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We continue our breakdown of the biggest Counter-Strike 2 tournament of the summer. Esports World Cup 2024 is gearing up with the Opening Stage, where 14 teams are battling for seeding in the later stages.
Among the contenders to advance to the play-offs are place and Spirit with MIBR. Both teams are aiming for the main stage, but they need to win.
We will try to figure out who from the pair Spirit - MIBR will win and qualify for the play-offs, and who will make it through the play-in.
Let's go.
Spirit uniforms
Let's open the Spirit vs MIBR match with an analysis of Spirit's form. In this match, the Dragons will play the number one with odds to win at around 1.1.
The 2023 season has been a busy one for Spirit. The Serbian club has played wherever they can, but they have failed to produce any significant results.
They started the previous season with an appearance at IEM Master Katowice 2023, where they finished in the top 12. Then there was the local CCT Central Europe Malta Finals 2023, where they finished in the top 6.
One of the biggest tournaments of the 2023 season for Spirit was ESL Pro League Season 17, where the Dragons finished in TOP-28. They tried to make it to the Major in Paris, but again all in vain.
From the middle and up to the end of the year Spirit played at local events of small calibre. And they were quite successful, it is worth mentioning: TOP-1 at CCT North Europe Series #6, TOP-2 at CCT Online Finals #2, victory at Dunav Party LAN and Thunderpick World Championship 2023: European Series #2.
- Team Spirit roster: chopper, zont1x, sh1ro, hally, baz.
At the end of the year, they won the BB Dacha. In 2024, BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2024 was the first major event of the Dragons. Spirit played frankly poorly there: they finished in the top 16 at their debut BLAST Championship, advancing to the Spring Showdown.
At IEM Katowice 2024 Spirit started their performance at the Play-In stage. There they beat Apeks 13-0 without a chance, and then confidently (except for 2 maps) beat MongolZ 2-0, thus qualifying for the group stage. The group stage was not a problem for Spirit either: after giving up only 1 map to NaVi, they easily made it to the play-offs by beating CoL and FaZe Clan 2-0. The IEM Katowice 2024 play-offs confirmed Spirit's dominance, as they easily shut down Falcons (2-0) and it was even easier against FaZe in the grand finals (3-0).
After the triumph at Katowice 2024, Spirit went to PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where they managed to reach the play-offs, but Ledge and FaZe Clan in the first round of the main stage. Spirit took the top 8.
Spirit had a kind of successful performance at BB Dacha, but a 0-3 loss to MOUZ in the grand finals spoilt the feeling a bit.
At IEM Dallas 2024 Team Spirit had a very easy time in the group stage, not giving up a single map in the B basket. But in the play-offs they failed, losing to Vitality with a score of 0-2 and leaving the tournament at the TOP-4 stage. However, they bounced back quickly, winning BLAST Premier: Spring Finals 2024.
Team Spirit Mapple
The best map of Team Spirit is Vertigo, where the Brazilians played 5 times and won in 3 maps. Next is Mirage, with 7 games and 4-3 stats.
The neutral choice for Team Spirit will be Nuke and Ancient. The Brazilians have 6 maps and 3-3 score on each.
The worst is Overpass (2-3) and Inferno (1-2).
MIBR Form.
We continue the analysis of the match MIBR - Spirit with the analysis of the Brazilians' form. Here they are a definite outsider with win odds around 5.
They started in 2023 with a performance at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice 2023. The Brazilians finished in the top 20. Then there were several qualifications, including IEM Rio Masters 2023. At the Rio itself, they finished Top 16, but before that they won several B-tier tournaments, including ESL Challenger Season 44: North America and CCT North America Series #4.
At the S-tier championships, as unlucky as they were. ESL Pro League Season 17 had a top-28 at ESL Pro League Season 17 and a top-8 at BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023: American RMR, which prevented them from qualifying for the only Major of the season.
- MIBR lineup: exit, brnz4m, insani, drop, saffee.
Prior to the ESL Pro League Season 18 mibr attended a number of other tournaments. ESL Challenger League Season 45, followed by Top 1 there. But at CCT North Europe Series #6, CCT Online Finals #2 and Gamers8 2023 the successes were more modest: TOP-5-8 and TOP-16 respectively.
In the first match of ESL Pro League Season 18, mibr faced MOUZ, the only match of the first round that didn't end in favour of the favourite, as the Brazilians managed to flick MOUZ 2-1.
In the match to qualify for the play-offs, Mibr met ENCE. Despite the different weight classes, the Brazilian five gave ENCE serious competition: two matches ended on dopas (18-22 on Vertigo in favour of ENCE and 19-17 on Anubis), but on Ancient the Brazilians were edged 11-16, thus falling to the lower net.
In the previous match, MIBR played against Ukrainian club Monte. Not without problems, but MIBR closed the series with the score 2-1 in their favour. However, they failed to move further and as a result - TOP-20.
In the season 2024 MIBR did not have the stars in the sky. The team failed the American RMR and held a series of very unproductive tournaments. They finished in the top 6 at BB Dacha, ESL Challengers 47 SA, ESL Challengers at DreamHack 2024. It was worse at CCT Season 1 Global Finals and CCT Season 2 South America, with a top-12.
MIBR Mapppool
The mibr has a pretty narrow pool of cards. Among the most popular are Mirage and Nuke (2 matches and 50% wins on each).
Next is Anubis (5 matches, 2 wins). Among the worst are Inferno and Ancient (3 matches each and 1 win).
History of head-to-head meetings between MIBR and Spirit
Spirit have not lost to MIBR in the history of head-to-head meetings since 2021.
Predicted result of Spirit vs MIBR at Esports World Cup 2024
For me, this is one of the most obvious matches in the first round of Esports World Cup 2024. Spirit are a few goals up and should have no problem closing out the series with a 2-0 score.
Bottom line: 2-0 win for the Spirit.
