IEM Winter CS:GO betting tips – Thursday, December 2

Esportbet brings you free Counter-Strike: Global Offensive betting picks for three Intel Extreme Masters Season XVI Winter fixtures on Thursday, December 2. Here are our selections for MOUZ vs Team Vitality, Gambit Esports vs Fnatic, and FaZe Clan vs BIG, with odds courtesy of the top-rated bookmakers for gamblers in United States.


Team Vitality made quite a statement last weekend when they reached the finals of BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021, where they lost 1-2 against Natus Vincere. Nevertheless, it was an incredible run from the French squad, who have proven that they’re still a threat and one of the elite CS:GO teams.

We last saw MOUZ competing at DreamHack Open November 2021, where they placed fifth-sixth. Results like that clearly show that MOUZ are a class below the likes of Vitality, and it doesn’t help that their best player, Robin “ropz” Kool, is set to leave the team by the end of the year.

Admittedly, Vitality had some shaky moments in Denmark last week, but they should get it done on Thursday without dropping more than 13 rounds.

Fnatic last participated in an S-Tier CS:GO tournament in September, when they placed ninth-12th at ESL Pro League Season 14. Now, after a three-month hiatus, they are back with a new roster and hungry to prove their worth. Fnatic have started gaining some serious traction with the new Swedish-British lineup, and they were a class above their rivals when winning DreamHack Open November 2021 and REPUBLEAGUE Season 2.

Gambit Esports will give the black and orange a proper test on their ability to play at the top level, and while you could argue that Fnatic aren’t ready to face a team of such calibre, we would beg to differ. Gambit might have made it to the semi-finals at the recent Major, but they have not shown anything to justify the offered CS:GO betting odds.

With the form Fnatic have been showing of late, they should at least keep it close, but at +155, we’re going all out on the outsiders to take down the Russian juggernauts.

FaZe Clan have the talent and LAN experience to be great, but we have yet to see them live up to expectations. Their ninth-11th and fifth-sixth placings at PGL Major Stockholm and the BLAST Premier Fall Finals 2021 respectively hardly help.

Admittedly, BIG haven’t achieved much more with 17th-19th and seventh-eighth finishes at those two tournaments, but they are at least improving.

These two teams met last Friday when FaZe won 2-0, but the German squad played surprisingly poorly on the day, so we wouldn’t expect another one-sided affair on Thursday. A lot will come down to the map pick, but since this is a best-of-one (Bo1) between two teams that are relatively equal talent-wise, we have to take the outsiders at +185.