DFSGhost 
CS:GO Slate Summary: BLAST/LOOT (7:15am EST)
- 4 games on DK
- Best of 3 series
CS:GO SlateOverview
CS:GO Game#1: SKADE (+100) vs PACT (-138)
The first series in the BLAST/LOOT slate features two teams that we rarely see on CS:GO slates, SKADE and PACT. Should this series have taken place 3 months ago, it would’ve been a much tighter contest, but with SKADE dropping series left and right in the past month, I’ll take PACT in the “series of unknowns”; PACT has been in better form over the past month and has a better track record in the win/loss column, while SKADE features two new players, Duplicate and Oxygen, in replacement of Rock1nG and rafftu in their starting lineup. SKADE bans Vertigo at a 95% rate while PACT bans Mirage at a 48% clip, so it’s unlikely that we see those two maps in the series. PACT then has SKADE outmatched on all five of the remaining maps and could be an interesting stack given people’s bias to more familiar names listed below.
Top Plays: Goofy($7,000), darko ($7,800), Sobol ($8,600)
CS:GO Game#2: Nemiga (-350) vs Apeks (+250)
The second game of the CS:GO slate features one of my favorite targets, Nemiga. They have been on a tear in the last 3 weeks, climbing their way into the top 30 teams in the world at #27. Nemiga and Apeks both typically ban Train as their first map, but the second ban prediction remains unknown; either way, Nemiga outpaces Apeks on every map and are ridiculously priced on DK, making for great, cheap captain options and another underowned stack I’ll be targeting in my GPP lineups. Specifically, lollipop21k is underappreciated, boasting a 1.24 K/D over the past 3 months and a 1.34 K/D over the past month. He also has an extremely high kill share, sitting at 0.82 kills per round; he’s without a doubt my favorite play on the entire slate when you consider both skill and price.
Top Plays: lollipop21k($7,200), speed4k ($7,200), box ($6,600)
CS:GO Game #3:G2 (-138) vs Team Vitality (+100)
Getting into more familiar territory, G2 faces Team Vitality in the third game of the CS:GO slsate. G2 rolled through DreamHack with a 2-1 record in the round robin stage and followed that up with back to back wins to get to the finals, only to lose to BIG in 4 maps despite starting the series with a 1-0 lead. G2 will likely ban Overpass, which they do at an 85% rate, whereas Vitality will ban Train, which they do at a 100% rate. Of the five maps remaining, they can all really go either way – the last time these two teams played at the Road to Rio, all 3 maps went to 30 games, with Vitality winning 16-14 on Vertigo and G2 winning 16-14 on Nuke and Dust2 to consequently win the series 2-1. In what should be a great series, I definitely want ZywOo in my lineups, but will have a few 2-man G2 stacks just in case.
Top Plays:ZywOo ($9,000)
Top Plays:kennyS ($7,400) or huNter- ($7,400) paired with nexa ($7,400)
CS:GO Game#4: FaZe (-120 PK) vs Ence (-120 PK)
Although Ence seems to be in great form having won 4 in their last 6 and tying the other two series, I’ll side with FaZe to win this one. They’re the more talented team and Ence is just too inconsistent to trust, albeit they do make for an interesting stack in large field GPPs. I’ll mostly be targeting the bigger names here with better value plays from the previous series, most notably Nemiga and PACT. Both teams typically ban Vertigo first but the second ban is where things are unpredictable; I think FaZe will ban Train since it is Ence’s map preference, but FaZe are no slouch no Train either. I think we likely see Mirage and Dust2, with either Nuke or Inferno being left over. I like FaZe to win 2-1 but don’t count Ence out altogether in MME (mass multi-entry).
Top Plays: NiKo(8,800), coldzera ($7,000)
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