mousesports vs. Heroic, Preview & Prediction - Free 1/26 CS:GO

We don’t have a clear favorite in this Best of 3 encounter when mousesports faces Heroic in the Group B winners' match of the cs_summit 7 on Tuesday. The winning team will progress to the playoffs and will not have to play another game, while the losing side will have to beat MIBR or FaZe in order to secure a playoff spot.

mousesports Team Stats and Latest Results

mousesports was rather successful in late 2020 as they won the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Showdown and earned $25,000, while they finished in 2nd place at the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020 Europe. They faced Astralis in the Grand Final, but the Danish team proved to be too strong, so mousesports settled with $30,000. They closed the last year with a couple of losses to Vitality and Astralis at the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Finals. In the opening game of the cs_summit 7, mousesports didn’t have problems with FaZe and secured an easy win, allowing just ten rounds in the process. mousesports won nine of the previous 14 matches.

In the last three months, mousesports were excellent on Train (80.0% win rate) and Inferno (72.7%), while they failed to impress on Nuke (33.3%) and Vertigo (33.3%). mousesports entered 2021 with a new lineup that won both maps they appeared on. The team members are karrigan (0.92 rating), frozen (1.15), acoR (1.18), ropz (1.17), and Bymas (1.07).

Heroic Team Stats and Latest Results

Heroic is a better-ranked team in the CS:GO at the moment, but they weren’t successful as mousesports in the final weeks of 2020. Actually, the Danish team is without a title in the previous three months, while their last tournament was the IEM Global Challenge 2020, where they suffered a pair of defeats to Liquid and FURIA. However, Heroic opened this tournament with an easy 2-0 victory over MIBR. Heroic won nine of the last 16 games.

When it comes to the maps in the previous three months, Heroic was decent on Nuke (70.0%), Mirage (66.7%), and Vertigo (66.7%), while they didn’t play well on Train (40.0%). Heroic assembled its current squad in October 2020 and appeared on 41 maps with a record of 23 wins and 18 losses. The lineup consists of cadiaN (1.09), b0RUP (0.95), niko (1.03), stavn (1.13), and TeSeS (1.13).

mousesports vs. Heroic H2H Record

These rivals have met on two occasions before and the series is tied at 1-1. mousesports won the most recent H2H clash at the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Showdown in November 2020 when they came from behind to get a win.

mousesports vs. Heroic Betting Preview

It’s going to be a tight duel that could go either way, and the odds suggest that as well. In situations like this, I usually avoid betting on the winner and I will stick to my principles, and that’s why I am going with Over 2.5 maps. My advice is – when you cannot decide which team to back, you go with Over 2.5 maps. So far, it has proved to be quite a fruitful tactic for me.

The Pick: Over 2.5 Maps (-107 @GG.BET)