GODSENT vs MOUZ: First match for the teams in 2022

The IEM Katowice 2022 Play-In is an offline tournament that will take place on 15-16 February 2022 in Katowice, Poland. The event will offer a prize pool of $28,000 and 8 tickets to IEM Katowice 2022. Out of 16 teams, only one CIS team, Entropiq will fight for the main event slot. Will MOUZ, after a long rest and some line-up changes, be able to get off to a great start to 2022 and win the first leg of the tournament? Or will the Brazilian squad be stronger? We will find out the answers to these questions very soon, and besides that, we will be able to enjoy a nice and entertaining CS.

On December 15, GODSENT and MOUZ will meet in the first match of the IEM Katowice 2022 Play-In. Which team will be stronger and will win in the opening match?

GODSENT: A new Brazilian era?

GODSENT is one of the best Brazilian teams at the moment. TACO is ranked as the 13th best team in the world, which is a very respectable result for a team that was 35th recently. In the last tournament, IEM Winter 2021, the Brazilian team played in 5-6th place, and the high-profile victories at that tournament were against Heroic and BIG. What will GODSENT be up to in 2022? It's difficult to predict anything at the moment because the Brazilians had a two-month break, and now the team will be playing in an offline tournament - IEM Katowice 2022 Play-In. It should be noted that the last offline event was the IEM Winter. If GODSENT hasn't lost their playing form during the holiday, they have an excellent chance of securing a spot at IEM Katowice 2022.

In the first match, the Brazilian team will play MOUZ. Although the Brazilian team is not the favorite in this match, they have statistics on maps, unlike the European team, which is already a huge advantage. The strongest map of GODSENT is mirage with an 80% win rate, and the weakest are dust2 and vertigo with 0% wins. As the match will be a bo1 match, the TACO team needs to lock their weakest maps, while on all other maps, the Brazilians can take on the Europeans.

MOUZ: How will they show themselves in the first match?

For MOUZ, 2021 has not been such a clear-cut year. The European side won the RMR tournament - Flashpoint 3 and was able to qualify for the PGL Major Stockholm 2021 Challengers Stage. Unfortunately, the frozen team failed to qualify for the main stage of the PGL Major Stockholm. On top of that, MOUZ had a terrible showing at IEM Winter 2021 and DreamHack Open November 2021, where they didn't even make the playoffs. These were the last tournaments for the European team in 2021. The squad had not changed for almost a year, and the organization's management decided that the team was in urgent need of a decider. Ropz moved on to FaZe Clan, and acoR was benched. They were replaced by NBK- and MOUZ's best academy player, torzsi. This squad looks much more promising and fresh than the last one on paper. How they will do in the end, we will find out at IEM Katowice 2022.

Since the first match will be in BO1 format, MOUZ will need to select the map they will play against GODSENT carefully. Unfortunately, we can't say exactly what map it will be, as the European squad has a 0% win rate on all maps. The line-up has changed, and most likely, their mappool has also changed in 3 months.

Expert Betting Tips

This will be the first match in 2022 for both teams. And each of them needs to start the year with a win. In my opinion, this will be a tight encounter with more than 26.5 rounds played, and the odds are 1.77. I also believe that GODSET will win this match and their victory, you can take for 2.10. In addition, you can take GODSENT to win with a handicap (-5.5) for 4.02.