BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 CQ betting picks – Friday, January 17

BLAST Bounty Spring 2025 Closed Qualifier enters the last day of the Round of 32 on Friday, January 17, with the final four fixtures before the Round of 16 reseeding. Here are our Counter-Strike 2 betting picks for the day, with esports odds courtesy of top bookmakers in United States.

PaiN Gaming acquired David “dav1deuS” Tapia for the 2025 season, significantly bolstering paiN’s firepower. The 24-year-old is fresh off a successful stint with RED Canids, where he averaged a 1.18 performance rating despite the team’s struggles.

GamerLegion, like paiN, also made some positive changes.

Despite losing Timur “FL4MUS” Maryev to Virtus.pro, GL acquired Oldřich “PR” Nový from MOUZ NXT and Fredrik “REZ” Sterner, who are the players GamerLegion need to break into the Tier-1 scene.

Counter-Strike betting sites have paiN Gaming priced as favourites, which makes sense as they looked great at the end of 2024. But the improved GamerLegion roster deserves more respect.

FURIA Esports were a bit up-and-down last season, and without any changes heading into 2025, things likely will not change. Again, we can expect FURIA to rely on Kaike “KSCERATO” Cerato to do all the heavy lifting, and while it works out sometimes, consistency is not there.

Nemiga Gaming outperformed expectations in the latter months of 2024 but never established themselves as a threat to Tier-1 teams. Still, this is individually an excellent squad that can take advantage of their opponent’s mistakes.

Nemiga Gaming look weaker on paper, but it is hard to justify betting on FURIA, who rely on one player to carry them over the finish line. Nemiga are an excellent underdog pick.

MOUZ managed to keep all of their players this offseason and are one of the few Tier-1 Counter-Strike 2 teams that managed to stay intact. This is not bad, as MOUZ showed good things in 2024, although they have consistently slipped in the latter stages of big events.

BetBoom Team are a very potent squad on paper and potentially one of the darkhorse team to make a deep run at BLAST Bounty Spring 2025. With Sergey “Ax1Le” Rykhtorov and Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhaylov, the sky is the limit for BB Team, but until we see them play, high potential is all the Russian outfit have.

MOUZ should not be losing games like this, but if BetBoom Team prove to be as good as they look, the result of this match will not be as certain. A position on the underdogs to take a map is worth a look.

G2 Esports will begin their life without Nikola “NiKo” Kovač, which sounds concerning, but even without the Bosnian superstar, they are very strong. If Nikita “HeavyGod” Martynenko can live up to the expectations, G2 Esports will be just as good, if not better, but it will take some time for them to figure things out.

B8 upgraded their roster with the arrival of Artem “kensizor” Kapran; however, he is unproven on LAN, so it is fair to tame our expectations. Expect a better version of B8 this season, but no miracles.

G2 Esports are a bit more vulnerable entering BLAST Bounty Spring 2025, but the raw quality of the roster alone is a good enough reason to have faith in them.

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