FaZe vs Fnatic Prediction: the Reigning Champions Struggle at the Start

On October 4, the qualification tournament series for the next CS:GO majors, IEM Rio 2022, began. Intel Extreme Masters Road to Rio 2022: European RMR B is a qualification tournament for the upcoming second major CS:GO eSports event, IEM Rio 2022. European qualification is divided into two groups - A and B, in which 16 teams from Europe and the CIS will fight for eight seats in the main tournament of the year's second half. The contest has no prize fund. Only in each of the two groups, the eight strongest teams will receive a ticket to the major in Rio de Janeiro. A lot of exciting matches and games of the highest level. All this awaits CS:GO fans in the coming days.

On Wednesday, October 5, the series of qualifying tournaments for the next CS:GO major, IEM Rio 2022, will continue. As part of the European RMR qualification of Group A, in the second round, teams FaZe and Fnatic will fight.

Yesterday FaZe's opening match at this RMR against GamerLegion (28:25) was a real sensation, because no one expected that the reigning major champion and contender for the gold bars will be given a real fight. Meanwhile, GamerLegion had a lot of match points, which experienced FaZe players did not let their opponents to realize. Judging by the summer games FaZe, the team-favorite is not in the best shape, if they were so stressed by the newcomers team GamerLegion, then what can be said about the ambitious and skilful players Fnatic?

Let me repeat: after the vacation FaZe is not without problems. First, problems arose at the BLAST Premier: Fall Groups 2022, where the strongest team in the world lost to Heroic and OG, but most importantly, karrigan and his star team made it to the final part of the BLAST Premier. Next FaZe played in the ESL Pro League Season 16 tournament, where the guys might not even make it out of the group, suddenly losing to G2 with almost no chance. In the EPL playoffs FaZe team lost to Cloud9 (1:2) and dropped out of the tournament, now only the majors are left, if the team still wants to get their hands on the gold bullion.

The renewed roster of this team is a pleasant surprise. The new Fnatic roster took part in the open qualifications and got to this RMR at the second attempt, plus Fnatic took part in the ESL Pro League Season 16 tournament, where they performed decently.

Fnatic at the EPL played in Group A, which included: Team Vitality (future champions), Natus Vincere, Ninjas in Pyjamas, Team Spirit and not at all gifted Endpoint. In this composition of participants, the team Fnatic took second place, but after more than three weeks in the playoffs failed to show class, the Scandinavians lost to their opponents from Team Liquid (1:2).

On the first match day of this RMR team Fnatic played against Aurora Gaming and on their Overpass map destroyed their opponent 16:4. Every Fnatic player in his interviews underlines how important to them this entry to the major and today from this squad we expect a strong and serious resistance in the battle with FaZe.

For this match, we offer the following options: W2, TU (26.5), and H2 (+2.5).