Complexity made significant additions to their respective CS:GO rosters, the powerhouse that is FaZe just lost their most crucial player in NiKo and will be in tough versus the former #1 ranked team in the world, BIG. If we elimite the teams’ likeliest maps to be banned, Train and Vertigo, respectively, BIG holds the map advantages across the remaining five and should be able to sweep 2-0 here. Although XANTERES has been playing fairly well since BIG took home the DreamHack Open in the summer, his price is fairly steep when I want most of my exposure to blameF and ZywOo in the first matchup. This is still syrsoN’s team, and the team AWPer has the potential to break any slate; at $7,800, he is the premier target to get in this matchup, and although his 1.12 K/D and 0.70 KPR in the last three months are lower than his 6-month 1.18 K/D and 0.72 KPR, the matchup is simply too good to pass up.
Top Plays: syrsoN ($7,800), tabseN ($7,000), XANTERES ($9,000)
Top Captains: syrsoN ($11,700)
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