Vitality vs. mousesports, Preview & Prediction - Free 12/8 CS:GO

Vitality is a favorite in this Best of 3 encounter when they take on mousesports in the Upper bracket quarter-final of the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Finals on Tuesday. The winner of this duel will meet a better side from a clash between Natus Vincere and Astralis, while the loser will go down to the Lower bracket.

Vitality Team Stats and Latest Results

The No. 1 team in the CS:GO tour are back after a two-week break and the title they won at the IEM Beijing-Haidian 2020 Europe thanks to the victory over Natus Vincere in the Grand final. The French team earned $60,000 with a ticket for the IEM Global Challenge 2020, while they qualified for this tournament through the BLAST Premier Fall Series 2020 and wins over BIG (twice) and Complexity. Vitality won 13 of the previous 15 matches.

During the last three months, Vitality displayed strong performances on Overpass (87.5% win rate), Dust2 (72.7%) and Inferno (72.7%), while they were below average only on Nuke (42.9%). Vitality is playing with the current lineup since September this year and appeared on 50 maps with a record of 31 wins and 19 losses. The team members are shox (1.04 rating), RpK (0.98), apex (1.02), ZywOo (1.27), and misutaaa (1.00).

mousesports Team Stats and Latest Results

mousesports qualified for the BLAST Premier Fall 2020 Finals thanks to victories over GODSENT, Heroic, and Cloud9, while they also earned $25,000 for their efforts. They continued with a fine form at the DreamHack Masters Winter 2020 Europe where they defeated Liquid, Cloud9, and GODSENT twice to reach the Grand final, but Astralis proved to be too strong and secured a 3-1 victory. Still, mousesports made $30,000 for 2nd place. mousesports won eight of the last 11 games.

In the previous three months, mousesports was decent on Vertigo (75.0%) and Inferno (72.2%), while they didn’t impress on Dust2 (33.3%). mousesports also assembled its squad in September 2020 and appeared on 72 maps with a record of 40 wins and 32 losses. The lineup is made of karrigan (0.94), chrisJ (0.95), frozen (1.09), ropz (1.22), and Bymas (1.02).

Vitality vs. mousesports H2H Record

These rivals have met on six occasions before, and Vitality leads the all-time series 5-1. They were on a four-game winning streak before mousesports snapped it at the ESL Pro League Season 12 Europe in September, but Vitality bounced back with a win at the DreamHack Open Fall 2020 a month later.

Vitality vs. mousesports Betting Preview

Even though I am impressed with mousesports’ form of late, I cannot play against the best team in CS:GO at the moment. mousesports struggled against the teams that are higher ranked, and I think that is going to be the case in this one as well. They do have the quality to cause problems to Vitality, but I believe they cannot get more than a map, which is enough for the Over/Under backers to try with Over 2.5 maps. I am going with Vitality to win, though.

The Pick: Vitality to win (-139 @PINNACLE)