mousesports vs. Cloud9, Preview & Prediction - Free 11/29 CS:GO

The prize of $25,000 and a ticket for the BLAST Fall Finals await the winner of the clash between mousesports and Cloud9 when they face on Sunday. mousesports is a favorite to win this Best of 3 encounter, but Cloud9 already made a couple of surprises at this tournament and anything can happen here.

mousesports Team Stats and Latest Results

mousesports qualified for the DreamHack Open Fall 2020 Closed Qualifier thanks to victories over AGF, x6tence, c0ntact, and Movistar Riders, but suffered an early elimination out of the main event after losing to Vitality and OG. They didn’t experience the best of times at the IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 Europe but are playing better at this tournament. mousesports defeated GODSENT and Heroic, despite losing the opening map in the latter game. mousesports won nine of the previous 16 matches.

During the last three months, mousesports was invincible on Vertigo (played twice) and played well on Train (62.5% win rate) and Nuke (61.1%), while they failed to impress on Dust2 (33.3%). mousesports assembled its squad in September 2020 and appeared on 61 maps with a record of 33 wins and 28 losses. The lineup is made of karrigan (0.94 rating), chrisJ (0.95), frozen (1.08), ropz (1.22), and Bymas (1.00).

Cloud9 Team Stats and Latest Results

Cloud9 was in a disastrous form of seven straight defeats but managed to end that run with a shocking 2-0 win over NiP and then with another surprise in a 2-1 victory over Complexity in the previous round of the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Showdown. Before those two wins, they didn’t play well at the ESL Pro League Season 12 North America and Flashpoint 2 and won only three maps in those seven losses. Cloud9 lost nine of the last 12 games.

In the previous three months, Cloud9 was above average onky Dust2 (60.0%), while they were winless on Train (played once) and disappointed on Nuke (16.7%) and Inferno (20.0%). Since November this year, Cloud9 is playing with a new lineup that appeared on just nine maps with a record of four wins and five losses. The team members are ALEX (0.92), woxic (1.08), es3tag (1.08), floppy (1.02), and mezii (1.13).

mousesports vs. Cloud9 H2H Record

These rivals have never met before.

mousesports vs. Cloud9 Betting Preview

After making a pair of surprises at this tournament, you should be pretty brave to bet against Cloud9, but I think their luck will run out in this one. Making three upsets at the same tournament in three days would be too much for them, even though mousesports is not very impressive of late. I am still going to back the favorites here, but in case you want to avoid betting on the winner, you can go with Over 2.5 maps. Four of mousesports’ last five games produced a maximum of three maps.

The Pick: mousesports to win (-143 @PINNACLE)