G2 vs NIP: NiKo vs device, who is stronger?

BLAST Premier: World Final 2021 is the last tournament in 2021 and will take place without a spectator in Copenhagen, Denmark, from December 14-19. The eight best teams in the world will compete for a prize pool of $1 million. The winner of the tournament will receive $500,000. NaVi and Gambit will represent the CIS region. Will we see the CIS final again? Will someone be able to stop the NaVi era? Who will be the dark horse of this event? We will find out the answers to all of these questions very soon.

On December 15, G2 and NIP will play their first match at BLAST Premier: World Final 2021. Who will be stronger and start their journey to the tournament with a win?

G2 have started to show very cool results lately. They’re currently rated 3rd in the top 3, and while NiKo didn’t win the Majors in the end, they’re looking to win other events such as IEM Winter 2021 and the BLAST Premier World Final 2021. The G2s need to finish the IEM Winter 2021, in which the French team has every chance of winning. After IEM, the BLAST Premier World Final 2021 awaits them in 3 days, and they will play NIP in the first leg. After this tournament, CS fans will have to wait up to 2 months for the next big event. The teams will have a chance to rest and prepare for the new season. G2 will have a choice to make decisions before the start of the new season or leave the roster unchanged. It’s hard to say yet how it will work, as the French team has two more tournaments ahead of them, one of which they are playing right now and are generally performing very well. I want to mention the recent match against Vitality, where the NiKo team won this confrontation with a score of 1-2 and showed a very confident game despite losing on the first map.

G2’s strongest map is mirage, which the French team won by 79%. On top of that, there’s a good inferno and ancient with over a 60% win rate. Unfortunately, the French haven’t learned how to play overpass yet, and it’s their weakest map in the map pool so far. G2 will 100% want to pick mirage as they beat NiP in the last meeting. It would also be nice for the French team to play inferno, which was also a big draw for the Swedes in the previous game.

What can G2 expect in the match against NIP on BLAST? NiP is not yet in the shape they would like to be in, and the team still has important roster decisions to make next year. And that’s why they should beat G2 in this encounter.

NIP is a very promising and young Swedish team. This year, the organization shocked the CS scene by signing the legendary sniper from Astralis. It was the most unexpected decision of the year, and it is hard to say yet if he justified the ransom money that NIP paid. Even though the Swedish team is ranked 7th on HLTV.org’s list of the best teams. The team’s results leave a lot to be desired. The team finished the recent majors in 5th-8th place. BLAST Premier Fall Final 2021 Swedes also failed them, in 7th-8th place. More recently, NIP signed another Dane, es3tag, who replaced LNZ. NIP are becoming a Swedish-Danish team, and it is quite possible that the team will not end up with two replacements, and there will be at least one more replacement in 2022.

NIP’s best map is considered ancient with a 71% win rate. Also, the Swedes have inferno with a 69% win rate, but after the last match with G2, they are unlikely to pick it. So, ancient is the best solution in this situation. The decisive map is likely to be nuke because inferno has been played four times in half a year, and nuke has not been played for long.

The favourite of this match is G2, who, in my opinion, should beat NIP 2-1. NIP is a promising team, but their level so far leaves much to be desired. And on top of that, they might get another shutout, so it doesn’t make much sense to believe in this squad. The bookmakers are offering odds of 2.80 on a 2-1 win for G2. In addition, you can take Total Over 2.5 maps for 2.00. In addition, a good option is odds of 1.72 for Total Over 26.5 rounds on the first map.