This article is part of our DraftKings CS:GO series.
Games (EDT)
- 11:00 a.m: Vitality (VIT) vs. BIG Clan (BIG)
- 3:00 p.m: Gen.G (GenG) vs. Evil Geniuses (EG)
Note: Vitality and Evil Geniuses come from the upper bracket and start both series with a default 1-0 lead in maps.
Vitality vs. BIG Clan
Sunday features another set of championship matches, opening with another grand final headlined by BIG Clan, this time facing off against a dominant Vitality bolstered by ZywOo and shox. This match should be one of the most exciting of the tournament, as these sides met in a best-of-three two short days ago, with Vitality coming out the narrow victors on three incredible maps. These teams can easily lay claim to the title of the best in the world, and Sunday's match could and should play a huge factor in deciding that. BIG Clan have been indomitable, with tabseN, XANTARES and syrsoN in incredible form, but the reason that Vitality were able to take down the German side was the simple ability to match them for firepower. Vitality, led by the best player in the world, ZywOo, bolstered by a very strong shox and even apEX for consistent firepower are hard to beat, even for the dominant Germans. If Vitality want to take the title of cs_summit6, and the current best team in the world, they will need another stellar performance from ZywOo - if he is anything other than his best, syrsoN is likely to run rampant.
The map veto is likely to be a repeat of
Games (EDT)
- 11:00 a.m: Vitality (VIT) vs. BIG Clan (BIG)
- 3:00 p.m: Gen.G (GenG) vs. Evil Geniuses (EG)
Note: Vitality and Evil Geniuses come from the upper bracket and start both series with a default 1-0 lead in maps.
Vitality vs. BIG Clan
Sunday features another set of championship matches, opening with another grand final headlined by BIG Clan, this time facing off against a dominant Vitality bolstered by ZywOo and shox. This match should be one of the most exciting of the tournament, as these sides met in a best-of-three two short days ago, with Vitality coming out the narrow victors on three incredible maps. These teams can easily lay claim to the title of the best in the world, and Sunday's match could and should play a huge factor in deciding that. BIG Clan have been indomitable, with tabseN, XANTARES and syrsoN in incredible form, but the reason that Vitality were able to take down the German side was the simple ability to match them for firepower. Vitality, led by the best player in the world, ZywOo, bolstered by a very strong shox and even apEX for consistent firepower are hard to beat, even for the dominant Germans. If Vitality want to take the title of cs_summit6, and the current best team in the world, they will need another stellar performance from ZywOo - if he is anything other than his best, syrsoN is likely to run rampant.
The map veto is likely to be a repeat of Friday's, as Dust2, Inferno and Mirage are three maps that these sides both love to play, Vertigo is a likely addition as Vitality look to use their upper bracket advantage. It's hard to choose value in this match - if you expect heroics from ZywOo, BIG could be suffocated; if syrsoN and tabseN are at their very best, shox and RpK should struggle. Overall, in a match this tightly contested, the winning side will offer the value, and we've said it in the past, BIG Clan are the best team in the world, they have the talent to go two-for-two on grand finals.
Prediction: BIG Clan 3-2 (3-1 on maps played)
- VIT Players to Target: ZywOo ($14,700 Captain, $9,800 Flex)
- BIG Players to Target: syrsoN ($12,900 Captain, $8,600 Flex), tabseN ($11,700 Captain, $7,800 Flex)
Gen.G vs. Evil Geniuses
The second match of the day, the second grand final of the day, heads over to North America, where the ever-rising Gen.G look to take down an absolutely red-hot Evil Geniuses, who have been simply outclassing their competition. It's always nice to spin a yarn of how the underdogs can do x, y or Z to take a map, how the underdogs really should have a chance. Evil Geniuses have lost five maps in their last 21, one map in their last 10, they are the Evil empire of North American counter strike, and they take no prisoners. Across the board the talent that EG brings is incomparable in the region - CeRq has been incredible, Brehze and Ethan are a deadly duo on the rifles, stanislaw is chipping in with massive numbers as the in-game leader. Gen.G were incredible to take down Team Liquid, s0m, in particular, on the third map put in the performance of the tournament to lead his side past a very strong TL team and make the grand final. It's hard to see it going much further than that though; Evil Geniuses are simply incredible right now, the only team in North America to even brush the top of the world rankings on current form.
The map veto is likely to mirror the last time these two sides met four short days ago. It wasn't a one-sided match, ending 32-24 on aggregate, as Gen.G gave EG one of their hardest competitions yet. EG still took the series 2-0, and still knocked Gen.G into the lower bracket fighting repeatedly for their tournament lives. If Gen.G want any chance against EG they need to take Train, and they need to carry Nuke; if they cannot take those two maps then their map pool simply cannot and will not match EG. The favorites are incredible across the board barring Vertigo (only 11 percent win rate behind Gen.G though) and Dust2 (four percent ahead of Gen.G) and will look to comfortably take Inferno. If the veto somehow ends up on Mirage, Train, Vertigo and Nuke, which would be simply mind-boggling from EG, Gen.G should struggle to get going in this match. Overall, EG seem to be simply too good, too fast, too talented and far too much for a newly formed Gen.G side to handle, a Gen.G side that would have bitten your whole arm off for a second place going into cs_summit6.
Prediction: 3-1 Evil Geniuses (2-1 on maps played)
