Preview of cs_summit 5

General information

As usually, cs_summit 5 will be happening in a country house Summit House in Los Angeles. Beyond The Summit is managing the organization of the event. This company is known for its informal championships. The main prize pool will consist of $150,000, and there is no information about the division of the money. Six invited teams are going to fight for the championship title at cs_summit 5: FURIA Esports, G2 Esports, MIBR, mousesports, OG, and Virtus.pro.

Favorites

mousesports (position in the HLTV rating — #5)
Win odds: 2.40

mousesports is the main contender of winning the upcoming tournament. The reason is their excellent gaming shape. At the last ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals, the Europeans showed their determined game and didn't give up where other teams could just turn face to the wall. Just take a look at their epic comeback with the score 14-8 at the semifinal game against Astralis on the last map. This team has everything to be a successful CS:GO roster: an accurate sniper, a captain with unusual strategies and good players with high individual indicators. Despite the mentioned information, we think that mousesports is likely to take 2 or 3-4 place, as after the difficult tournament and two won lans, the team can let themselves relax while the other team G2 will get their title of the champions of the fifth cs_summit. That was told by the player in their interview. They said that EPICENTER 2019 is of higher priority for them than cs_summit. The esportsmen would not refuse to win the fifth cs_summit, but it is not so important as the triumph at EPICENTER 2019. Yesterday mousesports told that woxic had failed to get a visa to the USA so he would be substituted by NaToSaphiX, the Danish espotrsman, who is currently a free agent. This substitute is unlikely to affect the team's performance positively.

mousesports and rating of the players:

Chris ‘chrisJ’ de Jong — 1.01
Robin ‘ropz’ Kool — 1.22
Finn ‘karrigan’ Andersen — 0.96
Özgür ‘woxic’ Eker — 1.16
David ‘frozen’ Čerňanský — 1.15
Allan ‘Rejin’ Petersen — coach

G2 Esports (position in the HLTV rating — #14)
Win odds: 4.85

Even though G2 showed not the best result at the recent ESL Pro League Season 10 Finals, there are a couple of moments that would be good to be marked. Before the Europeans got to the lower bracket, they gave Astralis a fight which could be difficult to forget for the Danish. On the first map, the game was ended up with the score of 16-13 for G2, and the second one was finished in the series of additional rounds with the result 19-15 for Astralis. On the last map, G2 also gave a difficult fight and won 14 rounds getting a loss being one step away from the victory. Taking into account Astralis' level, the performance from G2 deserves attention and praise. The experts from sportsbooks put G2 in second place considering their chances to win and we agree with them. huNter- and the team look like one of the favorites of the win. The main obstacles for G2 are mousesports but they will not prioritize cs_summit 5, which could not be said about G2 Esports.

G2 Esports roster and rating of the players:

Kenny ‘kennyS’ Shrub — 1.08
Audric ‘JaCkz’ Jug — 1.00
François ‘AmaNEk’ Delaunay — 0.99
Nemanja ‘nexa’ Isaković — 1.04
Nemanja ‘huNter-’ Kovač — 1.12
Damien ‘maLeK’ Marcel — coach

Other participants

MIBR (position in the HLTV rating — #11)
Win odds: 5.00

At the last LAN tournament MIBR were participating in, the Brazilians showed a bad performance and after the team left the competition, it was clear that there should be some changes. LUCAS1 played poorly at the matches of EPL #10 Finals and he will get replaced by meyern according to the known information. Should we say that the team that hasn't achieved good teamwork will show worse results in comparison with the teams where players have been working together for some time? This fact is enough to treat MIBR's triumph at cs_summit 5 skeptically. We think that MIBR will make it out of the group and take 3-4 place in the tournament bracket.

MIBR roster and rating of the players:

Gabriel ‘FalleN’ Toledo — 1.05
Fernando ‘fer’ Alvarenga — 1.11
Epitácio ‘TACO’ de Melo — 0.99
Vito ‘kNgV-’ Giuseppe — 1.07
Lucas ‘LUCAS1’ Teles — 1.04
Wilton ‘zews’ Prado — coach

FURIA Esports (position in the HLTV rating — #13)
Win odds: 6.25

In the middle of 2019, FURIA impressed with their results beating Astralis on their favourite map and being present at Five Best CS:GO Roster according to HLTV. Now everything has changed and the Brazilians play not so well as they used to. FURIA plays so poorly that they can't make it out of the group at such a tournament as DreamHack Open Winter 2019. At this tournament, in our opinion, the Brazilians are to have the same situation. We want to remind you that when FURIA had a chance to sell a player to MIBR, they didn't want it referring to the high morale of the team and the orientation on the results. At the beginning of the autumn, one of the esportsmen who was ableJ got benched and a couple of weeks later was sent to the Academy roster. Now the team is playing with HEN1, but now they show no good results. To our mind, FURIA is one of the outsiders so the players are likely to be one of the first teams to cease participation in the tournament.

FURIA Esports and rating of the players:

Yuri ‘yuurih’ Gomes — 1.08
Andrei ‘arT’ Piovezan — 1.04
Vinicius ‘VINI’ Figueiredo — 0.98
Kaike ‘KSCERATO’ Cerato — 1.19
Henrique ‘HEN1’ Teles — 1.15
Nicholas ‘guerri’ Nogueira — coach

Dark horse

OG (position in the HLTV rating — absent)
Win odds: 8.20

OG is an absolutely new tag on the CS:GO stage but it could not be said about each of the players representing OG. Representatives of the esports club tried to balance powers in the team adding both experienced players that have considerable achievements and those who did not exceed the Tier-3 level. We do not want and will not add OG to the outsiders' list. It will be quite interesting to see OG's debut at the international CS:GO tournament. The experts from sportsbooks' companies think that OG has a chance to win their first LAN championship and the players' odds equal 8.20. We should mark that NBK- knows how to win tournaments with a newly assembled team. We should remember DreamHack Atlanta 2018 and Vitality that had been collected just a month before. This event was their first LAN.

OG roster and rating of the players:

Nathan ‘NBK-’ Schmitt — 0.00
Aleksi ‘Aleksib’ Virolainen — 0.00
Valdemar ‘valde’ Bjørn — 0.75
Issa ‘ISSAA’ Murad — 0.00
Mateusz ‘mantuu’ Wilczewski — 1.39

Outsider

Virtus.pro (position in the HLTV rating — #26)
Win odds: 39.0

The Polish team could not show good results from the very beginning and it didn't matter how many replacements were done by the managers of the CS:GO roster as the team could not sparkle. VP's time was left in 2017, and now in the history of Virtus.pro, there is a bad situation. If we take a look at the history of matches and results at various events, we can notice that VP's position is not going to improve. The same idea was reached by the experts from sportsbook companies, who also treat Virtus.pro as outsiders, so the odds for VP's victory equal 39.0. The team is unlikely to make it out of the group and we are almost sure about it. Snax and his teammates will take 5-6 place.

Virtus.pro roster and rating of the players:

Michał ‘MICHU’ Müller — 1.12
Michał ‘snatchie’ Rudzki — 1.01
Janusz ‘Snax’ Pogorzelski — 0.97
Arkadiusz ‘Vegi’ Nawojski — 0.99
Tomasz ‘phr’ Wójcik — 0.95
Jakub ‘kuben’ Gurczyński — coach