Maç Tahmini: Bad News Kangaroos - ENCE | CS2 (CS:GO)

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After a short break at ESL Pro League Season 19, the group stage matches of May's big championship continue. We continue our review of Group C, where today will determine the teams that will be the first to leave the race.

Among the contenders for this unpleasant fate are Bad News Kangooros and Ence. And if to see BNK in such a position is not a surprise, but we would not like to say goodbye to Ence at such an early stage.

We are trying to figure out how this match will end and who will be stronger.

Let's go.

ENCE uniforms

Let's open the match analysis with an analysis of ENCE's form. In this match they will play as favourites with odds to win at 1.1.

Last season the team finished top-3 at CCT Central Europe Malta Vibes, top-4 at ESL Pro League Season 17, and also reached top-8 European RMR B - qualifying event for BLAST.tv Paris Major 2023. ENCE also played at the Major, but it was TOP-14, which is hardly a worthy result.

IEM Dallas 2023 turned out to be much more pleasant. ENCE looked quite cheerful throughout the event, which allowed them to defeat MOUZ in the grand finals with a score of 2-0. Just before IEM Cologne 2023 ESL Challenger Katowice was played, where in the grand final they had to defeat Vp with 1-2 score.

• ENCE roster: dycha, gla1ve, Goofy, Kylar, hades.

ENCE have been playing in a stable roster for almost half a year. SunPayus and NertZ, who have a KDA of 1.12, are the headliners of the roster.

Thanks to their victory at IEM Dallas 2023 ENCE started Cologne from the group stage. The first opponent was the Poles from 9INE, who gave the Finns serious problems, but lost with a score of 1-2 and a series of dops on the decisive map.

The next match was a match against Fnatic. ENCE won both maps, leaving Fnatic no special chances.

In the match for the Grand Final ENCE played against Heroic. Being an outsider, the Finns took a very good approach to the match and shut down the top 1 team in the world with a score of 2-1 in a tough Bo3.

Next up was a match against Vitality and as a result a passage to the Grand Final of IEM Cologne 2023. ENCE was not enough for the title, G2 Esports were stronger.

After an offensive Cologne 2023 ENCE started Gamers8 on a high note. They defeated Liquid 2-0 in the first match of the tournament.

In the semi-final match they played against Cloud9. Again, the Finns closed the series with a score of 2-0, leaving little chance for the Americans.

Later ENCE beat Heroic again, and dry, and in the grand final Gamers8 faced Vitality. Again, ENCE failed to take the title, Ledgeiv with a 1-2 score.

Played at ESL Pro League Season 18, where they managed to reach the semi-finals, but MOUZ intervened later. They played at the BLAST Premier: Fall Showdown, which they frankly failed. At the tournament, the Finns finished in the top 4, which is hardly a serious result, considering the level of the championship and the teams that played there.

ENCE also played at IEM Sydney 2023 - the first major tournament in CS2. There they managed to reach the play-offs of the championship, but in the first match of the main stage Ledge and FaZe Clan, who later became the champions of the tournament.

Later was CS Asia Championship 2023, where ENCE made it to the top 4. ENCE's record also includes Top 4 at Elisa Masters Espoo 2023 and Top 8 at BLAST Premier: World Final 2023. In 2024, they unsuccessfully tried to qualify for IEM Chengdu 2024, but failed in the qualifiers, falling out at the TOP-33/64 stage.

IEM Katowice 2024 ENCE started with an upset loss to BIG, but had a series of error-free matches: they defeated Astralis, MongolZ, Vitality (!) and G2 Esports (!), thus qualifying for the play-offs. They fell one game short of the quarter-finals of IEM Katowice 2024 against MOUZ.

Next was a performance at PGL Major Copenhagen 2024: European RMR B, where we finished in the top 8, which, however, was enough to qualify for the main tournament. Before the performance at the Major, we attended the qualifiers for Dallas 2024, where we failed - TOP-8.

Very difficult is the game at the PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024, where Ence has 1 win with 2 defeats. And as a result, 2 defeats smoothly turned into 3 and, as a result, the departure from PGL CS2 Copenhagen Major 2024.

After the failure at the first CS2 World Championship ENCE played at Skyesports Masters 2024, where Ledge beat OG and took the top 8.

They started ESL Pro League Season 19 with a 0-2 defeat to GL. And they lost with absolutely no chance.

ENCE Mapple

ENCE has two 100% maps. They are Nuke, already used at IEM Cologne 2023 with 9 wins in 9 matches, and Anubis with 5 matches and 0 losses.

Still playing Ancient (66% wins in 3 matches). Still playing Mirage (9 matches, 4 wins). Vertigo with 2 wins and 3 losses and Overpass (2 wins in 7 matches).

Bad News Kangaroos uniforms

We continue our match breakdown with an analysis of BNK's playing form. In this match they will play as a total outsider with win odds around 9.

Bad News Kangaroos is from that pool of teams that will play on EPL Seaso 19 just for the sake of being on the same server with the top teams. The Australian club can't boast of any achievements at all. All that can be noted is an appearance in EPL Season 19 through Challenger in Oceania.

• Bad News Kangaroos roster: BRACE, hazr, pz, damyo, ADDICT.

In addition to playing at ESL Challenger League Season 47 Oceania, where the Kangaroos took TOP 1, the team played at the local qualifiers for IEM Dallas, where Ledge and Rooster, and also played at Skyesports Grand Slam 2024, where they won 1 series with three matches. Quite a good showing at home The Game Expo 2024, where they took Top 1.

In the first match BNK played against MOUZ, an obvious 0-2.

Bad News Kangaroos Mappool

The best map for Bad News Kangaroos is Nuke. There the Aussies are 5 matches with 1 loss. But if we talk about the most frequent picks - Vertigo, where Kangaroos has 10 wins and 3 losses.

Mirage and Overpass have 50% wins each, with 6 matches on Mirage and 4 on Overpass, Inferno and Anubis are also in the pool, with 44 and 42 per cent wins.

Head-to-head history between ENCE and Bad News Kangaroos at ESL Pro League Season 19

This match should end with an easy win for ENCE, but there is no confidence in the Finnish club's Polish roster. After failing at PGL CS 2 Copenhagen Major 2024, ENCE are still unable to find their game and the first match of EPL S19 is just a confirmation of that. Seeing the odds for this match, I want to take a chance and take a bet on BNK, which I will do.

Bottom line: +1.5 on BNK.