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Spirit vs BIG — match prediction & analysis

15 August at 20:10 Oslo · by the CS Edge model

Ranking, form, head-to-head, map pool. Those four decide most CS2 series, and they are what we ran Spirit vs BIG through.

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Spirit

✅ Ancient strength: 100% winrate over 5 maps is a strong tactical pick

✅ Reliably steers the veto to Dust2 (71% pick rate)

✅ Strong recent form: 14 wins in last 17 (79%) shows momentum

❌ Practically never plays Inferno (100% banned), reducing veto flexibility

BIG

✅ Cache strength: 80% winrate over 5 maps is a strong tactical pick

✅ Reliably steers the veto to Inferno (64% pick rate)

✅ Strong recent form: 14 wins in last 23 (70%) shows momentum

❌ Only 38% winrate on Mirage over 8 maps — exploitable in the veto

❌ Heavy Anubis ban usage (58% bans) limits their map bargaining

The map pool

Win, pick and ban rates over the last three months. This is where a series is often decided before it starts — a team can steer the veto onto a map the opponent rarely plays.

SpiritBIG

33%3 maps Cache 80%5 maps

73%15 maps Dust2 50%4 maps

70%10 maps Mirage 38%8 maps

-0 maps Inferno 60%10 maps

75%4 maps Nuke 50%4 maps

100%5 maps Ancient 78%9 maps

83%6 maps Anubis -1 maps

The maps

Cache — BIG's pick

Dust2 — Spirit's pick

Mirage — the decider

Our picks

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More on these teams

All Spirit predictions and results
All BIG predictions and results

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