DFSGhost 
CS:GO Slate Summary: BLAST (10:30am EST)
- 3 games on DK
- Best of 3 series
CS:GO SlateOverview
CS:GO Game#1: Complexity (+125) vs FaZe (-175)
The first game of the CS:GO slate will make-or-break a lot of lineups in our contests tomorrow. Complexity is coming off an impressive win versus NAVI and have won 4 of their last 5, while FaZe is coming off a dominant victory versus Vitality and have also won 4 of their last 5. Complexity bans Overpass at a 56% rate while FaZe bans Vertigo 73% of the time, so we can likely scratch those two maps out of consideration. I can see Complexity turning to Nuke for their map pick, where they have a 73% win rate compared to FaZe’s 53% and they select it first 27% of the time. FaZe will likely counter by selecting either Mirage or Dust2, two maps that Complexity has good winning percentages on as well; the third map leftover is likely to be whichever of Dust2 and Mirage is not picked by FaZe. This series will be tightly contested and has two interesting plays in blameF and NiKo, who will both go severely overlooked on the slate with the majority of people paying up for ZywOo and s1mple.
Top Plays(COM): blameF ($8,400), k0nfig ($7,200)
Top Plays(FaZe): NiKo ($8,800), broky ($7,400)
CS:GO Game#2: Natus Vincere (-150) vs Team Vitality (+110)
After winning both of their respective series yesterday, NAVI faces off versus Vitality, also known as the battle between the two best CS:GO players in the world, s1mple and ZywOo. Vitality refuses to play on Train, which they ban at a 100% rate, and NAVI hates playing on Vertigo, banning it at a 93% rate, so it’s unlikely we see those two maps. I expect Vitality to turn to Nuke with their map pick, which they select first at a 35% rate and post a 50% winning percentage, but NAVI is no slouch on Nuke, carrying a 64% win rate themselves; they’ll likely counter by selecting their favorite map, Dust2, which they select first at a 60% rate and have a 53% winning percentage, although Vitality is solid there as well with their 47% win rate. I expect the third map leftover to be Overpass. Ultimately, I want ZywOo is my lineups like every other CS:GO slate, but I think NAVI takes the series and will be the players I target the most.
Top Plays: s1mple($9,200), electronic ($8,000), Perfecto ($5,800)
One-Off:ZywOo ($9,000), shox ($6,600)
CS:GO Game#3: FURIA (TBD) vs Evil Geniuses (TBD)
After losing 2-1 versus MiBR yesterday, EG moves on to face off versus FURIA in the last game of the CS:GO slate. FURIA bans Dust2 at a 100% rate while EG bans Overpass 46% of the time, so it’s unlikely that we see those two maps, although it wouldn’t surprise me to see EG ban FURIA’s map of choice, Vertigo. Afterward, it’s really tough to predict which maps will be played on; if Vertigo is banned, I expect FURIA to turn to Mirage, whereas EG will likely select Nuke or Inferno as their map, leaving Train as the third map leftover, albeit it was banned in their previous meeting against one another, so anything is possible here after the first round of bans. Ultimately, without the map predictions being as clear as I’d like them to be, I’ll have shares of both sides, but I favor FURIA in single entry contests.
Top Plays(FURIA): HEN1 ($7,600), yuurih ($7,400), arT ($6,200)
Top Plays(EG): CeRq ($7,000)
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