by ESB brings you free Counter-Strike 2 betting tips for three bouts at CCT Online Finals #5 on Friday, December 1. Here are our picks for Guild Eagles vs VERTEX Esports Club, Sprout vs Anonymo Esports, and SAW vs Team Space, with esports odds courtesy of BetOnline.
GUILD EAGLES vs VERTEX ESPORTS CLUB CS2 BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | Guild -500 at BetOnline | VERTEX +334 at BetOnline |
| When: | December 1, 2023 | 11:30 CET |
| Watch Live: | Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/cct_cs) |
Guild Eagles (formerly Bad News Eagles) enter this tournament hoping to improve on their 9th-12th result at CCT Online Finals #4. Since then, they have attended A1 Gaming League Season 7, where they showed little and crashed out in the second round of the playoffs.
VERTEX Esports Club have established themselves as the second-best team from the Oceanic region since the transition to CS2, claiming silver medals at CCT Oceania Series #3 and #4 as well as ESL ANZ Champs Season 17. However, they have not played a European CS team since Intel Extreme Masters Sydney 2023 in October, when they lost 2-13 against MOUZ and 0-2 against Apeks.
VERTEX certainly lack the quality to compete for top spots, but they face a struggling team that has only looked good against lesser opponents. Given Guild Eagles’ shaky results, VERTEX can win at least one map.
VERTEZ Esports Club +1.5 maps
SPROUT vs ANONYMO ESPORTS CS2 BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | Sprout -156.25 at BetOnline | Anonymo +120 at BetOnline |
| When: | December 1, 2023 | 14:30 CET |
| Watch Live: | Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/cct_cs) |
Sprout finalised their Counter-Strike roster on Tuesday with the addition of Anton “Anlelele” Huynh from Espionage. However, while Antele is a solid signing, it’s unlikely that Sprout will manage to reach the same heights they did with Ihor “w0nderful” Zhdanov.
Since the departure of the Ukrainian AWPer to Natus Vincere, Sprout have not looked the same. That said, they are now on a four-game winning streak.
Meanwhile, Anonymo Esports enter CCT Online Finals #5 with just one victory over their last six games, including bouts against lesser teams such as Premitta Esports, Nemiga Gaming, and Rounds GG. Perhaps Anonymo didn’t care too much about the ESEA Season 47 Advanced Division Europe Regular Season, but that’s no excuse for losing those games.
Sprout to win
SAW vs TEAM SPACE CS2 BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | SAW -222.22 at BetOnline | Space +167 at BetOnline |
| When: | December 1, 2023 | 17:30 CET |
| Watch Live: | Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/cct_cs) |
Team Space are one of the leading candidates to crash out of CCT Online Finals #5 in the first round. SAW aren’t expected to make it far either, but the Portuguese squad is at least in good form.
After a long dry spell, Christopher “MUTiRiS” Fernandes and his crew won their first CS2 tournament, Master League Portugal Season 12, last week and added another gold medal from XL Games Clash 2023. Neither event featured top-tier teams, but at least SAW are winning games.
As the Counter-Strike betting odds suggest, SAW should defeat Team Space without any issues, and it’s tough to argue with that. While SAW looked shaky early in the CS2 era, they now look more than capable of sweeping Team Space.
