{"id":20571,"date":"2025-02-06T17:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/?p=20571"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:27:38","slug":"themongolz-vs-eternal-fire-quarterfinal-prediction-iem-katowice-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/cs2-predictions\/themongolz-vs-eternal-fire-quarterfinal-prediction-iem-katowice-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"TheMongolZ vs Eternal Fire &#8211; Quarterfinal Prediction &#8211; IEM Katowice 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match Overview<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The first <strong>quarterfinal<\/strong> match of<strong> IEM Katowice 2025<\/strong> will be <strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>to face off against <strong>Eternal Fire<\/strong>. Some time ago, both of these teams were underdogs and a dark horse at the same time in every tournament they played, but recently, <strong>Eternal Fire <\/strong>earned themselves a few <strong>Grand Finals<\/strong> attempts even though they didn&#8217;t win any. <strong>The MongolZ <\/strong>have yet to prove themselves in this case, but it will be interesting to see how they play against each other after some time. The last time these two teams met was at <strong>IEM Rio 2024<\/strong>, and <strong>TheMongolZ <\/strong>won with a <strong>score of 2-1<\/strong>. Now, it seems <strong>Eternal Fire<\/strong> has a good chance to take their revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Last Heads-up Match Result and Players Statistics<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"237\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff-2.png 317w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff-2-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff-2-150x112.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff1-1.png 644w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff1-1-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff1-1-150x86.png 150w, https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/moeff1-1-450x259.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">TheMongolZ vs. Eternal Fire &#8211; IEM Rio 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current Team and Players Form<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">TheMongolZ<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The only losses in more than 10 matches they played recently were against <strong>MOUZ <\/strong>and <strong>Natus Vincere<\/strong>. They&#8217;re doing great, and on a good day, they can take down anyone, but they miss consistency against top teams at this point. <strong>&#8216;910&#8217; <\/strong>is their star player, and he is currently in good form. Their in-game leader, <strong>&#8216;bLitz&#8217;, <\/strong>has been there for a long time and should have enough experience playing on a big stage to lead his team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Eternal Fire<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For the past few months, they&#8217;ve been doing an insane job and getting better and better. At the recent event, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/blix.gg\/news\/cs-2\/blast-bounty-2025-season-1-overview-tournament-format-teams-and-schedule\/\"><strong>BLAST Bounty<\/strong><\/a>, they ended up in the <strong>Grand Final <\/strong>match against <strong>Spirit <\/strong>but couldn&#8217;t win it against the current best team in the world; other than that, no one could stop them. <strong>&#8216;XANTARES&#8217; <\/strong>is in great form, and being one of the best riflers in the world, he keeps proving it. <strong>&#8216;woxic&#8217;, <\/strong>who was a star player a long time ago, now seems to be getting his form back. <strong>&#8216;jottAAA&#8217; <\/strong>being their most recent addition gets more confident with every match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">XANTARES is happy about going into the arena to play<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We won 2-0 against <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaZeEsports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@FaZeEsports<\/a> GGWP! It was a tough match, but we managed to come out on top. We&#39;re going to an arena where every cs player wants to show up. Everything is just beginning! Thanks to everyone who supports \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>&mdash; \u0130smailcan D\u00f6rtkarde\u015f (@XANTAREScsgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XANTAREScsgo\/status\/1886834454691270668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 4, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Match Prediction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams were about the same level last year, but recently, <strong>Eternal Fire <\/strong>has performed better. They&#8217;re also more confident now, and they&#8217;re already used to the big stage. We expect<strong> Eternal Fire to win <\/strong>this game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Can <\/em><strong><em>Eternal Fire, <\/em><\/strong><em>being in that excellent form, take their revenge for the last time they played against <\/em><strong><em>TheMongolZ<\/em><\/strong><em>? We will have to see it this <\/em><strong><em>Friday <\/em><\/strong><em>at <\/em><strong><em>15:45 CET<\/em><\/strong><em>!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Overview The first quarterfinal match of IEM Katowice 2025 will be TheMongolZ to face off against Eternal Fire. Some time ago, both of these teams were underdogs and a dark horse at the same time in every tournament they played, but recently, Eternal Fire earned themselves a few Grand Finals attempts even though they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":20579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[5,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-20571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cs2-predictions","8":"tag-cs2","9":"tag-cs2-tournaments"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20581,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20571\/revisions\/20581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blix.gg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}