BLAST Premier Spring Showdown betting tips – Tuesday, April 13

After going two for two with our Counter-Strike betting predictions for Thursday, Esportbet returns with another set of CS:GO tips for Tuesday’s BLAST Premier: Spring Showdown 2021 bouts. Here are our best bets and top odds for Astralis vs OG, Endpoint vs G2 Esports, and Dignitas vs Team Liquid.

Astralis enter this tournament off a disastrous run at ESL Pro League Season 13, where they lost against Gambit Esports (0-2) and FURIA (0-2) to finish in fifth-sixth place. It marked Astralis’ third consecutive tournament of the year where they finished outside of the top four, after running seventh-ninth at BLAST Premier: Spring Groups 2021 and fifth-sixth at IEM Katowice.

OG were even less convincing at the ESL Pro League, where they crashed out of the group stage and ended in 13th-16th place. Their only notable tournament placement of the year so far came in February when they won a SteelSeries Invitational Showmatch, which is not exactly something to write home about.

OG recently decided to freshen up their roster by signing Shahar “flameZ” Shushan as a replacement for Issa “ISSAA” Murad. It remains to be seen how much of an impact he will have, but he will definitely add some much-needed firepower to this team.

Astralis haven’t been playing like themselves of late, so you have to believe OG can cause some damage despite their own lack of form. A win for the underdogs is not entirely unlikely, but we are satisfied with the betting odds on OG with a +1.5 map handicap.

We would have considered taking a shot on Endpoint had this match been played a few weeks back, but the departure of flameZ to OG makes the British squad look far less appealing. Not only was the 17-year-old one of their best players, Endpoint have yet to announce a replacement and so may have to field their coach, Ross “RossR” Rooney, for this bout.

We aren’t too excited about teams that play with their coaches, and we don’t believe RossR will improve Endpoint’s chances to cause an upset here. He wasn’t exactly a top-tier player during his career, so it’s highly unlikely he will bring much to the table as a stand-in.

G2 Esports are just a better team overall, and while they have been very hit-or-miss for the past month, their star-studded roster should have no issues against opponents like Endpoint.

We don’t need to analyse this match too much to establish that Team Liquid are a better team than Dignitas – the latest CS:GO betting odds do that job for us.

Team Liquid enter this match off a somewhat disappointing ninth-12th place finish in the ESL Pro League, where they looked very good during the group stage (4-1) but fell short against G2 (1-2) in the first round of playoffs. On the other side, Dignitas haven’t attended a single high-profile tournament since cs_summit 7 in January and haven’t faced any tough opponents since the Snow Sweet Snow #3 playoffs, where they lost to Evil Geniuses (1-2).

Dignitas are nothing more than a mediocre second-tier team, whereas Liquid are no.5 in the global CS:GO rankings. Anything less than a 2-0 sweep would be a massive disappointment for the North American side.