BLAST Open Fall Closed Qualifier betting picks – August 27, 2025

The battle for BLAST Open Fall 2025 places begins on Wednesday, August 27, with the first round of the closed qualifiers in Group A.

Featuring heavyweights such as Team Vitality, FaZe Clan, and Natus Vincere, who enter the opening round as short-priced favorites with the top online sportsbooks, Wednesday’s fixtures promise an exciting day of Counter-Strike 2 action.

Despite the lopsided head-to-head markets, there are plenty of solid wagers on offer with the best CS2 betting sites in United States.

TEAM VITALITY vs M80

Best Odds: VIT -5000 at BetOnline | M80 +950 at SportsBetting
When: August 27, 2025 | 12:00 CEST
Watch Live: Twitch

Team Vitality’s streak of seven consecutive tournament victories was snapped during Intel Extreme Masters Cologne 2025 at the start of the month. They have since fallen short at BLAST Bounty Fall and the CS2 Esports World Cup as well, yet the Bees managed top-four finishes in both.

Despite losing their tag as the unstoppable force, Vitality remain one of the elite CS2 teams and obvious candidates to win BLAST Open Fall. M80 are anything but that.

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Ranked No.31 in the world, M80 have shown some good things this month, with gold medals from Thunderpick World Championship 2025 North American Series #2, Ace North American Masters Fall 2025, and NA Revival Series #8. However, Team Vitality will be a massive step up in competition for the American-German roster.

Anything less than a one-sided sweep for Vitality would be a disappointment.

GAMERLEGION vs VIRTUS.PRO

Best Odds: GL +100 at SportsBetting | VP -138.89 at BetOnline
When: August 27, 2025 | 14:30 CEST
Watch Live: Twitch

According to the latest CS2 odds on major esports betting sites, this will be the most competitive game of the BLAST Open Fall 2025 Group A upper-bracket quarterfinals. That sounds right, as there is little to separate the two squads.

Virtus.pro have had higher highs, including a quarterfinal appearance at BLAST Bounty Fall. On the other side, GamerLegion have appeared in just one big event this month, losing in the first round of EWC 2025 to the eventual champions, The MongolZ.

GamerLegion have met with Virtus.pro twice this season and won both games 2-0. While that was ahead of VP’s roster changes and before the Russian outfit found more stability with Ilya “Perfecto” Zalutskiy, GamerLegion have shown they can deal with Virtus.pro’s firepower.

This looks like a closely contested three-map series, so take the overs on total maps.

FAZE CLAN vs ECSTATIC

Best Odds: FaZe -625 at BetOnline | ECSTATIC +350 at BetOnline
When: August 27, 2025 | 17:00 CEST
Watch Live: Twitch

FaZe Clan will debut Jakub “jcobbb” Pietruszewski when they face off against ECSTATIC for the first time this season. While a last-minute roster change cannot do FaZe any good, it is hard to argue with them being firm favorites to kick off the qualifiers with a win.

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Even though FaZe can hardly be considered one of the elite teams — due to their lack of success in bigger events — ECSTATIC are a tier below. But even in lower-division events, they have not accomplished much.

FaZe have not been the most consistent squad and haven’t produced the results expected of them. However, they have been playing much stronger teams over the last few months, so ECSTATIC should not cause them any issues.

NATUS VINCERE vs FNATIC

Best Odds: NAVI -500 at BetOnline | FNC +333 at SportsBetting
When: August 27, 2025 | 19:30 CEST
Watch Live: Twitch

The final match of the day features two struggling teams. But while neither are in good shape, it is clear who the favorites are.

Fnatic have managed just one title this season, from Conquest of Prague 2025. Meanwhile, Natus Vincere have yet to claim gold, but they made the quarterfinals of the BLAST.tv Austin Major and ended their IEM Cologne 2025 campaign in the semifinals.

Natus Vincere are not playing as well as expected, but they’ve had their moments of late. In Cologne, they beat FaZe Clan and The MongolZ and took a map off Team Spirit. Fnatic have been competing mostly in B-Tier events this entire season, and even there, they’ve not found any success.

Take NAVI to sweep.