IEM Fall CIS 2021 betting predictions – Friday, October 1

ESB’s free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive betting picks for Friday, October 1 focus on two Intel Extreme Masters Season XVI Fall CIS bouts. Here are our selections for Natus Vincere vs Team Spirit and Nemiga Gaming vs Entropiq.


Natus Vincere are already qualified for the PGL Major Stockholm 2021, so it doesn’t make much sense for them to compete in the final Regional Major Rankings (RMR) tournament. Regardless, it wouldn’t surprise us if NaVi end up winning the whole thing simply because they’re that much better than the rest of the region.

Team Spirit are not as good as NaVi, but they have done well against the current no.1 team before. Spirit have forced NaVi to three maps in their last two meetings (1-2) and won (2-0) in May.

We don’t expect to see an upset, but the Russians should put up a fight, especially since they have to do well at this tournament. Team Spirit with a 4.5 round advantage is the way to go.


Nemiga have started their road to Major with a heavy 4-16 loss to Team Spirit. Igor “lollipop21k” Solodkov and co. did not impress anyone on that day, but they looked better in a 14-16 loss to Natus Vincere on Wednesday.

Entropiq have won both of their opening group stage matches against Akuma (16-13) and AVE (16-13). While it doesn’t hurt to win two in a row, Entropiq’s opponents weren’t very strong, so those wins hardly mean anything.

We aren’t too big on Nemiga, but it’s not like Entropiq are a much better team. While they have produced more stable results over the year, Entropiq also lost against Nemiga (1-2) just over a week ago. This is a 50/50 match, so we have to take the better CS:GO betting odds on Nemiga.