MOUZ vs Team Vitality Prediction: Team Vitality will have to find an approach to every MOUZ player

Prediction for the match between MOUZ and Team Vitality which will take place on August 13. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

MOUZ made it to the playoffs of IEM Cologne 2024. Statistics say that the Mice have been consistently reaching the final stages of tier-1 tournaments in CS2, and have been successful lately. The team won ESL Pro League Season 19 and BetBoom Dacha Belgrade 2024, and spent several weeks in the top-1 of HLTV. The organisation's academy has performed well, with graduates now consistently claiming the most important titles in CS2.

At IEM Cologne 2024 MOUZ faced Team Falcons (2:1) and Complexity (2:0). In the first series the siuhy team warmed up, lost one card due to silly mistakes, but did not submit the whole match. Complexity has historically been a convenient opponent for MOUZ. In general, MOUZ participation in the group stages is a priori considered convenient, the team has a very high winrate in these stages, and most often qualifies for the playoffs from the first place, regardless of the opponents. The team's class is confirmed by the numbers: the best realisation of the majority (85%), strong realisation of the defence (60%). However, in Cologne the Mice are not good at pistol rounds (30% in 10 rounds), and also fail to score extra points in the minority (25%). In previous matches, opponents did not punish MOUZ for weaknesses, but will Team Vitality punish them?

Last time siuhy and company defeated Bumblebees in the ESL Pro League Season 19 finals. At the time, it seemed like they were head-to-head stronger than the best team of 2023, and had opposition on ZywOo. But MOUZ was in ultimatum form in the spring, never losing to anyone. However, the team was well rested in the summer, played few official matches. The results in Cologne so far are excellent, but there is a little slippage in game moments. MOUZ will have a mental advantage in this meeting, but the mood alone will not be enough.

Team Vitality is also expected to finish in the top of Group B, although their path to the playoffs was much more difficult than MOUZ's. ZywOo first warmed up on FURIA Esports (2:0), and then played a very tight match with FaZe (2:1). At first it looked like the Bumblebees would go down to the bottom set, but on the second and third maps they came back and picked up a hard-earned win.

FaZe was able to hold off ZywOo, did not let the top-1 player of the world on the server to accelerate, but missed Spinx, flameZ and mezii. Team Vitality is dependent on their sniper, but if the opponent focuses all their attention on him, the rest of their teammates can make up for the firepower with their collective efforts. The Bumblebees have these two options in place, so they don't worry when their main star doesn't show crazy stats. In Cologne, Team Vitality has a great implementation of the attack side (73% of won rounds), wins 4x5 situations with an enviable advantage over the rest of the IEM Cologne 2024 participants (40%), as well as a quality implementation of grenades (27 damage per round and 0.32 kills after dazzles). Team Vitality has a 50% winrate in pistol rounds, as well as 60% on force fights after losing the first round.

Team Vitality has a lot of reasons to take the title in Cologne. Firstly, ZywOo and company had never won at LAN in Germany. She had a chance to lift the title in 2019, but that was when the Team Liquid era was underway and no one other than Liquid was winning tournaments. In 2023, the Bumblebees reached the semi-finals but lost to ENCE. Secondly, the organisation has yet to celebrate an event win this year, although they are consistently a step or two away from victory. Thirdly, and this is more to do with the meeting with MOUZ, the current rival was a major upset in the ESL Pro League Season 19 final, and this is the first opportunity to take revenge for the defeat in Malta. Fourthly, Team Vitality may drop out of the race for the Intel Grand Slam. Bumblebees do not need motivation, they want to get rid of the "mice" and start the playoffs with the semi-finals.

The ESL Pro League Season 19 Grand Final can be forgotten. Three months have passed since then, the teams have progressed and adjusted to different situations. Bookmakers consider Team Vitality to be the favourites, although MOUZ have already proved that they can shut down ZywOo and keep an eye on his teammates. Let's believe in the mice, because Team Vitality will have to find an approach to every MOUZ player.