Eternal Fire vs. Apeks Preview & Prediction- Free 3/14 CS: GO

The opponents are expected to meet at the Playoffs round 1 of the Pinnacle Winter Series 3 tournament this Monday. This event features notable teams from Europe and is organized by Relog Media and GRID with a prize pool of $68,000. The playoff is played in a single-elimination bracket format with all matches taking the best-of-three series. The winner of this tournament will take $40,000 plus a spot at the LAN Sweet LAN 2022.

Eternal Fire Team Stats and Latest Results

Eternal Fire Team is ranked 30th in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 13 weeks. The Turkish team won 3 out of their 4 matches at the group stage of the Pinnacle Winter Series 3 tournament and advanced to the playoffs where they will meet Apek at round 1. Considering their performance in other previous tournaments, they finished 5-8th at the Elisa Invitational Winter 2021 and were awarded $4,000. At the same time, they finished 9-12th at the Pinnacle Winter Series 2 and 3rd place at the PGL Major Antwerp 2022 Europe RMR Open Qualifier 4. Over the last 3 months, they have attained a win rate of 63.3% and won 8 out of their last 10 matches.

Map win statistics in the last 3 months shows an impressive performance on Dust2 (75.0%), Nuke (75.0%), Overpass (75.0%), Inferno (64.3%), and Mirage (60.0%). On the flip-side, the team failed to impress on Vertigo (41.2%) and Ancient (0.0%). The team’s roster consists of XANTARES (1.28 player rating), woxic (1.13), Calyx (1.05), imoRR (1.09), and xfl0ud (1.13).

Apeks Team Stats and Latest Results

Apeks is ranked 32nd in the world ranking and has been among the top 30 teams for 3 weeks. The team won 3 and lost 1 match at the group stage of the ongoing Pinnacle Winter Series 3. They defeated ALTERNATE aTTaX (2:0), Tricked (2:1), and Wisla Krakow (2:0) but lost to MOUZ NXT with a score of 2:1. They finished 2nd at the Pinnacle Winter Series 1 and received $4,000. Considering their performance in the last 10 matches, the Norwegian team has won 5 matches and attained a win rate of 63.6% over the last 3 months.

Map statistics over the last 3 months show that their best-played cards consist of Overpass (77.8%), Mirage (76.9%), and Inferno (66.7%). They maintained an average performance on Ancient (50.0%) and Vertigo (50.0%) but failed to impress on Nuke (37.5%). The team’s roster consists of nawwk (1.06), chawzyyy (0.98), AcilioN (0.99), jkaem (1.20), and STYKO (1.04).

Eternal Fire vs. Apeks H2H Record

The rivals have crossed paths once. They met at the Pinnacle Winter Series 2 on February 18th, 2022 and Apeks won 2:1.

Eternal Fire vs. Apeks Betting Preview

This is an interesting matchup because both teams are eager to advance to the next stage and for that reason, will show their best performance. Apeks came close to winning the Pinnacle Winter Series 1 but were defeated by K23 (2:1) at the grand finals. Eternal Fire on the other hand is coming to this match on a 3-match win streak and aims to extend it to 4 consecutive wins. Apeks leads on 5 maps while Eternal Fire has an advantage on 2 maps. Therefore, we are predicting a win for Apeks but Eternal Fire will snatch 1 card.

The Pick: Apeks to win/ Over 2.5 maps.