Prédiction de match: Complexity Gaming - Apeks {{CS2 (CS:GO)

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We have reached the end of the first game day in Group A at IEM Katowice 2024. Let me remind you that at the biggest tournament in February 2024, 16 teams are playing in groups, among which 8 are in the basket A.

Among the contenders to get out of Group A of IEM Katowice 2024 are Complexity and Apeks. However, first we need to get through to the next round of the groupstage.

Let's try to find out who from the pair Complexity - Apeks will be stronger in the opening bo3. The winner of Apeks - CoL match will play against the winner of NaVi - Spirit.

Let's go.

CoL Form

Let's open the match analysis with the analysis of the American club's form. Complexity play here as the number one, with odds to win around 1.7. The gap is minimal.

Complexity results

At top tournaments, including Blast Paris Major 2023, CoL has been on the back foot. The team finished in the top 21-28 at EPL S17, while at Major e it was top 20.

CoL started playing a little better in the second half of the year. They were already top six at BLAST Premier: Spring Final 2023.

• Complexity's lineup: EliGe, JT, floppy, hallzerk, Grim.

CoL's "newcomer" was EliGE. The North American CSGO legend joined CoL a month ago, but has already managed to become the leader of the team in KDA with 1.10 rating.

Complexity played at IEM Masters Cologne 2023, where they finished early. CoL crashed out at the Long Cogner Play-In, losing to OG and finishing in the top 24.

CoL partially overcame their failure by winning the local Thunderpick World Championship 2023: North America Series #2. They defeated Nouns in the grand finals.

In the first match at the EPL S18 Complexity faced 9INE. The Poles put up a good fight, but couldn't pull out a win - the result was 2-1 in favour of CoL.

In the match to come here Complexity surprised, perhaps, everyone. They ran over Cloud9 with an ice rink, closing the series 2-0 in their favour.

They didn't manage to play long in the play-offs. CoL went straight to the second round of the main stage, but there they lost to Monte with a 1-2 score, finishing in the top-12.

Before the IEM Sydney 2023 Long Convergence, Monte fuelled themselves with a win on American Blast. They defeated Team Liquid 2-0 in the grand final of the qualifier, thus earning themselves a place at the autumn finals.

In the first round of IEM Sydney 2023 CoL played against Monte. Ukrainian club gave a fight, but the forces were enough only for 9 rounds.

Next, the Americans met with the "samurai" from G2 Esports. They gave a fight, but it was not enough: as a result, G2 closed the series with a score of 2-0, giving the Americans a total of 14 rounds.

After the defeat from G2 in the group stage, Complexity seemed to go off the chain: the club started to gain momentum and go head-to-head: first 2-1 against Cloud9, then a confident 2-0 against Monte, and then - play-offs. In the main stage of IEM Sydney 2023 CoL ran over BB Team (2-0) in the first round, and in the semi-finals they avenged their group loss to G2 Esports by knocking M0nesy and company out of the tournament with a 2-0 win.

After a top performance at IEM Sydney 2023, CoL travelled to play Thunderpick World Championship 2023. There the result was more modest - now top 9 with a 1-2 loss to MOUZ.

At BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 Complexity were placed in Group A, where they played two matches. In the first, they beat Astralis 2-0, followed by Ledge and Vitality (1-2) in the play-offs seeding match.

In the first round of play-offs Complexity played against Natus Vincere. The match ended in favour of the Americans, although the game was close (2-1).

CoL finished their way through BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 in the second round of the play-offs, and fell out after a meeting with FaZe. As a result, CoL finished in the top 4 at BLAST Premier: Fall Finals 2023 and lost their chance to play at the World Final.

Next up was Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 and ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023. At the former CoL finished in the top 8, and at the latter they finished in the top 6.

The 2024 season started with a victory at the American PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: North American Qualifier, but then - failure. It happened at the BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2024 tournament, where the Americans finished in the top 16.

Complexity Mappool

Complexity's map roll is pretty sad. The most successful map is Overpass with 5 wins in 9 matches.

They can also play Nuke, Ancient and Anubis. But they have 33% wins each, with a very poor record of 6 and 3 maps respectively.

Apeks uniforms

The 2023 season has been very productive for Apeks, but the team's performance remains questionable. Over a dozen tournaments have been played, but the high-profile results can be listed on the fingers of one hand.

They started the season with a top-16 finish at CCT South Europe Season 2. Next was the nightmarish Elisa Invitational Winter 2023 with a top-20 and then a top-4 CCT West Euroe Series #1.

In the middle of the year, Apeks took Top 2 at CCT West Europe Series #2 and Top 8 at BB Playlist. Urbanistic and Brazy Party. However, it was much more important to make it to the TOP-6 at European RMR A and to get to BLAST.tv Paris Major.

Paris Major itself became Apeks' moment of glory. Being a clear Underpassdog, Apeks managed to surprise the audience and make it to the top 4, where they were defeated by the future champions from Vitality.

Before the Long Convergence Gamers8, the team took part in IEM Cologne 2023, where they finished in the Top 20, CCT Online Finals #2, with Top 12 and Top 16 at ThunderPick World Championship 2023: European Series #1. The results are frankly so-so, but it doesn't get much better than that in the rivalry.

• Gamers8 lineup: nawwk, jkaem, kyxsan, sense, CacaNito.

After the extremely successful BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023 Apeks changed their line-up. The 13th team of the world was completed by Macedonian CacaNito, who replaced in the roster headliner jL, who moved to NaVi.

After the roster shake-up, Apeks continued to perform at all sorts of tournaments. Their portfolio includes appearances at Gamers8 (TOP-16), CCT North Europe Series #7 (TOP-16), absolutely failed EPL Season 18 (TOP-28), CCT East Europe Series #2 (TOP-4).

Just before Roobet Cup 2023 Apeks took part in ESL Challenger At DreamHack Winter 2023: Europe Qualifier and IEM Sydney 2023. At the qualifier event they took TOP-6, but in Sydney they reached TOP-12.

At the Roobet Cup 2023 Apeks got into Group C, where they were opposed by BIG, 9INE and Astralis. The quartet, to put it bluntly, was not the easiest, nevertheless Apeks managed to reach the play-offs from the second place, losing only to BIG at the beginning of the group stage. However, having started in a good way, they finished in a bad way: the final place - TOP 8, which is not bad in principle, but obviously could be better.

At Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 Apeks won Group B quite unexpectedly. Considering the fact that MOUZ and Complexity are there, it is a very decent result, and Apeks clearly aimed for a high place in this tournament. And they got it. At the end of Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 Apeks took the top 2, Ledgeiv in the grand finals of FURIA.

In the first round of ESL Challenger Season 46, the team defeated a mix of Team Space. They won rather easily, with scores of 13-6 and 13-7 respectively. At the end of the tournament, Apeks finished in the top 4 and then went on to finish in the top 2 of ESL Challenger at DreamHack Atlanta 2023.

Apeks Long Cogged IEM Katowice with a 0-13 defeat against Team Spirit. They managed to stay afloat after defeating Furia in the match for life (2-1). And then came the victory in the match against BIG (2-1), which can be called a kind of sensation. Thus Apeks entered the group stage.

Apeks map pool

Apeks has an extensive map pool. The most frequent map is Inferno (12 maps, 83% wins).

Mirage (63% wins with 11 matches), Anubis (62% wins, 8 matches), Ancient (46% wins, 13 matches).

Among the worst are Overpass and Vertigo. They have 37% winrate with 13 cards each.

Nuke is not playing.

History of head-to-head meetings between Apeks and Complexity

Previously the teams have not played each other in official matches. This match is the debut match between CoL and Apeks.

Predicted result of the match CoL - Apeks at IEM Katowice 2024

In this match I expect a close game. Apeks have already proved themselves at iEM Katowice 2024 and I think they won't give up the series for nothing, especially after a hard-fought win over BIG. I think they will take at least a card, and then we'll see.

Bottom line: +1.5 on Apeks.